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@@ -10,6 +10,23 @@ What's New in Python 3.2.4 Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB. + +- Issue #16455: On FreeBSD and Solaris, if the locale is C, the + ASCII/surrogateescape codec is now used, instead of the locale encoding, to + decode the command line arguments. This change fixes inconsistencies with + os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() because these operating systems announces an + ASCII locale encoding, whereas the ISO-8859-1 encoding is used in practice. + +- Issue #16761: Calling int() with base argument only now raises TypeError. + +- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py + when retreiving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like + winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values. + +- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg + when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes OverflowError in winreg.SetValueEx. + - Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its refcount had dropped to zero. @@ -179,6 +196,51 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by + Martin Packman. + +- Issue #16541: tk_setPalette() now works with keyword arguments. + +- Issue #16820: In configparser, `parser.popitem()` no longer raises ValueError. + This makes `parser.clean()` work correctly. + +- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['section'] = {}`` now preserves + section order within the parser. This makes `parser.update()` preserve section + order as well. + +- Issue #9644: Fix the encoding used by os.statvfs(): use the filesystem + encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of UTF-8 in strict + mode. + +- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals. + +- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy. + +- Issue 10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available. + +- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed + on closing an aifc file. + +- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by + Roger Serwy. + +- Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes + regarding leading dots. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for + localhost tests. + +- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid. + Patch Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from + path. + +- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects. + Patch by Anton Kasyanov. + +- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information. + - Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details. (patch by Serhiy Storchaka) @@ -696,6 +758,9 @@ Extension Modules Tests ----- +- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile, --match, and --randomize + options. + - Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft. |