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What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
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*Release date: XX-June-2008*
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Core and Builtins
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- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError
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was sometimes incorrectly raised.
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- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning attribute.
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Extension Modules
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Library
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- #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap TextWrapper class.
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- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
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large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
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suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
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OverflowError.
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- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
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- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
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- pdb gained the "until" command.
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Build
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What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
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=================================
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*Release date: 08-May-2008*
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Core and builtins
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- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
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- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now it
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properly raises a SyntaxError.
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- Patch #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and other
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implementations of Python.
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- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory
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Extension Modules
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- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed two
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handlers that derive the same default base class.
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- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
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- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to the cmath
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module.
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- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules:
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acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p.
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- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter when
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passed a value less than or equal to zero.
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- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the original Python
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code has been kept as backup). This will allow for using the 'warning's
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machinery in such places as the parser where use of pure Python code is not
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possible. Both the ``showarning()`` and ``formatwarning()`` gain an
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optional 'line' argument which is not called by default for
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backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting ``warnings.showwarning()`` to
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an implementation that lacks support for the ``line`` argument will raise a
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DeprecationWarning.
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Library
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- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed
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by Bob Ippolito.
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- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
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- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst
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- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
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where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
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ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
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- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
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data types
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- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
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reference to themselves.
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- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
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by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
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issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
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- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
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1900-01-01.
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- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
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convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
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- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
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now implemented in C for better performance.
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- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in implementation
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detail of the public ``types`` module, has been removed and replaced by pure
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python code.
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- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
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extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
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build documentation for more information.
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- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
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threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
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file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
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an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
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- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
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libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
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Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
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- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, so the
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controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical script
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environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to data files.
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Tests
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- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining ports
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to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an effort to
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facilitate running multiple instances of the entire regression test suite
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in parallel without issue. test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such
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that it will always return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case
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with the previous implementation, especially if socket options had been
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set that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
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new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception if it
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is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the SO_REUSEADDR or
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SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if available, bind_port()
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will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on the socket it's been passed.
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This currently only applies to Windows. This option prevents any other
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sockets from binding to the host/port we've bound to, thus removing the
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possibility of the 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it,
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that occurs when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a
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host/port that's already been bound by another socket. The optional
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preferred port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
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circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
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test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will pass
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a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an unused port.
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The temporary socket object is then closed and deleted, and the port is
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returned. This method should only be used for obtaining an unused port
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in order to pass to an external program (i.e. the -accept [port] argument
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to openssl's s_server mode) or as a parameter to a server-oriented class
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that doesn't give you direct access to the underlying socket used.
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Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used for
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the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and connect).
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The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
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test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
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test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
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test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
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It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test suite to
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run in parallel without issue.
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Build
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- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
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- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
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gcc is used as compiler.
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- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
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with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
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C API
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- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p
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to the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for
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platforms which provide the functions through their libm. The
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files also contains several helpers and constants for math.
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- Added a new convenience function, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k
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warnings.
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What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
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*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
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Core and builtins
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- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the tracing
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function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to call
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threading.currentThread().
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- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
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cannot be executed.
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- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
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reference on the outer class name.
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- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
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compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST).
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- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping
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of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
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- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
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- Added backport of bytearray type.
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- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
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- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
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\Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. This
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affected raw unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now
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UTF-16 surrogates are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals
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and the 'unicode-escape' codec.
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- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
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- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__.
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- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
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- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
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- Issue 1745. Backport print function with:
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from __future__ import print_function
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- Issue 2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
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The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
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- Issue 2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
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exception instances.
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- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
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doesn't derive from BaseException. Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning
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when raising an exception that doesn't derive from BaseException.
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- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
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memory usage in some circumstances.
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- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals
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are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
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This also affects int(x, 0).
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- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
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- Issue #1779871: Gnu gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
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flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
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longer passed.
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- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
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- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method
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on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin)
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- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give
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bogus error messages.
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- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
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Extension Modules
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- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
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Library
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- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for
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daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
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- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates
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rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while.
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- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved
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logic for removing old files.
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- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive
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string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is
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incorrect python code.
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- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit().
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- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
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- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
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stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
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that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
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- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
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- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
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advertised in the docs.
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- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
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- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
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- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the
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WWW-Authenticate header.
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- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
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installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
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- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine
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and processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
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platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
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information as well.
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- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added
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to the standard distribution.
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- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit
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platforms.
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- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different values
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on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct, but they now
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both return a signed integer object for consistency.
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- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
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microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
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strftime.
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- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
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platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; previously
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it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
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- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
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correctly under win32
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- #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
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- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
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optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is currently
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being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an exception, otherwise
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it raises ValueError).
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- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
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which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
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- Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
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- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non-
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zero status code if not all files could be compiled successfully.
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- Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
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root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
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- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
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from 't' to '?'.
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- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
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libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
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Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
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On OS X, preconfigured libffi files are used.
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On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option defaults
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to "yes".
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- Issue 1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination is a
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directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
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Tests
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- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and NIS is
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not set up on the testing machine.
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- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
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- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
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- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
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- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
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- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to unittest.
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- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
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- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
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- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest.
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- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
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- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
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- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
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permission to create files in the root directory.
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Build
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- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
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- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both functions are
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in the C89 standard library.
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- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
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C API
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- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
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PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx()
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What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
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=================================
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*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
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Core and builtins
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- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
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644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
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- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
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- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
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- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
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issue 215555 for a discussion.
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- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
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These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
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compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
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differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
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Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
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module is:
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from future_builtins import hex, oct
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- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
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exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
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standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
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Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
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so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
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available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
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- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
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builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
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__format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
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datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
|
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PyObject_Format().
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|
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- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__
|
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methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state.
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|
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- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
|
|
prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot
|
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on a registered virtual subclass.
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|
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- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or
|
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imaginary part.
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|
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- 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.
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|
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- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
|
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collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
|
|
|
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- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
|
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list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
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|
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- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries
|
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each.
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|
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- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions
|
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``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
|
|
to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
|
|
|
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- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
|
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Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t.
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|
|
|
- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
|
|
in the same code unit.
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|
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- Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with
|
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the collections.Sequence API.
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|
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- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak
|
|
detection
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|
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- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the
|
|
internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
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|
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- 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.
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|
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- 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.
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|
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- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
|
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loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
|
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borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
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|
|
- 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.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #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.
|
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|
|
- 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.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #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.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #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.
|
|
|
|
- Fix 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
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- #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.
|
|
|
|
- #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
|
|
|
|
- #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.
|
|
|
|
- #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.
|
|
|
|
- #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.
|
|
|
|
- #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile
|
|
to be used in with statements by correctly supporting the context
|
|
management protocol.
|
|
|
|
- #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons
|
|
involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
|
|
|
|
- #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default
|
|
permissions for missing directories.
|
|
|
|
- #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement
|
|
after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and
|
|
breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop.
|
|
|
|
- #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and its
|
|
subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
|
|
defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
|
|
|
|
- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
|
|
|
|
- #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and
|
|
storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
|
|
|
|
- #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
|
|
|
|
- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover
|
|
time calculation.
|
|
|
|
- #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level.
|
|
|
|
- #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add
|
|
contextual information in logging output.
|
|
|
|
- #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in
|
|
flush().
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
|
|
when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled
|
|
with ``--with-pydebug``.
|
|
|
|
- #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library.
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- #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for
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pstats.
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- #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a
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directory.
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- #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
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returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
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- #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the
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``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
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- #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open()
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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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- #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers
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past the 2**31 byte boundary.
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- #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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- #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the
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last column of a line.
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- #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated
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modules to be given.
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- #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created
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(and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
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- #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered
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list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
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- #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a 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 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 functions
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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. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
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good for long regular expression matches.
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- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute
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on Parser 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 are
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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 permissions
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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 writing
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- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
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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 created
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on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
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of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded
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in Python 2.5.
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- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for
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both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
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- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not
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seek to the start.
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- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the
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internal floating point type to the sys module.
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- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely
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together.
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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
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files are updated.
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- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop()
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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
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an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs.
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- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of
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the input iterables.
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- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
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- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
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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
|
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to be orderable to properly represent them.
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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
|
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no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986).
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- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
|
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the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
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- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility
|
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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
|
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syllables.
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- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that
|
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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
|
|
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
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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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- 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
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|
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
|
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the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at
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connection time.
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- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
|
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reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
|
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for .read() is specified.
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- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when
|
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matching spaces in the specified format argument.
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- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
|
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even if 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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- Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes
|
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with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
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- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
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- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
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- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
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|
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.
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|
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- 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.
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|
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- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
|
|
the directories).
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|
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- 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.
|
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- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
|
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- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP
|
|
servers which require authentication.
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- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
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- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
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- 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.
|
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|
|
- 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.
|
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|
|
- 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.
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|
|
- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now
|
|
properly recreated when the locale is changed.
|
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|
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- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
|
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|
|
- 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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|
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- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
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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.
|
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|
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- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
|
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|
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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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|
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- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
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- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
|
|
initialization failed.
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|
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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.
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|
|
- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly
|
|
expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references
|
|
are recognized and handled on Windows.
|
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|
|
- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for
|
|
the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
|
|
correctly now.
|
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|
|
- 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.
|
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|
|
- 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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|
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- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to
|
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pydoc's help keywords.
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|
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- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
|
|
concatenation in robotparser.
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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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|
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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.
|
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|
|
- 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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|
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- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
|
|
.handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
|
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|
|
- 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.
|
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|
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- 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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|
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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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|
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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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|
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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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|
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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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|
|
- 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.
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|
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- 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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|
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- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
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|
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- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
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|
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- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
|
|
relative directory names.
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|
|
- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR,
|
|
not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
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|
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- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and
|
|
allow appending to empty files.
|
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|
|
- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
|
|
subprocess.
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|
|
- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
|
|
iso8859_16.
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|
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- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
|
|
a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
|
|
compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
|
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|
|
- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
|
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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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|
|
- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
|
|
return a tuple (it used to return a list).
|
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|
|
- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
|
|
python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
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|
|
- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
|
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|
|
- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types
|
|
instead.
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|
|
- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
|
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|
|
- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
|
|
definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
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parameterless foreign function calls work.
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- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
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- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
|
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be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
|
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encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
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|
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- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
|
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SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
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- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
|
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SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
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- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__.
|
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Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
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- 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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- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under
|
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certain conditions.
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- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell()
|
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work correctly together with readline().
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- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception
|
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if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
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|
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- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
|
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separated lists read from logging config files.
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- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown
|
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when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems.
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|
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- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory
|
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to be created is already there.
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- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
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- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type
|
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for ordering, sorting, etc.
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- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
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- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
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|
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- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType
|
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in xmlrpclib.
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|
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- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
|
|
regular files.
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|
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- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
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- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even
|
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if an exception occurs.
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- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if
|
|
the parent window is withdrawn.
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|
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- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
|
|
to facilitate usage as a decorator.
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|
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- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
|
|
file name mangling.
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|
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- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer
|
|
that precedes an 1xx response.
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|
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- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
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|
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- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
|
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HTTPConnection.request().
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|
|
- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
|
|
weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
|
|
objects.
|
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|
|
- 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.)
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|
|
|
- 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.
|
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|
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- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
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|
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- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
|
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|
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- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
|
|
bdist_rpm.
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|
|
- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
|
|
GNU modes.
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|
|
- 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 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).
|
|
|
|
- Issue829951: 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.
|
|
|
|
- Issue1339: 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)
|
|
|
|
- #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
|
|
|
|
- #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.
|
|
|
|
- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
|
|
as the documentation says.
|
|
|
|
- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
|
|
|
|
- #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
|
|
and 4.6.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 environment
|
|
variables.
|
|
|
|
- Added some tests for modulefinder.
|
|
|
|
- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
|
|
|
|
- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
|
|
number properly.
|
|
|
|
- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be used
|
|
to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tools
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using shutil.copy
|
|
to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a --nobackup option
|
|
to not create the backup if the user is concerned regarding this. Check
|
|
issue 1050828 for more details.
|
|
|
|
- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes the
|
|
PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin and script
|
|
directory.
|
|
|
|
- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
|
|
Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
|
|
|
|
- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which
|
|
was patch #1563844)
|
|
|
|
- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user
|
|
to see which Python version is running pybench
|
|
|
|
- Added support for the new platform module feature
|
|
platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved
|
|
in the benchmark pickle
|
|
|
|
|
|
Documentation
|
|
-------------
|
|
|
|
- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
|
|
include new optional delay argument.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging
|
|
output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
|
|
information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
|
|
Python tutorial.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
|
|
|
|
- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for
|
|
writing is undefined.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
|
|
updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
|
|
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()
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and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
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- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
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"extending and embedding" tutorial.
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- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
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docs.
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- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
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- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
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string pointed to by its parameter.
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- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
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- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
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Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied
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to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea.
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Tools/Demos
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-----------
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- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
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- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
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alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if
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the file is stale or not.
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- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
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file not to get reported properly.
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Build
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-----
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- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in
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$CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment
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variables.
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- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
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smaller or equal sizeof(long).
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- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
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- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj
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- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005
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based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
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PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0.
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- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/
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directory to PCBuild/.
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- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
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- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
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newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
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without this option!
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- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
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- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
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periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default,
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this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged,
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performance critical applications.
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- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
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a readonly source.
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- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
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- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
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- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+.
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- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform.
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- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
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returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
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because that prevented the shared library from being used.
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- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
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directory within sys.exec_prefix.
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- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
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- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
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- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format
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attribute.
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- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
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Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
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- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant
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files in VC7.
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- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
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- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0.
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- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
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- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
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- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
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- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
|
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to include some information about the build environment.
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C API
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-----
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- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists
|
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in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper
|
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limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block.
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- ``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.
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|
|
|
- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
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|
|
- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and
|
|
_FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t
|
|
public functions.
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|
|
- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
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|
|
|
- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
|
|
``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
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|
|
|
- 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.
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|
|
|
- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE
|
|
and Py_REFCNT.
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|
|
|
- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
|
|
backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
|
|
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
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|
|
|
- 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).
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|
|
|
- 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.
|
|
|
|
----
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|
|
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**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**
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