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@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1? Core and builtins ----------------- +- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over + a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified + a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how + much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so no + portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's + small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object + realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C + realloc. + - SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime(). @@ -59,7 +68,7 @@ Core and builtins - Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called. -- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this +- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761 - Added two new builtins, any() and all(). @@ -74,7 +83,7 @@ Core and builtins - Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was returning None. -- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character +- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character ('\') with a specific error message. - Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format. @@ -82,7 +91,7 @@ Core and builtins - Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode. -- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and +- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and an ferror() call. - min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in @@ -103,7 +112,7 @@ Core and builtins Extension Modules ----------------- -- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows +- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows implemented treated all integer values except 1 as false. - Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly. @@ -128,7 +137,7 @@ Extension Modules - Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer in pyexpat.GetInputContext. -- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current +- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current file size. - Added functional.partial(). See PEP309. @@ -201,7 +210,7 @@ Library - Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError. -- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the +- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r. - Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile. @@ -212,7 +221,7 @@ Library - Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring symbolic links on Windows. -- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in +- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in profile.py if available. - Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py. @@ -250,7 +259,7 @@ Library + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better reflecting it's capabilities, and improving it's compliance with - PEP 305. + PEP 305. + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error reporting. + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305 |