From ca9e21c9c6fd7414340d3019093b8d76db55c377 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Hylton Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:57:58 +0000 Subject: Partial progress on NEWS. --- Misc/NEWS | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 988876a..9edec64 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Python News (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) -What's New in Python 2.3 release candidate? -=========================================== +What's New in Python 2.3 release candidate 1? +============================================= Core and builtins ----------------- @@ -24,6 +24,25 @@ Core and builtins is raised now. +- Several bugs in the symbol table phase of the compiler have been + fixed. Errors could be lost and compilation could fail without + reporting an error. SF patch #763201. + +- The interpreter is now more robust about importing the warnings + module. In an executable generated by freeze or similar programs, + earlier versions of 2.3 would fail if the warnings module could + not be found on the file system. Fixes SF bug #771097. + +- A warning about assignments to module attributes that shadow + builtins, present in earlier releases of 2.3, has been removed. + +- It is not possible to create subclasses of builtin types like str + and tuple that define an itemsize. Earlier releases of Python 2.3 + allowed this by mistake, leading to crashes and other problems. + +- The thread_id is now initialized to 0 in a non-thread build. SF bug + #770247. + Extension modules ----------------- @@ -37,9 +56,20 @@ Extension modules - time.strptime now exclusively uses the Python implementation contained within the _strptime module. +- bsddb3 no longer crashes if an environment is closed before a + cursor. SF bug #763298. + +- The print slot of weakref proxy objects was removed, because it was + not consistent with the object's repr slot. + +- The mmap module only checks file size for regular files, not + character or block devices. SF patch #708374. + Library ------- +- distutils now supports MSVC 7.1 + - doctest now examines all docstrings by default. Previously, it would skip over functions with private names (as indicated by the underscore naming convention). The old default created too much of a risk that @@ -49,16 +79,17 @@ Library is easily fixable by specifying the old behavior when calling testmod() or Tester(). -- Closing a dumbdbm database more than once is now harmless (it used to - raise a nuisance exception on the second close). +- There were several fixes to the way dumbdbms are closed. It's vital + that a dumbdbm database be closed properly, else the on-disk data + and directory files can be left in mutually inconsistent states. + dumbdbm.py's _Database.__del__() method attempted to close the + database properly, but a shutdown race in _Database._commit() could + prevent this from working, so that a program trusting __del__() to + get the on-disk files in synch could be badly surprised. The race + has been repaired. A sync() method was also added so that shelve + can guarantee data is written to disk. -- It's vital that a dumbdbm database be closed properly, else the - on-disk data and directory files can be left in mutually inconsistent - states. dumbdbm.py's _Database.__del__() method attempted to close - the database properly, but a shutdown race in _Database._commit() - could prevent this from working, so that a program trusting __del__() - to get the on-disk files in synch could be badly surprised. The race - has been repaired. + The close() method can now be called more than once without complaint. - The classes in threading.py are now new-style classes. That they weren't before was an oversight. @@ -69,14 +100,27 @@ Library - SF bug 763637: fix exception in Tkinter with after_cancel which could occur with Tk 8.4 +- SF bug 770601: CGIHTTPServer.py now passes the entire environment + to child processes. + +- SF bug 765238: Add filter to fnmatch's __all__. + Tools/Demos ----------- - SF bug 753592: webchecker/wsgui now handles user supplied directories. +- See Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt for IDLE news. + Build ----- +- The socket module compiles on IRIX 6.5.10. + +- An irix64 system is treated the same way as an irix6 system. SF + patch #764560. + + C API ----- -- cgit v0.12