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- Issue #1564: The set implementation should special-case PyUnicode instead
of PyString.
-- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and
- if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() /
- PyGILState_Release() functions.
-
-- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
-
-- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
- attribute of an empty cell object.
-
-- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
- It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
-
-- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py file can
- now be directly executed by passing their name to the interpreter. The
- directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the first entry in sys.path.
-
-- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a
- generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a
- paused generator.
-
-- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
-
-- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
-
-- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
-
-- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences smaller
- than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically
- shifts from ints to longs.
-
-- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the possibility of
- having a self-referential tuple, which is possible from C code. Nor did
- object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str could do something that could
- lead to an inifinite recursion. Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(),
- respectively, fixed the issues.
-
-- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the 'print'
- statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released as needed. Now
- PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with various tp_print
- implementations of the built-in types and those in the collections module.
-
-- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their
- throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed.
-
-- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested
- list by using the recursion counter.
-
-- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
- PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion
- depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static RuntimeError
- instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past
- its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
-
- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
original source encoding.
-- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
- with %G.
-
-- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault
- when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
-
-- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
-
-- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
-
-- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
- __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.)
-
-- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
- deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
-
-- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
- calls.
-
-- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
- "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility with
- Python 3.0.
-
-- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
-
-- Bug #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
- inherited from a builtin base.
-
-- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
- setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
-
-- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
-
-- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
- translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
- remaining characters.
-
-- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
- masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
-
-- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
-
-- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
- now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
- either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
- other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
- overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
- warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
- as supported by type.__new__().
-
-- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object
- to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the
- __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now
- can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method.
-
-- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__.
- The old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names.
-
-- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in
- complex if statements.
-
-- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()``
- is called with an object that is faking its type.
-
-- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an unicode
- name.
-
-- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
-
-- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
- case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
-
-- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
- its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows
- customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__().
-
-- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
- self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
-
-- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
-
-- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized
- forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a
- ValueError.
-
-- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
- makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible when
- a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
-
-- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
- exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
- variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just like
- on other exceptions or normal program exit.
-
-- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long().
-
-- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
-
-- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
- sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
-
-- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name.
- This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions.
-
-- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power.
-
-- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError. Attempting to
- catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
-
-- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created
- a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic
- classes still have the bug).
-
-- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
- frame's thread state.
-
-- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py
-
-- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object
- raised a warning.
-
-- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
- to avoid relying on atexit.
-
-- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number
-
-- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings,
- tuples and lists.
-
-- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
-
-- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
-
-- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
-
-- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that
- the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
-
-- Bug #1565514, SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
-
-- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
- again, no longer the posix error code.
-
-- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
- if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
-
-- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after returns)
- and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
-
-- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
- embedded in the string to convert.
-
-- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
- recognized and rejected.
-
-- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
-
-- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
- were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
- anymore.
-
-- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
- number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
-
-- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
- keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't
- use them).
-
-- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with"
- not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement:
- from __future__ import division, with_statement
-
-- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
-
-- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
-
-- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
-
-- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This
- allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.
-
-- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
- Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
- 'exceptions'.
-
-- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
- imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
-
-- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
- optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
-
-- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
-
-- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
-
-- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
- head is the original string if sep was not found.
-
-- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
- generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this problem
- required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that .pyc files
- generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
-
-- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
-
-- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded.
-
-- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
- BaseException.
-
-- Fix Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
- threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
- it actually exited.
-
-
-Library
--------
-
- inspect.getsource() includes the decorators again.
-- Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py.
-
-- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash.
-
-- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
- pickled.
-
-- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
- implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
-
-- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
- to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
- base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
-
-- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function
- that eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
-
-- #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile
- to be used in with statements by correctly supporting the context
- management protocol.
-
-- #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons
- involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
-
-- #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default
- permissions for missing directories.
-
-- #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement
- after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and
- breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop.
-
-- #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and its
- subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
- defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
-
-- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
-
-- #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and
- storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
-
-- #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
-
-- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover
- time calculation.
-
-- #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level.
-
-- #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add
- contextual information in logging output.
-
-- #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in
- flush().
-
-- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
- when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled
- with ``--with-pydebug``.
-
-- #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library.
-
-- #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for
- pstats.
-
-- #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a
- directory.
-
-- #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
- returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
-
-- #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the
- ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
-
-- #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open()
- returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
-
-- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
- with extended local headers.
-
-- #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers
- past the 2**31 byte boundary.
-
-- #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
- collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
- to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
-
-- #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the
- last column of a line.
-
-- #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated
- modules to be given.
-
-- #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created
- (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
-
-- #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered
- list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
-
-- #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue.
-
-- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
- (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
- Textbox.gather().
-
-- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
- and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
- When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
- raised instead of a ValueError.
-
-- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
- that array types do not live longer than needed.
-
-- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
- and when creating a recursive instance.
-
-- Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string
- expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object.
-
-- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
- and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
- Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
-
-- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions
- that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
-
-- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
- (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
-
-- Issue #846388. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
- good for long regular expression matches.
-
-- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute
- on Parser objects to set the character data buffer size.
-
-- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
- the current context.
-
-- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
- zipfile module.
-
-- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
-
-- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are
- equal instead of raising an exception.
-
-- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
-
-- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
-
-- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
- and times.
-
- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a
mountpoint.
-- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
-
-- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
- unicode characters.
-
-- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
-
-- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
- Tcl objects.
-
-- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
-
-- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created
- on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
- of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded
- in Python 2.5.
-
-- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for
- both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
-
-- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not
- seek to the start.
-
-- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the
- internal floating point type to the sys module.
-
-- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely
- together.
-
-- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
- method used universal newlines.
-
-- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
- StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
-
-- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
- --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
-
-- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
- files are updated.
-
-- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop()
- and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
-
-- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
- configured with --with-system-ffi.
-
-- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
- --disable-toolbox-glue.
-
-- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
-
-- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised
- an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs.
-
-- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
-
-- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).
-
-- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
- to be orderable to properly represent them.
-
-- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
-
-- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
-
-- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser
- no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986).
-
-- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
- the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
-
-- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility
- with Python 3000.
-
-- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen.
-
-- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
-
-- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
-
-- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
- syllables.
-
-- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that
- are missing in GBK.
-
-- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
-
-- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
- represent the result in a single character.
-
-- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
-
-- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
-
-- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
- ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
- sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
-
-- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
-
-- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.
-
-- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note
- that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections).
-
-- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses
- the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at
- connection time.
-
-- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
- reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
- for .read() is specified.
-
-- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when
- matching spaces in the specified format argument.
-
-- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
- even if package_dir is empty.
-
-- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
-
-- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
-
-- 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).
-
-- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
-
-- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
-
-- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
- officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
-
-- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
-
-- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
-
-- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
-
-- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher
- support in urllib/urllib2.
-
-- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
- lack of an infinite recursion check.
-
-- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
- the directories).
-
-- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
- the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
- injecting HTML into the error page.
-
-- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
-
-- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP
- servers which require authentication.
-
-- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
-
-- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
-
-- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
- log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
- only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
-
-- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
- (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
- ".cpp" too.
-
-- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
- the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
- Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2.
-
-- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now
- properly recreated when the locale is changed.
-
-- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
-
-- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
- (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
- work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
- closes patch #723312.
-
-- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
- called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
- and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
-
-- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
-
-- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
- now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
-
-- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
-
-- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to
- True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
- directories.
-
-- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
- GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
- of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
- trying Mozilla variants.
-
-- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
-
-- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
- initialization failed.
-
-- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
- AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
- contain a valid HTTP status line.
-
-- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly
- expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references
- are recognized and handled on Windows.
-
-- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for
- the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
- correctly now.
-
-- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
-
-- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged
- Python program, optionally with different arguments.
-
-- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
-
-- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation
- for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does.
-
-- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to
- strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
- convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods.
-
-- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter
- which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close
- behavior.
-
-- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
- whitespace while wrapping.
-
-- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
- are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors
- on reading back those values.
-
-- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended
- and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar.
-
-- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
- email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
-
-- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to
- pydoc's help keywords.
-
-- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
- concatenation in robotparser.
-
-- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
- field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with
- a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
-
-- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
- OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
-
-- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
-
-- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap
- the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
-
-- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind()
- and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer
- and DocXMLRPCServer.
-
-- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always
- be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
- patch #1545011.
-
-- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
- .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
-
-- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
- Python would crash instead of raising an error.
-
-- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
- returned string up to the first NUL character.
-
-- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
-
-- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
-
-- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module.
- The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
- a descriptive message.
-
-- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
-
-- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase
- and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in
- TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it
- never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred
- later, with a more cumbersome exception.
-
-- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to unittest's
- main() function.
-
-- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
- comprehensive test suite for the module.
-
-- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
- given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
-
-- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how
- to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build.
-
-- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
- in HTMLParser.
-
-- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
- using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
-
-- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
-
-- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
-
-- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
-
-- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
-
-- Added itertools.izip_longest().
-
-- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute
- import semantics.
-
-- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
-
-- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
- doesn't exist.
-
-- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
-
-- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
-
-- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
-
-- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
- relative directory names.
-
-- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR,
- not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
-
-- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and
- allow appending to empty files.
-
-- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
- subprocess.
-
-- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
- iso8859_16.
-
-- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
- a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
- compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
-
-- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
-
-- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
- directories.
-
-- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
-
-- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring.
-
-- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
- return a tuple (it used to return a list).
-
-- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
- python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
-
-- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
-
-- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types
- instead.
-
-- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
-
-- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
- definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
- parameterless foreign function calls work.
-
-- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
-
-- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
- be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
- encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
-
-- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
- SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
-
-- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
- SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
-
-- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__.
- Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
-
-- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument.
-
-- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
-
-- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under
- certain conditions.
-
-- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell()
- work correctly together with readline().
-
-- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception
- if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
-
-- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
- separated lists read from logging config files.
-
-- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown
- when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems.
-
-- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory
- to be created is already there.
-
-- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
-
-- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type
- for ordering, sorting, etc.
-
-- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
-
-- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
-
-- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType
- in xmlrpclib.
-
-- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
- regular files.
-
-- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
-
-- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even
- if an exception occurs.
-
-- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if
- the parent window is withdrawn.
-
-- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
- to facilitate usage as a decorator.
-
-- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
- file name mangling.
-
-- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer
- that precedes an 1xx response.
-
-- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
-
-- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
- HTTPConnection.request().
-
-- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
- weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
- objects.
-
-- 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.)
-
-- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically
- written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David
- Watson.)
-
-- Patch #1592250: Add elidge argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
-
-- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork()
-
-- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
-
-- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
- bdist_rpm
-
-- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
-
-- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
- GNU modes.
-
-- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
- list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
- opcode.
-
-- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
- fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
- statement (bug #1586513).
-
-- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
- correctly.
-
-- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
-
-- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that
- ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
-
-- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
- result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
- partial fix for Bug #1574584.
-
-- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library. Allows
- the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only when the
- module is run as a script.
-
-- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
- is started with that option.
-
-- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
-
-- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
-
-- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
- to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
-
-- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes,
- but also for functions.
-
-- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
- keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
-
-- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
- with a slash.
-
-- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
- GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
-
-- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and format do
- match be more clear.
-
-- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
- being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
- In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
-
-- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because
- the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
-
-- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop.
-
-- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE
- by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
-
-- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
-
-- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
- to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
-
-- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup()
- function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
-
-- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers
- on systems with low clock resolution.
-
-- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
-
-- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
-
- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3
bytes.
-- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end
- attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members).
-
-- 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.
-
-- Issue1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
- that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
- beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
- does not claim to support starttls. Adds the SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
- method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
-
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #1762972: Readded the reload() function as imp.reload()
-- #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a
- direct EnvironmentError
-
- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ
- #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows.
-- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
-
-- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
- as the documentation says.
-
-- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
-
-- #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also
- subclassable now.
-
-- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
-
-- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close a range
- of file descriptors without considering errors.
-
-- Patch 976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
- works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
- parameter.
-
-- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to support
- the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also gained a new function
- ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
-
-- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it required
- the function inputs to be tuples.
-
-- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has support
- for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more information.
-
-- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an example
- for a simple network sniffer.
-
-- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
-
-- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
-
-- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior contents
- before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings the behavior into
- line with that for list.__init__().
-
-- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch and
- ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
-
-- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
-
-- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
-
-- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float, complex,
- tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would silently miscode
- subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a ValueError instead.
-
-- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
- get_completion_type to readline.
-
-- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
- structure.
-
-- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
-
-- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
-
-- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
- intended for RECNO databases.
-
-- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
- time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP or
- DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent opens.
- Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will replace all
- values for a given key when the database allows duplicate values.
- DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want to store duplicates; not
- DB[k] = v.
-
-- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
-
-- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
-
-- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary characters
- with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes dots only if
- they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous behavior of
- quoting dots if they are the second character of any line.
-
-- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
- error in spite of a succesful compression.
-
-- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
- of Py_ssize_t.
-
-- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
- fractional times. With unittest.
-
-- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and os.lchflags()
- functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available.
-
-- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
-
-- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
-
-- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
-
-- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
-
-- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin
- types.
-
-- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for
- C99 _Bool.
-
-- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or
- return negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
-
-- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
- the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
-
-- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned
- when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt fails.
-
-- Speed up function calls into the math module.
-
-- 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.
-
-- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
-
-- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
-
-- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
-
-- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
-
-- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
- when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
-
-- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
- datetime's strftime function.
-
-- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
-
-- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
-
-- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version
- of os.urandom().
-
-- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
-
-- 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.
- (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
-
-- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n.
-
-- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
- - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT correctly.
- - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
- codepoints to conform the standard.
- - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
- codepoints now.
-
-- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
- mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
- been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
- times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
-
-- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
- were transposed.
-
-- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
- and 4.6.x.
-
-- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is called,
- update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and curses.COLS.
-
-- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
-
-- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
-
-- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
-
-- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
-
-- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
- databases without a DBEnv.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Refactor test_logging to use doctest.
-
-- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile.
-
-- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any module
- being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a reload on the
- second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
-
-- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
- test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
-
-- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a space.
-
-- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager to
- surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even if
- test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
-
-- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
-
-- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that provides a
- context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset environment
- variables.
-
-- Added some tests for modulefinder.
-
-- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
-
-- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
- number properly.
-
-- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be used
- to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
-
-
-Tools
------
-
-- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using shutil.copy
- to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a --nobackup option
- to not create the backup if the user is concerned regarding this. Check
- issue 1050828 for more details.
-
-- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes the
- PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin and script
- directory.
-
-- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
- Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
-
-- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which
- was patch #1563844)
-
-- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user
- to see which Python version is running pybench
-
-- Added support for the new platform module feature
- platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved
- in the benchmark pickle
-
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
- include new optional delay argument.
-
-- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging
- output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class.
-
-- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
- information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
-
-- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
- Python tutorial.
-
-- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
-
-- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for
- writing is undefined.
-
-- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
- updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
-
-- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
- PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
-
-- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
-
-- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
- and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
-
-- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
- "extending and embedding" tutorial.
-
-- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
- docs.
-
-- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
-
-- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
- string pointed to by its parameter.
-
-- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
-
-- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
- Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied
- to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea.
-
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
-
-- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
- alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if
- the file is stale or not.
-
-- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
- file not to get reported properly.
-
-
-Build
------
-
-- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in
- $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment
- variables.
-
-- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
- smaller or equal sizeof(long).
-
-- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
-
-- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj
-
-- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005
- based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
- PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0.
-
-- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/
- directory to PCBuild/.
-
-- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
-
-- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
- newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
- without this option!
-
-- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
-
-- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
- periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default,
- this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged,
- performance critical applications.
-
-- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
- a readonly source.
-
-- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
-
-- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
-
-- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+.
-
-- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform.
-
-- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
- returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
- because that prevented the shared library from being used.
-
-- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
- directory within sys.exec_prefix.
-
-- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
-
-- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
-
-- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format
- attribute.
-
-- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
- Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
-
-- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant
- files in VC7.
-
-- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
-
-- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0.
-
-- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
-
-- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
-
-- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
-
-- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
- to include some information about the build environment.
-
-
-C API
------
-
-- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists
- in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper
- limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block.
-
-- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to
- ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but
- it does not steal a reference to the added item.
-
-- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
-
-- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and
- _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t
- public functions.
-
-- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
-
-- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
- ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
-
-- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w#
- format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when
- PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect
- results with huge strings.
-
-- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE
- and Py_REFCNT.
-
-- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
- backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
- PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
-
-- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
-
-- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
-
-- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
-
-- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
-
-- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
-
-- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
- (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
-
-- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
- outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
-
-- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do absolute
- imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative imports under
- some conditions.
-
-- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)``
- and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
-
-- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro
- so it can be used as an expression.
-
-
-Windows
--------
-
-- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires
- Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to
- Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds.
-
-- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
- and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
-
-- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
-
-
-Mac
----
-
-- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
-
-- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
-
-- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5. This
- lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied solely on macfs
- and was a no-op under OS X.
-
-
-What's New in Python 2.5 release candidate 1?
-=============================================
-
-*Release date: 17-AUG-2006*
-
-Core and builtins
------------------
-
-- Unicode objects will no longer raise an exception when being
- compared equal or unequal to a string and a UnicodeDecodeError
- exception occurs, e.g. as result of a decoding failure.
-
- Instead, the equal (==) and unequal (!=) comparison operators will
- now issue a UnicodeWarning and interpret the two objects as
- unequal. The UnicodeWarning can be filtered as desired using
- the warning framework, e.g. silenced completely, turned into an
- exception, logged, etc.
-
- Note that compare operators other than equal and unequal will still
- raise UnicodeDecodeError exceptions as they've always done.
-
-- Fix segfault when doing string formatting on subclasses of long.
-
-- Fix bug related to __len__ functions using values > 2**32 on 64-bit machines
- with new-style classes.
-
-- Fix bug related to __len__ functions returning negative values with
- classic classes.
-
-- Patch #1538606, Fix __index__() clipping. There were some problems
- discovered with the API and how integers that didn't fit into Py_ssize_t
- were handled. This patch attempts to provide enough alternatives
- to effectively use __index__.
-
-- Bug #1536021: __hash__ may now return long int; the final hash
- value is obtained by invoking hash on the long int.
-
-- Bug #1536786: buffer comparison could emit a RuntimeWarning.
-
-- Bug #1535165: fixed a segfault in input() and raw_input() when
- sys.stdin is closed.
-
-- On Windows, the PyErr_Warn function is now exported from
- the Python dll again.
-
-- Bug #1191458: tracing over for loops now produces a line event
- on each iteration. Fixing this problem required changing the .pyc
- magic number. This means that .pyc files generated before 2.5c1
- will be regenerated.
-
-- Bug #1333982: string/number constants were inappropriately stored
- in the byte code and co_consts even if they were not used, ie
- immediately popped off the stack.
-
-- Fixed a reference-counting problem in property().
-
Library
-------