[Python-checkins] r81484 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
georg.brandl
python-checkins at python.org
Sat May 22 23:26:21 CEST 2010
Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sat May 22 23:26:21 2010
New Revision: 81484
Log:
NEWS rewrap and punctuation consistency.
Modified:
python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS (original)
+++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Sat May 22 23:26:21 2010
@@ -12,18 +12,18 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try
- implicit relative import semantics.
+- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
+ relative import semantics.
-- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using
- it from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
+- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
+ from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
C-API
-----
-- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
- embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
- sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
+- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
+ of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
+ helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
Library
@@ -36,36 +36,37 @@
StreamWriter classes.
- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
- than strict
+ than 'strict'.
- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
of files without one.
-- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
+- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
comparing to a non-mapping.
-- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
+- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
-- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.quote and urllib.unquote for simple cases.
+- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
+ cases.
- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
-- Issue #5099: subprocess.Popen's __del__ method (and the methods it calls)
- referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during interpreter
- shutdown.
+- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
+ it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
+ interpreter shutdown.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
- overflow checks in the audioop module.
+ overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Tests
-----
-- On darwin, test_site assumed that a framework build was being used, leading
- to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages instead
- of two in a non-framework build.
+- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
+ leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
+ instead of two in a non-framework build.
What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
@@ -76,226 +77,221 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for Objects/ and Python/ .
+- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
+
+- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
+ non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
+ using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
+ way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
+ would produce a TypeError.
-- Issue #1533: fix inconsistency in range function argument
- processing: any non-float non-integer argument is now converted to
- an integer (if possible) using its __int__ method. Previously, only
- small arguments were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose
- __int__ was outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
-
-- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when
- searching for the module file to be executed with the -m command
- line option
+- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
+ for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
- PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
+ ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
Charles-François Natali.
- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
passed to bytearray.
-- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
+- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
-- Issue #8404: Fixed set operations on dictionary views.
+- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
-- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
- builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
- into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
+- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
+ on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
+ ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Library
-------
-- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
- the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
+- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
+ zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
-- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
- chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
- objects.
+- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
+ larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
-- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
+- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
-- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
- error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
- inheritance with the underlying socket object.
- The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
+- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
+ messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
+ inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
+ deprecated.
-- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
- Patch by Tres Seaver.
+- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
+ fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
-- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
- parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
+- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
+ parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
-- Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to
- ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed
+- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
+ ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
-- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
- Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
- signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
- the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
- being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
+- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
+ operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
+ trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
+ handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
+ Python exception being raised.
- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
- exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
- close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
+ exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
+ several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
gc.DEBUG_STATS.
-- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
- not just SIGCHLD.
+- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
+ just SIGCHLD.
-- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
- webbrowser.get("safari").
+- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
+ ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
-- Issue #8577: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() now makes a difference
+- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
"Include".
-- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
- when mode="w|" is used.
+- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
+ mode="w|" is used.
-- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
- of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
+- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
+ the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
-- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
- It should correctly return an empty response now.
+- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
+ should correctly return an empty response now.
-- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
- suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
- location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart
- Regebro.
+- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
+ suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
+ location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
-- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
- before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
+- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
+ the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
-- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
+- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
-- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
- Sridhar Ratnakumar.
+- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
+ Ratnakumar.
-- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
- and mappings.
+- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
-- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
- where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
- event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
- witnessed in test_httpservers.
+- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
+ the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
+ started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
+ test_httpservers.
- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
-- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
- the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
+- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
+ SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
-- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
- underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
+- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
+ socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
-- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
- socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
+- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
+ Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
-- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
- the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
- and keywords.
+- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
+ string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
+ keywords.
-- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
- a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
+- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
+ non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
-- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
- the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
- doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
+- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
+ extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
+ because of an "unknown algorithm".
- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
-- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
- from PORT/EPRT commands.
+- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
+ resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
-- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
+- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
-- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding
- error handler from the new IO library.
+- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
+ handler from the new IO library.
-- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
- code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
+- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
+ as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
-- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
+- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
- filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
- designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
+ filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
+ to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
- character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
- 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
+ character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
+ rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
-- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
- to cover recent locale changes and additions.
+- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
+ cover recent locale changes and additions.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of timedelta.total_seconds().
+- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
-- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after
- calling a foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified
- libffi library.
+- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
+ foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Tests
-----
-- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
- handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
- uncompressed data).
+- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
+ by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
+ data).
-- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests
- its API.
+- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
+ API.
- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
-- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
- support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
+- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
+ Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
-- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
- of SSL shutdowns.
+- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
+ SSL shutdowns.
Build
-----
-- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
+- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
(Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
-- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
- your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
+- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
+ home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
-- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
+- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Misc
----
@@ -316,29 +312,28 @@
- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
changed.
-- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
+- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
-- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
+- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
-- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__
- is called with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to
- future-proof user code. If a derived class does not currently
- implement __format__ but later adds its own __format__, it would
- most likely break user code that had supplied a format string. This
- will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in Python 3.3 and it will be
- an error in Python 3.4.
+- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
+ with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
+ code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
+ adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
+ supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
+ Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
references.
-- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
- case it is set.
+- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
+ is set.
- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
@@ -360,55 +355,54 @@
- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
- using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
- and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
+ using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
+ `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
-- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
- directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
+- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
+ converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
>>> Decimal(1.1)
Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
-- the functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator
- to simplify the specification of rich comparisons.
+- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
+ the specification of rich comparisons.
-- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition
- old-style comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
+- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
+ comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
-- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
- instances directly.
+- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
+ directly.
-- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
- signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
- involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
- are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
-
-- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
- instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
- operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
- the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
+- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
+ InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
+ NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
+ signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
+
+- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
+ return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
+ returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
+ id(Decimal).
- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
- argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
- is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
- patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
+ argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
+ read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
+ Piotr Ożarowski).
-- Issue #3135: Add inspect.getcallargs, which binds arguments to a function
- like a normal call.
+- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
+ function like a normal call.
- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
- Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
- http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
+ Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
-- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
- a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
- True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
- int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
+- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
+ Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
+ makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
+ <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
@@ -420,24 +414,24 @@
- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
- didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
- now silenced.
+ didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
+ silenced.
- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
deprecated.
-- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
- when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
+- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
+ is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
-- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor
- method to LoggerAdapter.
+- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
+ to LoggerAdapter.
-- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode
- logger names existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error
- when configuration code attempted to sort the existing loggers.
+- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
+ existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
+ attempted to sort the existing loggers.
-- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not
- fully loaded when logging occurs.
+- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
+ when logging occurs.
- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
@@ -447,26 +441,26 @@
- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
-- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support
- writing into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays
- or memoryviews.
+- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
+ into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
+ memoryviews.
- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
-- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
+- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
-- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
- the locale.
+- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
+ locale.
-- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
- set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
+- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
+ to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
program name.
- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
- for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
- existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
- not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
+ for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
+ log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
+ the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
cElementTree module is updated too.
@@ -500,8 +494,8 @@
- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
- http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4.
- This update drops support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
+ http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
+ support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
@@ -515,13 +509,13 @@
- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
- produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour
- was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others,
- and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native
- packing and standard packing.)
+ produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
+ inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
+ the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
+ and standard packing.)
-- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
- bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
+- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
+ the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Tools/Demos
-----------
@@ -535,12 +529,12 @@
Build
-----
-- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build,
- allowing to use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
+- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
+ use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
-- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
- variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
- when building a shared library.
+- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
+ anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
+ shared library.
- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
@@ -553,19 +547,19 @@
-----
- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
- function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
- is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
+ function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
+ now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
-- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
- from Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution
- have been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility
- concerns, PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
+- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
+ Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
+ converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
+ PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Tests
-----
-- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
- if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
+- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
+ thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
@@ -583,8 +577,8 @@
- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
Unicode normalization cases.
-- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
- files from the local cache.
+- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
+ from the local cache.
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