From 105ff952bda1378ad2dae2885e82fc7f5aec56ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:35:47 +0000 Subject: Typed in the relevant changes since 1.5b1. --- Misc/NEWS | 174 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 172 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 6f98bec..8b2a9d4 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ What's new in this release? =========================== Below is a list of all relevant changes since the release 1.4. The -most recent changes (from 1.5a3 to 1.5a4 and from 1.5a4 to 1.5b1) are -listed in separate sections at the end. +most recent changes (from 1.5a3 to 1.5a4, from 1.5a4 to 1.5b1, and +from 1.5b1 to 1.5b2) are listed in separate sections at the end. A note on attributions: while I have sprinkled some names throughout here, I'm grateful to many more people who remain unnamed. You may @@ -1632,3 +1632,173 @@ Marangozov. ====================================================================== + + +From 1.5b1 to 1.5b2 +=================== + +- Fixed a bug in cPickle.c that caused it to crash right away because +the version string had a different format. + +- Changes in pickle.py and cPickle.c: when unpickling an instance of a +class that doesn't define the __getinitargs__() method, the __init__() +constructor is no longer called. This makes a much larger group of +classes picklable by default, but may occasionally change semantics. +To force calling __init__() on unpickling, define a __getinitargs__() +method. Other changes too, in particular cPickle now handles classes +defined in packages correctly. The same change applies to copying +instances with copy.py. The cPickle.c changes and some pickle.py +changes are courtesy Jim Fulton. + +- Locale support in he "re" (Perl regular expressions) module. Use +the flag re.L (or re.LOCALE) to enable locale-specific matching +rules for \w and \b. The in-line syntax for this flag is (?L). + +- The built-in function isinstance(x, y) now also succeeds when y is +a type object and type(x) is y. + +- repr() and str() of class and instance objects now reflect the +package/module in which the class is defined. + +- Module "ni" has been removed. (If you really need it, it's been +renamed to "ni1". Let me know if this causes any problems for you. +Package authors are encouraged to write __init__.py files that +support both ni and 1.5 package support, so the same version can be +used with Python 1.4 as well as 1.5.) + +- The thread module is now automatically included when threads are +configured. (You must remove it from your existing Setup file, +since it is now in its own Setup.thread file.) + +- New command line option "-x" to skip the first line of the script; +handy to make executable scripts on non-Unix platforms. + +- In importdl.c, add the RTLD_GLOBAL to the dlopen() flags. I +haven't checked how this affects things, but it should make symbols +in one shared library available to the next one. + +- The Windows installer now installs in the "Program Files" folder on +the proper volume by default. + +- The Windows configuration adds a new main program, "pythonw", and +registers a new extension, ".pyw" that invokes this. This is a +pstandard Python interpreter that does not pop up a console window; +handy for pure Tkinter applications. All output to the original +stdout and stderr is lost; reading from the original stdin yields +EOF. Also, both python.exe and pythonw.exe now have a pretty icon +(a green snake in a box, courtesy Mark Hammond). + +- Lots of improvements to emacs-mode.el again. See Barry's web page: +http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/pmdetails.html. + +- Lots of improvements and additions to the library reference manual; +many by Fred Drake. + +- Doc strings for the following modules: rfc822.py, posixpath.py, +ntpath.py, httplib.py. Thanks to Mitch Chapman and Charles Waldman. + +- Some more regression testing. + +- An optional 4th (maxsplit) argument to strop.replace(). + +- Fixed handling of maxsplit in string.splitfields(). + +- Tweaked os.environ so it can be pickled and copied. + +- The portability problems caused by indented preprocessor commands +and C++ style comments should be gone now. + +- In random.py, added Pareto and Weibull distributions. + +- The crypt module is now disabled in Modules/Setup.in by default; it +is rarely needed and causes errors on some systems where users often +don't know how to deal with those. + +- Some improvements to the _tkinter build line suggested by Case Roole. + +- A full suite of platform specific files for NetBSD 1.x, submitted by +Anders Andersen. + +- New Solaris specific header STROPTS.py. + +- Moved a confusing occurrence of *shared* from the comments in +Modules/Setup.in (people would enable this one instead of the real +one, and get disappointing results). + +- Changed the default mode for directories to be group-writable when +the installation process creates them. + +- Check for pthread support in "-l_r" for FreeBSD/NetBSD, and support +shared libraries for both. + +- Support FreeBSD and NetBSD in posixfile.py. + +- Support for the "event" command, new in Tk 4.2. By Case Roole. + +- Add Tix_SafeInit() support to tkappinit.c. + +- Various bugs fixed in "re.py" and "pcre.c". + +- Fixed a bug (broken use of the syntax table) in the old "regexpr.c". + +- In frozenmain.c, stdin is made unbuffered too when PYTHONUNBUFFERED +is set. + +- Provide default blocksize for retrbinary in ftplib.py (Skip +Montanaro). + +- In NT, pick the username up from different places in user.py (Jeff +Bauer). + +- Patch to urlparse.urljoin() for ".." and "..#1", Marc Lemburg. + +- Many small improvements to Jeff Rush' OS/2 support. + +- ospath.py is gone; it's been obsolete for so many years now... + +- The reference manual is now set up to prepare better HTML (still +using webmaker, alas). + +- Add special handling to /Tools/freeze for Python modules that are +imported implicitly by the Python runtime: 'site' and 'exceptions'. + +- Tools/faqwiz 0.8.3 -- add an option to suppress URL processing +inside 
, by "Scott".
+
+- Added ConfigParser.py, a generic parser for sectioned configuration
+files.
+
+- In _localemodule.c, LC_MESSAGES is not always defined; put it
+between #ifdefs.
+
+- Typo in resource.c: RUSAGE_CHILDERN -> RUSAGE_CHILDREN.
+
+- Demo/scripts/newslist.py: Fix the way the version number is gotten
+out of the RCS revision.
+
+- PyArg_Parse[Tuple] now explicitly check for bad characters at the
+end of the format string.
+
+- Revamped PC/example_nt to support VC++ 5.x.
+
+- .sort() now uses a modified quicksort by Raymund Galvin,
+after studying the GNU libg++ quicksort.  This should be much faster
+if there are lots of duplicates, and otherwise at least as good.
+
+- Added "uue" as an alias for "uuencode" to mimetools.py.  (Hm, the
+uudecode bug where it complaints about trailing garbage is still there 
+:-( ).
+
+- pickle.py requires integers in text mode to be in decimal notation
+(it used to accept octal and hex, even though it would only generate
+decimal numbers).
+
+- In string.atof(), don't fail when the "re" module is unavailable.
+Plug the ensueing security leak by supplying an empty __builtins__
+directory to eval().
+
+- A bunch of small fixes and improvements to Tkinter.py.
+
+- Fixed a buffer overrun in PC/getpathp.c.
+
+======================================================================
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