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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2011-07-03 07:42:43 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2011-07-03 07:42:43 (GMT)
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@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 2?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
- with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
+- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, with
+ other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
links when called from any directory.
@@ -20,30 +20,29 @@ Core and Builtins
the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
-- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
- Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
- "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
- (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
+- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS X
+ and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum recursion
+ depth" RuntimeError exception (patch by Ronald Oussoren).
Library
-------
- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
- conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
+ conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent headers.
- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
- also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
- to avoid encoding issues.
+ also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to
+ avoid encoding issues.
-- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
- anymore to avoid encoding issues.
+- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file anymore
+ to avoid encoding issues.
-- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
- to read the Python script from the right encoding.
+- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, to
+ read the Python script from the right encoding.
- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
@@ -65,9 +64,9 @@ Library
- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
variables, start with an empty environment.
-- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
- passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
- if given binary unknown-8bit input.
+- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header passed
+ to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail if given
+ binary unknown-8bit input.
- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
times without error.
@@ -99,8 +98,8 @@ Library
constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
written by Oleg Oshmyan.
-- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
- Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
+- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. Patch by
+ Mher Movsisyan.
- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
@@ -134,13 +133,13 @@ Build
-----
- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
- os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
- functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
- (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
+ os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions
+ (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and
+ UF_COMPRESSED).
-- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
- ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
- files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
+- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure
+ "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the
+ framework bin directory like the installer does.
Tests
-----
@@ -151,15 +150,15 @@ Tests
the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
error twice anymore if there is only one error.
-- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
- test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
- run outside of a build directory.
+- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext
+ of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a build
+ directory.
-- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
- Patch by Garrett Cooper.
+- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch
+ by Garrett Cooper.
-- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
- on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
+- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac
+ OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
iso2022_kr).