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What's New in Python 2.6.5
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*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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Core and Builtins
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- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
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AttributeError.
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- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
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used to drop the time part of the result.
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- Issue #6108: unicode(exception) and str(exception) should return the same
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message when only __str__ (and not __unicode__) is overridden in the subclass.
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- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
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- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
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- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.
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- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
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on MacOSX 10.6.
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- Issue #7070: Fix round bug for large odd integer arguments.
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- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
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- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
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fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
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interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
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- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
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thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
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- Issue #1747858: Fix lchown & fchown to work with large uid's and gid's on
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64-bit platforms.
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Library
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- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
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sys.dont_write_bytecode.
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- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
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renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's
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no alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
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Xicluna.
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- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
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Victor Stinner.
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- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
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opening an empty or very small file.
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- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
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the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
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This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
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- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
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Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
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- Issue #7348: StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1) now acts as if it got no argument
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like other file objects.
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- Issue #5949: fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is
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missing proper end-of-line termination.
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- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
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- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
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generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
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- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
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msvc9compiler.
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- Issue #7410: deepcopy of itertools.count() erroneously reset the count.
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- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
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- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
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case of an error.
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- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
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- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
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a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
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default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
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local connections.
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- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
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than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
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`thread.start_new_thread()`.
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- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
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which are part of a reference cycle.
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- Issue #7249: Methods of io.BytesIO now allow `long` as well as `int`
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arguments.
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- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
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- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
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LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
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- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
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reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
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lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
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afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
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OSes such as Solaris.
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- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
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raised during the formation of an output tuple.
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- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
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sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
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fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
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than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
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- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
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correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
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- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
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larger than emax.
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- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
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several threads at once.
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- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
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is too large to fit in the current precision.
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Build
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- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
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found.
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- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l on Windows.
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- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
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compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
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problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
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- Ensure that it possible to build extensions for the default
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binary distribution on OSX 10.6 even when the user does not
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have the 10.4u SDK installed.
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- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the compiler might
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use the wrong library.
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Tests
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- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
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instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
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- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
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file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
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user running the tests.
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- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
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catch the case of an option with no handler.
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- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
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- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
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primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
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- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
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__all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
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What's New in Python 2.6.4 final?
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=================================
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*Release date: 25-Oct-2009*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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Library
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-------
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What's New in Python 2.6.4rc2?
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==============================
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*Release date: 18-Oct-2009*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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Library
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-------
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- Issue #7115: Fixed the extension module builds that is failing when using
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paths in the extension name instead of dotted names.
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- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
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crash in GAE.
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- Issue #7149: fix exception in urllib when detecting proxy settings on OSX.
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What's New in Python 2.6.4rc1?
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==============================
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*Release date: 07-Oct-2009*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
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of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
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Library
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-------
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- Issue #7068: Fixed the partial renaming that occured in r72594.
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- Issue #7064: Fixed the incompatibility with Setuptools in distutils
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when running the build_ext command.
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- Issue #7052: Removed nonexisting NullHandler from logging.__all__.
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- Issue #7039: Fixed distutils.tests.test_sysconfig when running on
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installation with no build.
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Tests
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- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
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What's New in Python 2.6.3
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==========================
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*Release date: 02-Oct-2009*
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What's New in Python 2.6.3rc1
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=============================
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*Release date: 29-Sep-2009*
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Core and Builtins
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- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
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sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
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and Jani Hakala.
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- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
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after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
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- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
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UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
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- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
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- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
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attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
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- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
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- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
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- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
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- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
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occurred in the argument chain.
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- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
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from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
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- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
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possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
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- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
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separator and end should be unicode also.
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- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
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builtin functions and methods.
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- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
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the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
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- Issue #6089: str.format can raise SystemError with certain invalid
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field specifiers.
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- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
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- Issue #5981: Fix two minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex: (1) inf
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and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected
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and (2) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of
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float('-nan').
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- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
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shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
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inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
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- Issue #5724: (See also issue #4575.) Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to
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work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now forces its argument to double
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before testing for infinity.
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- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
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titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
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- Issue #5829: complex('1e-500') no longer raises an exception
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- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
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some builtin types.
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- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
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- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
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- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
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PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
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step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
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of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
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Library
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- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
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- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method instead to __unicode__
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instead of __str__.
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- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
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- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
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`httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
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- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
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and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
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- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
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- Issue #6947: Fix distutils test on windows. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
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- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
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does now always result in NULL.
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- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
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correctly with base class positional arguments.
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- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
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debug message.
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- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
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- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
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returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
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in long(Decimal('nan')).
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- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
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with no type specifier.
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- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
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- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
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repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
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HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
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when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
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- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
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payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
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- Issue #6117: Fix O(n**2) performance degradation when outputting lots of
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small data on a buffered socket.socket.makefile() object.
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- Issue #6637: defaultdict.copy() did not work when the default factory
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was left unspecified. Also, the eval/repr round-trip would fail when
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the default_factory was None.
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- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
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proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
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- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
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unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
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descriptor errors
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- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn sagfault on bad formatted string.
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- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
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- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
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a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
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Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
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- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
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- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
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(On Unix)
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- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
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- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
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TimedRotatingFileHandler.
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- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
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argument to the 'help' function.
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- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
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the directory already exists.
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- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
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names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
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- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
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than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
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DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
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- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
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the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
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a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
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- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
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Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
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- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
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- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
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- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
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trying to print a traceback.
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- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
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now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
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- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
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return directories.
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- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
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extracting a file to the root directory.
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- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
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- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
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- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
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at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
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initialized before.
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- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
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- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
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- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
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results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
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and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
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dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
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log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
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- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
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makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
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u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
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- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a DeprecationWarning when storing
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files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
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- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
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distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
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Michael Haubenwallner.
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- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
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possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
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- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
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decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
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it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
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- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
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containing incomplete data.
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- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
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standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
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- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
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- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
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- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
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- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
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- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
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in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
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`LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
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- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
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and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
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- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
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looking for files given by a relative filename.
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- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
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inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
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- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
|
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test_get_outputs in Distutils.
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- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
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inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
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- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
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broken for old-style extensions.
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- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
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names which should not be exported.
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- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
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sysconfig.get_config_vars.
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- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
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module.
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Extension Modules
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|
-----------------
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|
|
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- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
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with something other than a tuple as first argument.
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- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
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- Fix expat to not segfault with specially crafted input.
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- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
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Build
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-----
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- Issue #6980: Fix ctypes build failure on armel-linux-gnueabi with
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-mfloat-abi=softfp.
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- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
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- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
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extensions are installed.
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|
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- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
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- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
|
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linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
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- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
|
|
an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
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|
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|
Documentation
|
|
-------------
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- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
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for Windows.
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- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
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Thanks to Carl Chenet.
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|
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Tests
|
|
-----
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|
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- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
|
|
support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
|
|
incorrectly on __exit__.
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What's New in Python 2.6.2
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==========================
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*Release date: 14-Apr-2009*
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What's New in Python 2.6.2 rc 1
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===============================
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*Release date: 06-Apr-2009*
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|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
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- xrange() is now registered as a Sequence.
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|
|
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- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
|
|
when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
|
|
|
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- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
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|
|
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- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As
|
|
a result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
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|
|
|
- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
|
|
used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
|
|
float arguments.
|
|
|
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- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
|
|
for ints and longs.
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|
|
|
- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
|
|
parameter was set.
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|
|
|
- Issue 1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
|
|
were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
|
|
zip(), and bytearray().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
|
|
to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
|
|
the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
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|
|
|
- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
|
|
an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
|
|
code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
|
|
file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
|
|
Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
|
|
file with `str' filename on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
|
|
did not get collected.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
|
|
where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
|
|
directory on POSIX systems.
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|
|
|
- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
|
|
systems.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
|
|
bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4759: fix a segfault for bytearray.translate(x, None).
|
|
|
|
- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
|
|
fail.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
|
|
exceptions.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
|
|
print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
|
|
unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
|
|
context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
|
|
method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
|
|
kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
|
|
object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
|
|
instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
|
|
which there are buffer exports.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
|
|
short file names.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
|
|
returned them on 64bit platforms.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
|
|
a value in SafeConfigParser.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
|
|
platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
|
|
Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
|
|
|
|
- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
|
|
printing out values.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
|
|
instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
|
|
threads.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
|
|
|
|
- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
|
|
mailbox.MH.get_message().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
|
|
popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not
|
|
created with the threading module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
|
|
|
|
- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
|
|
support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
|
|
examples.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
|
|
manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
|
|
socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
|
|
to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
|
|
|
|
- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
|
|
defined (part of issue #5035).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
|
|
python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
|
|
output compared to previous Python versions.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
|
|
forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
|
|
with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
|
|
partial bzip2 compressed data.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
|
|
even if an exception occurs.
|
|
|
|
- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
|
|
'>' alignment characters.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
|
|
character.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
|
|
guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
|
|
the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data
|
|
all ready received.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
|
|
import guess_extension`` was used.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
|
|
with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
|
|
overrun.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
|
|
The file was resized to wrong size.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call in logging to
|
|
help out IronPython.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
|
|
Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
|
|
which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
|
|
numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
|
|
function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
|
|
for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
|
|
check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying
|
|
issue in sharedctypes.py.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
|
|
under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
|
|
This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
|
|
|
|
- Partial fix to issue #1731706: memory leak in Tkapp_Call when calling
|
|
from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl interpreter.
|
|
Patch by Robert Hancock.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
|
|
--enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
|
|
inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
|
|
"src.new").
|
|
|
|
- Issue 4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
|
|
Iterator and MutableSet.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
|
|
collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
|
|
unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
|
|
allow adding directories to a zipfile.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
|
|
do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
|
|
file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
|
|
traditional 2.x file object.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
|
|
opened with other applications.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
|
|
a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable. They now
|
|
correctly return an empty iterator.
|
|
|
|
- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
|
|
cast as floats.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
|
|
did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
|
|
handling.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
|
|
return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
|
|
and gets split on a chunk boundary.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
|
|
for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
|
|
loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
|
|
zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
|
|
Alexander Belopolsky.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
|
|
302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
|
|
are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
|
|
from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
|
|
perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
|
|
Alexander Belopolsky.
|
|
|
|
- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
|
|
allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
|
|
Alexander Belopolsky.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
|
|
libs.
|
|
|
|
- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
|
|
biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
|
|
new arguments introduced in 2.5.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
|
|
the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
|
|
|
|
- Registered Decimal as a numbers.Number so that isinstance(d, Number) works.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
|
|
producing a ValueError on some platforms.
|
|
|
|
- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
|
|
Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
|
|
constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
|
|
the function is not a generator.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
|
|
no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
|
|
works as expected in the interactive environment.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
|
|
Gabriel Genellina.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
|
|
function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
|
|
handling.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
|
|
when given an unicode string.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
|
|
give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
|
|
and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
|
|
--dry-run option.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
|
|
libs.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
|
|
statements.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
|
|
not a malformed option.
|
|
|
|
- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
|
|
from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
|
|
support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
|
|
Content-Disposition headers.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
|
|
when protocol 0 is used.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
|
|
module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
|
|
creates one of the needed subdirectories.
|
|
|
|
Tools/Demos
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
|
|
_check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
|
|
|
|
- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
|
|
OpenBSD.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
|
|
|
|
- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
|
|
|
|
C-API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
|
|
the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
|
|
|
|
Tests
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
|
|
|
|
- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
|
|
that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
|
|
from test support, which does the conversion.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6.1
|
|
==========================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 04-Dec-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
|
|
interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
|
|
instead of throwing a MemoryError.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
|
|
module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
|
|
the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
|
|
exec statement.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
|
|
method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
|
|
__future__ import didn't work.
|
|
|
|
- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
|
|
returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
|
|
really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
|
|
is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
|
|
KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
|
|
it correctly refers to the initial element.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed C99 style comments in several files. Python is now C89 compatible
|
|
again.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
|
|
exception.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
|
|
the ctypes module is not present.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
|
|
and then remove it.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
|
|
debugging.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
|
|
inspect.getargvalues.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
|
|
to claiming it is Mature.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
|
|
|
|
C-API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
|
|
Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 final
|
|
==============================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
|
|
objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
|
|
filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
|
|
true singleton object.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
|
|
was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
|
|
into a float.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
|
|
sizes.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
|
|
when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
|
|
installer.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
|
|
=============================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
|
|
segfault as a result.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
|
|
closed.
|
|
|
|
Tools/Demos
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
|
|
AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
|
|
exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
|
|
are caught and silenced.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
|
|
C runtime in the Windows installer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
|
|
=============================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
|
|
PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
|
|
PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
|
|
``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
|
|
implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
|
|
This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
|
|
64bit values.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
|
|
error.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
|
|
object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
|
|
method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
|
|
float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
|
|
a unicode argument.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
|
|
PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
|
|
was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
|
|
match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
|
|
mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
|
|
when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
|
|
__instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
|
|
type object.
|
|
|
|
- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
|
|
|
|
- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
|
|
|
|
- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
|
|
|
|
- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
|
|
|
|
- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
|
|
function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
|
|
|
|
- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
|
|
``__delslice__``.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
|
|
library targets in the Makefile.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
|
|
that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
|
|
with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
|
|
|
|
C-API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
|
|
stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
|
|
silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
|
|
with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
|
|
return a list or None rather than a custom object.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
|
|
its symbolic link.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
|
|
|
|
- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
|
|
to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
|
|
module, it will be deprecated in the future.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
|
|
non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
|
|
path to the Python binary.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
|
|
warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
|
|
for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
|
|
DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
|
|
|
|
- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
|
|
|
|
- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
|
|
|
|
- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
|
|
directory.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
|
|
non-integer floating point number.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
|
|
SEM_VALUE_MAX.
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
|
|
from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
|
|
without limit.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
|
|
exploitation of poor argument checking.
|
|
|
|
- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
|
|
remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
|
|
concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
|
|
threads/processes.
|
|
|
|
Tests
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
|
|
wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
|
|
that expected warning messages are being reported.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
|
|
use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
|
|
|
|
- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
|
|
with GNU build target guidelines.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
|
|
================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
|
|
Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
|
|
extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
|
|
cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
|
|
to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
|
|
compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
|
|
default.
|
|
|
|
- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
|
|
keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
|
|
|
|
- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
|
|
value again.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
|
|
by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
|
|
and introducing s*.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
|
|
object was stored in the freelist.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
|
|
ValueError consistently across platforms.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
|
|
(64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
|
|
u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
|
|
|
|
- Apply security patches from Apple.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
|
|
PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
|
|
average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
|
|
the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
|
|
variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
|
|
was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
|
|
modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
|
|
all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
|
|
would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
|
|
failed have been fixed.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
|
|
|
|
- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
|
|
symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
|
|
version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
|
|
version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
|
|
under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
|
|
which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
|
|
unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
|
|
2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
|
|
xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
|
|
|
|
- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
|
|
imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
|
|
|
|
- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
|
|
|
|
- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
|
|
|
|
- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
|
|
by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
|
|
fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
|
|
|
|
- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
|
|
in a redirect.
|
|
|
|
- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
|
|
BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
|
|
after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
|
|
pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
|
|
regular expression.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
|
|
thread-safe.
|
|
|
|
- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
|
|
since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
|
|
subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
|
|
menu entries were not deleted.
|
|
|
|
- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
|
|
version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
|
|
a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
|
|
to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
|
|
since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
|
|
upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
|
|
it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
|
|
the reload() built-in has been removed.
|
|
|
|
- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
|
|
while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
|
|
ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
|
|
filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
|
|
pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
|
|
subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
|
|
threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
|
|
raised an AttributeError.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
|
|
asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
|
|
using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
|
|
(v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
|
|
on a closed shelf.
|
|
|
|
- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
|
|
invalid arguments.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
|
|
with None arguments.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
|
|
configuration files.
|
|
|
|
- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
|
|
file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
|
|
mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
|
|
argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
|
|
own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
|
|
|
|
Documentation
|
|
-------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
|
|
interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
|
|
|
|
- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
|
|
coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
|
|
regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
|
|
removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
|
|
================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
|
|
its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
|
|
an integer using operator.index().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
|
|
produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
|
|
for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
|
|
and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
|
|
numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
|
|
collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
|
|
default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
|
|
to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
|
|
the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
|
|
level.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
|
|
the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
|
|
This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
|
|
now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
|
|
all imports from that module to fail.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
|
|
bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
|
|
new-style classes.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
|
|
set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
|
|
another file in sys.stdout.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
|
|
threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
|
|
another thread's dictionary.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
|
|
arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
|
|
to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
|
|
1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
|
|
slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
|
|
10, -1).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
|
|
f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
|
|
from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
|
|
other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
|
|
ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
|
|
api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
|
|
error when they failed.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
|
|
ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
|
|
a valid dlerror() message.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
|
|
incomplete structure was created.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
|
|
both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
|
|
wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
|
|
content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
|
|
merged into trunk.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
|
|
archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
|
|
Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
|
|
when completed.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
|
|
handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
|
|
removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
|
|
interrupted by a signal.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
|
|
properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
|
|
Prevents a deadlock.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
|
|
redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
|
|
default https port (443).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
|
|
up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
|
|
if the new process uses the threading module.
|
|
|
|
Tests
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
|
|
and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
|
|
have been added to test_warnings.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Documentation
|
|
-------------
|
|
|
|
- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
|
|
================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 18-June-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and Builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
|
|
argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
|
|
handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
|
|
bus error.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
|
|
holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
|
|
|
|
- Add future_builtins.ascii().
|
|
|
|
- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
|
|
intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
|
|
|
|
- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
|
|
equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
|
|
``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
|
|
contains this name.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
|
|
ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
|
|
attribute.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
|
|
Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
|
|
ignoring them.
|
|
|
|
- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
|
|
only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
|
|
can't be triggered from Python code.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
|
|
|
|
- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
|
|
makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
|
|
based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
|
|
weakref.proxy.
|
|
|
|
- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
|
|
platform.
|
|
|
|
- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
|
|
|
|
- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
|
|
http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
|
|
code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
|
|
bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
|
|
raised an exception.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
|
|
the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
|
|
RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
|
|
|
|
- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
|
|
used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
|
|
structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
|
|
sense).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
|
|
an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
|
|
such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
|
|
the patch.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
|
|
"close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
|
|
the patch).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
|
|
os.uname exists.
|
|
|
|
- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
|
|
which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
|
|
pointer-like object.
|
|
|
|
- Added the ast module.
|
|
|
|
- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
|
|
|
|
- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
|
|
inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
|
|
to errno.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
|
|
msilib.Record objects.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
|
|
unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
|
|
|
|
- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
|
|
in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
|
|
version from the X.org locale.alias file.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
|
|
False boolean value now.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
|
|
transfers.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
|
|
when the TarFile is closed.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
|
|
GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
|
|
an exception.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
|
|
otherwise be produced.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
|
|
argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
|
|
deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
|
|
read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
|
|
duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
|
|
the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
|
|
ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
|
|
'm' or 'c'.
|
|
|
|
- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
|
|
removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
|
|
removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
|
|
cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
|
|
removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
|
|
|
|
- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
|
|
|
|
- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
|
|
rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
|
|
ignored.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
|
|
TextWrapper class.
|
|
|
|
- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
|
|
Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
|
|
large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
|
|
suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
|
|
OverflowError.
|
|
|
|
- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
|
|
3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
|
|
|
|
- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
|
|
|
|
- pdb gained the "until" command.
|
|
|
|
- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
|
|
in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
|
|
environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
|
|
an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
|
|
of Python.
|
|
|
|
- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
|
|
shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
|
|
|
|
- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
|
|
3.x series.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
|
|
|
|
- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
|
|
|
|
- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
|
|
mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
|
|
PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
|
|
|
|
This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
|
|
|
|
- ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
|
|
|
|
- ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
|
|
|
|
- ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
|
|
|
|
This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
|
|
|
|
NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
|
|
|
|
|
|
C API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
|
|
|
|
- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
|
|
|
|
- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
|
|
defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
|
|
PyString names.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
|
|
=================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 08-May-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
|
|
it properly raises a SyntaxError.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
|
|
other implementations of Python.
|
|
|
|
- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
|
|
two handlers that derive the same default base class.
|
|
|
|
- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
|
|
|
|
- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
|
|
the cmath module.
|
|
|
|
- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
|
|
asinh, atanh and log1p.
|
|
|
|
- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
|
|
when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
|
|
original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
|
|
using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
|
|
use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
|
|
and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
|
|
not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
|
|
``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
|
|
for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
|
|
contributed by Bob Ippolito.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
|
|
bdist_wininst.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
|
|
where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
|
|
ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
|
|
|
|
- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
|
|
data types.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
|
|
reference to themselves.
|
|
|
|
- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
|
|
by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
|
|
issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
|
|
1900-01-01.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
|
|
convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
|
|
now implemented in C for better performance.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
|
|
implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
|
|
removed and replaced by pure python code.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
|
|
extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
|
|
build documentation for more information.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
|
|
threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
|
|
file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
|
|
an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
|
|
|
|
- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
|
|
libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
|
|
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
|
|
so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
|
|
script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
|
|
data files.
|
|
|
|
Tests
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
|
|
ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
|
|
effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
|
|
regression test suite in parallel without issue.
|
|
test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
|
|
return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
|
|
previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
|
|
that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
|
|
new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
|
|
if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
|
|
SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
|
|
available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
|
|
the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
|
|
Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
|
|
host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
|
|
'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
|
|
when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
|
|
that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
|
|
port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
|
|
circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
|
|
|
|
test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
|
|
pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
|
|
unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
|
|
deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
|
|
for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
|
|
(i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
|
|
a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
|
|
access to the underlying socket used.
|
|
|
|
Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
|
|
for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
|
|
connect).
|
|
|
|
The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
|
|
test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
|
|
test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
|
|
test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
|
|
|
|
It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
|
|
suite to run in parallel without issue.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
|
|
gcc is used as compiler.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
|
|
with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
|
|
|
|
C API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
|
|
the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
|
|
which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
|
|
contains several helpers and constants for math.
|
|
|
|
- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
|
|
=================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
|
|
tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
|
|
call threading.currentThread().
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
|
|
cannot be executed.
|
|
|
|
- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
|
|
reference on the outer class name.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
|
|
``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
|
|
dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
|
|
|
|
- Added backport of bytearray type.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
|
|
\Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
|
|
Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
|
|
'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
|
|
this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
|
|
codec.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
|
|
__members__.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
|
|
print_function``.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
|
|
The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
|
|
exception instances.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
|
|
doesn't derive from BaseException.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
|
|
doesn't derive from BaseException.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
|
|
memory usage in some circumstances.
|
|
|
|
- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
|
|
literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
|
|
"0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
|
|
flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
|
|
longer passed.
|
|
|
|
- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
|
|
method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
|
|
Jeffrey Yaskin)
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
|
|
could give bogus error messages.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
|
|
for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
|
|
calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
|
|
while.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
|
|
improved logic for removing old files.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
|
|
consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
|
|
[""""], which is incorrect python code.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
|
|
SMTP.quit().
|
|
|
|
- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
|
|
stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
|
|
that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
|
|
advertised in the docs.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
|
|
in the WWW-Authenticate header.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
|
|
installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
|
|
|
|
- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
|
|
processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
|
|
platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
|
|
information as well.
|
|
|
|
- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
|
|
the standard distribution.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
|
|
64-bit platforms.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
|
|
values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
|
|
but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
|
|
microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
|
|
strftime.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
|
|
platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
|
|
previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
|
|
|
|
- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
|
|
correctly under win32
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
|
|
optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
|
|
currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
|
|
exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
|
|
which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
|
|
gracefully.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
|
|
non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
|
|
successfully.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
|
|
root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
|
|
from 't' to '?'.
|
|
|
|
- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
|
|
libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
|
|
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
|
|
files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
|
|
configure option defaults to "yes".
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
|
|
is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
|
|
|
|
Tests
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
|
|
NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
|
|
|
|
- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
|
|
|
|
- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
|
|
|
|
- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
|
|
|
|
- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
|
|
|
|
- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
|
|
unittest.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
|
|
|
|
- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
|
|
|
|
- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
|
|
unittest.
|
|
|
|
- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
|
|
|
|
- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
|
|
permission to create files in the root directory.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
|
|
|
|
- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
|
|
functions are in the C89 standard library.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
|
|
|
|
C API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
|
|
PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
|
|
=================================
|
|
|
|
*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
|
|
|
|
Core and builtins
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
|
|
644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
|
|
issue 215555 for a discussion.
|
|
|
|
- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
|
|
These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
|
|
compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
|
|
differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
|
|
Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
|
|
module is:
|
|
from future_builtins import hex, oct
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
|
|
exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
|
|
standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
|
|
Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
|
|
so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
|
|
available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
|
|
|
|
- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
|
|
builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
|
|
__format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
|
|
datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
|
|
PyObject_Format().
|
|
|
|
- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
|
|
__del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
|
|
state.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
|
|
prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
|
|
a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
|
|
real or imaginary part.
|
|
|
|
- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
|
|
in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
|
|
memory to the OS earlier.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
|
|
subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
|
|
to a bound method.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
|
|
list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
|
|
|
|
- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
|
|
entries each.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
|
|
functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
|
|
to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
|
|
calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
|
|
returns pi_t.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
|
|
appear in the same code unit.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
|
|
with the collections.Sequence API.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
|
|
linebreak detection
|
|
|
|
- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
|
|
the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
|
|
the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
|
|
produced the generator.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
|
|
compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
|
|
supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
|
|
correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
|
|
|
|
- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
|
|
loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
|
|
borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
|
|
suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
|
|
dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
|
|
several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
|
|
support.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
|
|
second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
|
|
added.
|
|
|
|
- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
|
|
object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
|
|
most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
|
|
|
|
- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
|
|
patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
|
|
readable.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
|
|
accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
|
|
The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
|
|
envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
|
|
to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
|
|
|
|
- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
|
|
extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
|
|
application' instead of 'error code 193'.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
|
|
y) functions.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
|
|
and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
|
|
every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
|
|
|
|
- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
|
|
literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
|
|
dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
|
|
entries to the dictionary.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
|
|
decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
|
|
is not found.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
|
|
SystemError.
|
|
|
|
- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
|
|
inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
|
|
__package__ attribute.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
|
|
running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
|
|
PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
|
|
|
|
- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
|
|
attribute of an empty cell object.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
|
|
input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
|
|
file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
|
|
interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
|
|
first entry in sys.path.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
|
|
function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
|
|
executed code is closing a paused generator.
|
|
|
|
- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
|
|
|
|
- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
|
|
|
|
- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
|
|
|
|
- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
|
|
smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
|
|
automatically shifts from ints to longs.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
|
|
possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
|
|
from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
|
|
could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
|
|
Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
|
|
issues.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
|
|
'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
|
|
as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
|
|
various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
|
|
the collections module.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
|
|
their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
|
|
allowed.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
|
|
deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
|
|
PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
|
|
recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
|
|
RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
|
|
recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
|
|
infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
|
|
original source encoding.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
|
|
with %G.
|
|
|
|
- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
|
|
segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
|
|
|
|
- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
|
|
__*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
|
|
__name__.)
|
|
|
|
- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
|
|
deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
|
|
calls.
|
|
|
|
- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
|
|
"except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
|
|
with Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
|
|
inherited from a builtin base.
|
|
|
|
- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
|
|
setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
|
|
|
|
- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
|
|
|
|
- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
|
|
translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
|
|
remaining characters.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
|
|
masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
|
|
|
|
- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
|
|
now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
|
|
either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
|
|
other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
|
|
overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
|
|
warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
|
|
as supported by type.__new__().
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
|
|
object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
|
|
to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
|
|
module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
|
|
method.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
|
|
__slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
|
|
same slot names.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
|
|
in complex if statements.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
|
|
``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
|
|
its type.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
|
|
unicode name.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
|
|
case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
|
|
|
|
- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
|
|
its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
|
|
allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
|
|
__getattr__().
|
|
|
|
- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
|
|
self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
|
|
method.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
|
|
parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
|
|
raising a ValueError.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
|
|
makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
|
|
when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
|
|
|
|
- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
|
|
exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
|
|
variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
|
|
like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
|
|
long().
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
|
|
condition.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
|
|
sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
|
|
|
|
- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
|
|
the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
|
|
exceptions.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
|
|
slot_nb_inplace_power.
|
|
|
|
- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
|
|
Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
|
|
created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
|
|
classes (classic classes still have the bug).
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
|
|
frame's thread state.
|
|
|
|
- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
|
|
sitecustomize.py.
|
|
|
|
- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
|
|
a warning.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
|
|
avoid relying on atexit.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
|
|
number.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
|
|
strings, tuples and lists.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
|
|
that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
|
|
again, no longer the posix error code.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
|
|
if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
|
|
|
|
- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
|
|
returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
|
|
embedded in the string to convert.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
|
|
recognized and rejected.
|
|
|
|
- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
|
|
|
|
- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
|
|
were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
|
|
anymore.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
|
|
number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
|
|
keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
|
|
didn't use them).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
|
|
"with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
|
|
statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
|
|
|
|
- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
|
|
|
|
- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
|
|
method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
|
|
directly to succeed.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
|
|
Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
|
|
'exceptions'.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
|
|
imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
|
|
|
|
- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
|
|
optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
|
|
|
|
- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
|
|
head is the original string if sep was not found.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
|
|
generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
|
|
problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
|
|
.pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
|
|
|
|
- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
|
|
decoded.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
|
|
BaseException.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
|
|
threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
|
|
it actually exited.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
|
|
|
|
- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
|
|
|
|
- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
|
|
|
|
- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
|
|
timestamps.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
|
|
server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
|
|
connection instead of raising ValueError.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
|
|
now be overridden.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
|
|
(ignore-case)
|
|
|
|
- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
|
|
callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
|
|
without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
|
|
be done in the rest of the stdlib.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
|
|
inspect.py.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
|
|
slash.
|
|
|
|
- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
|
|
pickled.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
|
|
implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
|
|
|
|
- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
|
|
to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
|
|
base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
|
|
|
|
- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
|
|
eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
|
|
SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
|
|
supporting the context management protocol.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
|
|
comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
|
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- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
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default permissions for missing directories.
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- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
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statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
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expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
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each loop.
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- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
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its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
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defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
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- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
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- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
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and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
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- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
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- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
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rollover time calculation.
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- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
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level.
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- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
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to add contextual information in logging output.
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- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
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in flush().
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- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
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directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
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compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
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- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
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library.
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- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
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file for pstats.
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- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
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to a directory.
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- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
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ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
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- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
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using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
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- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
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urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
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- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
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with extended local headers.
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- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
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headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
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- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
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collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
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to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
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- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
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the last column of a line.
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- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
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comma-separated modules to be given.
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- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
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just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
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- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
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ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
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- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
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priority queue.
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- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
|
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(patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
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Textbox.gather().
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- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
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and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
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When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
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raised instead of a ValueError.
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- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
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that array types do not live longer than needed.
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- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
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and when creating a recursive instance.
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- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
|
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expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
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object.
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- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
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and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
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Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
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- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
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functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
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- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
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(0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
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- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
|
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good for long regular expression matches.
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- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
|
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objects to set the character data buffer size.
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- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
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the current context.
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- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
|
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zipfile module.
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- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
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- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
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are equal instead of raising an exception.
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- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
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- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
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- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
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permissions and times.
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- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
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- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
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writing
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- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
|
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certain unicode characters.
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- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
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- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
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Tcl objects.
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- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
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- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
|
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created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
|
|
consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
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|
cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
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- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
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for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
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- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
|
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not seek to the start.
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- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
|
|
about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
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- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
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nicely together.
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|
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- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
|
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method used universal newlines.
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- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
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StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
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- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
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--with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
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- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
|
|
files are updated.
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- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
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os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
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- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
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|
configured with --with-system-ffi.
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- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
|
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--disable-toolbox-glue.
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- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
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- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
|
|
raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
|
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longs.
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|
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- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
|
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input iterables.
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|
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- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
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|
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- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
|
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|
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- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
|
|
(v1.66).
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- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
|
|
to be orderable to properly represent them.
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|
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- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
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- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
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|
|
- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
|
|
RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
|
|
password (bug 813986).
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|
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- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
|
|
the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
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- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
|
|
compatibility with Python 3000.
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- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
|
|
Janssen.
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|
- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
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- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
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- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
|
|
syllables.
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- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
|
|
missing in GBK.
|
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|
|
- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
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- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
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|
represent the result in a single character.
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- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
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- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
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- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
|
|
ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
|
|
sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
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|
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- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
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- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
|
|
attribute.
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- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
|
|
parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
|
|
FTPS connections).
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|
- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
|
|
uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
|
|
specified at connection time.
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|
|
- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
|
|
reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
|
|
argument for .read() is specified.
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- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
|
|
``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
|
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|
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- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
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|
package_dir is empty.
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|
|
- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
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|
|
- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
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|
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- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
|
|
using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
|
|
and sha512).
|
|
|
|
- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
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|
|
- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
|
|
|
|
- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
|
|
officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
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- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
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|
|
- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
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|
|
- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
|
|
|
|
- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
|
|
gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
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|
|
|
- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
|
|
of an infinite recursion check.
|
|
|
|
- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
|
|
the directories).
|
|
|
|
- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
|
|
the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
|
|
injecting HTML into the error page.
|
|
|
|
- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
|
|
module.
|
|
|
|
- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
|
|
SMTP servers which require authentication.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
|
|
log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
|
|
only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
|
|
(as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
|
|
".cpp" too.
|
|
|
|
- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
|
|
the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
|
|
accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
|
|
#1177) and urllib2.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
|
|
is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
|
|
distutils.MSVCCompiler.
|
|
|
|
- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
|
|
(telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
|
|
work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
|
|
closes patch #723312.
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|
|
- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
|
|
called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
|
|
and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
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|
|
|
- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
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|
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- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
|
|
now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
|
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|
|
- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
|
|
to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
|
|
directories.
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|
|
|
- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
|
|
GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
|
|
of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
|
|
trying Mozilla variants.
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|
|
- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
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|
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- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
|
|
initialization failed.
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|
|
- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
|
|
AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
|
|
didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
|
|
properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
|
|
directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
|
|
for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
|
|
correctly now.
|
|
|
|
- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
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|
|
- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
|
|
debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
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- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
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- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
|
|
documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
|
|
pydoc.doc() does.
|
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|
|
- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
|
|
to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
|
|
convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
|
|
methods.
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|
|
|
- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
|
|
parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
|
|
delete-on-close behavior.
|
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|
|
- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
|
|
whitespace while wrapping.
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- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
|
|
are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
|
|
errors on reading back those values.
|
|
|
|
- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
|
|
tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
|
|
testtar.tar.
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|
|
- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
|
|
email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
|
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- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
|
|
to pydoc's help keywords.
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- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
|
|
concatenation in robotparser.
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|
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- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
|
|
field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
|
|
with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
|
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|
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- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
|
|
OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
|
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|
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- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
|
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- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
|
|
trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
|
|
number.
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|
|
- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
|
|
server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
|
|
TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
|
|
equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
|
|
patch #1545011.
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|
|
- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
|
|
.handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
|
|
Python would crash instead of raising an error.
|
|
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- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
|
|
returned string up to the first NUL character.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
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- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
|
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|
|
- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
|
|
module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
|
|
names now has a descriptive message.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
|
|
|
|
- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
|
|
TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
|
|
accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
|
|
incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
|
|
-- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
|
|
exception.
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|
|
- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
|
|
unittest's main() function.
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|
|
- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
|
|
comprehensive test suite for the module.
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|
|
|
- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
|
|
given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
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|
|
|
- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
|
|
know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
|
|
build.
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|
|
- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
|
|
in HTMLParser.
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|
|
|
- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
|
|
using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
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|
|
|
- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
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|
|
- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
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|
|
- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
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|
|
- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
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|
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- Added itertools.izip_longest().
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|
|
- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
|
|
absolute import semantics.
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|
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- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
|
|
doesn't exist.
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|
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- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
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- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
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- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
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- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
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of relative directory names.
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- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
|
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lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
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- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
|
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and allow appending to empty files.
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- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
|
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subprocess.
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- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
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iso8859_16.
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|
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- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
|
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compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
|
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with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
|
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interpreter.
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|
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- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
|
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|
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- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
|
|
directories.
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|
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- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
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- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
|
|
docstring.
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|
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- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
|
|
return a tuple (it used to return a list).
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|
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- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
|
|
python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
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|
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- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
|
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|
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- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
|
|
types instead.
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|
|
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- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
|
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|
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- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
|
|
definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
|
|
parameterless foreign function calls work.
|
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|
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- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
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|
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- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
|
|
be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
|
|
encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
|
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|
|
- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
|
|
SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
|
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|
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- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
|
|
SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
|
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|
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- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
|
|
LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
|
|
AttributeError are trapped.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
|
|
argument.
|
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|
|
- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
|
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|
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- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
|
|
under certain conditions.
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|
|
- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
|
|
tell() work correctly together with readline().
|
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|
|
- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
|
|
exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
|
|
separated lists read from logging config files.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
|
|
shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
|
|
problems.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
|
|
directory to be created is already there.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
|
|
ordering, sorting, etc.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
|
|
xmlrpclib.
|
|
|
|
- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
|
|
regular files.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
|
|
exception occurs.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
|
|
parent window is withdrawn.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
|
|
to facilitate usage as a decorator.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
|
|
file name mangling.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
|
|
precedes an 1xx response.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
|
|
HTTPConnection.request().
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
|
|
weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
|
|
objects.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
|
|
there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
|
|
(Patch by David Watson.)
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
|
|
physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
|
|
.close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
|
|
bdist_rpm.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
|
|
GNU modes.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
|
|
list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
|
|
opcode.
|
|
|
|
- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
|
|
fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
|
|
statement (bug #1586513).
|
|
|
|
- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
|
|
correctly.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
|
|
isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
|
|
|
|
- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
|
|
result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
|
|
partial fix for Bug #1574584.
|
|
|
|
- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
|
|
Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
|
|
when the module is run as a script.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
|
|
started with that option.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
|
|
given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
|
|
classes, but also for functions.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
|
|
keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
|
|
with a slash.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
|
|
GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
|
|
|
|
- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
|
|
format do match be more clear.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
|
|
being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
|
|
In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
|
|
|
|
- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
|
|
because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
|
|
|
|
- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
|
|
loop.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
|
|
& SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
|
|
|
|
- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
|
|
to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
|
|
setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
|
|
systems with low clock resolution.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
|
|
|
|
- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
|
|
#299092).
|
|
|
|
- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
|
|
the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
|
|
longer than 3 bytes.
|
|
|
|
- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
|
|
(start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
|
|
members).
|
|
|
|
- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
|
|
with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
|
|
obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
|
|
Fenner.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
|
|
that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
|
|
beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
|
|
does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
|
|
SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
|
|
Fenner.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
|
|
siginterrupt(3).
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
|
|
|
|
- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
|
|
a direct EnvironmentError.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
|
|
PROT_READ.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
|
|
Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
|
|
|
|
- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
|
|
curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
|
|
|
|
- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
|
|
is also subclassable now.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
|
|
a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
|
|
works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
|
|
parameter.
|
|
|
|
- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
|
|
support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
|
|
gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
|
|
REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
|
|
|
|
- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
|
|
required the function inputs to be tuples.
|
|
|
|
- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
|
|
chain.from_iterable().
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
|
|
support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
|
|
information.
|
|
|
|
- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
|
|
example for a simple network sniffer.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
|
|
|
|
- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
|
|
contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
|
|
the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
|
|
|
|
- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
|
|
and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
|
|
|
|
- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
|
|
|
|
- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
|
|
|
|
- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
|
|
complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
|
|
silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
|
|
ValueError instead.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
|
|
get_completion_type to readline.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
|
|
structure.
|
|
|
|
- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
|
|
intended for RECNO databases.
|
|
|
|
- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
|
|
time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
|
|
or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
|
|
opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
|
|
replace all values for a given key when the database allows
|
|
duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
|
|
to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
|
|
|
|
- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
|
|
characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
|
|
dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
|
|
behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
|
|
line.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
|
|
error in spite of a succesful compression.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
|
|
of Py_ssize_t.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
|
|
fractional times. With unittest.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
|
|
os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
|
|
calls are available.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
|
|
builtin types.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
|
|
_Bool.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
|
|
negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
|
|
the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
|
|
returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
|
|
fails.
|
|
|
|
- Speed up function calls into the math module.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
|
|
a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
|
|
does.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
|
|
when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
|
|
datetime's strftime function.
|
|
|
|
- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
|
|
|
|
- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
|
|
os.urandom().
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
|
|
other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
|
|
long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
|
|
for n.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
|
|
- gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
|
|
correctly.
|
|
- iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
|
|
codepoints to conform the standard.
|
|
- iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
|
|
codepoints now.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
|
|
mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
|
|
been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
|
|
times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
|
|
|
|
- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
|
|
were transposed.
|
|
|
|
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
|
|
4.6.x and 4.7.x.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
|
|
called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
|
|
curses.COLS.
|
|
|
|
- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
|
|
|
|
- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
|
|
|
|
- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
|
|
|
|
- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
|
|
databases without a DBEnv.
|
|
|
|
- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
|
|
|
|
Tests
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
|
|
|
|
- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
|
|
profile.
|
|
|
|
- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
|
|
module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
|
|
reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
|
|
|
|
- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
|
|
test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
|
|
space.
|
|
|
|
- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
|
|
to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
|
|
if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
|
|
|
|
- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
|
|
|
|
- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
|
|
provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
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environment variables.
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- Added some tests for modulefinder.
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- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
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- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
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number properly.
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- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
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used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
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Tools
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-----
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- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
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shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
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--nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
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regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
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- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
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the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
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and script directory.
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- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
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Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
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- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
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patch #1563844).
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- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
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which Python version is running pybench.
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- Added support for the new platform module feature
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platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
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benchmark pickle.
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Documentation
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-------------
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- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
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include new optional delay argument.
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- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
|
|
logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
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class.
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- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
|
|
information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
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|
|
|
- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
|
|
Python tutorial.
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|
|
- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
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|
|
- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
|
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open for writing is undefined.
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|
|
|
- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
|
|
updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
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|
|
- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
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PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
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|
|
|
- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
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|
|
- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
|
|
and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
|
|
"extending and embedding" tutorial.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
|
|
docs.
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|
|
|
- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
|
|
string pointed to by its parameter.
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|
|
|
- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
|
|
Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
|
|
applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
|
|
a good idea.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tools/Demos
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
|
|
|
|
- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
|
|
alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
|
|
tell if the file is stale or not.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
|
|
file not to get reported properly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
|
|
order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
|
|
environment variables.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
|
|
smaller or equal sizeof(long).
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
|
|
|
|
- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
|
|
2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
|
|
PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
|
|
PC/VS8.0.
|
|
|
|
- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
|
|
PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
|
|
newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
|
|
without this option!
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
|
|
|
|
- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
|
|
periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
|
|
default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
|
|
debugged, performance critical applications.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
|
|
readonly source.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
|
|
|
|
- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
|
|
4.1+.
|
|
|
|
- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
|
|
platform.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
|
|
returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
|
|
because that prevented the shared library from being used.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
|
|
directory within sys.exec_prefix.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
|
|
|
|
- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
|
|
|
|
- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
|
|
format attribute.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
|
|
Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
|
|
in VC7.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
|
|
|
|
- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
|
|
|
|
- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
|
|
|
|
- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
|
|
|
|
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
|
|
pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
|
|
environment.
|
|
|
|
|
|
C API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
|
|
lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
|
|
and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
|
|
#ifndef block.
|
|
|
|
- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
|
|
to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
|
|
frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
|
|
|
|
- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
|
|
|
|
- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
|
|
and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
|
|
PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
|
|
``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
|
|
of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
|
|
when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
|
|
incorrect results with huge strings.
|
|
|
|
- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
|
|
Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
|
|
|
|
- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
|
|
keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
|
|
and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
|
|
|
|
- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
|
|
defined.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
|
|
|
|
- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
|
|
|
|
- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
|
|
|
|
- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
|
|
(relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
|
|
|
|
- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
|
|
outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
|
|
|
|
- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
|
|
absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
|
|
imports under some conditions.
|
|
|
|
- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
|
|
char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
|
|
macro so it can be used as an expression.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Windows
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
|
|
requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
|
|
macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
|
|
builds.
|
|
|
|
- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
|
|
_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
|
|
|
|
- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
|
|
|
|
- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
|
|
This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
|
|
solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
|
|
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**
|