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==> Release 1.2 <==
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- Virtually all known bugs have been fixed. For example the
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pow(2,2,3L) bug on Linux has been fixed. Also the re-entrancy
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problems with __del__ have been fixed.
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- Most known memory leaks have been fixed.
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- Phase 2 of the Great Renaming has been executed. The header files
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now use the new names (PyObject instead of object, etc.). The linker
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also sees the new names. Most source files still use the old names,
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by virtue of the rename2.h header file. If you include Python.h, you
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only see the new names. Dynamically linked modules have to be
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recompiled.
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- The hooks for implementing "safe-python" (better called "restricted
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execution") are in place. Specifically, the import statement is
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implemented by calling the built-in function __import__, and the
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built-in names used in a particular scope are taken from the
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dictionary __builtins__ in that scope's global dictionary. See also
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the new module rexec.py.
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- The import statement now supports the syntax "import a.b.c" and
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"from a.b.c import name". No meaningful implementation exists, but
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one can be prototyped by replacing the built-in __import__ function.
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- All machinery used by the import statement (or the built-in
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__import__ function) is now exposed through the new built-in module
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"imp". All dynamic loading machinery is moved to the new file
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importdl.c.
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- Persistent storage is supported through the use of the module
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"pickle" and "shelve" (implemented in Python). Read the .py files for
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more info. There's also a "copy" module implementing deepcopy and
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normal (shallow) copy operations.
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- Documentation strings for many objects types are accessible through
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the __doc__ attribute. Modules, classes and functions support special
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syntax to initialize the __doc__ attribute: if the first statement
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consists of just a string literal, that string literal becomes the
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value of the __doc__ attribute. The default __doc__ attribute is
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None. Documentation strings are also supported for built-in
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functions, types and modules; however this feature hasn't been widely
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used yet. See the 'new' module for an example.
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- The __coerce__ and __cmp__ methods for user-defined classes once
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again work as expected. As an example, there's a new standard class
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Complex in the library.
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- The functions posix.popen() and posix.fdopen() now have an optional
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third argument to specify the buffer size, and default their second
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(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the builtin open() function.
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- Improved support for the Apple Macintosh, e.g. interfaces to (a few)
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resource mananger functions, get/set file type and creator, gestalt,
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sound manager, speech manager, MacTCP, comm toolbox, and the think C
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console library. (Sorry, no Mac binary yet. Will try to produce one
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shortly, plus instructions on how to compile with THINK C 6.0.)
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- Used autoconf 2.0 to generate the configure script. Adapted
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configure.in to use the new features in autoconf 2.0.
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- It should now build on the NeXT without intervention, even on the
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3.3 Sparc pre-release.
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- __import__ is now called with 4 arguments:
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(modulename, globals, locals, fromlist)
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- Characters passed to isspace() and friends are masked to nonnegative
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values
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- Correctly compute pow(-3.0, 3)
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- Fix portability problems with getopt (configure now checks for a
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non-GNU getopt)
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- Don't add frozenmain.o to libPython.a
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- Exceptions can now be classes
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- The socket module exports a long list of socket related symbols
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- Lots of Mac specific changes (this area of the source is not
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completed!)
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- When a module object is deleted, it clears out its own dictionary
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(this fixes a circularity in the references between functions and
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their global dictionary)
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- Changed the error handling by [new]getargs() e.g. for "O&"
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- Dynamic loading of modules using shared libraries is supported for
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several new platforms
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- Support "O&" in mkvalue()
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- Extension to findmethod(): findmethodinchain() (where a chain is a
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linked list of methodlist arrays)
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- Callable() function is now public
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Known bugs still remaining:
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- There's still a memory leak in threads; bigger when
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thread.exit_thread() is used
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--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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URL: <http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html>
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