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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-17 18:14:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-17 18:14:43 (GMT) |
| commit | 3ee81df3bbfa6c338509ac06b585624f527511dd (patch) | |
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Rewrap consistently to 70 chars, and standardize the way of referring to issues.
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@@ -12,104 +12,124 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1? Core and Builtins ----------------- -- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that equals - ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals - ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also contains - this name. +- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that + equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals + ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also + contains this name. - Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument. -- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError - was sometimes incorrectly raised. +- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a + ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised. -- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning attribute. +- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning + attribute. -- Issue #2196: hasattr now lets exceptions which do not inherit Exception - (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of ignoring them +- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit + Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of + ignoring them. Extension Modules ----------------- -- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the platform. +- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the + platform. - Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module. - bsddb module updated to version 4.6.4. -- issue2858: Fix potential memory corruption when bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get - and other bsddb.db object constructors raised an exception. +- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when + bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors + raised an exception. -- Fixed #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error +- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error. Library ------- - Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter. -- Issue 1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns +- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns the name of the C runtime library that Python uses. ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is 'm' or 'c'. -- The Tkinter module has been made a package and renamed 'tkinter'. All - Tkinter-related modules (like Tix, ScrolledText, turtle etc.) are now - submodules of that package and have been renamed to conform to PEP 8 - standards. +- The Tkinter module has been made a package and renamed 'tkinter'. + All Tkinter-related modules (like Tix, ScrolledText, turtle etc.) + are now submodules of that package and have been renamed to conform + to PEP 8 standards. - The repr module has been renamed 'reprlib'. The old name is now deprecated. - The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. -- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for removal in - Python 3.0. +- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for + removal in Python 3.0. -- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in + Python 3.0. - The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. --The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in + Python 3.0. -- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for removal in - Python 3.0. +- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for + removal in Python 3.0. -- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. -- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes cgensupport) - have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes + cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. - The ConfigParser module has been renamed 'configparser'. The old name is now deprecated. -- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in - Python 3.0. +- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for + removal in Python 3.0. -- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in + Python 3.0. -- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. - The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. @@ -117,7 +137,7 @@ Library - The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. -- #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth. +- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth. - The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. @@ -130,14 +150,17 @@ Library - The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. -- #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in rlcompleter's - ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and ignored. +- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in + rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and + ignored. -- #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap TextWrapper class. +- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap + TextWrapper class. - The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. -- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. - The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. @@ -149,7 +172,8 @@ Library - The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. -- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in + Python 3.0. - The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. @@ -162,7 +186,8 @@ Library - The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. -- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. +- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python + 3.0. - The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. @@ -180,8 +205,8 @@ Library - pdb gained the "until" command. -- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal in - 3.0. +- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal + in Python 3.0. Build ----- @@ -199,51 +224,52 @@ Core and builtins - Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3. -- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now it - properly raises a SyntaxError. +- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now + it properly raises a SyntaxError. -- Patch #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and other - implementations of Python. +- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and + other implementations of Python. -- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory +- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory. Extension Modules ----------------- -- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed two - handlers that derive the same default base class. +- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed + two handlers that derive the same default base class. - Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen. -- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to the cmath - module. +- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to + the cmath module. -- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: - acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p. +- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh, + asinh, atanh and log1p. -- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter when - passed a value less than or equal to zero. +- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter + when passed a value less than or equal to zero. -- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the original Python - code has been kept as backup). This will allow for using the 'warning's - machinery in such places as the parser where use of pure Python code is not - possible. Both the ``showarning()`` and ``formatwarning()`` gain an - optional 'line' argument which is not called by default for - backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting ``warnings.showwarning()`` to - an implementation that lacks support for the ``line`` argument will raise a - DeprecationWarning. +- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the + original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for + using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where + use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()`` + and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is + not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting + ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support + for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning. Library ------- - The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. -- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed - by Bob Ippolito. +- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and + contributed by Bob Ippolito. - Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles. -- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst +- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for + bdist_wininst. - Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option, where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not @@ -268,11 +294,11 @@ Library - Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are now implemented in C for better performance. -- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in implementation - detail of the public ``types`` module, has been removed and replaced by pure - python code. +- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in + implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been + removed and replaced by pure python code. -- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling +- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls build documentation for more information. @@ -285,49 +311,55 @@ Library libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. -- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, so the - controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical script - environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to data files. +- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, + so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical + script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to + data files. Tests ----- -- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining ports - to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an effort to - facilitate running multiple instances of the entire regression test suite - in parallel without issue. test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such - that it will always return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case - with the previous implementation, especially if socket options had been - set that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The - new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception if it - is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the SO_REUSEADDR or - SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if available, bind_port() - will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on the socket it's been passed. - This currently only applies to Windows. This option prevents any other - sockets from binding to the host/port we've bound to, thus removing the - possibility of the 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, - that occurs when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a - host/port that's already been bound by another socket. The optional - preferred port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no + +- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining + ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an + effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire + regression test suite in parallel without issue. + test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always + return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the + previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set + that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The + new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception + if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the + SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if + available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on + the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to + Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the + host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the + 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs + when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port + that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred + port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no circumstances should tests be hard coding ports! - - test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will pass - a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an unused port. - The temporary socket object is then closed and deleted, and the port is - returned. This method should only be used for obtaining an unused port - in order to pass to an external program (i.e. the -accept [port] argument - to openssl's s_server mode) or as a parameter to a server-oriented class - that doesn't give you direct access to the underlying socket used. - - Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used for - the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and connect). + + test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will + pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an + unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and + deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used + for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program + (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as + a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct + access to the underlying socket used. + + Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used + for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and + connect). The following tests were updated to following the new conventions: - test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib, + test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib, test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver, test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl. - It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test suite to - run in parallel without issue. + It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test + suite to run in parallel without issue. Build ----- @@ -338,15 +370,15 @@ Build gcc is used as compiler. - Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework - with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME. + with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME. C API ----- -- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p - to the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for - platforms which provide the functions through their libm. The - files also contains several helpers and constants for math. +- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to + the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms + which provide the functions through their libm. The files also + contains several helpers and constants for math. - Added a new convenience function, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings. @@ -360,9 +392,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2? Core and builtins ----------------- -- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the tracing - function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to call - threading.currentThread(). +- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the + tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to + call threading.currentThread(). - Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file cannot be executed. @@ -371,10 +403,10 @@ Core and builtins reference on the outer class name. - Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by - compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST). + ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``. -- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping - of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008. +- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy + dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008. - Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals. @@ -383,52 +415,57 @@ Core and builtins - Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer(). - Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence - \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. This - affected raw unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now - UTF-16 surrogates are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals - and the 'unicode-escape' codec. + \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual + Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the + 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in + this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape' + codec. - Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace. -- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__. +- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and + __members__. - Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage. - Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *". -- Issue 1745. Backport print function with: - from __future__ import print_function +- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import + print_function``. -- Issue 2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects. - The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__ +- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects. + The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__ -- Issue 2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on +- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on exception instances. - Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that - doesn't derive from BaseException. Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning - when raising an exception that doesn't derive from BaseException. + doesn't derive from BaseException. + +- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that + doesn't derive from BaseException. - Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce memory usage in some circumstances. -- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals - are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b". - This also affects int(x, 0). +- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal + literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of + "0b". This also affects int(x, 0). - Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}. -- Issue #1779871: Gnu gcc can now build Python on OS X because the +- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no longer passed. - Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true. -- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method - on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin) +- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit + method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by + Jeffrey Yaskin) -- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give - bogus error messages. +- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions + could give bogus error messages. - Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF. @@ -440,20 +477,22 @@ Extension Modules Library ------- -- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for - daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover. +- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts + for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover. -- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates - rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while. +- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now + calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a + while. -- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved - logic for removing old files. +- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses + improved logic for removing old files. -- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive - string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is - incorrect python code. +- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two + consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as + [""""], which is incorrect python code. -- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit(). +- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from + SMTP.quit(). - Backport of Python 3.0's io module. @@ -466,58 +505,60 @@ Library - Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes advertised in the docs. -- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable. +- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable. -- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module +- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module -- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the - WWW-Authenticate header. +- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms + in the WWW-Authenticate header. - Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python installation which do not have the win32all package installed. -- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine - and processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result, +- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and + processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result, platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this information as well. -- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added - to the standard distribution. +- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to + the standard distribution. -- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit - platforms. +- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on + 64-bit platforms. -- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different values - on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct, but they now - both return a signed integer object for consistency. +- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different + values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct, + but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency. - Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and strftime. - Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all - platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; previously - it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms. + platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; + previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms. - Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME correctly under win32 -- #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc +- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc - Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now - optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is currently - being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an exception, otherwise - it raises ValueError). + optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is + currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an + exception, otherwise it raises ValueError). - Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers which terminates the .serve_forever() loop. -- Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully. +- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more + gracefully. -- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non- - zero status code if not all files could be compiled successfully. +- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a + non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled + successfully. -- Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the +- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs. - Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed @@ -525,19 +566,18 @@ Library - The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to - Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. - On OS X, preconfigured libffi files are used. - On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option defaults - to "yes". + Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi + files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi + configure option defaults to "yes". -- Issue 1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination is a - directory instead of copying-then-remove-source. +- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination + is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source. Tests ----- -- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and NIS is - not set up on the testing machine. +- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and + NIS is not set up on the testing machine. - Output comparison tests are no longer supported. @@ -547,13 +587,15 @@ Tests - GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest. -- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to unittest. +- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to + unittest. - Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest. - Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest. -- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest. +- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to + unittest. - GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest. @@ -567,8 +609,8 @@ Build - A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter. -- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both functions are - in the C89 standard library. +- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both + functions are in the C89 standard library. - Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat. @@ -576,7 +618,8 @@ C API ----- - Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and - PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx() + PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx(). + What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1? ================================= @@ -617,56 +660,59 @@ Core and builtins datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API PyObject_Format(). -- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__ - methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state. +- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted + __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent + state. - Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also - prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot - on a registered virtual subclass. + prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access + a slot on a registered virtual subclass. -- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or - imaginary part. +- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as + real or imaginary part. -- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order - to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the - OS earlier. +- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation + in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back + memory to the OS earlier. -- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of - collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method. +- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a + subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set + to a bound method. - Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free list was not freed on interpreter shutdown. -- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries - each. +- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 + entries each. -- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions - ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList`` +- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API + functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList`` to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats. -- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls. - Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t. +- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() + calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie + returns pi_t. -- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear - in the same code unit. +- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they + appear in the same code unit. -- Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with - the collections.Sequence API. +- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply + with the collections.Sequence API. -- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak - detection +- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and + linebreak detection -- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the - internal lookup cache for ref leak tests. +- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear + the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests. -- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is the - same object as the func_code attribute of the function that produced the - generator. +- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is + the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that + produced the generator. -- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler, - even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when - the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the - "else" suite. +- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the + compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is + supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler + correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite. - A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858); loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py); @@ -676,7 +722,7 @@ Core and builtins 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 +- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode support. @@ -691,48 +737,50 @@ Core and builtins - 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. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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'. +- 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. +- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L. -- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y) - functions. +- 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. + 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. +- 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 #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 #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 #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. @@ -741,25 +789,26 @@ Core and builtins 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. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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. @@ -767,48 +816,53 @@ Core and builtins - 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. +- 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 #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 #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 #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 #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. + 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 #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. +- 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. +- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX. -- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO. +- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO. - Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become - __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.) + __*__ 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. @@ -817,12 +871,12 @@ Core and builtins 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. + "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 +- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is inherited from a builtin base. - When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as @@ -847,22 +901,25 @@ Core and builtins 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an + unicode name. - Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments. @@ -870,61 +927,69 @@ Core and builtins 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__(). + 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 #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 #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. + 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. + 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(). +- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in + long(). -- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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 #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 +- 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. +- 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 #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 +- 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. +- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on + strings, tuples and lists. - Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek. @@ -932,10 +997,10 @@ Core and builtins - 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 #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 #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. @@ -943,8 +1008,8 @@ Core and builtins - 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. +- 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. @@ -962,12 +1027,12 @@ Core and builtins 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). + 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 +- 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),)). @@ -975,8 +1040,9 @@ Core and builtins - 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 #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 @@ -996,18 +1062,19 @@ Core and builtins 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. + 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. +- 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 +- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until it actually exited. @@ -1015,24 +1082,25 @@ Core and builtins Library ------- -- #2274 Add heapq.heappushpop(). +- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop(). - Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223 - Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101. -- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out timestamps. +- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out + timestamps. -- #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers. +- Issue #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. +- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a + server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the + connection instead of raising ValueError. -- #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can now be - overridden. +- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can + now be overridden. -- Issue 1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section +- 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 @@ -1040,9 +1108,11 @@ Library without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to be done in the rest of the stdlib. -- Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py. +- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to + inspect.py. -- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash. +- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double + slash. - ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be pickled. @@ -1054,89 +1124,93 @@ Library 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. +- 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. +- Patch #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. +- Patch #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. +- Issue #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. +- Issue #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, +- Issue #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) +- Issue #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. +- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output. -- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover - time calculation. +- Issue #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. +- Issue #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. +- Issue #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(). +- Issue #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``. +- 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. +- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general + library. -- #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for - pstats. +- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test + file for pstats. -- #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a - directory. +- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink + to a directory. -- #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode, - returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead. +- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in + ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead. -- #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the - ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib. +- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when + using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib. -- #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open() - returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code. +- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that + urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code. - Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files with extended local headers. -- #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers - past the 2**31 byte boundary. +- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with + headers past the 2**31 byte boundary. -- #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage +- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process to hang when the child wrote to stderr. -- #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the - last column of a line. +- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in + the last column of a line. -- #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated - modules to be given. +- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple + comma-separated modules to be given. -- #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created - (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share. +- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a + just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share. -- #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered - list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples). +- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an + ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples). -- #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue. +- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a + priority queue. - Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in @@ -1153,24 +1227,25 @@ Library - Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call and when creating a recursive instance. -- Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string - expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object. +- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string + expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time + object. - Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string. Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines. -- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions - that returned a tuple now return a named tuple. +- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect + functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple. - Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability: (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7) -- Issue #846388. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly +- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly good for long regular expression matches. -- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute - on Parser objects to set the character data buffer size. +- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser + objects to set the character data buffer size. - Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by the current context. @@ -1180,22 +1255,23 @@ Library - Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol. -- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are - equal instead of raising an exception. +- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments + are equal instead of raising an exception. - Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'. - Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py. -- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions - and times. +- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory + permissions and times. - Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint. -- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing +- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when + writing -- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain - unicode characters. +- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle + certain unicode characters. - Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes. @@ -1204,22 +1280,22 @@ Library - Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes. -- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created - on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence - of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded - in Python 2.5. +- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects + created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a + consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 + cannot be loaded in Python 2.5. -- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for - both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler. +- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 + for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler. -- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not - seek to the start. +- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do + not seek to the start. -- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the - internal floating point type to the sys module. +- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information + about the internal floating point type to the sys module. -- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely - together. +- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play + nicely together. - doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data() method used universal newlines. @@ -1233,8 +1309,8 @@ Library - IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7 files are updated. -- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop() - and os.environ.clear() methods are used. +- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the + os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used. - ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is configured with --with-system-ffi. @@ -1244,17 +1320,19 @@ Library - collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument. -- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised - an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs. +- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it + raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to + longs. -- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of - the input iterables. +- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the + input iterables. - Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations(). - Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations. -- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66). +- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification + (v1.66). - Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items to be orderable to properly represent them. @@ -1263,16 +1341,18 @@ Library - Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS. -- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser - no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986). +- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the + RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and + password (bug 813986). - TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO). -- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility - with Python 3000. +- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward + compatibility with Python 3000. -- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen. +- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill + Janssen. - socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead. @@ -1281,8 +1361,8 @@ Library - EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul syllables. -- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that - are missing in GBK. +- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are + missing in GBK. - Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE. @@ -1299,31 +1379,34 @@ Library - tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add(). -- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute. +- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple + attribute. -- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note - that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections). +- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout + parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and + FTPS connections). -- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses - the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at - connection time. +- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now + uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout + specified at connection time. - Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it - reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument - for .read() is specified. + reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint + argument for .read() is specified. -- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when - matching spaces in the specified format argument. +- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of + ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument. -- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files - even if package_dir is empty. +- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if + package_dir is empty. - sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. - md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. -- Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes - with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512). +- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when + using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 + and sha512). - mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. @@ -1338,11 +1421,11 @@ Library - The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning. -- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher - support in urllib/urllib2. +- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of + gopher support in urllib/urllib2. -- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to - lack of an infinite recursion check. +- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack + of an infinite recursion check. - Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in the directories). @@ -1351,10 +1434,11 @@ Library the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and injecting HTML into the error page. -- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module. +- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess + module. -- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP - servers which require authentication. +- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with + SMTP servers which require authentication. - Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler. @@ -1369,13 +1453,15 @@ Library ".cpp" too. - As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that - the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted. - Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2. + the client's request was successfully received, understood, and + accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue + #1177) and urllib2. -- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now - properly recreated when the locale is changed. +- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information + is now properly recreated when the locale is changed. -- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler. +- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in + distutils.MSVCCompiler. - Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the @@ -1393,8 +1479,8 @@ Library - Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py. -- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to - True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to +- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set + to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to directories. - Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default @@ -1408,72 +1494,76 @@ Library initialization failed. - 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. + AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response + didn't contain a valid HTTP status line. -- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly - expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references - are recognized and handled on Windows. +- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now + properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home + directory references are recognized and handled on Windows. -- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for - the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work +- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module + for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work correctly now. - The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated. -- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged - Python program, optionally with different arguments. +- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the + debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments. - Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool. -- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation - for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does. +- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the + documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which + pydoc.doc() does. -- 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. +- 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. -- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter - which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close - behavior. +- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" + parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default + delete-on-close behavior. - Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of whitespace while wrapping. - Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that - are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors - on reading back those values. + are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to + errors on reading back those values. -- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended - and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar. +- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to + tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new + testtar.tar. - Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}. -- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to - pydoc's help keywords. +- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" + to pydoc's help keywords. - Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string concatenation in robotparser. - 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. + 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. - Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails. - Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files. -- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap - the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number. +- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they + trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint + number. -- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind() - and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer - and DocXMLRPCServer. +- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to + server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for + TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer. -- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always - be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by +- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be + equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by patch #1545011. - Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls @@ -1489,20 +1579,21 @@ Library - Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer. -- 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. +- 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. +- 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. -- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to unittest's - main() function. +- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to + unittest's main() function. - Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a comprehensive test suite for the module. @@ -1510,8 +1601,9 @@ Library - Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames. -- 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. +- 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. - Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values in HTMLParser. @@ -1529,8 +1621,8 @@ Library - Added itertools.izip_longest(). -- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute - import semantics. +- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using + absolute import semantics. - Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name. @@ -1541,16 +1633,16 @@ Library - Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil. -- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator. +- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator. -- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of - relative directory names. +- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face + of relative directory names. -- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, - not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems. +- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not + lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems. -- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and - allow appending to empty files. +- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode + and allow appending to empty files. - Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in subprocess. @@ -1558,9 +1650,10 @@ Library - Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and iso8859_16. -- 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. +- 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. - Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive. @@ -1569,7 +1662,8 @@ Library - Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2. -- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring. +- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its + docstring. - Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually return a tuple (it used to return a list). @@ -1579,8 +1673,8 @@ Library - Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module. -- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types - instead. +- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset + types instead. - Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems. @@ -1600,53 +1694,56 @@ Library - Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped. -- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__. - Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped. +- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from + LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and + AttributeError are trapped. -- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument. +- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj + argument. - Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest. -- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under - certain conditions. +- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves + under certain conditions. -- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell() - work correctly together with readline(). +- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and + tell() work correctly together with readline(). -- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception - if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid. +- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError + exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid. - Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma- separated lists read from logging config files. -- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown - when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems. +- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging + shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd + problems. -- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory - to be created is already there. +- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the + directory to be created is already there. - Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers. -- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type - for ordering, sorting, etc. +- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for + ordering, sorting, etc. - Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error. - Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself. -- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType - in xmlrpclib. +- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in + xmlrpclib. - cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and regular files. - Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution. -- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even - if an exception occurs. +- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an + exception occurs. -- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if - the parent window is withdrawn. +- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the + parent window is withdrawn. - Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register() to facilitate usage as a decorator. @@ -1654,8 +1751,8 @@ Library - Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with file name mangling. -- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer - that precedes an 1xx response. +- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that + precedes an 1xx response. - Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek. @@ -1666,13 +1763,13 @@ Library weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH objects. -- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's - a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David - Watson.) +- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if + there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. + (Patch by David Watson.) -- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically - written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David - Watson.) +- Patch #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. @@ -1701,29 +1798,29 @@ Library - 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. +- 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. +- 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 #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 #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 #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. @@ -1734,54 +1831,60 @@ Library - 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. +- 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). +- 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. +- 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() +- 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 #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 #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). +- 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. +- 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). +- 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. +- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies + with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not + obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill + Fenner. -- Issue1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such +- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo() beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server - does not claim to support starttls. Adds the SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() - method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner. + 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). +- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around + siginterrupt(3). Extension Modules ----------------- @@ -1794,67 +1897,73 @@ Extension Modules - Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3) -- #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a - direct EnvironmentError +- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not + a direct EnvironmentError. -- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ +- Bug #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. +- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on + Windows. - Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate. - Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004. -- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr() - as the documentation says. +- Issue #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 #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 #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 +- 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. +- _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.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(). +- 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. +- 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. +- 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__(). +- 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. +- 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. +- 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. @@ -1870,21 +1979,22 @@ Extension Modules 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. + 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. +- 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. @@ -1895,8 +2005,9 @@ Extension Modules - 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 #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. @@ -1906,20 +2017,21 @@ Extension Modules - Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat. -- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin - types. +- 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 #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 #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. +- 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. @@ -1945,19 +2057,21 @@ Extension Modules - 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 #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.) + 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. +- 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. + - 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 @@ -1974,8 +2088,9 @@ Extension Modules - 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. +- 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(). @@ -1995,26 +2110,28 @@ Tests - Refactor test_logging to use unittest. -- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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 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 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. @@ -2023,34 +2140,33 @@ Tests - 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. - +- 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/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/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) +- 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 +- 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 + platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the + benchmark pickle. Documentation @@ -2059,8 +2175,9 @@ 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 #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(). @@ -2070,8 +2187,8 @@ Documentation - 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. +- 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. @@ -2098,8 +2215,9 @@ Documentation - Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs. - Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs. - Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied - to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea. + Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem + applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't + a good idea. Tools/Demos @@ -2108,8 +2226,8 @@ Tools/Demos - Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script. - Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in - alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if - the file is stale or not. + alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to + tell if the file is stale or not. - Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing file not to get reported properly. @@ -2118,23 +2236,24 @@ Tools/Demos Build ----- -- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in - $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment - variables. +- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared + order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those + environment variables. - Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is smaller or equal sizeof(long). - Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2 -- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj +- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj. -- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005 - based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script - PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0. +- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS + 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script + PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to + PC/VS8.0. -- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/ - directory to PCBuild/. +- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed + PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/. - Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD. @@ -2145,20 +2264,22 @@ Build - Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work. - Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away - periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default, - this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged, - performance critical applications. + periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By + default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in + debugged, performance critical applications. -- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to - a readonly source. +- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a + readonly source. - Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF. - Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64. -- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+. +- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD + 4.1+. -- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform. +- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the + platform. - Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared @@ -2171,18 +2292,18 @@ Build - Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x. -- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format - attribute. +- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple + format attribute. - Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure. Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3. -- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant - files in VC7. +- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files + in VC7. - Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t. -- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0. +- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0. - Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd. @@ -2190,45 +2311,48 @@ Build - Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format. -- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify - to include some information about the build environment. +- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script + pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build + environment. C API ----- -- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists - in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper - limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block. +- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free + lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` + and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an + #ifndef block. -- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to - ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but - it does not steal a reference to the added item. +- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly + to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new + frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item. - Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API. -- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and - _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t - public functions. +- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format + and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and + PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions. - Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types. - Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API. -- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w# - format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when - PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect - results with huge strings. +- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# + of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even + when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return + incorrect results with huge strings. -- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE - and Py_REFCNT. +- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, + Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT. -- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping - backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and - PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. +- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while + keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, + and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. -- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined. +- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not + defined. - Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints. @@ -2244,26 +2368,27 @@ C API - 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. +- ``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)``. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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. +- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and + _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE. - Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002. @@ -2275,9 +2400,9 @@ Mac - 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. +- 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. ---- |