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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +000015- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
16 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
17
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +000018- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
19 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
20 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
21 comparisons with complex.
22
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +000023- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
24 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
25 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
26 module.
27
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +000028- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
29
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +000030- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
31 a fatal error in low memory condition.
32
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +000033- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
34 the BOM check fails.
35
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +000036- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
37
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +000038- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
39 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
40
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +000041- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
42 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
43 strings.
44
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +000045- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
46 0 padding.
47
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +000048- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
49 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
50
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +000051- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
52 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
53 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
54 deprecations.
55
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +000056- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
57 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
58
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +000059- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
60 slice with very large step value.
61
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +000062- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
63 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
64 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
65 suite_mask, and product_type.
66
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +000067- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
68 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
69 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
70 string instead.
71
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +000072- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
73 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
74 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
75 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
76 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
77 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
78 Malcolm.
79
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +000080- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
81 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
82 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
83
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +000084- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
85 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
86 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
87 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +000088 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
89 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
90 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +000091
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +000092- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
93 consistent with other special methods.
94
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +000095- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
96 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
97
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +000098- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
99 AttributeError.
100
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000101- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
102 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
103 described in C99 Annex F.
104
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000105- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
106 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
107 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
108 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
109
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000110- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
111 executables on OSX.
112
113 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
114 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
115 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
116
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000117- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
118 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
119
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000120- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
121 with invalid values.
122
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000123- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
124 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
125
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000126- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
127 on MacOSX 10.6.
128
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000129- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
130
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000131- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
132 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
133
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000134- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
135 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
136 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
137 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
138 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
139
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000140- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
141 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
142
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000143- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
144 surrogates.
145
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000146- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
147
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000148- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
149
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000150- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
151 disabled since Python 3.0.
152
153- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
154 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
155 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
156
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000157- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
158
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000159- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
160 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
161 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
162
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000163- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000164 support.
165
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000166- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
167 crash in GAE.
168
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000169- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
170 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
171 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
172
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000173- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000174 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000175
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000176- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
177 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
178 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
179 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
180
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000181- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
182 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
183
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000184- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
185 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
186
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000187- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
188
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000189- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
190
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000191- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
192
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000193- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
194
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000195- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
196 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
197
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000198- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
199
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000200- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
201
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000202- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
203 occurred in the argument chain.
204
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000205- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
206 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
207
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000208- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
209
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000210- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
211 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
212 documentation.
213
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000214- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
215
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000216- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
217 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
218 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
219
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000220- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000221 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
222 surrogates.
223
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000224- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
225
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000226- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
227 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
228
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000229- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
230 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
231
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000232- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
233 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
234 from being pickled properly.
235
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000236- Code objects now support weak references.
237
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000238C-API
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240
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000241- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
242 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
243
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000244- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
245 has '\0' at the end.
246
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000247- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
248 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
249 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
250 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
251 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
252 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
253
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000254- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
255
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000256- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
257 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
258
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000259- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000260 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
261
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000262- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
263 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
264 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
265 using PyDescr_COMMON.
266
267- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000268
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000269- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
270
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000271- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
272 PyCode_Addr2Line().
273
274- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
275 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
276
277- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
278 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
279
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000280- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
281 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
282 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
283 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
284
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000285Library
286-------
287
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +0000288- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
289
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +0000290- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
291 detected.
292
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +0000293- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
294
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +0000295- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
296 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
297
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +0000298- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
299
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +0000300- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
301 the locale.
302
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +0000303- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
304 by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
305 done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
306
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +0000307- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
308 The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
309 Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
310 by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
311
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +0000312- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
313 cElementTree module is updated too.
314
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +0000315- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
316 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
317 program name
318
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +0000319- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
320
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +0000321- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
322 the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
323
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +0000324- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
325 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
326
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +0000327- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
328 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +0000329
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +0000330- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
331 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
332
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +0000333- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
334 class.
335
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +0000336- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
337 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
338
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000339- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
340
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000341- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
342 writing.
343
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000344- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
345
346- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
347
348- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
349
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000350- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
351
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000352- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000353 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000354
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000355- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
356
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000357- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
358 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
359
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000360- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
361 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
362
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000363- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
364
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000365- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
366 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
367
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000368- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
369 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
370
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000371- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
372 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
373 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
374 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
375 were converted.
376
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000377- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
378 interpreter shutdown.
379
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000380- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
381 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
382 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
383 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
384
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000385- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
386 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
387 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
388
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000389- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
390 specify the compression type.
391
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000392- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
393 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
394 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
395 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
396
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000397- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
398 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
399 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
400 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
401
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000402- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
403 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
404 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
405 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
406 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
407 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
408
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000409- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
410 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
411 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
412 replace it.
413
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000414- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
415
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000416- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000417
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000418- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
419
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000420- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
421 the release file is empty.
422
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000423- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
424 module.
425
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000426- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
427 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
428 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
429
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000430- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
431 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
432
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000433- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
434 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
435
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000436- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
437 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
438
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000439- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
440 Patch by Brian Curtin.
441
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000442- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
443
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000444- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
445 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
446 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
447
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000448- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
449 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
450 by Arfrever.
451
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000452- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
453 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
454
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000455- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
456 Victor Stinner.
457
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000458- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
459 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
460 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
461
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000462- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
463 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
464 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
465
466- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000467 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
468
469- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
470
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000471- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
472 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
473
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000474- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
475 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
476 in regular expressions.
477
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000478- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
479 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
480 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
481
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000482- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
483 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
484
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000485- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
486 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
487 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
488
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000489- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
490 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
491 the same as passing no argument.
492
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000493- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
494 default.
495
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000496- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
497 in imaplib.
498
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000499- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
500
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000501- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
502
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000503- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
504 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
505
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000506- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
507 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
508
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000509- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
510 TLS with authentication credentials.
511
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000512- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
513 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
514
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000515- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
516 msvc9compiler.
517
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000518- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
519 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
520 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
521
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000522- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
523 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
524 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
525
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000526- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
527 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
528 built-in exception printing.
529
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000530- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
531 Robert Collins.
532
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000533- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
534
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000535- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
536 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
537 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
538
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000539- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
540 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
541 Brian Quinlan.
542
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000543- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
544
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000545- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
546
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000547- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
548 raises ReadError on empty files.
549
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000550- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
551 be 2.
552
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000553- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
554 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000555
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000556- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
557 case of an error.
558
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000559- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
560 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
561
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000562- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
563 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
564
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000565- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
566
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000567- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
568 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
569
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000570- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
571 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
572 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
573 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
574 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
575
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000576- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
577 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
578 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
579 local connections.
580
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000581- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
582 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
583 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
584
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +0000585- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
586 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
587 class to be used without having to subclass.
588
589- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
590 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
591
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000592- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
593 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
594 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
595 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
596
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000597- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
598 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
599 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
600
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000601- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
602 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
603
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000604- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
605 which are part of a reference cycle.
606
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000607- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
608 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
609
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000610- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
611 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
612 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
613
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000614- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
615 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
616 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
617 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
618 OSes such as Solaris.
619
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000620- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
621 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
622 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
623 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
624
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000625- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
626 header as required by RFC 1952.
627
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000628- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
629 Distutils.
630
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000631- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
632 an uppercase.
633
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000634- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
635 several threads at once.
636
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000637- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
638
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000639- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
640 larger than emax.
641
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000642- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
643 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
644
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +0000645- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
646 GNU readline library version 6.0.
647
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000648- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +0000649
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000650- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
651 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000652
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +0000653- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
654 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
655
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +0000656- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
657 builtin tokenizer.
658
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +0000659- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
660 is too large to fit in the current precision.
661
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000662- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000663 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000664
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +0000665- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
666 does now always result in NULL.
667
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +0000668- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
669 with base class positional arguments.
670
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +0000671- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
672
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +0000673- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
674
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +0000675- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
676
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +0000677- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
678
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +0000679- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
680 instances.
681
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +0000682- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
683 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
684 in long(Decimal('nan')).
685
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +0000686- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
687 with no type specifier.
688
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +0000689- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
690
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +0000691- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
692 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
693 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
694 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
695
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +0000696- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
697 should be raised, not AttributeError.
698
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +0000699- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
700 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
701
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +0000702- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
703 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
704 AttributeError before).
705
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +0000706- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
707
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +0000708- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
709
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +0000710- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
711
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +0000712- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
713 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
714
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +0000715- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
716
717- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
718
719- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
720
721- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
722 ScrolledText.
723
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +0000724- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
725
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +0000726- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
727 the xview* and yview* methods.
728
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +0000729- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
730 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
731 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
732 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
733
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +0000734- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
735 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
736
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +0000737- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
738
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +0000739- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
740 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
741 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
742
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +0000743- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
744 DO/DONT correctly.
745
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +0000746- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
747 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
748 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000749
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000750- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
751 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
752 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
753 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
754
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000755- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
756 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
757 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
758
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000759- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
760 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
761 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
762
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000763- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000764
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000765- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
766 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
767
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000768- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
769 syntax error.
770
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000771- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
772 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
773
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000774- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
775
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000776- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
777
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000778- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
779
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000780- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
781 sys.path.
782
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000783- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
784
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +0000785- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
786 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
787
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +0000788- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
789 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
790
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +0000791- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
792 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
793
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +0000794- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
795
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +0000796- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
797
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000798Extension Modules
799-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000800
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +0000801- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
802
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +0000803- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
804
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +0000805- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
806 handling.
807
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +0000808- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
809 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
810
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +0000811- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
812
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000813- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
814
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +0000815- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000816
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +0000817- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
818 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000819
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +0000820- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
821
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000822- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
823
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000824- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
825 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
826 matched characters with category 'No'.
827
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000828- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000829 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
830 buffers.
831
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000832- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
833
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +0000834- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
835 (CVE_2009_3560).
836
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +0000837- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
838 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
839 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
840
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +0000841- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
842 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
843
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000844Build
845-----
846
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +0000847- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Martin v. Löwis4ad70df2010-03-16 16:19:47 +0000848 Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +0000849
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +0000850- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +0000851
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +0000852- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
853 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
854 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
855
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +0000856- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
857
858- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
859 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
860
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +0000861- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
862 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
863 Python.
864
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +0000865- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
866 found.
867
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +0000868- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +0000869
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +0000870- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
871 icc or suncc.
872
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +0000873- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
874 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
875 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
876
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +0000877- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
878
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +0000879- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
880
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +0000881- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
882 directories.
883
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000884- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
885 extensions are installed.
886
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +0000887- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the compiler might
888 use the wrong library.
889
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +0000890Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000891------------
892
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +0000893- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
894 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
895
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +0000896- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
897 -J and -X options.
898
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +0000899- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
900 ImportError.
901
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000902- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
903 for Windows.
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +0000904
905- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
906 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000907
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000908Tests
909-----
910
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +0000911- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
912 effectively raised.
913
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +0000914- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
915 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
916
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +0000917- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
918 the --verbose flag.
919
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +0000920- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
921 filesystem encoding.
922
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +0000923- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
924 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
925
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +0000926- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
927 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
928 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
929 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
930
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +0000931- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
932 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
933 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
934
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +0000935- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use test_support.bind_port
936 instead of a hard coded port.
937
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +0000938- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
939 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
940
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +0000941- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
942
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +0000943- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +0000944 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
945
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +0000946- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
947 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
948 user running the tests.
949
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +0000950- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
951 catch the case of an option with no handler.
952
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +0000953- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
954 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
955
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +0000956- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
957 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
958 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
959 to empty global variables.
960
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +0000961- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
962
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +0000963- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
964 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
965
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +0000966- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
967 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
968 between concurrent executions on the same system.
969
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +0000970- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
971 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
972 calling methods on the object.
973
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +0000974- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
975 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
976 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
977 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
978 :func:`_thread._count()`.
979
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +0000980- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
981 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
982
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +0000983- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
984 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
985
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +0000986- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
987 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
988 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +0000989
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +0000990- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
991
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +0000992- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
993 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
994 object bytecode.
995
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000996- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
997 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
998
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +0000999Tools/Demos
1000-----------
1001
1002- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
1003 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
1004 sandbox.
1005
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001006
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001007What's New in Python 3.1?
1008=========================
1009
1010*Release date: 27-June-2009*
1011
1012Core and Builtins
1013-----------------
1014
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00001015- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
1016 large arguments.
1017
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00001018- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1019 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1020
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001021Library
1022-------
1023
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00001024- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
1025
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001026- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001027
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00001028- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
1029
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00001030- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
1031 io.UnsupportedOperation.
1032
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001033- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00001034 (On Unix)
1035
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00001036- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
1037 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1038
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00001039Extension Modules
1040-----------------
1041
1042- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
1043
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001044
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00001045What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
1046=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001047
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00001048*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001049
1050Core and Builtins
1051-----------------
1052
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00001053- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
1054
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00001055- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
1056 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
1057
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00001058- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
1059 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
1060
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001061- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00001062 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001063
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001064Library
1065-------
1066
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001067- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001068 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001069 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
1070
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00001071- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1072
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00001073- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
1074 binary files.
1075
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001076- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
1077 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1078
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00001079- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
1080 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
1081 are always None now.
1082
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00001083- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
1084 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
1085 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
1086 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
1087
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00001088- Removed the ipaddr module.
1089
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00001090- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
1091 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
1092 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
1093
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00001094- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
1095
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00001096- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
1097
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00001098- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
1099 parameters.
1100
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001101Windows
1102-------
1103
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001104- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1105
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001106- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1107
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001108C-API
1109-----
1110
1111- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1112 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1113 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1114
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001115
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001116Build
1117-----
1118
1119- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1120 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1121
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001122- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1123 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1124
1125
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001126
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001127What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1128=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001129
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001130*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001131
1132Core and Builtins
1133-----------------
1134
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001135- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1136 of the command line.
1137
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001138- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1139
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001140- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1141 that would raise SystemError.
1142
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001143- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1144 function with __func__.
1145
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001146- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1147 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001148
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001149- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1150 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1151 and imaginary literals.
1152
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001153- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1154
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001155- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1156
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001157- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1158 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1159 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1160 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1161 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1162
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001163Library
1164-------
1165
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001166- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1167
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001168- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1169
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001170- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1171 argument to the 'help' function.
1172
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001173- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1174 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1175
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001176- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1177 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1178
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001179- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1180 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1181
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001182- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1183 the directory already exists.
1184
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001185- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1186 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1187 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1188
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001189- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1190 IO objects.
1191
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001192- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1193 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1194
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001195- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1196 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1197 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1198
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001199- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1200 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1201
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001202- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1203 deepcopy()ing.
1204
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001205- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1206
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001207- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1208
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001209- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1210
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001211- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1212 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1213 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1214 empty.
1215
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001216- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1217 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1218 corrects a pydoc regression.
1219
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001220- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1221 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1222
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001223Installation
1224------------
1225
1226- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1227 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001228
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001229- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1230
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001231Extension Modules
1232-----------------
1233
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001234- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001235
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001236- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1237
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001238- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1239
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001240- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1241 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001242
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001243Build
1244-----
1245
1246- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1247 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1248 Clinton Roy.
1249
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001250Tests
1251-----
1252
1253- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1254 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1255 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1256 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1257
1258
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001259What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1260================================
1261
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001262*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001263
1264Core and Builtins
1265-----------------
1266
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001267- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1268 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1269
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001270- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1271 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1272 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1273
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001274- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1275 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1276 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1277
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001278- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1279 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1280 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1281 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1282 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1283 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1284 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1285 the same way.
1286
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001287- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1288
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001289- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1290 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1291 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1292
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001293- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1294 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1295
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001296- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001297
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001298- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1299 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1300 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1301
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001302- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1303 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1304 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1305 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001306
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001307- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001308 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1309
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001310- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1311 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1312
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001313- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1314 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1315
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001316- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1317
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001318- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1319 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1320
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001321- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1322
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001323- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1324 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1325
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001326- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001327
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001328- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1329 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1330 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1331 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1332
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001333- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1334 some builtin types.
1335
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001336- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1337
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001338- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1339 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001340
1341- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1342 floats.
1343
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001344- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001345 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1346 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1347 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1348 long time.)
1349
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001350- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1351 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1352 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1353 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001354 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1355 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1356 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001357
1358 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1359 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1360 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1361 reason or another.
1362
1363 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1364 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1365 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1366 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1367 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1368
1369 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1370 this change does not apply.
1371
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001372- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1373
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001374- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1375 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1376 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1377 methods available on the str class.
1378
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001379- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1380 its clarity and its speed.
1381
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001382- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1383 to avoid compiler warnings.
1384
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001385- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1386 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1387
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001388Installation
1389------------
1390
1391- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1392
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001393Library
1394-------
1395
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001396- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1397 specific Python version.
1398
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001399- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1400 whitespace.
1401
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001402- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001403 the right type checkings anymore.
1404
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001405- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1406 return directories.
1407
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001408- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1409
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001410- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1411 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1412
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001413- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1414 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1415
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001416- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1417 extracting a file to the root directory.
1418
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001419- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1420
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001421- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1422 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1423 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1424
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001425- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1426
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001427- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1428 Contributed by Google.
1429
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001430- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1431 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1432
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001433- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1434
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001435- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1436
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001437- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1438 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1439 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1440
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001441- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1442 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1443 initialized before.
1444
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001445- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1446 names which should not be exported.
1447
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001448- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1449 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1450
1451- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1452
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001453- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1454 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1455 instances.
1456
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001457- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1458 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1459 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1460
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001461- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1462 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1463
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001464- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1465 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1466 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1467 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1468 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1469
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001470- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1471 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1472
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001473- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1474 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1475 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1476
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001477Extension Modules
1478-----------------
1479
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001480- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1481 pwd.
1482
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001483- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1484 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1485 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1486 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1487
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001488- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1489 using Berkley-DB.
1490
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001491Tests
1492-----
1493
1494- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1495 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1496 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1497 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1498 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1499
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001500- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1501 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1502 incorrectly on __exit__.
1503
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001504C-API
1505-----
1506
1507- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1508
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001509
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001510What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1511=================================
1512
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001513*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001514
1515Core and Builtins
1516-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001517
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001518- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1519 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001520
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001521- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1522
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001523- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1524 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1525
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001526- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1527 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1528
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001529- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1530
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001531- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1532 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1533
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001534- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1535 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1536 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1537
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001538- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1539
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001540- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1541 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1542
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001543- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1544 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1545 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1546 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1547
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001548- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1549 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1550 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
1551
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00001552- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
1553 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
1554 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
1555 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
1556 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
1557 the internal format.
1558
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00001559- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
1560 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
1561 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
1562
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00001563- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
1564 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
1565
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00001566- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
1567 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
1568
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00001569- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1570 short file names.
1571
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001572Library
1573-------
1574
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001575- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00001576 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1577
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00001578- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
1579 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
1580 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
1581
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00001582- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
1583 the -T argument.
1584
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00001585- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1586
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00001587- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
1588
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00001589- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
1590
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00001591- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1592 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1593
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00001594- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1595
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00001596- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1597
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00001598- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1599 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1600
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00001601- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
1602 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
1603
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00001604- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
1605 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1606 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1607
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00001608- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
1609
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00001610- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
1611 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
1612
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00001613- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
1614 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
1615
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00001616- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1617 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1618 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1619 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1620
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00001621- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1622 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1623
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00001624- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1625 '>' alignment characters.
1626
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00001627- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
1628 value, and report it as -1 instead.
1629
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00001630- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
1631 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1632
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001633Extension Modules
1634-----------------
1635
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001636- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
1637
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001638- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
1639 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00001640 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
1641 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
1642 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001643
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001644
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001645What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00001646================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001647
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001648*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001649
1650Core and Builtins
1651-----------------
1652
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00001653- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
1654
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00001655- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
1656
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00001657- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1658 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
1659
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00001660- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
1661 contained non ascii character on windows.
1662
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00001663- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
1664 source has already been decoded into str.
1665
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00001666- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1667 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1668
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00001669- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
1670 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
1671
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00001672- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
1673 returns a non-number type.
1674
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00001675- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
1676
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00001677- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
1678 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00001679 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
1680 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00001681
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001682- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00001683 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
1684
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00001685- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
1686 Previously it returned a float.
1687
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00001688- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
1689 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
1690 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
1691 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
1692
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00001693- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
1694
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00001695- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
1696 from a string.
1697
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00001698- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
1699
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00001700- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
1701 optional module state data.
1702
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00001703- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
1704 type to (void *).
1705
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00001706- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1707 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1708 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1709
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00001710- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1711 __next__ method.
1712
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00001713- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
1714 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
1715 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
1716
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00001717- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1718
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00001719- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1720
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00001721- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
1722 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
1723 amount of loop unrolling.
1724
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00001725- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1726 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1727 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
1728 Martin von Löwis at
1729 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1730
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001731- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00001732 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
1733 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
1734
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00001735- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
1736 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
1737 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
1738 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
1739
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00001740- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
1741 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
1742 Python's overall memory).
1743
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00001744- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1745 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1746 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1747 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1748 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1749
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00001750- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
1751 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
1752 items, rather than the size in bytes.
1753
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001754- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1755
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00001756- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
1757 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
1758
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001759- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00001760 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001761
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00001762- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1763 did not get collected.
1764
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00001765- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1766 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1767
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00001768- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1769 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1770
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00001771- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1772 fail.
1773
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00001774- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
1775
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00001776- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
1777 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
1778
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00001779- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1780 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1781 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1782
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00001783- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
1784
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00001785- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
1786 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
1787 failures on OS X.
1788
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00001789- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1790 exceptions.
1791
1792- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00001793 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1794
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00001795- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
1796 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
1797 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
1798 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
1799
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00001800- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
1801 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
1802 Python 2.x.
1803
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00001804- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1805 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
1806
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001807- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
1808 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1809 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1810 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00001811
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00001812- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
1813 larger than 1.
1814
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00001815- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1816
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00001817- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1818
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00001819- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1820 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1821 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1822 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1823
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001824Library
1825-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001826
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00001827- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1828 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1829
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00001830- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
1831 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1832
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001833- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00001834 Distutils.
1835
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00001836- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1837
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00001838- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
1839 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
1840 Michael Haubenwallner.
1841
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00001842- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1843
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00001844- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1845 opening an empty or very small file.
1846
1847- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00001848 behavior is similar when used with -O.
1849
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00001850- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1851
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00001852- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
1853 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
1854 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
1855 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
1856
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001857- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
1858
1859- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1860
1861- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1862 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1863
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001864- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00001865
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001866- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00001867 attribute.
1868
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00001869- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1870
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00001871- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1872
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001873- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
1874 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
1875 descriptor errors
1876
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001877- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00001878 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1879
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001880- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00001881 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1882
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00001883- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1884 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1885
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00001886- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1887
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00001888- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1889
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00001890- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1891 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1892 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1893
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00001894- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
1895 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1896
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00001897- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1898
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001899- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00001900 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1901
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00001902- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1903
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00001904- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1905 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1906
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001907- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00001908 subcommand.
1909
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00001910- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1911 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1912
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00001913- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1914 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1915
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00001916- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
1917 for old-style extensions.
1918
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00001919- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1920
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00001921- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1922 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1923 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1924 Cournapeau.
1925
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00001926- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1927
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001928- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00001929 anymore.
1930
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001931- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00001932 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1933
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00001934- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1935
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00001936- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1937
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00001938- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1939
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00001940- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1941 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1942
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00001943- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1944
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001945- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00001946 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1947
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00001948- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1949 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1950
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00001951- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1952 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1953
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001954- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00001955
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001956- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00001957
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00001958- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1959 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1960 threads.
1961
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00001962- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1963 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1964 that it was failing to do localization.
1965
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00001966- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1967 Brandl.
1968
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00001969- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1970 character.
1971
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00001972- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1973 Tim Golden.
1974
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00001975- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1976
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00001977- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1978 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1979 window flashing.
1980
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00001981- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1982 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1983 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1984
1985- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1986
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00001987- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1988 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1989
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00001990- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
1991
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00001992- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1993
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00001994- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1995
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00001996- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1997
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00001998- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1999
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00002000- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2001
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00002002- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2003 import guess_extension`` was used.
2004
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00002005- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
2006 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
2007
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00002008- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2009 overrun.
2010
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00002011- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2012 bdist_rpm command.
2013
2014- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
2015
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002016- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
2017
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00002018- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
2019 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002020
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002021- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2022 IronPython.
2023
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00002024- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
2025 The file was resized to wrong size.
2026
2027- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2028
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002029- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00002030 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
2031
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002032- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00002033 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2034
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00002035- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2036 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2037
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00002038- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
2039
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00002040- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2041 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
2042 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
2043
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00002044- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
2045 encoding.
2046
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00002047- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2048 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2049
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00002050- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2051 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2052
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00002053- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
2054 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
2055 ctime of the files involved.
2056
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00002057- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2058 deadlock.
2059
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00002060- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
2061 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
2062 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
2063
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00002064- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2065
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00002066- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
2067 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
2068
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00002069- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
2070 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
2071 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
2072 Vajda.
2073
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00002074- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
2075 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
2076 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
2077 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
2078
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00002079- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
2080 Ross Light.
2081
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002082- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00002083 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2084
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00002085- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2086 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2087
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002088- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00002089 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2090
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00002091- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2092
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00002093- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
2094
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00002095- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
2096 items being passed through ord().
2097
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00002098- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
2099 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
2100 "src.new").
2101
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002102- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2103
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002104- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2105 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2106 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2107
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002108- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002109 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2110
2111- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2112 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2113
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002114- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2115 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2116
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002117- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2118
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002119- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2120 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002121
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002122- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002123 allowed non-integer arguments.
2124
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002125- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2126 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2127 examples.
2128
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002129- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2130 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2131
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002132- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2133 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2134
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002135- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2136 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2137
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002138- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002139 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2140 be disabled, and not compiled.
2141
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002142- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2143 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2144 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2145 traditional 2.x file object.
2146
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002147- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2148 parameter was set.
2149
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002150- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2151 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2152
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002153- Add the importlib package.
2154
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002155- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2156 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2157
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002158- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002159 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002160
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002161- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2162 without defaults.
2163
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002164- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2165 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2166 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2167
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002168- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2169 in sharedctypes.py.
2170
2171- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2172 __getattr__.
2173
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002174- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2175 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2176 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2177
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002178- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2179 counting.
2180
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002181- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2182
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002183- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2184 function without defining argtypes.
2185
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002186- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2187 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2188 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2189 Jacques Frechet.
2190
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002191- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2192
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002193- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2194 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2195
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002196- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2197 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002198 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2199
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002200- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2201 to the decimal module.
2202
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002203- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2204 cast as floats.
2205
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002206- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2207 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2208
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002209- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002210 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2211
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002212- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2213 the function is not a generator.
2214
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002215- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2216 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002217
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002218- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002219 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2220
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002221- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2222
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002223- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2224
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002225- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2226 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2227
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002228- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2229 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2230
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002231- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2232 Gabriel Genellina.
2233
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002234- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2235 boundary.
2236
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002237- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2238 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2239 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2240
2241- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2242 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2243 Alexander Belopolsky.
2244
2245- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2246 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2247 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2248 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2249 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2250 Alexander Belopolsky.
2251
2252- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2253 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2254 Alexander Belopolsky.
2255
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002256- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2257 a non-ASCII letter.
2258
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002259- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2260
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002261- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2262 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2263
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002264- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2265 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2266 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2267
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002268- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2269 libs.
2270
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002271- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2272 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2273
2274- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2275 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2276 Content-Disposition headers.
2277
2278- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2279 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2280 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2281 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2282 doesn't configure logging.
2283
2284- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2285 exception.
2286
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002287- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2288 statements.
2289
2290- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2291 not a malformed option.
2292
2293- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2294 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2295
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002296- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2297 the corresponding tests now pass.
2298
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002299- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2300 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2301
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002302- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2303 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2304 Content-Disposition headers.
2305
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002306- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2307 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2308
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002309- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2310 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2311 and getservbyport().
2312
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002313- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2314
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002315Tools/Demos
2316-----------
2317
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002318- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2319 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2320
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002321- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2322
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002323- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2324
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002325
2326Build
2327-----
2328
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002329- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2330
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002331- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2332
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002333- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2334 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2335
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002336- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002337 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002338
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002339- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2340
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002341- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2342
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002343- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2344
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002345- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2346
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002347- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2348
2349- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2350
2351- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2352
2353- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2354
2355- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2356
2357- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2358
2359- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2360
2361- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2362
2363- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2364
2365- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2366
2367
2368C-API
2369-----
2370
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002371- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2372 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2373
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002374- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2375 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2376
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002377- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2378
2379- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2380 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2381
2382- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2383 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2384
2385
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002386Extension Modules
2387-----------------
2388
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002389- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2390 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2391 implementations or external openssl library).
2392
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002393- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2394
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002395- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2396
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002397- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2398 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2399 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2400
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002401- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2402
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002403- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2404 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2405 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2406
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002407- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2408
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002409- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2410
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002411- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2412 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002413
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002414- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2415 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2416 buffer.
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Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002418
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002419- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2420
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002421Tests
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Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002424- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2425 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2426
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002427- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2428 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2429 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2430 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2431
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002432- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002433 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002434 from test support, which does the conversion.
2435
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002436- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2437
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Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002439Docs
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Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002442
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002443**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**