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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5.3? Core and builtins ----------------- +- Issue #2242: Fix a crash when decoding invalid utf-7 input on certain + Windows / Visual Studio versions. + - Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float. @@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ Library large messages. - Bug #1389051, 1092502: fix excessively large memory allocations when - calling .read() on a socket object wrapped with makefile(). + calling .read() on a socket object wrapped with makefile(). - Bug #1433694: minidom's .normalize() failed to set .nextSibling for last child element. @@ -173,7 +176,7 @@ Core and builtins collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method. - Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler, - even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when + even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite. @@ -207,7 +210,7 @@ Core and builtins PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect results with huge strings. -- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents`` +- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents`` attribute of an empty cell object. - Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a @@ -386,7 +389,7 @@ Library - Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512). -- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with +- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner. @@ -406,7 +409,7 @@ Extension Modules - Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed. - Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly - other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long. + other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.) - Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in @@ -469,7 +472,7 @@ Build - Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+. -- Patch #1673122: Use an explicit path to libtool when building a framework. +- Patch #1673122: Use an explicit path to libtool when building a framework. This avoids picking up GNU libtool from a users PATH. - Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format. @@ -543,7 +546,7 @@ Core and builtins a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic classes still have the bug). -- Bug #1648179: set.update() did not recognize an overridden __iter__ +- Bug #1648179: set.update() did not recognize an overridden __iter__ method in subclasses of dict. - Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the @@ -678,7 +681,7 @@ Extension Modules - Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error. - Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself. - + - Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode() does. @@ -790,7 +793,7 @@ Library on "linux" and "gnu" systems. - Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in - subprocess. + subprocess. - Patch #783050: the pty.fork() function now closes the slave fd correctly. @@ -801,7 +804,7 @@ Library - Bug #1643943: Fix %U handling for time.strptime. -- Bug #1598181: Avoid O(N**2) bottleneck in subprocess communicate(). +- Bug #1598181: Avoid O(N**2) bottleneck in subprocess communicate(). - Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2. @@ -865,7 +868,7 @@ Library - Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot. -- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup() +- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists. - Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes, @@ -884,7 +887,7 @@ Library - Bug #1575506: mailbox.py: Single-file mailboxes didn't re-lock properly in their flush() method. -- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's +- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David Watson.) @@ -896,7 +899,7 @@ Library wasn't consistent with existing implementations of message packing, and was buggy on some platforms. -- Bug #1633678: change old mailbox.UnixMailbox class to parse +- Bug #1633678: change old mailbox.UnixMailbox class to parse 'From' lines less strictly. - Bug #1576241: fix functools.wraps() to work on built-in functions. |