cpython/Misc/NEWS.d/2.7rc1.rst

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.. bpo: 8271
.. date: 8078
.. nonce: HKwc-i
.. release date: 2010-06-05
.. section: Core and Builtins
during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the start byte
and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of the
number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
'\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
returned a single u'\ufffd'.
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.. bpo: 8627
.. date: 8077
.. nonce: l2l6Zs
.. section: Core and Builtins
Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of __hash__ in 3.x"
warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that arises from the "Overriding
__eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning when turned into an exception: in
this case the exception simply gets ignored.
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.. bpo: 8748
.. date: 8076
.. nonce: bKymOB
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer objects. (1)
The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases (2**53+1 ==
complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality. (2) The
comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
or dicts.
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.. bpo: 5211
.. date: 8075
.. nonce: BNwm54
.. section: Core and Builtins
Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely removed. (Coercion
for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7 alpha 4, but coercion
for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
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.. bpo: 3798
.. date: 8074
.. nonce: L9n27k
.. section: Core and Builtins
Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding and error
handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
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.. bpo: 7902
.. date: 8073
.. nonce: K75Ezw
.. section: Core and Builtins
When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit relative
import semantics.
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.. bpo: 7079
.. date: 8072
.. nonce: wEGBdB
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it from another
thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
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.. bpo: 8868
.. date: 8071
.. nonce: rg3J-W
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the Window Server again
in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
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.. bpo: 5753
.. date: 8070
.. nonce: 205374
.. section: C API
A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
`CVE-2008-5983
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
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.. bpo: 8302
.. date: 8069
.. nonce: U5tZ_l
.. section: Library
SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now reported as a
skip rather than an error.
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.. bpo: 8351
.. date: 8068
.. nonce: 8I5oO-
.. section: Library
Excessively large diffs due to unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no
longer included in failure reports.
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.. bpo: 8899
.. date: 8067
.. nonce: Q6oIpy
.. section: Library
time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
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.. bpo: 4487
.. date: 8066
.. nonce: WdV86e
.. section: Library
email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases accepted by the
codecs module.
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.. bpo: 6470
.. date: 8065
.. nonce: eVTlgU
.. section: Library
Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
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.. bpo: 5610
.. date: 8064
.. nonce: 3x0O2c
.. section: Library
feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body part if the
body part ends with a \r\n.
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.. bpo: 8833
.. date: 8063
.. nonce: R9JBZA
.. section: Library
tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by mistake.
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.. bpo: 1368247
.. date: 8062
.. nonce: OVD5zb
.. section: Library
set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically encodes a unicode
_payload to the output_charset.
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.. bpo: 7150
.. date: 8061
.. nonce: kBTznJ
.. section: Library
Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting timedelta from
date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
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.. bpo: 6662
.. date: 8060
.. nonce: jpO1QX
.. section: Library
Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by Fredrik Håård
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.. bpo: 8016
.. date: 8059
.. nonce: vAmdrz
.. section: Library
Add the CP858 codec.
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.. bpo: 3924
.. date: 8058
.. nonce: -W1f1B
.. section: Library
Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
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.. bpo: 6268
.. date: 8057
.. nonce: fQgJxL
.. section: Library
Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM twice after
seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and StreamWriter
classes.
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.. bpo: 5640
.. date: 8056
.. nonce: dpc6TZ
.. section: Library
Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different than
'strict'.
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.. bpo: 8782
.. date: 8055
.. nonce: asLuOV
.. section: Library
Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line of files
without one.
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.. bpo: 8729
.. date: 8054
.. nonce: Nq_Uhf
.. section: Library
Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when comparing
to a non-mapping.
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.. bpo: 8759
.. date: 8053
.. nonce: 0yDlu7
.. section: Library
Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
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.. bpo: 1285086
.. date: 8052
.. nonce: U8BtXR
.. section: Library
Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple cases.
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.. bpo: 8688
.. date: 8051
.. nonce: gUJqmI
.. section: Library
Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST every time.
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.. bpo: 5099
.. date: 8050
.. nonce: kmjFaU
.. section: Library
The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods it calls)
referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during interpreter
shutdown.
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.. bpo: 7384
.. date: 8049
.. nonce: E16zrc
.. section: Library
If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the curses module
must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe to load
both the readline and curses modules in an application.
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.. bpo: 2810
.. date: 8048
.. nonce: FSt0Y0
.. section: Library
Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring
a re-try in order to get the complete result.
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.. bpo: 8674
.. date: 8047
.. nonce: Q2kfWX
.. section: Library
Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
in the ``audioop`` module.
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.. bpo: 8889
.. date: 8046
.. nonce: 9IoVzA
.. section: Tests
test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new checks also work
on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
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.. bpo: 8835
.. date: 8045
.. nonce: FJzJvJ
.. section: Tests
test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME) and
gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
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.. bpo: 7449
.. date: 8044
.. nonce: LeKyd_
.. section: Tests
Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
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.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8043
.. nonce: b_na1a
.. section: Tests
On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
instead of two in a non-framework build.
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.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8042
.. nonce: g-v7fs
.. section: Build
Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
releases.
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.. bpo: 1759169
.. date: 8041
.. nonce: NW035m
.. section: Build
Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for multiprocessing only. (See
also: bpo-8864)
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.. bpo: 5464
.. date: 8040
.. nonce: R1pj9Y
.. section: Tools/Demos
Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.