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@@ -12,39 +12,38 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced
- by the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but
- our bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
+- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
+ the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
+ bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
-- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint()
- method, to conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
+- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
+ conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
-- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
- a memoryview object.
+- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
+ memoryview object.
-- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding()
- are now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default
- encoding is hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
+- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
+ now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
+ hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
-- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on
- most platforms. Previously, it inlined when using Microsoft
- Visual C.
+- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
+ platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
-- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h,
- to match the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
+- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
+ the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
-- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions
- that occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
+- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
+ occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
filesystem encoding.
@@ -64,35 +63,34 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
-- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
- for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
+- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
+ the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
-- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions
- to write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
+- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
+ write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
sys.stderr.
- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
- decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize();
- str objects are output as-is.
+ decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
+ objects are output as-is.
-- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported
- compilers (which are detected by the configure script). They can still
- be disable selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
+- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
+ (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
+ selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
-- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx()
- but use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
+- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
+ use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
-- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
- of an array.
+- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
+ array.
-- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter
- shutdown.
+- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
-- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical
- to its repr().
+- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
+ repr().
-- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
- output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
+- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
+ type specifier failed to match the str output:
- format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
- format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
@@ -103,103 +101,100 @@ Extensions
- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
-- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
- in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
+- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
+ posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
-- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private
- to the socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be
- correctly detected under 64-bit Windows.
+- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
+ socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
+ detected under 64-bit Windows.
-- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex,
- getaddrinfo and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric
- addresses as input.
+- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
+ and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
+ input.
-- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections
- now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
+- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
+ correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
Matthew Ahrens.
-- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding,
- using the surrogate error handler.
+- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
+ the surrogate error handler.
-- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions
- other than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
+- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
+ than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
-- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
- Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
+- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
+ Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
-- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the
- socket into the closed state without closing the underlying file
- descriptor.
+- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
+ into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
- Issue #477863: Print a warning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
-- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't
- be PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
+- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
+ PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
-- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right
- name in a tuple subclass.
+- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
+ a tuple subclass.
-- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
- to prevent crashes.
+- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
+ prevent crashes.
-- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
- the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
- 2**31 elements.
+- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
+ module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
-- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
- free the result of history_get_history_state()).
+- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
+ result of history_get_history_state()).
- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
-- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property
- to mmap objects.
+- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
+ objects.
Library
-------
-- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce
- the memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same
- strings as keys.
+- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
+ memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
+ keys.
-- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
- dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
+- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
+ types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
-- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly
- on Windows.
+- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
-- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars
- and default arguments on all parser classes.
+- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
+ default arguments on all parser classes.
- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
ConfigParser.write.
- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
- array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array()
- constructor now accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
+ array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
+ accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
-- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
- avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
+- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
+ issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
-- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
+- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
circumstances.
-- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
- getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
+- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
+ rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
-- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral
- frame rates are rounded to the nearest integer.
+- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
+ are rounded to the nearest integer.
- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
falling into recursion.
@@ -210,54 +205,53 @@ Library
- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
-- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
- error handling when accepting a new connection.
+- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
+ handling when accepting a new connection.
- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
- implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning
- invalid response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
+ implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
+ response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
errors.
- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
-- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object().
+- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
-- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it
- thought it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
+- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
+ it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
-- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with
- surrogateescape error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
+- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
+ error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
-- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress``
- and ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
+- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
+ ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
-- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is
- a ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
+- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
+ ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
structure.
- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
single keyword arguments.
-- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the
- dis.py compiler flag values over defining its own
+- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
+ compiler flag values over defining its own.
-- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code()
- but returns formatted code information in a string rather than
- displaying on screen.
+- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
+ formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
- pointing to the original callable
+ pointing to the original callable.
-- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes
- on wrapped callables
+- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
+ wrapped callables.
- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
@@ -268,79 +262,79 @@ Library
encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
- using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch
- written by David Watson.
+ using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
+ by David Watson.
-- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID
- constants, for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
+- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
+ for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
-- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
- comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
- without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
+- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
+ indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
+ marker will not be overwritten or removed.
-- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
- and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
- case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
+- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
+ BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
+ Python 2.5 and earlier).
-- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
- original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
- when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
- patch by Jason V. Miller.
+- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
+ read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
+ underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
+ Jason V. Miller.
- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
- Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
- timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
+ Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
+ by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
API; new source attribute to exceptions.
-- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
- current node.
+- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
+ node.
- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
-- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url.
- This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
- behavior was wrong.
+- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
+ is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
+ was wrong.
- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
they do not support in reality.
-- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute)
- are now included in the set of attributes copied by default by
- functools.wraps and functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
+- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
+ included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
+ functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
-- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and
- deprecate the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
+- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
+ the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
-- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
- encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
+- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
+ encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
-- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
- the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
- does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
+- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
+ character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
+ '-', instead of raising an error.
-- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
- data generated with the profile module.
+- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
+ generated with the profile module.
-- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
- the command line.
+- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
+ command line.
-- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
- interactive browser.
+- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
+ browser.
-- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
- regular expressions.
+- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
+ expressions.
-- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7
- (based on lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
+- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
+ lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
-- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
- reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
+- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
+ on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
@@ -356,19 +350,19 @@ Library
- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
-- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
- newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
+- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final newline,
+ it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
-- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
- when sys.stdout is reassigned.
+- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
+ sys.stdout is reassigned.
-- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
- or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
+- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
+ in ntpath.normpath().
- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
@@ -405,9 +399,8 @@ Build
- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
-- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
- _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
- _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
+- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
+ become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
Sébastien Sablé.