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@@ -1,15 +1,215 @@ +===================================== +==> Release 1.4 (October 25 1996) <== +===================================== + +(XXX Sorry, this is in totally random order. I hope I can find the +time to fix it.) + +- Changed copyright. + +- SyntaxError exceptions detected during code generation +(e.g. assignment to an expression) now include a line number. + +- Don't leave trailing / or \ in script directory inserted in front of +sys.path. + +- Added a note to Tools/scripts/classfix.py abouts its historical +importance. + +- Added Misc/Makefile.pre.in, a universal Makefile for extensions +built outside the distribution. + +- Rewritten Misc/faq2html.py, by Ka-Ping Yee. + +- Install shared modules with mode 555 (needed for performance on some +platforms). + +- Some changes to standard library modules to avoid calling append() +with more than one argument -- while supported, this should be +outlawed, and I don't want to set a bad example. + +- bdb.py (and hence pdb.py) supports calling run() with a code object +instead of a code string. + +- Fixed an embarrassing bug cgi.py which prevented correct uploading +of binary files from Netscape (which doesn't distinguish between +binary and text files). Also added dormant logging support, which +makes it easier to debug the cgi module itself. + +- Added default writer to constructor of NullFormatter class. + +- Use binary mode for socket.makefile() calls in ftplib.py. + +- The ihooks module no longer "installs" itself upon import -- this +was an experimental feature that helped ironing out some bugs but that +slowed down code that imported it without the need to install it +(e.g. the rexec module). Also close the file in some cases and add +the __file__ attribute to loaded modules. + +- The test program for mailbox.py is now more useful. + +- Added getparamnames() to Message class in mimetools.py -- it returns +the names of parameters to the content-type header. + +- Fixed a typo in ni that broke the loop stripping "__." from names. + +- Fix sys.path[0] for scripts run via pdb.py's new main program. + +- profile.py can now also run a script, like pdb. + +- Fix a small bug in pyclbr -- don't add names starting with _ when +emulating from ... import *. + +- Fixed a series of embarrassing typos in rexec's handling of standard +I/O redirection. Added some more "safe" built-in modules: cmath, +errno, operator. + +- Fixed embarrassing typo in shelve.py. + +- Added SliceType and EllipsisType to types.py. + +- In urllib.py, added handling for error 301 (same as 302); added +geturl() method to get the URL after redirection. + +- Fixed embarrassing typo in xdrlib.py. Also fixed typo in Setup.in +for _xdrmodule.c and removed redundant #include from _xdrmodule.c. + +- Fixed bsddbmodule.c to add binary mode indicator on platforms that +have it. This should make it working on Windows NT. + +- Changed last uses of #ifdef NT to #ifdef MS_WINDOWS or MS_WIN32, +whatever applies. Also rationalized some other tests for various MS +platforms. + +- Added the sources for the NT installer script used for Python +1.4beta3. Not tested with this release, but better than nothing. + +- A compromise in pickle's defenses against Trojan horses: a +user-defined function is now okay where a class is expected. A +built-in function is not okay, to prevent pickling something that +will execute os.system("rm -f *") when unpickling. + +- dis.py will print the name of local variables referenced by local +load/store/delete instructions. + +- Improved portability of SimpleHttpServer module to non-Unix +platform. + +- The thread.h interface adds an extra argument to down_sema(). This +only affects other C code that uses thread.c; the Python thread module +doesn't use semaphores (which aren't provided on all platforms where +Python threads are supported). Note: on NT, this change is not +implemented. + +- Fixed some typos in abstract.h; corrected signature of +PyNumber_Coerce, added PyMapping_DelItem. Also fixed a bug in +abstract.c's PyObject_CallMethod(). + +- apply(classname, (), {}) now works even if the class has no +__init__() method. + +- Implemented complex remainder and divmod() (these would dump core!). +Conversion of complex numbers to int, long int or float now raises an +exception, since there is no meaningful way to do it without losing +information. + +- Fixed bug in built-in complex() function which gave the wrong result +for two real arguments. + +- Change the hash algorithm for strings -- the multiplier is now +1000003 instead of 3, which gives better spread for short strings. + +- New default path for Windows NT, the registry structure now supports +default paths for different install packages. (Mark Hammond -- the +next PythonWin release will use this.) + +- Added more symbols to the python_nt.def file. + +- When using GNU readline, set rl_readline_name to "python". + +- The Ellipses built-in name has been renamed to Ellipsis -- this is +the correct singular form. Thanks to Ka-Ping Yee, who saved us from +eternal embarrassment. + +- Bumped the PYTHON_API_VERSION to 1006, due to the Ellipses -> +Ellipsis name change. + +- Updated the library reference manual. Added documentation of +restricted mode (rexec, Bastion) and the formatter module (for use +with the htmllib module). Fixed the documentation of htmllib +(finally). + +- The reference manual is now maintained in FrameMaker. + +- Upgraded scripts Doc/partparse.py and Doc/texi2html.py. + +- Slight improvements to Doc/Makefile. + +- Added fcntl.lockf(). This should be used for Unix file locking +instead of the posixfile module; lockf() is more portable. + +- The getopt module now supports long option names, thanks to Lars +Wizenius. + +- Plenty of changes to Tkinter and Canvas, mostly due to Fred Drake +and Nils Fischbeck. + +- Use more bits of time.time() in whrandom's default seed(). + +- Performance hack for regex module's regs attribute. + +- Don't close already closed socket in socket module. + +- Correctly handle separators containing embedded nulls in +strop.split, strop.find and strop.rfind. Also added more detail to +error message for strop.atoi and friends. + +- Moved fallback definition for hypot() to Python/hypot.c. + +- Added fallback definition for strdup, in Python/strdup.c. + +- Fixed some bugs where a function would return 0 to indicate an error +where it should return -1. + +- Test for error returned by time.localtime(), and rationalized its MS +tests. + +- Added Modules/Setup.local file, which is processed after Setup. + +- Corrected bug in toplevel Makefile.in -- execution of regen script +would not use the right PATH and PYTHONPATH. + +- Various and sundry NeXT configuration changes (sigh). + +- Support systems where libreadline needs neither termcap nor curses. + +- Improved ld_so_aix script and python.exp file (for AIX). + +- More stringent test for working <stdarg.h> in configure script. + +- Removed Demo/www subdirectory -- it was totally out of date. + +- Improved demos and docs for Fred Drake's parser module; fixed one +typo in the module itself. + + ========================================= ==> Release 1.4beta3 (August 26 1996) <== ========================================= -(XXX This is less readable that it should. I promis to restructure it -for the final 1.4 release.) +(XXX This is less readable that it should. I promise to restructure +it for the final 1.4 release.) What's new in 1.4beta3 (since beta2)? ------------------------------------- +- Name mangling to implement a simple form of class-private variables. +A name of the form "__spam" can't easily be used outside the class. +(This was added in 1.4beta3, but left out of the 1.4beta3 release +message.) + - In urllib.urlopen(): HTTP URLs containing user:passwd@host are now handled correctly when using a proxy server. @@ -88,9 +288,9 @@ permission). This is required on HP-UX and won't hurt on other systems. - The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution. Objective-C support may become available as contributed software on the ftp site. -- The sybase module is no longer part of the distribution. May John -Redford rot in hell. A much improved sybase module is available as -contributed software from the ftp site. +- The sybase module is no longer part of the distribution. A much +improved sybase module is available as contributed software from the +ftp site. - _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!). The default line in the Setup.in file |