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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt index 6388d0d..8b8e10b 100644 --- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt +++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt @@ -1,74 +1,218 @@ -What's New in IDLE 3.3.4? +What's New in Idle 3.4.4? ========================= +*Release date: 2015-12-20* -- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar. - Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson. +- Issue 15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process) + before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process). + This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored. -- Issue #18960: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second - line if the first line contains anything except a comment. +- Issue #24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the + debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button + (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455). + The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes. + 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait + mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit). + 2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first. -- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line. +- Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?' message + to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running + user program, not IDLE itself. -- Issue #19481: print() of string subclass instance in IDLE no longer hangs. +- Issue #24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar. + Patch by Mark Roseman. -- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial - shell window is present. +- Issue #25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better + address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark. + Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib. +- Issue #24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences + dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted + list. Patch by Mark Roseman. -What's New in IDLE 3.3.3? +- Issue #22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content + about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme. + +- Issue #24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme. + It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background. + Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red, orange, ... . + To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the + 'Save as New Custom Theme' button and enter a new name, + such as 'Custom Dark'. The custom theme will work with any IDLE + release, and can be modified. + +- Issue #25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and + curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter. + 'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'. + +- Issue #24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in + Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection + background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now + always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs + affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) + now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. + Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. + For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. + * Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). + * Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. + * Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. + * When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header + at the top of the screen. + +- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors. + +- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python. + +- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor. + +- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section. + +- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. + Some were missing and notes were not correct. + +- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. + Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__. + +- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers. + +- Issue #16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display. + The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. + It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released. + The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Mark Roseman. + The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated. + +- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6. + +- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts). + +- Issue #23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name. + Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi. + +- Issue 24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to + platform-sensitive TkFixedFont. This should not affect current customized + font selections. If there is a problem, edit $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg + and remove 'fontxxx' entries from [Editor Window]. Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the restart bar. + Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan Umer. + +- Issue #13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy. + +- Issue #23184: remove unused names and imports in idlelib. + Initial patch by Al Sweigart. + + +What's New in Idle 3.4.3? ========================= +*Release date: 2015-02-25* -- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment - lines. +- Issue #20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph + extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog + to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog. + Patch by Tal Einat. -- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted. +- Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new + information. -- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster. +- Issue #3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu. + Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. + Original patch by Tal Einat. -- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks - are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection - only includes complete lines. +- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires a + editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise, + from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays + an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name + is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened. -- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py. - Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster. +- Issue #4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the + name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems + automatically add .txt when type is Text files. -- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as - changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a - test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal). +- Issue #21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module. + To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle. -- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File". - Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito. +- Issue #23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window". + Patch by Al Sweigart. + + +What's New in IDLE 3.4.2? +========================= +*Release date: 2014-10-06* -- Remove dead imports of imp. +- Issue #17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python', + move version to end. -- Issue #18196: Avoid displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks. +- Issue #14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear + when inseting or deleting lines. -- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition. +- Issue #17172: Turtledemo can now be run from Idle. + Currently, the entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run. + Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho. -- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next". - Original patch by Sarah K. +- Issue #21765: Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser. -- Issue #18055: Move IDLE off of imp and on to importlib. +- Issue #21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav + Heblikar. -- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE. - Initial patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan. - See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests. +- Issue #18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster. -- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows. +- Issue #21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. -- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X. - Patch by Guilherme Simões. +- Issue #21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav + Heblikar. +- Issue #12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key + bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy. -What's New in IDLE 3.3.2? +- Issue #21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is + still in progress no longer closes Idle. + +- Issue #18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster. + +- Issue #18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar. + +- Issue #18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster. + +- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin + consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files + as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests. + + +What's New in IDLE 3.4.1? ========================= +*Release date: 2014-05-18* -- Issue #17390: Display Python version on Idle title bar. - Initial patch by Edmond Burnett. +- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin + consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files + as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests. + +- Issue #21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation. + +- Issue #21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width. + +- Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for + non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk. -What's New in IDLE 3.3.1? +What's New in IDLE 3.4.0? ========================= +*Release date: 2014-03-16* + +- Issue #17390: Display Python version on Idle title bar. + Initial patch by Edmond Burnett. + +- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito. - Issue #17625: Close the replace dialog after it is used. @@ -81,6 +225,7 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.3.1? What's New in IDLE 3.3.0? ========================= +*Release date: 2012-09-29* - Issue #17625: Close the replace dialog after it is used. @@ -123,7 +268,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.3.0? What's New in IDLE 3.2.1? ========================= - *Release date: 15-May-11* - Issue #6378: Further adjust idle.bat to start associated Python @@ -141,7 +285,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.2.1? What's New in IDLE 3.1b1? ========================= - *Release date: 06-May-09* - Use of 'filter' in keybindingDialog.py was causing custom key assignment to @@ -150,7 +293,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.1b1? What's New in IDLE 3.1a1? ========================= - *Release date: 07-Mar-09* - Issue #4815: Offer conversion to UTF-8 if source files have @@ -166,9 +308,9 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.1a1? - Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version would not start if a custom theme was defined. + What's New in IDLE 2.7? (UNRELEASED, but merged into 3.1 releases above.) ======================= - *Release date: XX-XXX-2010* - idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental @@ -192,9 +334,9 @@ What's New in IDLE 2.7? (UNRELEASED, but merged into 3.1 releases above.) - Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present + What's New in IDLE 3.0 final? ============================= - *Release date: 03-Dec-2008* - IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal @@ -209,7 +351,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.0 final? What's New in IDLE 3.0a3? ========================= - *Release date: 29-Feb-2008* - help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650. @@ -226,7 +367,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.0a3? What's New in IDLE 3.0a2? ========================= - *Release date: 06-Dec-2007* - Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error. @@ -235,7 +375,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.0a2? What's New in IDLE 3.0a1? ========================= - *Release date: 31-Aug-2007* - IDLE converted to Python 3000 syntax. @@ -251,9 +390,8 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.0a1? be cleared before IDLE exits. -What's New in IDLE 2.6 final? -============================= - +What's New in IDLE 2.6 +====================== *Release date: 01-Oct-2008*, merged into 3.0 releases detailed above (3.0rc2) - Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version @@ -338,15 +476,8 @@ What's New in IDLE 2.6 final? What's New in IDLE 1.2? ======================= - *Release date: 19-SEP-2006* - -What's New in IDLE 1.2c1? -========================= - -*Release date: 17-AUG-2006* - - File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the 'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'. @@ -367,11 +498,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.2c1? - When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1). -What's New in IDLE 1.2b3? -========================= - -*Release date: 03-AUG-2006* - - Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips. - Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly @@ -395,26 +521,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.2b3? 'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071. Patch 1479219 Tal Einat -What's New in IDLE 1.2b2? -========================= - -*Release date: 11-JUL-2006* - -What's New in IDLE 1.2b1? -========================= - -*Release date: 20-JUN-2006* - -What's New in IDLE 1.2a2? -========================= - -*Release date: 27-APR-2006* - -What's New in IDLE 1.2a1? -========================= - -*Release date: 05-APR-2006* - - Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles. - Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user @@ -494,19 +600,14 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.2a1? - The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however. + What's New in IDLE 1.1? ======================= - *Release date: 30-NOV-2004* - On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting. -What's New in IDLE 1.1b3/rc1? -============================= - -*Release date: 18-NOV-2004* - - Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set" button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535. @@ -514,28 +615,12 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.1b3/rc1? - A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840. -What's New in IDLE 1.1b2? -========================= - -*Release date: 03-NOV-2004* - - When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width to the reformat width. This has been repaired, and the reformat width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines. -What's New in IDLE 1.1b1? -========================= - -*Release date: 15-OCT-2004* - - -What's New in IDLE 1.1a3? -========================= - -*Release date: 02-SEP-2004* - - Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu. Improve window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger. IDLEfork 763524. @@ -543,24 +628,12 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.1a3? - If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just open a new file, don't raise a dialog. IDLEfork 854928. - -What's New in IDLE 1.1a2? -========================= - -*Release date: 05-AUG-2004* - - EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows. Typo at Rev 1.54. Python Bug 990954 - checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac (darwin). Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs. SF 900580. - -What's New in IDLE 1.1a1? -========================= - -*Release date: 08-JUL-2004* - - Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess. @@ -623,26 +696,13 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.1a1? What's New in IDLE 1.0? ======================= - *Release date: 29-Jul-2003* - Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal firewall software. Added same comment to README.txt. - -What's New in IDLE 1.0 release candidate 2? -=========================================== - -*Release date: 24-Jul-2003* - - Calltip error when docstring was None Python Bug 775541 - -What's New in IDLE 1.0 release candidate 1? -=========================================== - -*Release date: 18-Jul-2003* - - Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly reflect the current status of the configuration system. Python Bug 768469 @@ -658,12 +718,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.0 release candidate 1? sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case. SF IDLEfork patch 682347. - -What's New in IDLE 1.0b2? -========================= - -*Release date: 29-Jun-2003* - - Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings. Make the CREDITS file Latin-1. @@ -702,7 +756,6 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.0b2? What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1? ============================= - *Release date: 02-Jun-2003* - The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell @@ -804,10 +857,8 @@ What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1? exception formatting to the subprocess. - What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2? =================================== - *Release date: 27-Jan-2003* - Updated INSTALL.txt to claify use of the python2 rpm. @@ -911,7 +962,6 @@ What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2? What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1? =================================== - *Release date: 31-Dec-2002* - First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to |