The original change in 2.6 was made during rc1 changeover, and did not
get ported to 2.7. The original change may not even have been
intentional, but if so it doesn't seem to have caused any problems.
Remove various dependencies on dictionary order in the standard library
tests, and one (clearly an oversight, potentially critical) in the
standard library itself - base64.py.
Remaining open issues:
* test_extcall is an output test, messy to make robust
* tarfile.py has a potential bug here, but I'm not familiar
enough with this code. Filed in as SF bug #1496501.
* urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgr() returns a random result if there is more
than one matching root path. I'm asking python-dev for
clarification...
* add expansion of default values in help text: the string
"%default" in an option's help string is expanded to str() of
that option's default value, or "none" if no default value.
* bug #955889: option default values that happen to be strings are
now processed in the same way as values from the command line; this
allows generation of nicer help when using custom types. Can
be disabled with parser.set_process_default_values(False).
* bug #960515: don't crash when generating help for callback
options that specify 'type', but not 'dest' or 'metavar'.
* feature #815264: change the default help format for short options
that take an argument from e.g. "-oARG" to "-o ARG"; add
set_short_opt_delimiter() and set_long_opt_delimiter() methods to
HelpFormatter to allow (slight) customization of the formatting.
* patch #736940: internationalize Optik: all built-in user-
targeted literal strings are passed through gettext.gettext(). (If
you want translations (.po files), they're not included with Python
-- you'll find them in the Optik source distribution from
http://optik.sourceforge.net/ .)
* bug #878453: respect $COLUMNS environment variable for
wrapping help output.
* feature #988122: expand "%prog" in the 'description' passed
to OptionParser, just like in the 'usage' and 'version' strings.
(This is *not* done in the 'description' passed to OptionGroup.)
* Fixed some long-hidden bugs revealed by the new PyUnit-based
test suite (thanks to Johannes Gijsbers the new test suite,
improved tests that caught the bugs, and the bug fixes).
* Make store_true/store_false store True/False rather than 1/0.
Details available in Optik's CVS repository.
recent version from Greg's CVS. I've changed the module docstring,
added a copyright notice, and renamed OptikError to OptParseError.
Still to do are documentation and unit tests.
R David Murray
Georg Brandl
Mark Dickinson
Benjamin Peterson
Andrew M. Kuchling
Raymond Hettinger
Christian Heimes
Greg Ward
Tim Peters
Armin Rigo
Brett Cannon
Neal Norwitz
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum