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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-08-11 06:49:20 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-08-11 06:49:20 (GMT)
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Bump to 3.3b2.v3.3.0b2
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3de6805..2dacd7b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Python News
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 2?
==================================
-*Release date: xx-xxx-2012*
+*Release date: 12-Aug-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
@@ -19,38 +19,38 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to have the proper default
- value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are
- not supported.
+ value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
+ supported.
- Issue #15425: Eliminated traceback noise from more situations involving
- importlib
+ importlib.
- Issue #14578: Support modules registered in the Windows registry again.
-- Issue #15466: Stop using TYPE_INT64 in marshal, to make importlib.h
- (and other byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
+- Issue #15466: Stop using TYPE_INT64 in marshal, to make importlib.h (and other
+ byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
-- Issue #1692335: Move initial args assignment to
- BaseException.__new__ to help pickling of naive subclasses.
+- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
+ "BaseException.__new__" to help pickling of naive subclasses.
- Issue #12834: Fix PyBuffer_ToContiguous() for non-contiguous arrays.
-- Issue #15456: Fix code __sizeof__ after #12399 change.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15456: Fix code __sizeof__ after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
+ Storchaka.
- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
-- Issue #15394: An issue in PyModule_Create that caused references to
- be leaked on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
+- Issue #15394: An issue in PyModule_Create that caused references to be leaked
+ on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
-- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
- non-deterministic has been fixed.
+- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
+ has been fixed.
-- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for
- new parameters in os and shutil functions.
+- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
+ in os and shutil functions.
-- Issue #15314: __main__.__loader__ is now set correctly during
- interpreter startup
+- Issue #15314: __main__.__loader__ is now set correctly during interpreter
+ startup.
- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
inside itself, don't mask that fact behind a generic ImportError for the
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #15291: Fix a memory leak where AST nodes where not properly
deallocated.
-- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show
- the importlib stack frames.
+- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
+ importlib stack frames.
- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
"python3" under Unix, not "python".
@@ -71,22 +71,22 @@ Core and Builtins
return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
- Issue #15229: An OSError subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
- OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes
- when calling str() on them.
+ OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
+ calling str() on them.
-- Issue 15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds
- on Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
+- Issue 15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
+ Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
- Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
+- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects. Patch by
+ Ludwig Hähne.
- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
-- Issue #15502: Have importlib.invalidate_caches() work on sys.meta_path
- instead of sys.path_importer_cache.
+- Issue #15502: Have importlib.invalidate_caches() work on sys.meta_path instead
+ of sys.path_importer_cache.
- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
@@ -104,81 +104,80 @@ Library
ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, os.sched_getaffinity and
- os.sched_setaffinity now use regular sets of integers to represent the CPUs
- a process is restricted to.
+ os.sched_setaffinity now use regular sets of integers to represent the CPUs a
+ process is restricted to.
-- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
- emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
+- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo() emulation
+ code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
-- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use
- the correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
+- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
+ correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
-- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state
- of the import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
+- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
+ import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
-- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few
- seconds. Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
+- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
+ Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
-- Issue #15463: the faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
- instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths
+- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
+ instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
-- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
- sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
+- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
+ uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
-- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an
- absolute path.
+- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
-- Issue #15041: update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
- Issue #15413: os.times() had disappeared under Windows.
- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
- return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
- Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+ return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed. Initial
+ patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
+- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilogue.
-- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c. Patch by Serhiy
+ Storchaka.
-- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
- after the first one.
+- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
+ the first one.
- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
-- Issues #10017 and #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
+- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
-- Issue #15397: inspect.getmodulename() is now based directly on importlib
- via a new importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() API.
+- Issue #15397: inspect.getmodulename() is now based directly on importlib via a
+ new importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() API.
-- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
- to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
+- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
+ avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
-- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes
+- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
-- Issue #15343: pkgutil now includes an iter_importer_modules implementation
- for importlib.machinery.FileFinder (similar to the way it already handled
- zipimport.zipimporter)
+- Issue #15343: pkgutil now includes an iter_importer_modules implementation for
+ importlib.machinery.FileFinder (similar to the way it already handled
+ zipimport.zipimporter).
-- Issue #15314: runpy now sets __main__.__loader__ correctly
+- Issue #15314: runpy now sets __main__.__loader__ correctly.
-- Issue #15357: The import emulation in pkgutil is now deprecated. pkgutil
- uses importlib internally rather than the emulation
+- Issue #15357: The import emulation in pkgutil is now deprecated. pkgutil uses
+ importlib internally rather than the emulation.
-- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with
- the atexit module will be called in a deterministic order.
+- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
+ module will be called in a deterministic order.
- Issue #15238: shutil.copystat now copies Linux "extended attributes".
-- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described
- in the documentation
+- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
+ the documentation.
- Issue #15315: Support VS 2010 in distutils cygwincompiler.
-- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of
- nested namespace packages.
+- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
+ namespace packages.
- Issue #15056: imp.cache_from_source() and source_from_cache() raise
NotImplementedError when sys.implementation.cache_tag is set to None.
@@ -186,62 +185,60 @@ Library
- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by imp.find_module().
- Issue #5931: wsgiref environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
- implementation specific term like Cpython, Jython instead of generic "Python"
+ implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter
- and BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
+- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
+ BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of argparse.ArgumentParser.
-- Issue #14814: implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour
- for ipaddress objects
+- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
+ ipaddress objects.
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress network objects correctly return NotImplemented
- when compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError
+- Issue #14814: ipaddress network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
+ compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
-- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding
- declaration.
+- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
- Issue #14814: ipaddress now provides more informative error messages when
constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
- provisional API status)
+ provisional API status).
-- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
- pointing to a directory.
+- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor pointing
+ to a directory.
- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
- Issue #15166: Implement imp.get_tag() using sys.implementation.cache_tag.
-- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when imprortlib.__init__ can't find
+- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when importlib.__init__ can't find
_frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
- Issue #15030: importlib.abc.PyPycLoader now supports the new source size
header field in .pyc files.
-- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
- files on flush().
+- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
+ flush().
-- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command.
- Patch by Jakub Wilk.
+- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command. Patch by
+ Jakub Wilk.
-- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
- created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
- mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
+- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer created and
+ renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
+ mailbox.
-- Issue 10924: Fixed mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for cryptographic
- purpose.
+- Issue 10924: Fixed crypt.mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for
+ cryptographic purpose.
-- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration
- tailoring for universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific
- customizations from sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util,
- and distutils.unixccompiler into a new module _osx_support.
+- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
+ universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific customizations from
+ sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util, and distutils.unixccompiler
+ into a new module _osx_support.
C API
-----
-- Issue #15610: PyImport_ImportModuleEx() now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of
- -1.
+- Issue #15610: PyImport_ImportModuleEx() now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
- Issues #15169, #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
imp.source_from_cache() used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
@@ -260,14 +257,14 @@ Extension Modules
Tools/Demos
-----------
-- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the
- $LIBPL value.
+- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the $LIBPL
+ value.
- Move importlib.test.benchmark to Tools/importbench.
-- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have
- been enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within
- the "py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
+- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have been
+ enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within the
+ "py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
* C frames that are waiting on the GIL
* C frames that are garbage-collecting
* C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
@@ -277,8 +274,8 @@ Documentation
- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
-- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy
- module and nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
+- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy module and
+ nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
- Issue #15053: Copy Python 3.3 import lock change notice to all relevant
functions in imp instead of just at the top of the relevant section.
@@ -297,11 +294,11 @@ Documentation
Tests
-----
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support. Patch by
+ Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running
- tests in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
+ in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15168: Move importlib.test to test.test_importlib.
@@ -317,33 +314,33 @@ Tests
- Issue #15284: Skip {send,recv}msg tests in test_socket when IPv6 is not
enabled. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled.
- Patch by Brian Brazil.
+- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled. Patch
+ by Brian Brazil.
Build
-----
-- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
- tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
+- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development tools
+ (dpkg-dev) installed.
- Issue #15037: Build OS X installers with local copy of ncurses 5.9 libraries
to avoid curses.unget_wch bug present in older versions of ncurses such as
those shipped with OS X.
-- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
- Also, for OS X installers, ensure consistent sqlite3 behavior and feature
- availability by building a local copy of libsqlite3 rather than
- depending on the wide range of versions supplied with various OS X releases.
+- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK. Also, for
+ OS X installers, ensure consistent sqlite3 behavior and feature availability
+ by building a local copy of libsqlite3 rather than depending on the wide range
+ of versions supplied with various OS X releases.
- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
-- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h
- on Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
+- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
+ Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
-- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared
- library are created with the proper ABI suffix.
+- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared library
+ are created with the proper ABI suffix.
- Issue #14330: For cross builds, don't use host python, use host search paths
for host compiler.
diff --git a/Misc/RPM/python-3.3.spec b/Misc/RPM/python-3.3.spec
index 5da076d..825e46c 100644
--- a/Misc/RPM/python-3.3.spec
+++ b/Misc/RPM/python-3.3.spec
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
%define name python
#--start constants--
-%define version 3.3.0b1
+%define version 3.3.0b2
%define libvers 3.3
#--end constants--
%define release 1pydotorg