[Python-checkins] r63413 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
georg.brandl
python-checkins at python.org
Sat May 17 20:14:44 CEST 2008
Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sat May 17 20:14:43 2008
New Revision: 63413
Log:
Rewrap consistently to 70 chars, and standardize the way of referring to issues.
Modified:
python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS (original)
+++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Sat May 17 20:14:43 2008
@@ -12,104 +12,124 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that equals
- ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
- ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also contains
- this name.
+- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
+ equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
+ ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
+ contains this name.
- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
-- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError
- was sometimes incorrectly raised.
+- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
+ ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
-- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning attribute.
+- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
+ attribute.
-- Issue #2196: hasattr now lets exceptions which do not inherit Exception
- (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of ignoring them
+- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
+ Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
+ ignoring them.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the platform.
+- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
+ platform.
- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
- bsddb module updated to version 4.6.4.
-- issue2858: Fix potential memory corruption when bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get
- and other bsddb.db object constructors raised an exception.
+- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
+ bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
+ raised an exception.
-- Fixed #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error
+- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Library
-------
- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
-- Issue 1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
+- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
'm' or 'c'.
-- The Tkinter module has been made a package and renamed 'tkinter'. All
- Tkinter-related modules (like Tix, ScrolledText, turtle etc.) are now
- submodules of that package and have been renamed to conform to PEP 8
- standards.
+- The Tkinter module has been made a package and renamed 'tkinter'.
+ All Tkinter-related modules (like Tix, ScrolledText, turtle etc.)
+ are now submodules of that package and have been renamed to conform
+ to PEP 8 standards.
- The repr module has been renamed 'reprlib'. The old name is now
deprecated.
- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for removal in
- Python 3.0.
+- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
+ removal in Python 3.0.
-- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Python 3.0.
--The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
-- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
- Python 3.0.
+- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
+ removal in Python 3.0.
-- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes cgensupport)
- have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
+ cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The ConfigParser module has been renamed 'configparser'. The old
name is now deprecated.
-- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
- Python 3.0.
+- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
+ removal in Python 3.0.
-- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
-- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
Python 3.0.
@@ -117,7 +137,7 @@
- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
Python 3.0.
-- #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
+- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
@@ -130,14 +150,17 @@
- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in rlcompleter's
- ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and ignored.
+- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
+ rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
+ ignored.
-- #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap TextWrapper class.
+- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
+ TextWrapper class.
- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
@@ -149,7 +172,8 @@
- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
@@ -162,7 +186,8 @@
- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
@@ -180,8 +205,8 @@
- pdb gained the "until" command.
-- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal in
- 3.0.
+- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
+ in Python 3.0.
Build
-----
@@ -199,51 +224,52 @@
- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
-- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now it
- properly raises a SyntaxError.
+- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
+ it properly raises a SyntaxError.
-- Patch #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and other
- implementations of Python.
+- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
+ other implementations of Python.
-- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory
+- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed two
- handlers that derive the same default base class.
+- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
+ two handlers that derive the same default base class.
- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
-- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to the cmath
- module.
+- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
+ the cmath module.
-- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules:
- acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p.
+- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
+ asinh, atanh and log1p.
-- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter when
- passed a value less than or equal to zero.
+- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
+ when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
-- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the original Python
- code has been kept as backup). This will allow for using the 'warning's
- machinery in such places as the parser where use of pure Python code is not
- possible. Both the ``showarning()`` and ``formatwarning()`` gain an
- optional 'line' argument which is not called by default for
- backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting ``warnings.showwarning()`` to
- an implementation that lacks support for the ``line`` argument will raise a
- DeprecationWarning.
+- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
+ original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
+ using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
+ use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
+ and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
+ not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
+ ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
+ for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Library
-------
- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed
- by Bob Ippolito.
+- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
+ contributed by Bob Ippolito.
- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
-- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst
+- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
+ bdist_wininst.
- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
@@ -268,11 +294,11 @@
- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
now implemented in C for better performance.
-- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in implementation
- detail of the public ``types`` module, has been removed and replaced by pure
- python code.
+- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
+ implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
+ removed and replaced by pure python code.
-- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
+- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
build documentation for more information.
@@ -285,49 +311,55 @@
libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
-- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, so the
- controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical script
- environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to data files.
+- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
+ so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
+ script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
+ data files.
Tests
-----
-- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining ports
- to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an effort to
- facilitate running multiple instances of the entire regression test suite
- in parallel without issue. test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such
- that it will always return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case
- with the previous implementation, especially if socket options had been
- set that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
- new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception if it
- is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the SO_REUSEADDR or
- SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if available, bind_port()
- will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on the socket it's been passed.
- This currently only applies to Windows. This option prevents any other
- sockets from binding to the host/port we've bound to, thus removing the
- possibility of the 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it,
- that occurs when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a
- host/port that's already been bound by another socket. The optional
- preferred port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
+
+- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
+ ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
+ effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
+ regression test suite in parallel without issue.
+ test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
+ return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
+ previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
+ that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
+ new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
+ if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
+ SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
+ available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
+ the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
+ Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
+ host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
+ 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
+ when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
+ that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
+ port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
-
- test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will pass
- a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an unused port.
- The temporary socket object is then closed and deleted, and the port is
- returned. This method should only be used for obtaining an unused port
- in order to pass to an external program (i.e. the -accept [port] argument
- to openssl's s_server mode) or as a parameter to a server-oriented class
- that doesn't give you direct access to the underlying socket used.
- Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used for
- the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and connect).
+ test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
+ pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
+ unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
+ deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
+ for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
+ (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
+ a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
+ access to the underlying socket used.
+
+ Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
+ for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
+ connect).
The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
- test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
+ test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
- It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test suite to
- run in parallel without issue.
+ It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
+ suite to run in parallel without issue.
Build
-----
@@ -338,15 +370,15 @@
gcc is used as compiler.
- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
- with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
+ with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
C API
-----
-- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p
- to the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for
- platforms which provide the functions through their libm. The
- files also contains several helpers and constants for math.
+- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
+ the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
+ which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
+ contains several helpers and constants for math.
- Added a new convenience function, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k
warnings.
@@ -360,9 +392,9 @@
Core and builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the tracing
- function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to call
- threading.currentThread().
+- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
+ tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
+ call threading.currentThread().
- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
cannot be executed.
@@ -371,10 +403,10 @@
reference on the outer class name.
- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
- compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST).
+ ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
-- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping
- of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
+- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
+ dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
@@ -383,52 +415,57 @@
- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
- \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. This
- affected raw unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now
- UTF-16 surrogates are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals
- and the 'unicode-escape' codec.
+ \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
+ Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
+ 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
+ this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
+ codec.
- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
-- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__.
+- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
+ __members__.
- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
-- Issue 1745. Backport print function with:
- from __future__ import print_function
+- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
+ print_function``.
-- Issue 2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
- The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
+- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
+ The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
-- Issue 2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
+- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
exception instances.
- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
- doesn't derive from BaseException. Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning
- when raising an exception that doesn't derive from BaseException.
+ doesn't derive from BaseException.
+
+- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
+ doesn't derive from BaseException.
- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
memory usage in some circumstances.
-- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals
- are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
- This also affects int(x, 0).
+- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
+ literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
+ "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
-- Issue #1779871: Gnu gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
+- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
longer passed.
- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
-- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method
- on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin)
+- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
+ method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
+ Jeffrey Yaskin)
-- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give
- bogus error messages.
+- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
+ could give bogus error messages.
- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
@@ -440,20 +477,22 @@
Library
-------
-- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for
- daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
+- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
+ for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
-- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates
- rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while.
+- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
+ calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
+ while.
+
+- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
+ improved logic for removing old files.
+
+- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
+ consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
+ [""""], which is incorrect python code.
-- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved
- logic for removing old files.
-
-- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive
- string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is
- incorrect python code.
-
-- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit().
+- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
+ SMTP.quit().
- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
@@ -466,58 +505,60 @@
- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
advertised in the docs.
-- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
+- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
-- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
+- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
-- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the
- WWW-Authenticate header.
+- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
+ in the WWW-Authenticate header.
- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
-- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine
- and processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
+- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
+ processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
information as well.
-- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added
- to the standard distribution.
+- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
+ the standard distribution.
-- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit
- platforms.
+- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
+ 64-bit platforms.
-- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different values
- on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct, but they now
- both return a signed integer object for consistency.
+- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
+ values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
+ but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
strftime.
- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
- platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; previously
- it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
+ platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
+ previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
correctly under win32
-- #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
+- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
- optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is currently
- being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an exception, otherwise
- it raises ValueError).
+ optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
+ currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
+ exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
-- Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
+- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
+ gracefully.
-- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non-
- zero status code if not all files could be compiled successfully.
+- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
+ non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
+ successfully.
-- Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
+- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
@@ -525,19 +566,18 @@
- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
- Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
- On OS X, preconfigured libffi files are used.
- On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option defaults
- to "yes".
+ Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
+ files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
+ configure option defaults to "yes".
-- Issue 1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination is a
- directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
+- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
+ is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Tests
-----
-- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and NIS is
- not set up on the testing machine.
+- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
+ NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
@@ -547,13 +587,15 @@
- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
-- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to unittest.
+- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
+ unittest.
- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
-- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest.
+- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
+ unittest.
- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
@@ -567,8 +609,8 @@
- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
-- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both functions are
- in the C89 standard library.
+- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
+ functions are in the C89 standard library.
- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
@@ -576,7 +618,8 @@
-----
- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
- PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx()
+ PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
+
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
=================================
@@ -617,56 +660,59 @@
datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
PyObject_Format().
-- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__
- methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state.
+- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
+ __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
+ state.
- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
- prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot
- on a registered virtual subclass.
-
-- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or
- imaginary part.
+ prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
+ a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
-- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order
- to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the
- OS earlier.
+- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
+ real or imaginary part.
-- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
- collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
+- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
+ in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
+ memory to the OS earlier.
+
+- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
+ subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
+ to a bound method.
- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
-- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries
- each.
+- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
+ entries each.
-- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions
- ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
+- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
+ functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
-- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
- Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t.
-
-- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
- in the same code unit.
-
-- Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with
- the collections.Sequence API.
-
-- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak
- detection
-
-- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the
- internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
-
-- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is the
- same object as the func_code attribute of the function that produced the
- generator.
-
-- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler,
- even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when
- the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the
- "else" suite.
+- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
+ calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
+ returns pi_t.
+
+- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
+ appear in the same code unit.
+
+- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
+ with the collections.Sequence API.
+
+- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
+ linebreak detection
+
+- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
+ the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
+
+- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
+ the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
+ produced the generator.
+
+- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
+ compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
+ supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
+ correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
@@ -676,7 +722,7 @@
suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
-- Bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
+- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
support.
@@ -691,48 +737,50 @@
- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
-- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of most
- command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
+- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
+ most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
-- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The patch
- makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more readable.
+- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
+ patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
+ readable.
-- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses,
- resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
+- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
+ accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
-- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar
- and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python
- to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
-
-- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
- module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
- of 'error code 193'.
+- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
+ envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
+ to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
+
+- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
+ extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
+ application' instead of 'error code 193'.
-- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan'))!=0L.
+- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
-- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y)
- functions.
+- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
+ y) functions.
- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
- and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on every
- platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
+ and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
+ every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
-- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary literals.
- The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated dictionary size.
- There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding entries to the dictionary.
+- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
+ literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
+ dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
+ entries to the dictionary.
-- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux
+- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
-- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator
- in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
+- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
+ decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
-- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split
- char is not found.
+- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
+ is not found.
- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
SystemError.
@@ -741,25 +789,26 @@
inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
__package__ attribute.
-- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -767,48 +816,53 @@
- 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.
+- 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 #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 #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.
+ 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 #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.
+- 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.
+- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
-- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
+- Issue #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__.)
+ __*__ 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.
@@ -817,12 +871,12 @@
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.
+ "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
+- Issue #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
@@ -847,22 +901,25 @@
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 #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 #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
+ unicode name.
- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
@@ -870,61 +927,69 @@
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__().
+ 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 #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 #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.
+ 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.
+ 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().
+- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
+ long().
-- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
+- 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).
+- 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
+- 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.
+- 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 #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
+- 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.
+- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
+ strings, tuples and lists.
- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
@@ -932,10 +997,10 @@
- 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 #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 #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.
@@ -943,8 +1008,8 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -962,12 +1027,12 @@
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).
+ 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
+- 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),)).
@@ -975,8 +1040,9 @@
- 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 #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
@@ -996,18 +1062,19 @@
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.
+ 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.
+- 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
+- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
it actually exited.
@@ -1015,24 +1082,25 @@
Library
-------
-- #2274 Add heapq.heappushpop().
+- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
-- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out timestamps.
+- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
+ timestamps.
-- #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
+- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
-- #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a server,
- httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead
- of raising ValueError.
+- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
+ server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
+ connection instead of raising ValueError.
-- #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can now be
- overridden.
+- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
+ now be overridden.
-- Issue 1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
+- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
(ignore-case)
- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
@@ -1040,9 +1108,11 @@
without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
be done in the rest of the stdlib.
-- Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py.
+- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
+ inspect.py.
-- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash.
+- Issue #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.
@@ -1054,89 +1124,93 @@
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.
+- 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.
+- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
+ SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
+ supporting the context management protocol.
+
+- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
+ comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
+
+- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
+ default permissions for missing directories.
+
+- Issue #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.
-- #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,
+- Issue #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)
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
-- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover
- time calculation.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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().
+- Issue #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``.
+- 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.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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 #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.
+- Issue #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
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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).
+- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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
@@ -1153,24 +1227,25 @@
- 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 #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.
+- 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
+- Issue #846388:q 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.
+- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat 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.
@@ -1180,22 +1255,23 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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
+- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
+ writing
-- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
- unicode characters.
+- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
+ certain unicode characters.
- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
@@ -1204,22 +1280,22 @@
- 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 #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 #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 #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.
+- 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.
@@ -1233,8 +1309,8 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -1244,17 +1320,19 @@
- 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.
+- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
+ raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
+ longs.
-- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of
- the input iterables.
+- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
+ input iterables.
- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
-- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).
+- 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.
@@ -1263,16 +1341,18 @@
- 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).
+- 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.
+- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
+ compatibility with Python 3000.
-- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen.
+- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
+ Janssen.
- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
@@ -1281,8 +1361,8 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -1299,31 +1379,34 @@
- 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).
+- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
+ attribute.
-- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses
- the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at
- connection time.
+- 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.
+ 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.
+- 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.
+- Bugs #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).
+- Issue #1385: 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.
@@ -1338,11 +1421,11 @@
- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
-- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher
- support in urllib/urllib2.
+- 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.
+- 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).
@@ -1351,10 +1434,11 @@
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.
+- 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.
+- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
+ SMTP servers which require authentication.
- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
@@ -1369,13 +1453,15 @@
".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.
+ 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.
+- 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.
+- 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
@@ -1393,8 +1479,8 @@
- 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
+- 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
@@ -1408,72 +1494,76 @@
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.
+ 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 #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
+- 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 #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 #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.
+ 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.
+- 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 #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.
+ 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.
+- 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
+- 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
@@ -1489,20 +1579,21 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -1510,8 +1601,9 @@
- 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 #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.
@@ -1529,8 +1621,8 @@
- Added itertools.izip_longest().
-- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute
- import semantics.
+- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
+ absolute import semantics.
- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
@@ -1541,16 +1633,16 @@
- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
-- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
+- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
-- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
- relative directory names.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -1558,9 +1650,10 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -1569,7 +1662,8 @@
- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
-- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring.
+- 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).
@@ -1579,8 +1673,8 @@
- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
-- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types
- instead.
+- 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.
@@ -1600,53 +1694,56 @@
- 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.
+- 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 #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 #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 #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.
+- 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 #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 #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.
+- 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.
+- 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 #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.
+- 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.
@@ -1654,8 +1751,8 @@
- 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 #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
+ precedes an 1xx response.
- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
@@ -1666,13 +1763,13 @@
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 #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 elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
@@ -1701,29 +1798,29 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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 #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 #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 #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.
@@ -1734,54 +1831,60 @@
- 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.
+- 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).
+- 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.
+- 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()
+- 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 #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 #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).
+- 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.
+- 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).
+
+- Issue #829951: 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.
-- 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
+- Issue #1339: 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.
+ does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
+ SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
+ Fenner.
-- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around siginterrupt(3).
+- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
+ siginterrupt(3).
Extension Modules
-----------------
@@ -1794,67 +1897,73 @@
- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3)
-- #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a
- direct EnvironmentError
+- Bug #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
+- 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.
+- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
+ Windows.
- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
-- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
- as the documentation says.
+- Issue #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 #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 #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
+- 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.
-
-- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor, chain.from_iterable().
+- _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.
+
+- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
+ chain.from_iterable().
+
+- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
+ support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
+ information.
-- 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.
+- 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__().
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -1870,21 +1979,22 @@
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.
+ 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.
+- 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.
@@ -1895,8 +2005,9 @@
- 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 #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.
@@ -1906,20 +2017,21 @@
- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
-- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin
- types.
+- 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 #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 #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.
+- 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.
@@ -1945,19 +2057,21 @@
- 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 #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.)
+ 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.
+- 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.
+ - 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
@@ -1974,8 +2088,9 @@
- 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.
+- 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().
@@ -1995,26 +2110,28 @@
- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
-- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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 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 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.
@@ -2023,34 +2140,33 @@
- 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.
-
+- 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/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)
+- 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
+- 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
+ platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
+ benchmark pickle.
Documentation
@@ -2059,8 +2175,9 @@
- 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 #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().
@@ -2070,8 +2187,8 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
@@ -2098,8 +2215,9 @@
- 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.
+ 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
@@ -2108,8 +2226,8 @@
- 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.
+ 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.
@@ -2118,23 +2236,24 @@
Build
-----
-- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in
- $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment
- variables.
+- 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
+- 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.
+- 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/.
+- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
+ PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
@@ -2145,20 +2264,22 @@
- 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.
+ 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.
+- 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+.
+- 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.
+- 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
@@ -2171,18 +2292,18 @@
- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
-- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format
- attribute.
+- 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.
+- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
+ in VC7.
- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
-- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0.
+- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
@@ -2190,45 +2311,48 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
+ defined.
- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
@@ -2244,26 +2368,27 @@
- 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.
+- ``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)``.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
+ _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
@@ -2275,9 +2400,9 @@
- 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.
+- 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.
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