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@ -12,18 +12,18 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try
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implicit relative import semantics.
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- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
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relative import semantics.
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- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using
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it from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
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- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
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from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
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C-API
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-----
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- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
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embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
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sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
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- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
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of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
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helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
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<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
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Library
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@ -36,36 +36,37 @@ Library
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StreamWriter classes.
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- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
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than strict
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than 'strict'.
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- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
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of files without one.
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- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
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- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
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comparing to a non-mapping.
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- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
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- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
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- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.quote and urllib.unquote for simple cases.
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- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
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cases.
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- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
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- Issue #5099: subprocess.Popen's __del__ method (and the methods it calls)
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referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during interpreter
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shutdown.
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- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
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it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
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interpreter shutdown.
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Extension Modules
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-----------------
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- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
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overflow checks in the audioop module.
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overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
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Tests
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-----
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- On darwin, test_site assumed that a framework build was being used, leading
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to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages instead
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of two in a non-framework build.
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- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
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leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
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instead of two in a non-framework build.
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What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
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@ -76,226 +77,221 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for Objects/ and Python/ .
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- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
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- Issue #1533: fix inconsistency in range function argument
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processing: any non-float non-integer argument is now converted to
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an integer (if possible) using its __int__ method. Previously, only
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small arguments were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose
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__int__ was outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
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- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
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non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
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using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
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way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
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would produce a TypeError.
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- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when
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searching for the module file to be executed with the -m command
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line option
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- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
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for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
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- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
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- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
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PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
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``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
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benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
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Charles-François Natali.
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- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
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passed to bytearray.
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- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
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- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
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- Issue #8404: Fixed set operations on dictionary views.
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- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
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- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
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builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
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into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
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- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
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on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
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``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
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Library
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-------
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- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
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the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
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- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
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zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
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- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
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chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
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objects.
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- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
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larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
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- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
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- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
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- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
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error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
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inheritance with the underlying socket object.
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The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
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- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
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messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
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inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
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deprecated.
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- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
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Patch by Tres Seaver.
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- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
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fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
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- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
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- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
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parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
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- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
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parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
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- Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to
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ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed
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- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
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ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
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- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
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Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
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signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
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the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
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being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
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- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
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operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
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trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
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handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
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Python exception being raised.
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- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
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exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
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close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
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exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
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several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
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- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
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- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
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gc.DEBUG_STATS.
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- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
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not just SIGCHLD.
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- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
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just SIGCHLD.
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- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
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webbrowser.get("safari").
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- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
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``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
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- Issue #8577: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() now makes a difference
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- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
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between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
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"Include".
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- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
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when mode="w|" is used.
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- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
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mode="w|" is used.
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- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
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of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
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- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
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the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
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- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
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It should correctly return an empty response now.
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- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
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should correctly return an empty response now.
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- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
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suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
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location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart
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Regebro.
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- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
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suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
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location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
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- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
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before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
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- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
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the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
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- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
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- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
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- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
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Sridhar Ratnakumar.
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- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
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Ratnakumar.
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- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
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and mappings.
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- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
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- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
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where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
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event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
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witnessed in test_httpservers.
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- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
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the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
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started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
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test_httpservers.
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- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
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indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
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- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
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the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
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- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
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SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
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- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
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- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
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underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
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- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
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socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
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- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
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socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
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- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
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Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
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- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
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the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
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and keywords.
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- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
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string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
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keywords.
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- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
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a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
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- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
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non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
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wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
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OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
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- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
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the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
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doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
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- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
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extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
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because of an "unknown algorithm".
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- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
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- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
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from PORT/EPRT commands.
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- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
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resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
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- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
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- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
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- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding
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error handler from the new IO library.
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- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
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handler from the new IO library.
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- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
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code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
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- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
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as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
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- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
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- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
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available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
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- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
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- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
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Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
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- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
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filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
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designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
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filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
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to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
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- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
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character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
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7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
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character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
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rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
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- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
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- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
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to cover recent locale changes and additions.
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- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
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cover recent locale changes and additions.
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Extension Modules
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-----------------
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- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of timedelta.total_seconds().
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- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
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- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
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- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
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- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after
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calling a foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified
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libffi library.
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- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
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foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
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Tests
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-----
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- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
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handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
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uncompressed data).
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- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
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by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
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data).
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- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests
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its API.
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- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
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API.
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- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
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test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
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- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
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support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
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- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
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Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
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- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
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of SSL shutdowns.
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- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
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SSL shutdowns.
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Build
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- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
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- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
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(Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
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2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
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strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
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- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
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- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
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your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
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- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
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home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
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- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
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- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
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Misc
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@ -316,29 +312,28 @@ Core and Builtins
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- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
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changed.
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- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
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- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
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on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
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||||
permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
|
||||
|
||||
- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
|
||||
- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
|
||||
|
||||
- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__
|
||||
is called with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to
|
||||
future-proof user code. If a derived class does not currently
|
||||
implement __format__ but later adds its own __format__, it would
|
||||
most likely break user code that had supplied a format string. This
|
||||
will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in Python 3.3 and it will be
|
||||
an error in Python 3.4.
|
||||
- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
|
||||
with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
|
||||
code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
|
||||
adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
|
||||
supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
|
||||
Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
|
||||
references.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
|
||||
case it is set.
|
||||
- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
|
||||
is set.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -360,55 +355,54 @@ Library
|
|||
- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
|
||||
using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
|
||||
and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
|
||||
using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
|
||||
`ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
|
||||
directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
|
||||
- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
|
||||
converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
|
||||
|
||||
>>> Decimal(1.1)
|
||||
Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
|
||||
|
||||
- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
|
||||
|
||||
- the functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator
|
||||
to simplify the specification of rich comparisons.
|
||||
- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
|
||||
the specification of rich comparisons.
|
||||
|
||||
- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition
|
||||
old-style comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
|
||||
- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
|
||||
comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
|
||||
instances directly.
|
||||
- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
|
||||
directly.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
|
||||
signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
|
||||
involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
|
||||
are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
|
||||
- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
|
||||
InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
|
||||
NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
|
||||
signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
|
||||
instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
|
||||
operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
|
||||
the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
|
||||
- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
|
||||
return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
|
||||
returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
|
||||
id(Decimal).
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
|
||||
argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
|
||||
is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
|
||||
patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
|
||||
argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
|
||||
read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
|
||||
Piotr Ożarowski).
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #3135: Add inspect.getcallargs, which binds arguments to a function
|
||||
like a normal call.
|
||||
- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
|
||||
function like a normal call.
|
||||
|
||||
- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
|
||||
form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
|
||||
Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
|
||||
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
|
||||
Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
|
||||
|
||||
- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
|
||||
a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
|
||||
True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
|
||||
int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
|
||||
- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
|
||||
Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
|
||||
makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
|
||||
<=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
|
||||
|
||||
- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -420,24 +414,24 @@ Library
|
|||
- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
|
||||
didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
|
||||
now silenced.
|
||||
didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
|
||||
silenced.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
|
||||
deprecated.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
|
||||
when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
|
||||
- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
|
||||
is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
|
||||
|
||||
- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor
|
||||
method to LoggerAdapter.
|
||||
- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
|
||||
to LoggerAdapter.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode
|
||||
logger names existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error
|
||||
when configuration code attempted to sort the existing loggers.
|
||||
- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
|
||||
existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
|
||||
attempted to sort the existing loggers.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not
|
||||
fully loaded when logging occurs.
|
||||
- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
|
||||
when logging occurs.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
|
||||
Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
|
||||
|
|
@ -447,26 +441,26 @@ Library
|
|||
|
||||
- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support
|
||||
writing into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays
|
||||
or memoryviews.
|
||||
- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
|
||||
into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
|
||||
memoryviews.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
|
||||
with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
|
||||
- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
|
||||
the locale.
|
||||
- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
|
||||
locale.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
|
||||
set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
|
||||
- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
|
||||
to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
|
||||
program name.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
|
||||
for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
|
||||
existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
|
||||
not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
|
||||
for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
|
||||
log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
|
||||
the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
|
||||
cElementTree module is updated too.
|
||||
|
|
@ -500,8 +494,8 @@ Extension Modules
|
|||
- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
|
||||
http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4.
|
||||
This update drops support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
|
||||
http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
|
||||
support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -515,13 +509,13 @@ Extension Modules
|
|||
- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
|
||||
integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
|
||||
argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
|
||||
produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour
|
||||
was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others,
|
||||
and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native
|
||||
packing and standard packing.)
|
||||
produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
|
||||
inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
|
||||
the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
|
||||
and standard packing.)
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
|
||||
bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
|
||||
- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
|
||||
the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
|
||||
|
||||
Tools/Demos
|
||||
-----------
|
||||
|
|
@ -535,12 +529,12 @@ Tools/Demos
|
|||
Build
|
||||
-----
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build,
|
||||
allowing to use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
|
||||
- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
|
||||
use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
|
||||
variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
|
||||
when building a shared library.
|
||||
- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
|
||||
anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
|
||||
shared library.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -553,19 +547,19 @@ C-API
|
|||
-----
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
|
||||
function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
|
||||
is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
|
||||
function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
|
||||
now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
|
||||
from Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution
|
||||
have been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility
|
||||
concerns, PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
|
||||
- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
|
||||
Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
|
||||
converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
|
||||
PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
|
||||
|
||||
Tests
|
||||
-----
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
|
||||
if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
|
||||
- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
|
||||
thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -583,8 +577,8 @@ Tests
|
|||
- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
|
||||
Unicode normalization cases.
|
||||
|
||||
- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
|
||||
files from the local cache.
|
||||
- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
|
||||
from the local cache.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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