[Python-checkins] cpython: Move 3.3 items of Misc/NEWS to Misc/HISTORY
victor.stinner
python-checkins at python.org
Mon Mar 17 22:34:00 CET 2014
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6ba468d4fa96
changeset: 89828:6ba468d4fa96
user: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
date: Mon Mar 17 22:33:49 2014 +0100
summary:
Move 3.3 items of Misc/NEWS to Misc/HISTORY
In fact, items were already present by Misc/NEWS format was improved.
files:
Misc/HISTORY | 1223 +++++-----
Misc/NEWS | 4133 --------------------------------------
2 files changed, 628 insertions(+), 4728 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
- Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.
-- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when __trunc__ returns an object
- whose __int__ gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
+ `__int__()` gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
+- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
method doesn't require an argument again.
@@ -36,26 +36,26 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap().
+- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.
- Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.
- Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
- PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags() when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit
- is false an and set_main_loader() fails.
+ `PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
+ false an and set_main_loader() fails.
- Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15882: Change _decimal to accept any coefficient tuple when
- constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility
- with decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal
- (in accordance with the specification).
-
-- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in email.util where the parsedate() and
- parsedate_tz() functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
+- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
+ constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
+ decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
+ with the specification).
+
+- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
+ `parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
not be parsed.
Extension Modules
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
- Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
_set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.
-- Issue #15969: faulthandler module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
+- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
cancel_dump_traceback_later().
@@ -83,35 +83,37 @@
-----------------
- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
- sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
- chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
- types.
-
-- Issue #15784: Modify OSError.__str__() to better distinguish between
- errno error numbers and Windows error numbers.
+ sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator chains
+ ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container types.
+
+- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
+ error numbers and Windows error numbers.
- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples
- as argument lists anymore.
-
-- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in imp.load_module().
-
-- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
- be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
-
-- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the Decimal.quantize()
+- Issue #17158: Add 'symbols' to help() welcome message; clarify
+ 'modules spam' messages.
+
+- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
+ argument lists anymore.
+
+- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.
+
+- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
+ opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
+
+- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
method.
-- Issue #15785: Modify window.get_wch() API of the curses module: return
- a character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of
- always returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special
- keys like keypad keys.
-
-- Issue #14223: Fix window.addch() of the curses module for special characters
+- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
+ character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
+ returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
+ keypad keys.
+
+- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
@@ -127,10 +129,10 @@
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted
- the hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte
- item formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they
- will be correctly enforced in 3.3.1
+- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
+ hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
+ formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
+ correctly enforced in 3.3.1.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
@@ -144,131 +146,123 @@
- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
support for any valid struct module format definition.
-- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for __import__ doesn't exist,
+- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
let that propagate.
-- Issue #15778: ensure that str(ImportError(msg)) returns a str
- even when msg isn't a str.
-
-- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly
- copied to the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib
- reintroduced this problem because these was no regression test. A test
- has been added as part of this patch)
-
-- Issue #15761: Fix crash when PYTHONEXECUTABLE is set on Mac OS X.
-
-- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.
- Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
+- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
+ msg isn't a str.
+
+- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
+ the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
+ problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
+ this patch)
+
+- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.
+
+- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule. Patch by
+ Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14846: importlib.FileFinder now handles the case where the
- directory being searched is removed after a previous import attempt
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
- compiled using the clang compiler
-
-- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and
- will be removed in Python 4.0.
+- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
+ being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
+ using the clang compiler.
+
+- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
+ removed in Python 4.0.
- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
-- Issue #15249: BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
+- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.
+
+- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.
- Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.
-- Issue ##665194: Update email.utils.localtime to use datetime.astimezone and
+- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.
- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
-- Issue #12643: code.InteractiveConsole now respects sys.excepthook when
- displaying exceptions (Patch by Aaron Iles)
-
-- Issue #13579: string.Formatter now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
-
-- Issue #15793: Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd().
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15595: Fix subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)
- for certain locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
+ displaying exceptions. Patch by Aaron Iles.
+
+- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
+
+- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
+ locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
-- Issue #15715: importlib.__import__() will silence an ImportError when the use
- of fromlist leads to a failed import.
-
-- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on MacOSX
- by sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
- TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for MacOSX.
+- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
+ use of fromlist leads to a failed import.
+
+- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
+ sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
+ TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.
- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
-- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
- multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
- idiom.
-
-- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line
- (3.3.0b2 regression).
-
-C API
------
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
+ on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
+ regression).
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
+- Touched up the Python 2 to 3 porting guide.
+
+- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
Patch by Chris Rebert.
- Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
- classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and
- text processing). Operating system limitatons can be reflected with
- the Sphinx ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of
- Contents.
-
-- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition
- and the many language enhancements since they were original written
+ classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
+ processing). Operating system limitations can be reflected with the Sphinx
+ ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.
+
+- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
+ the many language enhancements since they were original written.
- The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
- more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in
- the import system reference docs
-
-- Issue #15640: Document importlib.abc.Finder as deprecated.
-
-- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
+ more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
+ import system reference docs.
+
+- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.
+
+- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
Daniel Ellis.
Tests
-----
- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
- UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
- tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
-
-- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using
- two external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type
- of test.
-
-- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in urllib tests. Patch by
+ UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
+ test_posix.py to account for this.
+
+- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
+ external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.
+
+- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
Jeff Knupp.
-- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
- input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
+- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
+ data. Patch by Kushal Das.
Build
-----
@@ -277,11 +271,11 @@
- Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.
-- Drop PC\python_nt.h as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
+- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
build step.
-- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal
- amd64 configuration.
+- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
+ configuration.
- Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.
@@ -296,15 +290,15 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of "yield from" when StopIteration is
+- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
raised by a custom iterator.
-- Issue #13119: sys.stdout and sys.stderr are now using "\r\n" newline on
+- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
Windows, as Python 2.
- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
-- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to have the proper default
+- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
supported.
@@ -317,17 +311,17 @@
byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
- "BaseException.__new__" to help pickling of naive subclasses.
-
-- Issue #12834: Fix PyBuffer_ToContiguous() for non-contiguous arrays.
-
-- Issue #15456: Fix code __sizeof__ after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
+ `BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.
+
+- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.
+
+- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
-- Issue #15394: An issue in PyModule_Create that caused references to be leaked
- on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
+- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
+ leaked on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
has been fixed.
@@ -335,7 +329,7 @@
- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
in os and shutil functions.
-- Issue #15314: __main__.__loader__ is now set correctly during interpreter
+- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
startup.
- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
@@ -350,57 +344,62 @@
- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
importlib stack frames.
+- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
+
- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
"python3" under Unix, not "python".
-- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
+- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
+ Patch by Felipe Cruz.
+
+- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
-- Issue #15229: An OSError subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
+- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
calling str() on them.
-- Issue 15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
+- Issue #15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects. Patch by
+- Issue #14590: configparser now correctly strips inline comments when delimiter
+ occurs earlier without preceding space.
+
+- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects. Patch by
Ludwig Hähne.
- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
-- Issue #15502: Have importlib.invalidate_caches() work on sys.meta_path instead
- of sys.path_importer_cache.
+- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
+ instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
- importlib.__import__().
+ `importlib.__import__()`.
- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
- constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement __index__
- (they still implement __int__ as appropriate)
+ constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
+ (they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
-- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
- ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, os.sched_getaffinity and
- os.sched_setaffinity now use regular sets of integers to represent the CPUs a
- process is restricted to.
-
-- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo() emulation
- code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
+- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
+ `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
+ CPUs a process is restricted to.
+
+- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
+ `socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
- correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
+ correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
- import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
+ import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
@@ -408,37 +407,36 @@
- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
-- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
+- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
-- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
-
-- Issue #15413: os.times() had disappeared under Windows.
-
-- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
+- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
+
+- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed. Initial
patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
- lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilogue.
+- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
+ mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
+ epilogue.
- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
-- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
+- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
the first one.
-- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
+- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.
- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
-- Issue #15397: inspect.getmodulename() is now based directly on importlib via a
- new importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() API.
-
-- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
+- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
+ a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.
+
+- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
@@ -455,7 +453,7 @@
- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
module will be called in a deterministic order.
-- Issue #15238: shutil.copystat now copies Linux "extended attributes".
+- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
the documentation.
@@ -465,42 +463,42 @@
- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
namespace packages.
-- Issue #15056: imp.cache_from_source() and source_from_cache() raise
- NotImplementedError when sys.implementation.cache_tag is set to None.
-
-- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by imp.find_module().
-
-- Issue #5931: wsgiref environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
+- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
+ NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
+
+- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
+
+- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of argparse.ArgumentParser.
+- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
ipaddress objects.
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress now provides more informative error messages when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
provisional API status).
-- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor pointing
- to a directory.
+- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
+ pointing to a directory.
- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
-- Issue #15166: Implement imp.get_tag() using sys.implementation.cache_tag.
-
-- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when importlib.__init__ can't find
+- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
+
+- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
_frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
-- Issue #15030: importlib.abc.PyPycLoader now supports the new source size
+- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
header field in .pyc files.
- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
@@ -513,7 +511,7 @@
renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
mailbox.
-- Issue 10924: Fixed crypt.mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for
+- Issue #10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
cryptographic purpose.
- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
@@ -524,10 +522,10 @@
C API
-----
-- Issue #15610: PyImport_ImportModuleEx() now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
-
-- Issues #15169, #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
- imp.source_from_cache() used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
+- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
+
+- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
+ `imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
@@ -535,14 +533,17 @@
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
- offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
-
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
- of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
+- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
+ type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
+ ended with ``\``. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
Tools/Demos
-----------
@@ -562,8 +563,10 @@
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch
- by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+
+- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by
+ Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
@@ -578,25 +581,29 @@
"changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
import itself.
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
- execfile().
-
-- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
+- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
+ `execfile()`.
+
+- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support. Patch by
- Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15442: Expose the default list of directories ignored by
+ `filecmp.dircmp()` as a module attribute, and expand the list to more modern
+ values.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support. Patch
+ by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-- Issue #15168: Move importlib.test to test.test_importlib.
+- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
- forgotten importlib.invalidate_caches() call.
+ forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
@@ -629,6 +636,8 @@
- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
+- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
+
- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
@@ -664,14 +673,9 @@
- Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
-- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
created using PyType_FromSpec().
-- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
- guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
@@ -699,9 +703,6 @@
Library
-------
-- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
- Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
for tkinter SimpleDialog.
@@ -720,14 +721,8 @@
- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
- behind.
-
- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
-- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
- of os.listdir().
-
- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
ASCII only str instances safely.
@@ -827,10 +822,6 @@
- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
time or datetime objects.
-- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
- non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
- the importlib importers do not define).
-
- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
@@ -898,32 +889,50 @@
- Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
+- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
+ algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
+
+- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
+ allocation issues
+
+- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
+ executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
+
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
+ guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
+ implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
+
+Extension Modules
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
+ Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
- algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
-
-- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
- allocation issues
-
-- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
- executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
- implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
-
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
+ of os.listdir().
+
+- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
+ non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
+ the importlib importers do not define).
+
- Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
Patch by Robin Schreiber.
@@ -932,6 +941,9 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
+ behind.
+
- Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
@@ -1020,34 +1032,18 @@
- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
in old-style string formatting.
-- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
- unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
- value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
-
Library
-------
- Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
subprocess and trace modules.
-- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
- byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
-
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
-
- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-- Issue #14929: Stop Idle 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
- grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
- Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
- has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
for any such problems.
@@ -1081,9 +1077,6 @@
- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
-- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
- fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
-
- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
not go in illegal range and returns None.
@@ -1210,6 +1203,21 @@
- Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
+ byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
+
+- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
+
+- Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
+ grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
+ Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
+ has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
+
Tools/Demos
-----------
@@ -1228,9 +1236,19 @@
- Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
+ unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
+ value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
+
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
+ fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
+
- Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.
@@ -1279,9 +1297,6 @@
- Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
- Patch by Stefan Behnel.
-
- Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
@@ -1431,12 +1446,6 @@
- Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
-- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
- Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
-
-- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
- Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
- Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
@@ -1472,6 +1481,15 @@
- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
+ Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
+
+- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
+ Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+
Tools / Demos
-------------
@@ -1481,6 +1499,12 @@
- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
It used to live in its own SVN project.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
+ Patch by Stefan Behnel.
+
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
===================================
@@ -1532,16 +1556,9 @@
- Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
- when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
- has to use the built-in default key bindings.
- There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
-
- Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
if they are defined in <syslog.h>.
-- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
-
- Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
- Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
@@ -1567,9 +1584,6 @@
up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
- (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
-
- Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.
@@ -1601,8 +1615,6 @@
denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
modifications by the expat project.
-- Issue #14200: Idle shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
-
- Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
the name ends up being quoted.
@@ -1618,8 +1630,6 @@
- Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
-
- Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.
- Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.
@@ -1848,10 +1858,6 @@
on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by
Charles-François Natali.
-- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
- different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
- size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
-
- PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
@@ -1942,10 +1948,6 @@
- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
-- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
- and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
- the current locale encoding.
-
- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
@@ -2028,7 +2030,7 @@
deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
-- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
+- Issue #9611, Issue #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
a new HAVE_MBCS define.
@@ -2191,17 +2193,11 @@
PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
NULL).
-- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
-
- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
-- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
- UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
- Patch written by Ray Allen.
-
- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
@@ -2211,9 +2207,6 @@
- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
Patch by Torsten Becker.
-- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
- narrow build.
-
- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
@@ -2255,15 +2248,9 @@
are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
O(n).
-- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
- Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
-
- Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
- scripts found in the Tools directory.
-
- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
on Windows. Also fixed in packaging.
@@ -2319,9 +2306,6 @@
authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
- more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
-
- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
@@ -2338,10 +2322,6 @@
- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
strict=False.
-- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
- which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
- backwards compatibility.
-
- When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
working directory instead of '' in importlib.
@@ -2363,11 +2343,6 @@
- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
raise a ProgrammingError now.
-- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
-
-- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
- Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
descriptors.
@@ -2377,16 +2352,8 @@
- Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.
-- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
- module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
-
- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
-- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
- Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
with overwriting.
@@ -2407,12 +2374,6 @@
OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
-- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
- minor versions not matching.
-
-- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
- on a system without internet access.
-
- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
@@ -2439,9 +2400,6 @@
- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
-- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
- tests.
-
- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
the executor had been shut down.
@@ -2524,10 +2482,6 @@
- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
to load a module twice.
-- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
- display a message popup and continue rather than crash. Original patch by
- Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
soonest (if any) and then return. Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
@@ -2544,12 +2498,9 @@
'importlib.abc.PyPycLoader', 'nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle', 'nntplib.NNTP.xpath',
and private attributes of 'smtpd.SMTPChannel'.
-- Issue #5905, #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
+- Issue #5905, Issue #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
-- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
- Patch by Tal Einat.
-
- Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse. Patch
by Jon Kuhn.
@@ -2661,9 +2612,6 @@
- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
- (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
@@ -2766,10 +2714,6 @@
- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
extension could be unreported.
-- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
- with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
- (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
-
- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
@@ -2798,8 +2742,6 @@
- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
-- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
-
- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
@@ -2869,9 +2811,6 @@
- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
-- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
- in os.kill().
-
- Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.
- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.
@@ -2903,7 +2842,7 @@
Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
classes (_Event, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible
- to inherit from these classes without having to import the private
+ to inherit from these classes, without having to import the private
underscored names like multiprocessing did.
- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
@@ -2917,14 +2856,8 @@
- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
-- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
- when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
-
- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
- Connection:close header.
-
-- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
- with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
+ ``Connection: close`` header.
- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
@@ -3179,7 +3112,7 @@
- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
if the file is closed.
-- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixIn
+- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Warkentin.
- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
@@ -3224,9 +3157,6 @@
passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
Patch by Kasun Herath.
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
- with Tk 8.5.
-
- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
is set in shell.
@@ -3246,10 +3176,6 @@
- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
Patch by John O'Connor.
-- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
- With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
- IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
-
- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
by Yuval Greenfield.
@@ -3486,12 +3412,12 @@
- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
-- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
- Patch by Ben Hayden.
-
- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
concurrent.futures.
+- Issue #5845: Automatically read readline configuration to enable completion
+ in interactive mode.
+
- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
object originally came from.
@@ -3526,7 +3452,7 @@
- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
-- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
+- Issue #11563: ``Connection: close`` header is sent by requests using URLOpener
class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
@@ -3541,8 +3467,6 @@
- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
setup and teardown.
-- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
-
- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
@@ -3575,9 +3499,6 @@
- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
-- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
- Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
-
- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
@@ -3700,11 +3621,6 @@
- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
-- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-
-- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
- their children.
-
- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
@@ -3757,10 +3673,61 @@
- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
-
IDLE
----
+- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
+ when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
+ has to use the built-in default key bindings.
+ There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
+
+- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
+
+- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
+ (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
+
+- Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
+
+- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
+
+- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
+ Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
+ module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
+ Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
+ display a message popup and continue rather than crash. Original patch by
+ Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
+ Patch by Tal Einat.
+
+- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
+ (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
+ with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
+ (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
+
+- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
+
+- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
+ in os.kill().
+
+- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
+ when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
+
+- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
+ with Tk 8.5.
+
+- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
+ With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
+ IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
+
- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
file in a package.
@@ -3790,6 +3757,10 @@
Extension Modules
-----------------
+- Issue #16847: Fixed improper use of _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() in
+ non-pydebug builds. Several extension modules now compile cleanly when
+ assert()s are enabled in standard builds (-DDEBUG flag).
+
- Issue #13840: The error message produced by ctypes.create_string_buffer
when given a Unicode string has been fixed.
@@ -3852,6 +3823,33 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
+ Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
+
+- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
+ scripts found in the Tools directory.
+
+- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
+
+- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
+
+- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
+ minor versions not matching.
+
+- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
+ on a system without internet access.
+
+- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
+ tests.
+
+- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
+ Patch by Ben Hayden.
+
+- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
+
+- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
+ Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
+
- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test
- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
@@ -4030,7 +4028,7 @@
- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
Arlen
-- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
+- Issue #11490: test_subprocess.test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
@@ -4054,6 +4052,23 @@
C-API
-----
+- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
+ different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
+ size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
+
+- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
+ and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
+ the current locale encoding.
+
+- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
+
+- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
+ UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
+ Patch written by Ray Allen.
+
+- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
+ narrow build.
+
- Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
types.
@@ -4079,6 +4094,24 @@
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
+ more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
+
+- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
+ which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
+ backwards compatibility.
+
+- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
+ with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
+
+- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
+
+- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
+ their children.
+
+- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with
+ great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
+
- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
@@ -9652,7 +9685,7 @@
- Issue #1210: Fixed imaplib and its documentation.
-- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
+- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
@@ -9796,13 +9829,13 @@
cyclic garbage collection.
- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
- PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
+ PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
- Issue #3611: An exception __context__ could be cleared in a complex pattern
involving a __del__ method re-raising an exception.
-- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
+- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
@@ -9880,7 +9913,7 @@
- The deprecation warnings for the camelCase threading API names were removed.
-- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
+- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
SEM_VALUE_MAX.
Extension Modules
@@ -21593,7 +21626,7 @@
- Improved BeOS support.
-- Support dynamic loading of shared libraries on NetBSD platforms that
+- Support dynamic loading of shared libraries on NetBSD platforms that
use ELF (i.e., MIPS and Alpha systems).
Configuration/build changes
@@ -21810,7 +21843,7 @@
higher-level classes in code.py.
- turtle.py is a new module for simple turtle graphics. I'm still
-working on it; let me know if you use this to teach Python to children
+working on it; let me know if you use this to teach Python to children
or other novices without prior programming experience.
Obsoleted library modules
@@ -21942,7 +21975,7 @@
Changes to tools
----------------
-- New, improved version of Barry Warsaw's Misc/python-mode.el (editing
+- New, improved version of Barry Warsaw's Misc/python-mode.el (editing
support for Emacs).
- tabnanny.py: added a -q ('quiet') option to tabnanny, which causes
@@ -22217,7 +22250,7 @@
-----------------
- Install zlib.dll in the DLLs directory instead of in the win32
-system directory, to avoid conflicts with other applications that have
+system directory, to avoid conflicts with other applications that have
their own zlib.dll.
Test Suite
@@ -22297,7 +22330,7 @@
so that a symlink to a symlink can work.
- Added a hack so that when you type 'quit' or 'exit' at the
-interpreter, you get a friendly explanation of how to press Ctrl-D (or
+interpreter, you get a friendly explanation of how to press Ctrl-D (or
Ctrl-Z) to exit.
- New and improved Misc/python-mode.el (Python mode for Emacs).
@@ -22470,13 +22503,13 @@
range. Also, randint(a, b) is now redefined as randrange(a, b+1),
adding extra range and type checking to its arguments!
-- Add some semi-thread-safety to random.gauss() (it used to be able to
+- Add some semi-thread-safety to random.gauss() (it used to be able to
crash when invoked from separate threads; now the worst it can do is
give a duplicate result occasionally).
- Some restructuring and generalization done to cmd.py.
-- Major upgrade to ConfigParser.py; converted to using 're', added new
+- Major upgrade to ConfigParser.py; converted to using 're', added new
exceptions, support underscore in section header and option name. No
longer add 'name' option to every section; instead, add '__name__'.
@@ -22673,7 +22706,7 @@
-----------------
- The registry key used is now "1.5" instead of "1.5.x" -- so future
-versions of 1.5 and Mark Hammond's win32all installer don't need to be
+versions of 1.5 and Mark Hammond's win32all installer don't need to be
resynchronized.
Windows Tools
@@ -22740,7 +22773,7 @@
dynamically add one or many entries to the table of built-in modules.
- New macro Py_InitModule3(name, methods, doc) which calls
-Py_InitModule4() with appropriate arguments. (The -4 variant requires
+Py_InitModule4() with appropriate arguments. (The -4 variant requires
you to pass an obscure version number constant which is always the same.)
- New APIs PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() to write to
@@ -22812,7 +22845,7 @@
Syntax change
-------------
-- The raise statement can now be used without arguments, to re-raise
+- The raise statement can now be used without arguments, to re-raise
a previously set exception. This should be used after catching an
exception with an except clause only, either in the except clause or
later in the same function.
@@ -22871,7 +22904,7 @@
Demo/tkinter/guido/paint.py -- Dave Mitchell
Demo/sockets/unixserver.py -- Piet van Oostrum
-
+
- Much better freeze support. The freeze script can now freeze
hierarchical module names (with a corresponding change to import.c),
@@ -23010,7 +23043,7 @@
- New command supported by the ftplib module: rmd(); also fixed some
minor bugs.
-- The profile module now uses a different timer function by default --
+- The profile module now uses a different timer function by default --
time.clock() is generally better than os.times(). This makes it work
better on Windows NT, too.
@@ -23049,14 +23082,14 @@
- In the multifile module, support the optional second parameter to
seek() when possible.
-- Several fixes to the gopherlib module by Lars Marius Garshol. Also,
+- Several fixes to the gopherlib module by Lars Marius Garshol. Also,
urlparse now correctly handles Gopher URLs with query strings.
- Fixed a tiny bug in format_exception() in the traceback module.
Also rewrite tb_lineno() to be compatible with JPython (and not
disturb the current exception!); by Jim Hugunin.
-- The httplib module is more robust when servers send a short response
+- The httplib module is more robust when servers send a short response
-- courtesy Tim O'Malley.
Tkinter and friends
@@ -23071,7 +23104,7 @@
no longer use the default root.
- The interfaces for the bind*() and unbind() widget methods have been
-redesigned; the bind*() methods now return the name of the Tcl command
+redesigned; the bind*() methods now return the name of the Tcl command
created for the callback, and this can be passed as a optional
argument to unbind() in order to delete the command (normally, such
commands are automatically unbound when the widget is destroyed, but
@@ -23107,7 +23140,7 @@
dictionary to allow recursive container types to detect recursion in
their repr(), str() and print implementations.
-- New function PyObject_Not(x) calculates (not x) according to Python's
+- New function PyObject_Not(x) calculates (not x) according to Python's
standard rules (basically, it negates the outcome PyObject_IsTrue(x).
- New function _PyModule_Clear(), which clears a module's dictionary
@@ -23268,7 +23301,7 @@
instances with copy.py. The cPickle.c changes and some pickle.py
changes are courtesy Jim Fulton.
-- Locale support in he "re" (Perl regular expressions) module. Use
+- Locale support in he "re" (Perl regular expressions) module. Use
the flag re.L (or re.LOCALE) to enable locale-specific matching
rules for \w and \b. The in-line syntax for this flag is (?L).
@@ -23334,7 +23367,7 @@
- Some improvements to the _tkinter build line suggested by Case Roole.
-- A full suite of platform specific files for NetBSD 1.x, submitted by
+- A full suite of platform specific files for NetBSD 1.x, submitted by
Anders Andersen.
- New Solaris specific header STROPTS.py.
@@ -23404,7 +23437,7 @@
if there are lots of duplicates, and otherwise at least as good.
- Added "uue" as an alias for "uuencode" to mimetools.py. (Hm, the
-uudecode bug where it complaints about trailing garbage is still there
+uudecode bug where it complaints about trailing garbage is still there
:-( ).
- pickle.py requires integers in text mode to be in decimal notation
@@ -24180,7 +24213,7 @@
The Python/C API for frames is changed (you shouldn't be using this
anyway).
-- Significant speedup by inlining some common opcodes for common operand
+- Significant speedup by inlining some common opcodes for common operand
types (e.g. i+i, i-i, and list[i]). Fredrik Lundh.
- Small speedup by reordering the method tables of some common
@@ -24206,34 +24239,34 @@
printing the documentation now kills fewer trees -- the margins have
been reduced.
-- I have started documenting the Python/C API. Unfortunately this project
-hasn't been completed yet. It will be complete before the final release of
-Python 1.5, though. At the moment, it's better to read the LaTeX source
+- I have started documenting the Python/C API. Unfortunately this project
+hasn't been completed yet. It will be complete before the final release of
+Python 1.5, though. At the moment, it's better to read the LaTeX source
than to attempt to run it through LaTeX and print the resulting dvi file.
-- The posix module (and hence os.py) now has doc strings! Thanks to Neil
-Schemenauer. I received a few other contributions of doc strings. In most
+- The posix module (and hence os.py) now has doc strings! Thanks to Neil
+Schemenauer. I received a few other contributions of doc strings. In most
other places, doc strings are still wishful thinking...
Language changes
----------------
-- Private variables with leading double underscore are now a permanent
-feature of the language. (These were experimental in release 1.4. I have
-favorable experience using them; I can't label them "experimental"
+- Private variables with leading double underscore are now a permanent
+feature of the language. (These were experimental in release 1.4. I have
+favorable experience using them; I can't label them "experimental"
forever.)
-- There's new string literal syntax for "raw strings". Prefixing a string
-literal with the letter r (or R) disables all escape processing in the
-string; for example, r'\n' is a two-character string consisting of a
-backslash followed by the letter n. This combines with all forms of string
-quotes; it is actually useful for triple quoted doc strings which might
-contain references to \n or \t. An embedded quote prefixed with a
-backslash does not terminate the string, but the backslash is still
-included in the string; for example, r'\'' is a two-character string
-consisting of a backslash and a quote. (Raw strings are also
-affectionately known as Robin strings, after their inventor, Robin
+- There's new string literal syntax for "raw strings". Prefixing a string
+literal with the letter r (or R) disables all escape processing in the
+string; for example, r'\n' is a two-character string consisting of a
+backslash followed by the letter n. This combines with all forms of string
+quotes; it is actually useful for triple quoted doc strings which might
+contain references to \n or \t. An embedded quote prefixed with a
+backslash does not terminate the string, but the backslash is still
+included in the string; for example, r'\'' is a two-character string
+consisting of a backslash and a quote. (Raw strings are also
+affectionately known as Robin strings, after their inventor, Robin
Friedrich.)
- There's a simple assert statement, and a new exception
@@ -24262,10 +24295,10 @@
- The obsolete exception ConflictError (presumably used by the long
obsolete access statement) has been deleted.
-- There's a new function sys.exc_info() which returns the tuple
+- There's a new function sys.exc_info() which returns the tuple
(sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value, sys.exc_traceback) in a thread-safe way.
-- There's a new variable sys.executable, pointing to the executable file
+- There's a new variable sys.executable, pointing to the executable file
for the Python interpreter.
- The sort() methods for lists no longer uses the C library qsort(); I
@@ -24291,11 +24324,11 @@
returning from a function that caught an exception.
- There's a new "buffer" interface. Certain objects (e.g. strings and
-arrays) now support the "buffer" protocol. Buffer objects are acceptable
-whenever formerly a string was required for a write operation; mutable
+arrays) now support the "buffer" protocol. Buffer objects are acceptable
+whenever formerly a string was required for a write operation; mutable
buffer objects can be the target of a read operation using the call
-f.readinto(buffer). A cool feature is that regular expression matching now
-also work on array objects. Contribution by Jack Jansen. (Needs
+f.readinto(buffer). A cool feature is that regular expression matching now
+also work on array objects. Contribution by Jack Jansen. (Needs
documentation.)
- String interning: dictionary lookups are faster when the lookup
@@ -24587,7 +24620,7 @@
of message sequence specifiers without invoking a subprocess. Also
added a createmessage() method by Lars Wirzenius.
-- The StringIO.StringIO class now supports readline(nbytes). (Lars
+- The StringIO.StringIO class now supports readline(nbytes). (Lars
Wirzenius.) (Of course, you should be using cStringIO for performance.)
- UserDict.py supports the new dictionary methods as well.
@@ -24635,8 +24668,8 @@
- Various small fixes to the nntplib.py module that I can't bother to
document in detail.
-- Sjoerd Mullender's mimify.py module now supports base64 encoding and
-includes functions to handle the funny encoding you sometimes see in mail
+- Sjoerd Mullender's mimify.py module now supports base64 encoding and
+includes functions to handle the funny encoding you sometimes see in mail
headers. It is now documented.
- mailbox.py: Added BabylMailbox. Improved the way the mailbox is
@@ -24987,23 +25020,23 @@
NT (the old VC++ 4.2 Makefile is also still supported, but will
eventually be withdrawn due to its bulkiness).
-- See the note on the new module search path in the "Miscellaneous" section
+- See the note on the new module search path in the "Miscellaneous" section
above.
- Support for Win32s (the 32-bit Windows API under Windows 3.1) is
basically withdrawn. If it still works for you, you're lucky.
-- There's a new extension module, msvcrt.c, which provides various
-low-level operations defined in the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.
-These include locking(), setmode(), get_osfhandle(), set_osfhandle(), and
+- There's a new extension module, msvcrt.c, which provides various
+low-level operations defined in the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.
+These include locking(), setmode(), get_osfhandle(), set_osfhandle(), and
console I/O functions like kbhit(), getch() and putch().
- The -u option not only sets the standard I/O streams to unbuffered
status, but also sets them in binary mode. (This can also be done
using msvcrt.setmode(), by the way.)
-- The, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix variables point to the directory
-where Python is installed, or to the top of the source tree, if it was run
+- The, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix variables point to the directory
+where Python is installed, or to the top of the source tree, if it was run
from there.
- The various os.path modules (posixpath, ntpath, macpath) now support
@@ -25011,7 +25044,7 @@
os.path.join(a, b, c) is the same as os.path.join(a, os.path.join(b,
c)).
-- The ntpath module (normally used as os.path) supports ~ to $HOME
+- The ntpath module (normally used as os.path) supports ~ to $HOME
expansion in expanduser().
- The freeze tool now works on Windows.
@@ -25309,47 +25342,47 @@
- New module whichdb recognizes dbm, gdbm and bsddb/dbhash files.
-- The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the
+- The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the
insistence on always generating PostScript.
- The texinfo to html filter (Doc/texi2html.py) has been improved somewhat.
-- "errors.h" has been renamed to "pyerrors.h" to resolve a long-standing
+- "errors.h" has been renamed to "pyerrors.h" to resolve a long-standing
name conflict on the Mac.
-- Linking a module compiled with a different setting for Py_TRACE_REFS now
+- Linking a module compiled with a different setting for Py_TRACE_REFS now
generates a linker error rather than a core dump.
-- The cgi module has a new convenience function print_exception(), which
-formats a python exception using HTML. It also fixes a bug in the
-compatibility code and adds a dubious feature which makes it possible to
+- The cgi module has a new convenience function print_exception(), which
+formats a python exception using HTML. It also fixes a bug in the
+compatibility code and adds a dubious feature which makes it possible to
have two query strings, one in the URL and one in the POST data.
-- A subtle change in the unpickling of class instances makes it possible
-to unpickle in restricted execution mode, where the __dict__ attribute is
+- A subtle change in the unpickling of class instances makes it possible
+to unpickle in restricted execution mode, where the __dict__ attribute is
not available (but setattr() is).
-- Documentation for os.path.splitext() (== posixpath.splitext()) has been
+- Documentation for os.path.splitext() (== posixpath.splitext()) has been
cleared up. It splits at the *last* dot.
- posixfile locking is now also correctly supported on AIX.
-- The tempfile module once again honors an initial setting of tmpdir. It
+- The tempfile module once again honors an initial setting of tmpdir. It
now works on Windows, too.
-- The traceback module has some new functions to extract, format and print
+- The traceback module has some new functions to extract, format and print
the active stack.
-- Some translation functions in the urllib module have been made a little
+- Some translation functions in the urllib module have been made a little
less sluggish.
-- The addtag_* methods for Canvas widgets in Tkinter as well as in the
-separate Canvas class have been fixed so they actually do something
+- The addtag_* methods for Canvas widgets in Tkinter as well as in the
+separate Canvas class have been fixed so they actually do something
meaningful.
- A tiny _test() function has been added to Tkinter.py.
-- A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc
+- A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc
subdirectory (Misc/gMakefile).
- A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided. See
@@ -25357,25 +25390,25 @@
separate file pyimenu.el is no longer needed, imenu support is folded
into python-mode.el.
-- The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a
-non-standard location. The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the Makefiles
+- The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a
+non-standard location. The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the Makefiles
from the configure script.
-- Shared libraries are now installed as programs (i.e. with executable
+- Shared libraries are now installed as programs (i.e. with executable
permission). This is required on HP-UX and won't hurt on other systems.
-- The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution. Objective-C
+- The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution. Objective-C
support may become available as contributed software on the ftp site.
- The sybase module is no longer part of the distribution. A much
improved sybase module is available as contributed software from the
ftp site.
-- _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and
-Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!). The default line in the Setup.in file
+- _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and
+Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!). The default line in the Setup.in file
now links with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 rather than 7.4/4.0.
-- In Setup, you can now write "*shared*" instead of "*noconfig*", and you
+- In Setup, you can now write "*shared*" instead of "*noconfig*", and you
can use *.so and *.sl as shared libraries.
- Some more fidgeting for AIX shared libraries.
@@ -25384,81 +25417,81 @@
(Note -- a complete replacement by Niels Mo"ller, called gpmodule, is
available from the contrib directory on the ftp site.)
-- A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an
+- A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an
exception (formerly, such exceptions were completely ignored).
-- The configure script now defines HAVE_OLD_CPP if the C preprocessor is
+- The configure script now defines HAVE_OLD_CPP if the C preprocessor is
incapable of ANSI style token concatenation and stringification.
-- All source files (except a few platform specific modules) are once again
+- All source files (except a few platform specific modules) are once again
compatible with K&R C compilers as well as ANSI compilers. In particular,
-ANSI-isms have been removed or made conditional in complexobject.c,
+ANSI-isms have been removed or made conditional in complexobject.c,
getargs.c and operator.c.
-- The abstract object API has three new functions, PyObject_DelItem,
+- The abstract object API has three new functions, PyObject_DelItem,
PySequence_DelItem, and PySequence_DelSlice.
-- The operator module has new functions delitem and delslice, and the
-functions "or" and "and" are renamed to "or_" and "and_" (since "or" and
+- The operator module has new functions delitem and delslice, and the
+functions "or" and "and" are renamed to "or_" and "and_" (since "or" and
"and" are reserved words). ("__or__" and "__and__" are unchanged.)
-- The environment module is no longer supported; putenv() is now a function
+- The environment module is no longer supported; putenv() is now a function
in posixmodule (also under NT).
- Error in filter(<function>, "") has been fixed.
- Unrecognized keyword arguments raise TypeError, not KeyError.
-- Better portability, fewer bugs and memory leaks, fewer compiler warnings,
+- Better portability, fewer bugs and memory leaks, fewer compiler warnings,
some more documentation.
-- Bug in float power boundary case (0.0 to the negative integer power)
+- Bug in float power boundary case (0.0 to the negative integer power)
fixed.
-- The test of negative number to the float power has been moved from the
-built-in pow() functin to floatobject.c (so complex numbers can yield the
+- The test of negative number to the float power has been moved from the
+built-in pow() functin to floatobject.c (so complex numbers can yield the
correct result).
-- The bug introduced in beta2 where shared libraries loaded (using
+- The bug introduced in beta2 where shared libraries loaded (using
dlopen()) from the current directory would fail, has been fixed.
-- Modules imported as shared libraries now also have a __file__ attribute,
-giving the filename from which they were loaded. The only modules without
+- Modules imported as shared libraries now also have a __file__ attribute,
+giving the filename from which they were loaded. The only modules without
a __file__ attribute now are built-in modules.
-- On the Mac, dynamically loaded modules can end in either ".slb" or
-".<platform>.slb" where <platform> is either "CFM68K" or "ppc". The ".slb"
+- On the Mac, dynamically loaded modules can end in either ".slb" or
+".<platform>.slb" where <platform> is either "CFM68K" or "ppc". The ".slb"
extension should only be used for "fat" binaries.
-- C API addition: marshal.c now supports
+- C API addition: marshal.c now supports
PyMarshal_WriteObjectToString(object).
- C API addition: getargs.c now supports
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwdict, format, kwnames, ...)
to parse keyword arguments.
-- The PC versioning scheme (sys.winver) has changed once again. the
-version number is now "<digit>.<digit>.<digit>.<apiversion>", where the
-first three <digit>s are the Python version (e.g. "1.4.0" for Python 1.4,
-"1.4.1" for Python 1.4.1 -- the beta level is not included) and
+- The PC versioning scheme (sys.winver) has changed once again. the
+version number is now "<digit>.<digit>.<digit>.<apiversion>", where the
+first three <digit>s are the Python version (e.g. "1.4.0" for Python 1.4,
+"1.4.1" for Python 1.4.1 -- the beta level is not included) and
<apiversion> is the four-digit PYTHON_API_VERSION (currently 1005).
- h2py.py accepts whitespace before the # in CPP directives
-- On Solaris 2.5, it should now be possible to use either Posix threads or
-Solaris threads (XXX: how do you select which is used???). (Note: the
-Python pthreads interface doesn't fully support semaphores yet -- anyone
+- On Solaris 2.5, it should now be possible to use either Posix threads or
+Solaris threads (XXX: how do you select which is used???). (Note: the
+Python pthreads interface doesn't fully support semaphores yet -- anyone
care to fix this?)
-- Thread support should now work on AIX, using either DCE threads or
+- Thread support should now work on AIX, using either DCE threads or
pthreads.
- New file Demo/sockets/unicast.py
-- Working Mac port, with CFM68K support, with Tk 4.1 support (though not
+- Working Mac port, with CFM68K support, with Tk 4.1 support (though not
both) (XXX)
-- New project setup for PC port, now compatible with PythonWin, with
+- New project setup for PC port, now compatible with PythonWin, with
_tkinter and NumPy support (XXX)
- New module site.py (XXX)
@@ -25475,7 +25508,7 @@
- string.atoi c.s. now raise an exception for an empty input string.
-- At last, it is no longer necessary to define HAVE_CONFIG_H in order to
+- At last, it is no longer necessary to define HAVE_CONFIG_H in order to
have config.h included at various places.
- Unrecognized keyword arguments now raise TypeError rather than KeyError.
@@ -25483,25 +25516,25 @@
- The makesetup script recognizes files with extension .so or .sl as
(shared) libraries.
-- 'access' is no longer a reserved word, and all code related to its
-implementation is gone (or at least #ifdef'ed out). This should make
+- 'access' is no longer a reserved word, and all code related to its
+implementation is gone (or at least #ifdef'ed out). This should make
Python a little speedier too!
-- Performance enhancements suggested by Sjoerd Mullender. This includes
-the introduction of two new optional function pointers in type object,
-getattro and setattro, which are like getattr and setattr but take a
+- Performance enhancements suggested by Sjoerd Mullender. This includes
+the introduction of two new optional function pointers in type object,
+getattro and setattro, which are like getattr and setattr but take a
string object instead of a C string pointer.
-- New operations in string module: lstrip(s) and rstrip(s) strip whitespace
-only on the left or only on the right, A new optional third argument to
-split() specifies the maximum number of separators honored (so
-splitfields(s, sep, n) returns a list of at most n+1 elements). (Since
+- New operations in string module: lstrip(s) and rstrip(s) strip whitespace
+only on the left or only on the right, A new optional third argument to
+split() specifies the maximum number of separators honored (so
+splitfields(s, sep, n) returns a list of at most n+1 elements). (Since
1.3, splitfields(s, None) is totally equivalent to split(s).)
-string.capwords() has an optional second argument specifying the
+string.capwords() has an optional second argument specifying the
separator (which is passed to split()).
-- regsub.split() has the same addition as string.split(). regsub.splitx(s,
-sep, maxsep) implements the functionality that was regsub.split(s, 1) in
+- regsub.split() has the same addition as string.split(). regsub.splitx(s,
+sep, maxsep) implements the functionality that was regsub.split(s, 1) in
1.4beta2 (return a list containing the delimiters as well as the words).
- Final touch for AIX loading, rewritten Misc/AIX-NOTES.
@@ -25545,11 +25578,11 @@
meaningful value (a few things were botched in beta 1). Lib/dos_8x3
is now a standard part of the distribution (alas).
-- More improvements to the installation procedure. Typing "make install"
-now inserts the version number in the pathnames of almost everything
-installed, and creates the machine dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not
-supplied by the distribution. (XXX There's still a problem with the latter
-because the "regen" script requires that Python is installed. Some manual
+- More improvements to the installation procedure. Typing "make install"
+now inserts the version number in the pathnames of almost everything
+installed, and creates the machine dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not
+supplied by the distribution. (XXX There's still a problem with the latter
+because the "regen" script requires that Python is installed. Some manual
intervention may still be required.) (This has been fixed in 1.4beta3.)
- New modules: errno, operator (XXX).
@@ -25612,8 +25645,8 @@
- Added sys.platform and sys.exec_platform for Bill Janssen.
-- Installation has been completely overhauled. "make install" now installs
-everything, not just the python binary. Installation uses the install-sh
+- Installation has been completely overhauled. "make install" now installs
+everything, not just the python binary. Installation uses the install-sh
script (borrowed from X11) to install each file.
- New functions in the posix module: mkfifo, plock, remove (== unlink),
@@ -25623,59 +25656,59 @@
- Shared library support for FreeBSD.
-- The --with-readline option can now be used without a DIRECTORY argument,
-for systems where libreadline.* is in one of the standard places. It is
+- The --with-readline option can now be used without a DIRECTORY argument,
+for systems where libreadline.* is in one of the standard places. It is
also possible for it to be a shared library.
-- The extension tkinter has been renamed to _tkinter, to avoid confusion
-with Tkinter.py oncase insensitive file systems. It now supports Tk 4.1 as
+- The extension tkinter has been renamed to _tkinter, to avoid confusion
+with Tkinter.py oncase insensitive file systems. It now supports Tk 4.1 as
well as 4.0.
-- Author's change of address from CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to
+- Author's change of address from CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to
CNRI in Reston, VA, USA.
-- The math.hypot() function is now always available (if it isn't found in
+- The math.hypot() function is now always available (if it isn't found in
the C math library, Python provides its own implementation).
-- The latex documentation is now compatible with latex2e, thanks to David
+- The latex documentation is now compatible with latex2e, thanks to David
Ascher.
- The expression x**y is now equivalent to pow(x, y).
- The indexing expression x[a, b, c] is now equivalent to x[(a, b, c)].
-- Complex numbers are now supported. Imaginary constants are written with
-a 'j' or 'J' prefix, general complex numbers can be formed by adding a real
-part to an imaginary part, like 3+4j. Complex numbers are always stored in
-floating point form, so this is equivalent to 3.0+4.0j. It is also
-possible to create complex numbers with the new built-in function
-complex(re, [im]). For the footprint-conscious, complex number support can
+- Complex numbers are now supported. Imaginary constants are written with
+a 'j' or 'J' prefix, general complex numbers can be formed by adding a real
+part to an imaginary part, like 3+4j. Complex numbers are always stored in
+floating point form, so this is equivalent to 3.0+4.0j. It is also
+possible to create complex numbers with the new built-in function
+complex(re, [im]). For the footprint-conscious, complex number support can
be disabled by defining the symbol WITHOUT_COMPLEX.
- New built-in function list() is the long-awaited counterpart of tuple().
-- There's a new "cmath" module which provides the same functions as the
-"math" library but with complex arguments and results. (There are very
-good reasons why math.sqrt(-1) still raises an exception -- you have to use
+- There's a new "cmath" module which provides the same functions as the
+"math" library but with complex arguments and results. (There are very
+good reasons why math.sqrt(-1) still raises an exception -- you have to use
cmath.sqrt(-1) to get 1j for an answer.)
-- The Python.h header file (which is really the same as allobjects.h except
-it disables support for old style names) now includes several more files,
+- The Python.h header file (which is really the same as allobjects.h except
+it disables support for old style names) now includes several more files,
so you have to have fewer #include statements in the average extension.
-- The NDEBUG symbol is no longer used. Code that used to be dependent on
-the presence of NDEBUG is now present on the absence of DEBUG. TRACE_REFS
-and REF_DEBUG have been renamed to Py_TRACE_REFS and Py_REF_DEBUG,
-respectively. At long last, the source actually compiles and links without
+- The NDEBUG symbol is no longer used. Code that used to be dependent on
+the presence of NDEBUG is now present on the absence of DEBUG. TRACE_REFS
+and REF_DEBUG have been renamed to Py_TRACE_REFS and Py_REF_DEBUG,
+respectively. At long last, the source actually compiles and links without
errors when this symbol is defined.
-- Several symbols that didn't follow the new naming scheme have been
-renamed (usually by adding to rename2.h) to use a Py or _Py prefix. There
-are no external symbols left without a Py or _Py prefix, not even those
-defined by sources that were incorporated from elsewhere (regexpr.c,
+- Several symbols that didn't follow the new naming scheme have been
+renamed (usually by adding to rename2.h) to use a Py or _Py prefix. There
+are no external symbols left without a Py or _Py prefix, not even those
+defined by sources that were incorporated from elsewhere (regexpr.c,
md5c.c). (Macros are a different story...)
-- There are now typedefs for the structures defined in config.c and
+- There are now typedefs for the structures defined in config.c and
frozen.c.
- New PYTHON_API_VERSION value and .pyc file magic number.
@@ -25689,125 +25722,125 @@
- The binhex and binascii modules now actually work.
- The cgi module has been almost totally rewritten and documented.
-It now supports file upload and a new data type to handle forms more
+It now supports file upload and a new data type to handle forms more
flexibly.
- The formatter module (for use with htmllib) has been overhauled (again).
- The ftplib module now supports passive mode and has doc strings.
-- In (ideally) all places where binary files are read or written, the file
-is now correctly opened in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') so the code will work
+- In (ideally) all places where binary files are read or written, the file
+is now correctly opened in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') so the code will work
on Mac or PC.
-- Dummy versions of os.path.expandvars() and expanduser() are now provided
+- Dummy versions of os.path.expandvars() and expanduser() are now provided
on non-Unix platforms.
-- Module urllib now has two new functions url2pathname and pathname2url
-which turn local filenames into "file:..." URLs using the same rules as
-Netscape (why be different). it also supports urlretrieve() with a
-pathname parameter, and honors the proxy environment variables (http_proxy
+- Module urllib now has two new functions url2pathname and pathname2url
+which turn local filenames into "file:..." URLs using the same rules as
+Netscape (why be different). it also supports urlretrieve() with a
+pathname parameter, and honors the proxy environment variables (http_proxy
etc.). The URL parsing has been improved somewhat, too.
-- Micro improvements to urlparse. Added urlparse.urldefrag() which
+- Micro improvements to urlparse. Added urlparse.urldefrag() which
removes a trailing ``#fragment'' if any.
- The mailbox module now supports MH style message delimiters as well.
-- The mhlib module contains some new functionality: setcontext() to set the
-current folder and parsesequence() to parse a sequence as commonly passed
+- The mhlib module contains some new functionality: setcontext() to set the
+current folder and parsesequence() to parse a sequence as commonly passed
to MH commands (e.g. 1-10 or last:5).
-- New module mimify for conversion to and from MIME format of email
+- New module mimify for conversion to and from MIME format of email
messages.
-- Module ni now automatically installs itself when first imported -- this
-is against the normal rule that modules should define classes and functions
-but not invoke them, but appears more useful in the case that two
+- Module ni now automatically installs itself when first imported -- this
+is against the normal rule that modules should define classes and functions
+but not invoke them, but appears more useful in the case that two
different, independent modules want to use ni's features.
- Some small performance enhancements in module pickle.
-- Small interface change to the profile.run*() family of functions -- more
+- Small interface change to the profile.run*() family of functions -- more
sensible handling of return values.
-- The officially registered Mac creator for Python files is 'Pyth'. This
+- The officially registered Mac creator for Python files is 'Pyth'. This
replaces 'PYTH' which was used before but never registered.
- Added regsub.capwords(). (XXX)
-- Added string.capwords(), string.capitalize() and string.translate().
+- Added string.capwords(), string.capitalize() and string.translate().
(XXX)
-- Fixed an interface bug in the rexec module: it was impossible to pass a
-hooks instance to the RExec class. rexec now also supports the dynamic
-loading of modules from shared libraries. Some other interfaces have been
+- Fixed an interface bug in the rexec module: it was impossible to pass a
+hooks instance to the RExec class. rexec now also supports the dynamic
+loading of modules from shared libraries. Some other interfaces have been
added too.
-- Module rfc822 now caches the headers in a dictionary for more efficient
+- Module rfc822 now caches the headers in a dictionary for more efficient
lookup.
-- The sgmllib module now understands a limited number of SGML "shorthands"
+- The sgmllib module now understands a limited number of SGML "shorthands"
like <A/.../ for <A>...</A>. (It's not clear that this was a good idea...)
-- The tempfile module actually tries a number of different places to find a
-usable temporary directory. (This was prompted by certain Linux
-installations that appear to be missing a /usr/tmp directory.) [A bug in
-the implementation that would ignore a pre-existing tmpdir global has been
+- The tempfile module actually tries a number of different places to find a
+usable temporary directory. (This was prompted by certain Linux
+installations that appear to be missing a /usr/tmp directory.) [A bug in
+the implementation that would ignore a pre-existing tmpdir global has been
fixed in beta3.]
- Much improved and enhanved FileDialog module for Tkinter.
-- Many small changes to Tkinter, to bring it more in line with Tk 4.0 (as
+- Many small changes to Tkinter, to bring it more in line with Tk 4.0 (as
well as Tk 4.1).
-- New socket interfaces include ntohs(), ntohl(), htons(), htonl(), and
-s.dup(). Sockets now work correctly on Windows. On Windows, the built-in
-extension is called _socket and a wrapper module win/socket.py provides
-"makefile()" and "dup()" functionality. On Windows, the select module
+- New socket interfaces include ntohs(), ntohl(), htons(), htonl(), and
+s.dup(). Sockets now work correctly on Windows. On Windows, the built-in
+extension is called _socket and a wrapper module win/socket.py provides
+"makefile()" and "dup()" functionality. On Windows, the select module
works only with socket objects.
- Bugs in bsddb module fixed (e.g. missing default argument values).
- The curses extension now includes <ncurses.h> when available.
-- The gdbm module now supports opening databases in "fast" mode by
+- The gdbm module now supports opening databases in "fast" mode by
specifying 'f' as the second character or the mode string.
-- new variables sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix pass corresponding
+- new variables sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix pass corresponding
configuration options / Makefile variables to the Python programmer.
-- The ``new'' module now supports creating new user-defined classes as well
+- The ``new'' module now supports creating new user-defined classes as well
as instances thereof.
-- The soundex module now sports get_soundex() to get the soundex value for an
-arbitrary string (formerly it would only do soundex-based string
+- The soundex module now sports get_soundex() to get the soundex value for an
+arbitrary string (formerly it would only do soundex-based string
comparison) as well as doc strings.
-- New object type "cobject" to safely wrap void pointers for passing them
+- New object type "cobject" to safely wrap void pointers for passing them
between various extension modules.
- More efficient computation of float**smallint.
-- The mysterious bug whereby "x.x" (two occurrences of the same
-one-character name) typed from the commandline would sometimes fail
+- The mysterious bug whereby "x.x" (two occurrences of the same
+one-character name) typed from the commandline would sometimes fail
mysteriously.
-- The initialization of the readline function can now be invoked by a C
+- The initialization of the readline function can now be invoked by a C
extension through PyOS_ReadlineInit().
-- There's now an externally visible pointer PyImport_FrozenModules which
+- There's now an externally visible pointer PyImport_FrozenModules which
can be changed by an embedding application.
-- The argument parsing functions now support a new format character 'D' to
+- The argument parsing functions now support a new format character 'D' to
specify complex numbers.
- Various memory leaks plugged and bugs fixed.
-- Improved support for posix threads (now that real implementations are
+- Improved support for posix threads (now that real implementations are
beginning to apepar). Still no fully functioning semaphores.
-- Some various and sundry improvements and new entries in the Tools
+- Some various and sundry improvements and new entries in the Tools
directory.
@@ -27417,7 +27450,7 @@
The limit on the size of the *run-time* stack has completely been
removed -- this means that tuple or list displays can contain any
number of elements (formerly more than 50 would crash the
-interpreter).
+interpreter).
Changes to existing built-in functions and methods
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -4359,4137 +4359,4 @@
- Issue #18569: The installer now adds .py to the PATHEXT variable when extensions
are registered. Patch by Paul Moore.
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0?
-===========================
-
-*Release date: 29-Sep-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.
-
-- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
- `__int__()` gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
- method doesn't require an argument again.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 3?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 23-Sep-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.
-
-- Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.
-
-- Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
- `PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
- false an and set_main_loader() fails.
-
-- Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
- constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
- decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
- with the specification).
-
-- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
- `parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
- not be parsed.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #15973: Fix a segmentation fault when comparing datetime timezone
- objects.
-
-- Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
- _set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.
-
-- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
- dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
- cancel_dump_traceback_later().
-
-- _decimal module: use only C 89 style comments.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 2?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 09-Sep-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
- sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator chains
- ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container types.
-
-- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
- error numbers and Windows error numbers.
-
-- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #17158: Add 'symbols' to help() welcome message; clarify
- 'modules spam' messages.
-
-- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
- argument lists anymore.
-
-- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.
-
-- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
- opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
-
-- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
- method.
-
-- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
- character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
- returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
- keypad keys.
-
-- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
- like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
- calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
- instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
- calling the C function wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch() if the Python curses is linked
- to libncursesw.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #15822: Really ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed
- (replaces fixes for Issue #15645).
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
- hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
- formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
- correctly enforced in 3.3.1.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 25-Aug-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
- support for any valid struct module format definition.
-
-- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
- don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
- let that propagate.
-
-- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
- msg isn't a str.
-
-- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
- the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
- problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
- this patch)
-
-- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.
-
-- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule. Patch by
- Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
- errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
- being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
- using the clang compiler.
-
-- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
- removed in Python 4.0.
-
-- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
-
-- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.
-
-- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
- requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.
-
-- Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.
-
-- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
- correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.
-
-- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
- Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
-
-- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
- displaying exceptions. Patch by Aaron Iles.
-
-- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
-
-- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
- locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
- system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
-
-- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
- use of fromlist leads to a failed import.
-
-- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
- sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
- TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.
-
-- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
-
-- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
- on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
- regression).
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Touched up the Python 2 to 3 porting guide.
-
-- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
- Patch by Chris Rebert.
-
-- Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
- 'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
- classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
- processing). Operating system limitations can be reflected with the Sphinx
- ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.
-
-- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
- the many language enhancements since they were original written.
-
-- The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
- more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
- import system reference docs.
-
-- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.
-
-- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
- Daniel Ellis.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
- UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
- test_posix.py to account for this.
-
-- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
- external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.
-
-- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
- Jeff Knupp.
-
-- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
- data. Patch by Kushal Das.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Output lib files for PGO build into PGO directory.
-
-- Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.
-
-- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
- build step.
-
-- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
- configuration.
-
-- Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.
-
-- Issue #15645: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 2?
-==================================
-
-*Release date: 12-Aug-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
- raised by a custom iterator.
-
-- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
- Windows, as Python 2.
-
-- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
-
-- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
- value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
- supported.
-
-- Issue #15425: Eliminated traceback noise from more situations involving
- importlib.
-
-- Issue #14578: Support modules registered in the Windows registry again.
-
-- Issue #15466: Stop using TYPE_INT64 in marshal, to make importlib.h (and other
- byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
-
-- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
- `BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.
-
-- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.
-
-- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
- Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
-
-- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
- leaked on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
-
-- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
- has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
- in os and shutil functions.
-
-- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
- startup.
-
-- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
- inside itself, don't mask that fact behind a generic ImportError for the
- module itself.
-
-- Issue #15293: Add GC support to the AST base node type.
-
-- Issue #15291: Fix a memory leak where AST nodes where not properly
- deallocated.
-
-- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
- importlib stack frames.
-
-- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
-
-- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
- "python3" under Unix, not "python".
-
-- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
- Patch by Felipe Cruz.
-
-- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
- return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
-
-- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
- OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
- calling str() on them.
-
-- Issue #15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
- Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14590: configparser now correctly strips inline comments when delimiter
- occurs earlier without preceding space.
-
-- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects. Patch by
- Ludwig Hähne.
-
-- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
-
-- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
- instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
-
-- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
-
-- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
- `importlib.__import__()`.
-
-- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
- constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
- (they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
-
-- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
- read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
-
-- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
- `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
- CPUs a process is restricted to.
-
-- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
- `socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
-
-- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
- correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
-
-- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
- import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
-
-- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
- Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
-
-- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
- instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
-
-- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
- uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
-
-- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
-
-- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
-
-- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
- return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed. Initial
- patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
- mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
- epilogue.
-
-- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c. Patch by Serhiy
- Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
- the first one.
-
-- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.
-
-- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
- user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
-
-- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
- a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.
-
-- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
- avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
-
-- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
-
-- Issue #15343: pkgutil now includes an iter_importer_modules implementation for
- importlib.machinery.FileFinder (similar to the way it already handled
- zipimport.zipimporter).
-
-- Issue #15314: runpy now sets __main__.__loader__ correctly.
-
-- Issue #15357: The import emulation in pkgutil is now deprecated. pkgutil uses
- importlib internally rather than the emulation.
-
-- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
- module will be called in a deterministic order.
-
-- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
-
-- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
- the documentation.
-
-- Issue #15315: Support VS 2010 in distutils cygwincompiler.
-
-- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
- namespace packages.
-
-- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
- NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
-
-- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
-
-- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
- implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
-
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
- BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
-
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
-
-- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
- ipaddress objects.
-
-- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
- compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
-
-- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
-
-- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
- constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
- provisional API status).
-
-- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
- pointing to a directory.
-
-- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
-
-- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
-
-- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
- _frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
-
-- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
- header field in .pyc files.
-
-- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
- flush().
-
-- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command. Patch by
- Jakub Wilk.
-
-- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer created and
- renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
- mailbox.
-
-- Issue #10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
- cryptographic purpose.
-
-- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
- universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific customizations from
- sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util, and distutils.unixccompiler
- into a new module _osx_support.
-
-C API
------
-
-- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
-
-- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
- `imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
- used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
- try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
- PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
- type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
- ended with ``\``. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the $LIBPL
- value.
-
-- Move importlib.test.benchmark to Tools/importbench.
-
-- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have been
- enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within the
- "py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
-
- * C frames that are waiting on the GIL
- * C frames that are garbage-collecting
- * C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
-
-- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by
- Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
-
-- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy module and
- nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
-
-- Issue #15053: Copy Python 3.3 import lock change notice to all relevant
- functions in imp instead of just at the top of the relevant section.
-
-- Issue #15288: Link to the term "loader" in notes in pkgutil about how things
- won't work as expected in Python 3.3 and mark the requisite functions as
- "changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
- import itself.
-
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
- `execfile()`.
-
-- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
- contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15442: Expose the default list of directories ignored by
- `filecmp.dircmp()` as a module attribute, and expand the list to more modern
- values.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support. Patch
- by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
- in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
-
-- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
- forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
-
-- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
-
-- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
- parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
- Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15284: Skip {send,recv}msg tests in test_socket when IPv6 is not
- enabled. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-
-- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled. Patch
- by Brian Brazil.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development tools
- (dpkg-dev) installed.
-
-- Issue #15037: Build OS X installers with local copy of ncurses 5.9 libraries
- to avoid curses.unget_wch bug present in older versions of ncurses such as
- those shipped with OS X.
-
-- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK. Also, for
- OS X installers, ensure consistent sqlite3 behavior and feature availability
- by building a local copy of libsqlite3 rather than depending on the wide range
- of versions supplied with various OS X releases.
-
-- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
-
-- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
-
-- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
-
-- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
- Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
-
-- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared library
- are created with the proper ABI suffix.
-
-- Issue #14330: For cross builds, don't use host python, use host search paths
- for host compiler.
-
-- Issue #15235: Allow Berkley DB versions up to 5.3 to build the dbm module.
-
-- Issue #15268: Search curses.h in /usr/include/ncursesw.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 1?
-==================================
-
-*Release date: 27-Jun-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Fix a (most likely) very rare memory leak when calling main() and not being
- able to decode a command-line argument.
-
-- Issue #14815: Use Py_ssize_t instead of long for the object hash, to
- preserve all 64 bits of hash on Win64.
-
-- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() or readall() methods
- no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted.
- IOError is no longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR
- from within these methods.
-
-- Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
-
-- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
- created using PyType_FromSpec().
-
-- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
- the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-
-- Issue #15096: Removed support for ur'' as the raw notation isn't
- compatible with Python 2.x's raw unicode strings.
-
-- Issue #13783: Generator objects now use the identifier APIs internally
-
-- Issue #14874: Restore charmap decoding speed to pre-PEP 393 levels.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15026: utf-16 encoding is now significantly faster (up to 10x).
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #11022: open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling
- locale.getpreferredencoding(False) instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
- in text mode if the encoding is not specified. Don't change temporary the
- locale encoding using locale.setlocale(), use the current locale encoding
- instead of the user preferred encoding.
-
-- Issue #14673: Add Eric Snow's sys.implementation implementation.
-
-- Issue #15038: Optimize python Locks on Windows.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
- for tkinter SimpleDialog.
-
-- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
-
-- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
- timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
- ASCII only str instances safely.
-
-- Issue #15164: Change return value of platform.uname() from a
- plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.
-
-- Support Mageia Linux in the platform module.
-
-- Issue #11678: Support Arch linux in the platform module.
-
-- Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
- plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
- (structseq objects).
-
-- Speed up _decimal by another 10-15% by caching the thread local context
- that was last accessed. In the pi benchmark (64-bit platform, prec=9),
- _decimal is now only 1.5x slower than float.
-
-- Remove the packaging module, which is not ready for prime time.
-
-- Issue #15154: Add "dir_fd" parameter to os.rmdir, remove "rmdir"
- parameter from os.remove / os.unlink.
-
-- Issue #4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't susceptible to symlink attacks.
- It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat()
- and os.unlinkat() functions. Main code by Martin von Löwis.
-
-- Issue #15156: HTMLParser now uses the new "html.entities.html5" dictionary.
-
-- Issue #11113: add a new "html5" dictionary containing the named character
- references defined by the HTML5 standard and the equivalent Unicode
- character(s) to the html.entities module.
-
-- Issue #15114: the strict mode of HTMLParser and the HTMLParseError exception
- are deprecated now that the parser is able to parse invalid markup.
-
-- Issue #3665: \u and \U escapes are now supported in unicode regular
- expressions. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15153: Added inspect.getgeneratorlocals to simplify white box
- testing of generator state updates
-
-- Issue #13062: Added inspect.getclosurevars to simplify testing stateful
- closures
-
-- Issue #11024: Fixes and additional tests for Time2Internaldate.
-
-- Issue #14626: Large refactoring of functions / parameters in the os module.
- Many functions now support "dir_fd" and "follow_symlinks" parameters;
- some also support accepting an open file descriptor in place of a path
- string. Added os.support_* collections as LBYL helpers. Removed many
- functions only previously seen in 3.3 alpha releases (often starting with
- "f" or "l", or ending with "at"). Originally suggested by Serhiy Storchaka;
- implemented by Larry Hastings.
-
-- Issue #15008: Implement PEP 362 "Signature Objects".
- Patch by Yury Selivanov.
-
-- Issue: #15138: base64.urlsafe_{en,de}code() are now 3-4x faster.
-
-- Issue #444582: Add shutil.which, for finding programs on the system path.
- Original patch by Erik Demaine, with later iterations by Jan Killian
- and Brian Curtin.
-
-- Issue #14837: SSL errors now have ``library`` and ``reason`` attributes
- describing precisely what happened and in which OpenSSL submodule. The
- str() of a SSLError is also enhanced accordingly.
-
-- Issue #9527: datetime.astimezone() method will now supply a class
- timezone instance corresponding to the system local timezone when
- called with no arguments.
-
-- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
- mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
-
-- Issue #14684: zlib.compressobj() and zlib.decompressobj() now support the use
- of predefined compression dictionaries. Original patch by Sam Rushing.
-
-- Fix GzipFile's handling of filenames given as bytes objects.
-
-- Issue #14772: Return destination values from some shutil functions.
-
-- Issue #15064: Implement context manager protocol for multiprocessing types
-
-- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
-
-- Issue #14657: The frozen instance of importlib used for bootstrap is now
- also the module imported as importlib._bootstrap.
-
-- Issue #14055: Add __sizeof__ support to _elementtree.
-
-- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
- with 'b' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
- time or datetime objects.
-
-- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
- between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
- MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
-
-- Issue #14059: Implement multiprocessing.Barrier.
-
-- Issue #15061: The inappropriately named hmac.secure_compare has been
- renamed to hmac.compare_digest, restricted to operating on bytes inputs
- only and had its documentation updated to more accurately reflect both its
- intent and its limitations
-
-- Issue #13841: Make child processes exit using sys.exit() on Windows.
-
-- Issue #14936: curses_panel was converted to PEP 3121 and PEP 384 API.
- Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #1667546: On platforms supporting tm_zone and tm_gmtoff fields
- in struct tm, time.struct_time objects returned by time.gmtime(),
- time.localtime() and time.strptime() functions now have tm_zone and
- tm_gmtoff attributes. Original patch by Paul Boddie.
-
-- Rename adjusted attribute to adjustable in time.get_clock_info() result.
-
-- Issue #3518: Remove references to non-existent BaseManager.from_address()
- method.
-
-- Issue #13857: Added textwrap.indent() function (initial patch by Ezra
- Berch)
-
-- Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method.
-
-- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
- non-string argument to SystemExit.
-
-- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
- patch by mouad.
-
-- Issue #11823: disassembly now shows argument counts on calls with keyword args.
-
-- Issue #14711: os.stat_float_times() has been deprecated.
-
-- LZMAFile now accepts the modes "rb"/"wb"/"ab" as synonyms of "r"/"w"/"a".
-
-- The bz2 and lzma modules now each contain an open() function, allowing
- compressed files to readily be opened in text mode as well as binary mode.
-
-- BZ2File.__init__() and LZMAFile.__init__() now accept a file object as their
- first argument, rather than requiring a separate "fileobj" argument.
-
-- gzip.open() now accepts file objects as well as filenames.
-
-- Issue #14992: os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True) would raise an OSError
- when the path existed and had the S_ISGID mode bit set when it was
- not explicitly asked for. This is no longer an exception as mkdir
- cannot control if the OS sets that bit for it or not.
-
-- Issue #14989: Make the CGI enable option to http.server available via command
- line.
-
-- Issue #14987: Add a missing import statement to inspect.
-
-- Issue #1079: email.header.decode_header now correctly parses all the examples
- in RFC2047. There is a necessary visible behavior change: the leading and/or
- trailing whitespace on ASCII parts is now preserved.
-
-- Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
-
-- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
- algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
-
-- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
- allocation issues
-
-- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
- executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
- guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
- implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
- Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
- options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
- of os.listdir().
-
-- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
- non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
- the importlib importers do not define).
-
-- Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
- Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #14814: Added first draft of ipaddress module API reference
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
- behind.
-
-- Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
- for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
- function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
-
-- test_nntplib now tolerates being run from behind NNTP gateways that add
- "X-Antivirus" headers to articles
-
-- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
- block loading of the gdb hooks
-
-- Issue #14963: Add test cases for exception handling behaviour
- in contextlib.ExitStack (Initial patch by Alon Horev)
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #13590: Improve support for OS X Xcode 4:
- * Try to avoid building Python or extension modules with problematic
- llvm-gcc compiler.
- * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
- check for ppc compiler support and automatically remove ppc and
- ppc64 archs when not available.
- * Since Xcode 4 no longer install SDKs in default locations,
- extension module builds now revert to using installed headers
- and libs if the SDK used to build the interpreter is not
- available.
- * Update ./configure to use better defaults for universal builds;
- in particular, --enable-universalsdk=yes uses the Xcode default
- SDK and --with-universal-archs now defaults to "intel" if ppc
- not available.
-
-- Issue #14225: Fix Unicode support for curses (#12567) on OS X
-
-- Issue #14928: Fix importlib bootstrap issues by using a custom executable
- (Modules/_freeze_importlib) to build Python/importlib.h.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 4?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 31-May-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #14835: Make plistlib output empty arrays & dicts like OS X.
- Patch by Sidney San Martín.
-
-- Issue #14744: Use the new _PyUnicodeWriter internal API to speed up
- str%args and str.format(args).
-
-- Issue #14930: Make memoryview objects weakrefable.
-
-- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
- collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
-
-- Issue #14857: fix regression in references to PEP 3135 implicit __class__
- closure variable (Reopens issue #12370)
-
-- Issue #14712 (PEP 405): Virtual environments. Implemented by Vinay Sajip.
-
-- Issue #14660 (PEP 420): Namespace packages. Implemented by Eric Smith.
-
-- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
- absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
- Patch by Sven Marnach.
-
-- Issue #9260: A finer-grained import lock. Most of the import sequence
- now uses per-module locks rather than the global import lock, eliminating
- well-known issues with threads and imports.
-
-- Issue #14624: UTF-16 decoding is now 3x to 4x faster on various inputs.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- asdl_seq and asdl_int_seq are now Py_ssize_t sized.
-
-- Issue #14133 (PEP 415): Implement suppression of __context__ display with an
- attribute on BaseException. This replaces the original mechanism of PEP 409.
-
-- Issue #14417: Mutating a dict during lookup now restarts the lookup instead
- of raising a RuntimeError (undoes issue #14205).
-
-- Issue #14738: Speed-up UTF-8 decoding on non-ASCII data. Patch by Serhiy
- Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
- in old-style string formatting.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
- subprocess and trace modules.
-
-- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
- bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
- a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
-
-- Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
- ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
- for any such problems.
-
-- Issue #14925: email now registers a defect when the parser decides that there
- is a missing header/body separator line. MalformedHeaderDefect, which the
- existing code would never actually generate, is deprecated.
-
-- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
- the parent window is closed before the dialog. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #8739: Updated smtpd to support RFC 5321, and added support for the
- RFC 1870 SIZE extension.
-
-- Issue #665194: Added a localtime function to email.utils to provide an
- aware local datetime for use in setting Date headers.
-
-- Issue #12586: Added new provisional policies that implement convenient
- unicode support for email headers. See What's New for details.
-
-- Issue #14731: Refactored email Policy framework to support full backward
- compatibility with Python 3.2 by default yet allow for the introduction of
- new features through new policies. Note that Policy.must_be_7bit is renamed
- to cte_type.
-
-- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
-
-- Issue #14920: Fix the help(urllib.parse) failure on locale C on terminals.
- Have ascii characters in help.
-
-- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
- running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
-
-- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
- not go in illegal range and returns None.
-
-- Issue #14862: Add missing names to os.__all__
-
-- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
-
-- Issue #13585: Added contextlib.ExitStack
-
-- PEP 3144, Issue #14814: Added the ipaddress module
-
-- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
- Header in Cookie.py.
-
-- Issue #14588: The types module now provide new_class() and prepare_class()
- functions to support PEP 3115 compliant dynamic class creation. Patch by
- Daniel Urban and Nick Coghlan.
-
-- Issue #13152: Allow to specify a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in
- textwrap. Patch by John Feuerstein.
-
-- Issue #14721: Send the correct 'Content-length: 0' header when the body is an
- empty string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
-
-- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
- ports stricter.
-
-- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
- scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
-
-- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
- when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
- Xavier de Gaye.
-
-- Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
- using the same sys.flags as the current process. Initial patch by
- Sergey Mezentsev.
-
-- Issue #13031: Small speed-up for tarfile when unzipping tarfiles.
- Patch by Justin Peel.
-
-- Issue #14780: urllib.request.urlopen() now has a ``cadefault`` argument
- to use the default certificate store. Initial patch by James Oakley.
-
-- Issue #14829: Fix bisect and range() indexing with large indices
- (>= 2 ** 32) under 64-bit Windows.
-
-- Issue #14732: The _csv module now uses PEP 3121 module initialization.
- Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #14809: Add HTTP status codes introduced by RFC 6585 to http.server
- and http.client. Patch by EungJun Yi.
-
-- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
- accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
- UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
- environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
- Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
-
-- Issue #14773: Fix os.fwalk() failing on dangling symlinks.
-
-- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field of HTTP Basic
- Authentation in urllib2.
-
-- Issue #14807: move undocumented tarfile.filemode() to stat.filemode() and add
- doc entry. Add tarfile.filemode alias with deprecation warning.
-
-- Issue #13815: TarFile.extractfile() now returns io.BufferedReader objects.
-
-- Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate
- timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide.
-
-- Add importlib.util.resolve_name().
-
-- Issue #14366: Support lzma compression in zip files.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13959: Introduce importlib.find_loader() and document
- imp.find_module/load_module as deprecated.
-
-- Issue #14082: shutil.copy2() now copies extended attributes, if possible.
- Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13959: Make importlib.abc.FileLoader.load_module()/get_filename() and
- importlib.machinery.ExtensionFileLoader.load_module() have their single
- argument be optional. Allows for the replacement (and thus deprecation) of
- imp.load_source()/load_package()/load_compiled().
-
-- Issue #13959: imp.get_suffixes() has been deprecated in favour of the new
- attributes on importlib.machinery: SOURCE_SUFFIXES, DEBUG_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES,
- OPTIMIZED_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, and EXTENSION_SUFFIXES. This
- led to an indirect deprecation of inspect.getmoduleinfo().
-
-- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
- support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
- Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #14753: Make multiprocessing's handling of negative timeouts
- the same as it was in Python 3.2.
-
-- Issue #14583: Fix importlib bug when a package's __init__.py would first
- import one of its modules then raise an error.
-
-- Issue #14741: Fix missing support for Ellipsis ('...') in parser module.
-
-- Issue #14697: Fix missing support for set displays and set comprehensions in
- parser module.
-
-- Issue #14701: Fix missing support for 'raise ... from' in parser module.
-
-- Add support for timeouts to the acquire() methods of
- multiprocessing's lock/semaphore/condition proxies.
-
-- Issue #13989: Add support for text mode to gzip.open().
-
-- Issue #14127: The os.stat() result object now provides three additional
- fields: st_ctime_ns, st_mtime_ns, and st_atime_ns, providing those times as an
- integer with nanosecond resolution. The functions os.utime(), os.lutimes(),
- and os.futimes() now accept a new parameter, ns, which accepts mtime and atime
- as integers with nanosecond resolution.
-
-- Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
- on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
- byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
-
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
-
-- Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
- grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
- Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
- has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #14695: Bring Tools/parser/unparse.py support up to date with
- the Python 3.3 Grammar.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #14472: Update .gitignore. Patch by Matej Cepl.
-
-- Upgrade Windows library versions: bzip 1.0.6, OpenSSL 1.0.1c.
-
-- Issue #14693: Under non-Windows platforms, hashlib's fallback modules are
- always compiled, even if OpenSSL is present at build time.
-
-- Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
- unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
- value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
- fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
-
-- Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
- class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.
-
-- Issue #14943: Correct a default argument value for winreg.OpenKey
- and correctly list the argument names in the function's explanation.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 3?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 01-May-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
-
-- Issue #14433: Prevent msvcrt crash in interactive prompt when stdin is closed.
-
-- Issue #14521: Make result of float('nan') and float('-nan') more consistent
- across platforms.
-
-- Issue #14646: __import__() sets __loader__ if the loader did not.
-
-- Issue #14605: No longer have implicit entries in sys.meta_path. If
- sys.meta_path is found to be empty, raise ImportWarning.
-
-- Issue #14605: No longer have implicit entries in sys.path_hooks. If
- sys.path_hooks is found to be empty, a warning will be raised. None is now
- inserted into sys.path_importer_cache if no finder was discovered. This also
- means imp.NullImporter is no longer implicitly used.
-
-- Issue #13903: Implement PEP 412. Individual dictionary instances can now share
- their keys with other dictionaries. Classes take advantage of this to share
- their instance dictionary keys for improved memory and performance.
-
-- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
- when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
-
-- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
- special method with a different name.
-
-- Issue #14630: Fix a memory access bug for instances of a subclass of int
- with value 0.
-
-- Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions. Patch by
- Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
- namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
- Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
- found in __builtins__.
-
-- Issue #12599: Be more strict in accepting None compared to a false-like
- object for importlib.util.module_for_loader and
- importlib.machinery.PathFinder.
-
-- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
-
-- Issue #14592: Attempting a relative import w/o __package__ or __name__ set in
- globals raises a KeyError.
-
-- Issue #14607: Fix keyword-only arguments which started with ``__``.
-
-- Issue #10854: The ImportError raised when an extension module on Windows
- fails to import now uses the new path and name attributes from
- Issue #1559549.
-
-- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
- any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
- Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
-
-- __import__() now matches PEP 328 and documentation by defaulting 'index' to 0
- instead of -1 and removing support for negative values.
-
-- Issue #2377: Make importlib the implementation of __import__().
-
-- Issue #1559549: ImportError now has 'name' and 'path' attributes that are set
- using keyword arguments to its constructor. They are currently not set by
- import as they are meant for use by importlib.
-
-- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
- while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
-
-- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
- by Suman Saha.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
-
-- Issue #14371: Support bzip2 in zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
- step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
-
-- Issue #14696: Fix parser module to understand 'nonlocal' declarations.
-
-- Issue #10941: Fix imaplib.Internaldate2tuple to produce correct result near
- the DST transition. Patch by Joe Peterson.
-
-- Issue #9154: Fix parser module to understand function annotations.
-
-- Issue #6085: In http.server.py SimpleHTTPServer.address_string returns the
- client ip address instead client hostname. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #14309: Deprecate time.clock(), use time.perf_counter() or
- time.process_time() instead.
-
-- Issue #14428: Implement the PEP 418. Add time.get_clock_info(),
- time.perf_counter() and time.process_time() functions, and rename
- time.steady() to time.monotonic().
-
-- Issue #14646: importlib.util.module_for_loader() now sets __loader__ and
- __package__ (when possible).
-
-- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
- test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
-
-- Issue #4892: multiprocessing Connections can now be transferred over
- multiprocessing Connections. Patch by Richard Oudkerk (sbt).
-
-- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
- the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
-
-- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
- were missing, instead of raising an error.
-
-- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
- which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
-
-- Issue #14605: Add importlib.abc.FileLoader, importlib.machinery.(FileFinder,
- SourceFileLoader, SourcelessFileLoader, ExtensionFileLoader).
-
-- Issue #13959: imp.cache_from_source()/source_from_cache() now follow
- os.path.join()/split() semantics for path manipulation instead of its prior,
- custom semantics of caring the right-most path separator forward in path
- joining.
-
-- Issue #2193: Allow ":" character in Cookie NAME values.
-
-- Issue #14629: tokenizer.detect_encoding will specify the filename in the
- SyntaxError exception if found at readline.__self__.name.
-
-- Issue #14629: Raise SyntaxError in tokenizer.detect_encoding if the
- first two lines have non-UTF-8 characters without an encoding declaration.
-
-- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
- module's active list after a fork().
-
-- Issue #11750: The Windows API functions scattered in the _subprocess and
- _multiprocessing.win32 modules now live in a single module "_winapi".
- Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14087: multiprocessing: add Condition.wait_for(). Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
- a bare '/'.
-
-- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
-
-- Issue #14386: Expose the dict_proxy internal type as types.MappingProxyType.
-
-- Issue #13959: Make imp.reload() always use a module's __loader__ to perform
- the reload.
-
-- Issue #13959: Add imp.py and rename the built-in module to _imp, allowing for
- re-implementing parts of the module in pure Python.
-
-- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
- to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
-
-- Have importlib take advantage of ImportError's new 'name' and 'path'
- attributes.
-
-- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
- if only the comment is changed. In addition, the TypeError that results from
- trying to set a non-binary value as a comment is now raised at the time
- the comment is set rather than at the time the zipfile is written.
-
-- trace.CoverageResults.is_ignored_filename() now ignores any name that starts
- with "<" and ends with ">" instead of special-casing "<string>" and
- "<doctest ".
-
-- Issue #12537: The mailbox module no longer depends on knowledge of internal
- implementation details of the email package Message object.
-
-- Issue #7978: socketserver now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
- returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
- Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
-
-- Issue #14522: Avoid duplicating socket handles in multiprocessing.connection.
- Patch by sbt.
-
-- Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
-
-- Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
-
-- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
- a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_UNIX type address under
- Windows. Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
-- Issue #802310: Generate always unique tkinter font names if not directly passed.
-
-- Issue #14151: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
- a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
- non-Windows platforms. Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
-- Issue #14493: Use gvfs-open or xdg-open in webbrowser.
-
-Build
------
-
-- "make touch" will now touch generated files that are checked into Mercurial,
- after a "hg update" which failed to bring the timestamps into the right order.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #14026: In test_cmd_line_script, check that sys.argv is populated
- correctly for the various invocation approaches (Patch by Jason Yeo)
-
-- Issue #14032: Fix incorrect variable name in test_cmd_line_script debugging
- message (Patch by Jason Yeo)
-
-- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
- a test failure in test_ssl.
-
-- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
- will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
- Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
-
-- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
- Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
-Tools / Demos
--------------
-
-- Issue #3561: The Windows installer now has an option, off by default, for
- placing the Python installation into the system "Path" environment variable.
-
-- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
- It used to live in its own SVN project.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
- Patch by Stefan Behnel.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 01-Apr-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #1683368: object.__new__ and object.__init__ raise a TypeError if they
- are passed arguments and their complementary method is not overridden.
-
-- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
- the module name that was not interned.
-
-- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
- allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
-
-- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
- passed strings.
-
-- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
- collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
-
-- Issue #14205: dict lookup raises a RuntimeError if the dict is modified
- during a lookup.
-
-- Issue #14220: When a generator is delegating to another iterator with the
- yield from syntax, it needs to have its ``gi_running`` flag set to True.
-
-- Issue #14435: Remove dedicated block allocator from floatobject.c and rely
- on the PyObject_Malloc() api like all other objects.
-
-- Issue #14471: Fix a possible buffer overrun in the winreg module.
-
-- Issue #14288: Allow the serialization of builtin iterators
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14300: Under Windows, sockets created using socket.dup() now allow
- overlapped I/O. Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #13872: socket.detach() now marks the socket closed (as mirrored
- in the socket repr()). Patch by Matt Joiner.
-
-- Issue #14406: Fix a race condition when using ``concurrent.futures.wait(
- return_when=ALL_COMPLETED)``. Patch by Matt Joiner.
-
-- Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.
-
-- Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
- if they are defined in <syslog.h>.
-
-- Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
-
-- Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
- the _decimal module against an installed libmpdec.
-
-- Issue #14380: MIMEText now defaults to utf-8 when passed non-ASCII unicode
- with no charset specified.
-
-- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
- OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
- was not meant to connect.
-
-- Issue #14204: The ssl module now has support for the Next Protocol
- Negotiation extension, if available in the underlying OpenSSL library.
- Patch by Colin Marc.
-
-- Issue #3035: Unused functions from tkinter are marked as pending deprecated.
-
-- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
- that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
-
-- Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed
- up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
- between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
-
-- Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
- before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.
-
-- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
- attribute.
-
-- Issue #14344: fixed the repr of email.policy objects.
-
-- Issue #11686: Added missing entries to email package __all__ lists
- (mostly the new Bytes classes).
-
-- Issue #14335: multiprocessing's custom Pickler subclass now inherits from
- the C-accelerated implementation. Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
-
-- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
-
-- Improve the memory utilization and speed of functools.lru_cache.
-
-- Issue #14222: Use the new time.steady() function instead of time.time() for
- timeout in queue and threading modules to not be affected of system time
- update.
-
-- Issue #13248: Remove lib2to3.pytree.Base.get_prefix/set_prefix.
-
-- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
- table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
- denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
- modifications by the expat project.
-
-- Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
- the name ends up being quoted.
-
-- Issue #14062: BytesGenerator now correctly folds Header objects,
- including using linesep when folding.
-
-- Issue #13839: When invoked on the command-line, the pstats module now
- accepts several filenames of profile stat files and merges them all.
- Patch by Matt Joiner.
-
-- Issue #14291: Email now defaults to utf-8 for non-ASCII unicode headers
- instead of raising an error. This fixes a regression relative to 2.7.
-
-- Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.
-
-- Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.
-
-- Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.
-
-- Issue #14184: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
- Mac OS X to avoid interpreter crashes when using threads on 10.7.
-
-- Issue #14180: datetime.date.fromtimestamp(),
- datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp()
- now raise an OSError instead of ValueError if localtime() or gmtime() failed.
-
-- Issue #14180: time.ctime(), gmtime(), time.localtime(),
- datetime.date.fromtimestamp(), datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and
- datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() now raises an OverflowError, instead of
- a ValueError, if the timestamp does not fit in time_t.
-
-- Issue #14180: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and
- datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() now round microseconds towards zero
- instead of rounding to nearest with ties going away from zero.
-
-- Issue #10543: Fix unittest test discovery with Jython bytecode files.
-
-- Issue #1178863: Separate initialisation from setting when initializing
- Tkinter.Variables; harmonize exceptions to ValueError; only delete variables
- that have not been deleted; assert that variable names are strings.
-
-- Issue #14104: Implement time.monotonic() on Mac OS X, patch written by
- Nicholas Riley.
-
-- Issue #13394: the aifc module now uses warnings.warn() to signal warnings.
-
-- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
- Windows when the child process has already exited.
-
-- Issue #14223: curses.addch() is no more limited to the range 0-255 when the
- Python curses is not linked to libncursesw. It was a regression introduced
- in Python 3.3a1.
-
-- Issue #14168: Check for presence of Element._attrs in minidom before
- accessing it.
-
-- Issue #12328: Fix multiprocessing's use of overlapped I/O on Windows.
- Also, add a multiprocessing.connection.wait(rlist, timeout=None) function
- for polling multiple objects at once. Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14007: Accept incomplete TreeBuilder objects (missing start, end,
- data or close method) for the Python implementation as well.
- Drop the no-op TreeBuilder().xml() method from the C implementation.
-
-- Issue #14210: pdb now has tab-completion not only for command names, but
- also for their arguments, wherever possible.
-
-- Issue #14310: Sockets can now be with other processes on Windows using
- the api socket.socket.share() and socket.fromshare().
-
-- Issue #10576: The gc module now has a 'callbacks' member that will get
- called when garbage collection takes place.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
-
-- Issue #14387: Do not include accu.h from Python.h.
-
-- Issue #14359: Only use O_CLOEXEC in _posixmodule.c if it is defined.
- Based on patch from Hervé Coatanhay.
-
-- Issue #14321: Do not run pgen during the build if files are up to date.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
-
-- Issue #14324: Fix configure tests for cross builds.
-
-- Issue #14327: Call AC_CANONICAL_HOST in configure.ac and check in
- config.{guess,sub}. Don't use uname calls for cross builds.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
- ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
- case of overflow has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #14212: The re module didn't retain a reference to buffers it was
- scanning, resulting in segfaults.
-
-- Issue #14259: The finditer() method of re objects did not take any
- keyword arguments, contrary to the documentation.
-
-- Issue #10142: Support for SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA (for example, under ZFS).
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #14442: Add missing errno import in test_smtplib.
-
-- Issue #8315: (partial fix) python -m unittest test.test_email now works.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 1?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 05-Mar-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #14172: Fix reference leak when marshalling a buffer-like object
- (other than a bytes object).
-
-- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
- making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-
-- PEP 409, Issue #6210: "raise X from None" is now supported as a means of
- suppressing the display of the chained exception context. The chained
- context still remains available as the __context__ attribute.
-
-- Issue #10181: New memoryview implementation fixes multiple ownership
- and lifetime issues of dynamically allocated Py_buffer members (#9990)
- as well as crashes (#8305, #7433). Many new features have been added
- (See whatsnew/3.3), and the documentation has been updated extensively.
- The ndarray test object from _testbuffer.c implements all aspects of
- PEP-3118, so further development towards the complete implementation
- of the PEP can proceed in a test-driven manner.
-
- Thanks to Nick Coghlan, Antoine Pitrou and Pauli Virtanen for review
- and many ideas.
-
-- Issue #12834: Fix incorrect results of memoryview.tobytes() for
- non-contiguous arrays.
-
-- Issue #5231: Introduce memoryview.cast() method that allows changing
- format and shape without making a copy of the underlying memory.
-
-- Issue #14084: Fix a file descriptor leak when importing a module with a
- bad encoding.
-
-- Upgrade Unicode data to Unicode 6.1.
-
-- Issue #14040: Remove rarely used file name suffixes for C extensions
- (under POSIX mainly).
-
-- Issue #14051: Allow arbitrary attributes to be set of classmethod and
- staticmethod.
-
-- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: Randomize hashes of str and bytes to protect
- against denial of service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and
- set types. Patch by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
-
-- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
- fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #13908: Ready types returned from PyType_FromSpec.
-
-- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
- modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
-
-- Issue #12705: A SyntaxError exception is now raised when attempting to
- compile multiple statements as a single interactive statement.
-
-- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
- future reinitialization.
-
-- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
- all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
- file descriptors. It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
- default close_fds=True behavior.
-
-- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
- into _PyParser_TokenNames.
-
-- Issue #13752: Add a casefold() method to str.
-
-- Issue #13761: Add a "flush" keyword argument to the print() function,
- used to ensure flushing the output stream.
-
-- Issue #13645: pyc files now contain the size of the corresponding source
- code, to avoid timestamp collisions (especially on filesystems with a low
- timestamp resolution) when checking for freshness of the bytecode.
-
-- PEP 380, Issue #11682: Add "yield from <x>" to support easy delegation to
- subgenerators (initial patch by Greg Ewing, integration into 3.3 by
- Renaud Blanch, Ryan Kelly, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Nick Coghlan)
-
-- Issue #13748: Raw bytes literals can now be written with the ``rb`` prefix
- as well as ``br``.
-
-- Issue #12736: Use full unicode case mappings for upper, lower, and title case.
-
-- Issue #12760: Add a create mode to open(). Patch by David Townshend.
-
-- Issue #13738: Simplify implementation of bytes.lower() and bytes.upper().
-
-- Issue #13577: Built-in methods and functions now have a __qualname__.
- Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #6695: Full garbage collection runs now clear the freelist of set
- objects. Initial patch by Matthias Troffaes.
-
-- Fix OSError.__init__ and OSError.__new__ so that each of them can be
- overriden and take additional arguments (followup to issue #12555).
-
-- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
- effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
- noticing.
-
-- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with
- Python 2 when using protocols <= 2.
-
-- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER. (Fix
- given by Campbell Barton).
-
-- Issue #13503: Use a more efficient reduction format for bytearrays with
- pickle protocol >= 3. The old reduction format is kept with older protocols
- in order to allow unpickling under Python 2. Patch by Irmen de Jong.
-
-- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr
- stream. It was already the case with Python 2. However, the corresponding
- sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object).
-
-- Issue #11849: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released
- on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by
- Charles-François Natali.
-
-- PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
-
-- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
- an invalid integer value.
-
-- Issue #13411: memoryview objects are now hashable when the underlying
- object is hashable.
-
-- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER
- to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc.
- Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
-
-- Issue #10227: Add an allocation cache for a single slice object. Patch by
- Stefan Behnel.
-
-- Issue #13393: BufferedReader.read1() now asks the full requested size to
- the raw stream instead of limiting itself to the buffer size.
-
-- Issue #13392: Writing a pyc file should now be atomic under Windows as well.
-
-- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
- already accepts them).
-
-- Issue #13389: Full garbage collection passes now clear the freelists for
- list and dict objects. They already cleared other freelists in the
- interpreter.
-
-- Issue #13327: Remove the need for an explicit None as the second argument
- to os.utime, os.lutimes, os.futimes, os.futimens, os.futimesat, in
- order to update to the current time. Also added keyword argument
- handling to os.utimensat in order to remove the need for explicit None.
-
-- Issue #13350: Simplify some C code by replacing most usages of
- PyUnicode_Format by PyUnicode_FromFormat.
-
-- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
- error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).
-
-- Issue #9896: Add start, stop, and step attributes to range objects.
-
-- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
- variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument: ``lambda *,
- arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None``
-
-- Issue #12797: Added custom opener parameter to builtin open() and
- FileIO.open().
-
-- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
- setobject.c.
-
-- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
-
-- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
- Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #13201: Define '==' and '!=' to compare range objects based on
- the sequence of values they define (instead of comparing based on
- object identity).
-
-- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
- interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
- class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
-
-- Issue #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
- Both ``unicodedata.lookup()`` and '\N{...}' now resolve aliases,
- and ``unicodedata.lookup()`` resolves named sequences too.
-
-- Issue #12170: The count(), find(), rfind(), index() and rindex() methods
- of bytes and bytearray objects now accept an integer between 0 and 255
- as their first argument. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
- warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #12281: Rewrite the MBCS codec to handle correctly replace and ignore
- error handlers on all Windows versions. The MBCS codec is now supporting all
- error handlers, instead of only replace to encode and ignore to decode.
-
-- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
- generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
- ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #13146: Writing a pyc file is now atomic under POSIX.
-
-- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
- longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
- embedded situations.
-
-- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
-
-- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
-
-- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
- as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
- (previously EINVAL).
-
-- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
- tuples or lists.
-
-- PEP 393: flexible string representation. Thanks to Torsten Becker for the
- initial implementation, and Victor Stinner for various bug fixes.
-
-- Issue #14081: The 'sep' and 'maxsplit' parameter to str.split, bytes.split,
- and bytearray.split may now be passed as keyword arguments.
-
-- Issue #13012: The 'keepends' parameter to str.splitlines may now be passed
- as a keyword argument: "my_string.splitlines(keepends=True)". The same
- change also applies to bytes.splitlines and bytearray.splitlines.
-
-- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
- module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
- "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
-
-- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
- finding the bug and providing a patch.
-
-- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
- list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
- caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
-
-- Issue #12904: os.utime, os.futimes, os.lutimes, and os.futimesat now write
- atime and mtime with nanosecond precision on modern POSIX platforms.
-
-- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
- mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
-
-- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
- characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
-
-- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
- an exception.
-
-- Issue #12773: Make __doc__ mutable on user-defined classes.
-
-- Issue #12766: Raise a ValueError when creating a class with a class variable
- that conflicts with a name in __slots__.
-
-- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
- titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
-
-- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
- outside the BMP.
-
-- Issue #12575: Validate user-generated AST before it is compiled.
-
-- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
- return the respective singleton instances.
-
-- Forbid summing bytes with sum().
-
-- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
- compiling them.
-
-- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
- Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
- in PyObject_IsTrue().
-
-- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
- format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
- Julian Berman.
-
-- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.
-
-- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
- non-exception class.
-
-- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
- cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
- and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
- deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
- IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
-
-- Issue #9611, Issue #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
-
-- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
- a new HAVE_MBCS define.
-
-- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
- on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
- we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
- instead of using UTF-8.
-
-- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
- generator.
-
-- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
- caller's frame as they return for the last time.
-
-- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
- with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
-
-- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
- given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
- missing arguments.
-
-- Issue #12370: Fix super with no arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
- class body.
-
-- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
- links when called from any directory.
-
-- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
- sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().
-
-- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
- arguments to a function more informative.
-
-- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
- mercurial is not installed.
-
-- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
- the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
- raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
-
-- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.
-
-- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
- into a Try node.
-
-- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
- Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
- "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
- (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
-
-- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
- in the AST.
-
-- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
- a code objects in the same file.
-
-- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
- the __dir__() methods of those types.
-
-- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
-
-- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
- besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
-
-- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
- module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
- methods to the socket module.
-
-- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
- wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
- leaving zombie processes around.
-
-- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
- clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
-
-- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
- interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
- they try to take the GIL.
-
-- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
- the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
- Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
- str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
- APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
- by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
- subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
- the ISO-8859-15 codec.
-
-- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
- maintainer.
-
-- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
- accepted too.
-
-- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
- between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
- chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
-
-- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
- compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
-
-- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
- subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
- subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
- seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
-
-- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
- (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
- written by Charles-Francois Natali.
-
-- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
-
-- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
-
-- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
- on Windows.
-
-- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
- Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
-
-- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
- negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
-
-- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
- Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
- returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
- stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
- depending on heap usage).
-
-- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
- a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
-
-- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
- 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
- file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
-
-- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
- to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
- In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
-
-- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
- arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
- operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
-
-- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
- there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
- throws an exception.
-
-- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
- cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
- PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
- NULL).
-
-- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
- the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
-
-- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
-
-- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
- a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
-
-- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
- sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
-
-- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
- Patch by Torsten Becker.
-
-- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
- It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
- undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
- UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
-
-- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
- PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
- locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
-
-- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
-
-- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
-
-- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
- empty, instead of OverflowError.
-
-- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
- now accept a bytearray argument.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
- return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
- fixed.
-
-- Issue #14166: Pickler objects now have an optional ``dispatch_table``
- attribute which allows to set custom per-pickler reduction functions.
- Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode
- string. Patch by Guilherme Gonçalves.
-
-- Issue #13550: Remove the debug machinery from the threading module: remove
- verbose arguments from all threading classes and functions.
-
-- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak containers (WeakSet, WeakKeyDictionary,
- WeakValueDictionary) to return a better approximation when some objects
- are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
- O(n).
-
-- Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
- Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-
-- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
- on Windows. Also fixed in packaging.
-
-- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
- on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
-
-- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
-
-- Issue #13641: Decoding functions in the base64 module now accept ASCII-only
- unicode strings. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
-
-- Issue #14043: Speed up importlib's _FileFinder by at least 8x, and add a
- new importlib.invalidate_caches() function.
-
-- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
- SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
-
-- Issue #13961: Move importlib over to using os.replace() for atomic renaming.
-
-- Do away with ambiguous level values (as suggested by PEP 328) in
- importlib.__import__() by raising ValueError when level < 0.
-
-- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
-
-- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
-
-- Issue #13777: Add PF_SYSTEM sockets on OS X.
- Patch by Michael Goderbauer.
-
-- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
- Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #1326113: distutils' and packaging's build_ext commands option now
- correctly parses multiple values (separated by whitespace or commas) given
- to their --libraries option.
-
-- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES first before
- sending MODE READER, and only sends it if not already in READER mode.
- Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags when
- strict=False.
-
-- Issue #13930: lib2to3 now supports writing converted output files to another
- directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
- suffix.
-
-- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
- with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
- Kohtala.
-
-- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES again after
- authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
- Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
- Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
- Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
- 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
- the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
- Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
- if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
- the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
- compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
- (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
- SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
- attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
-
-- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
- strict=False.
-
-- When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
- working directory instead of '' in importlib.
-
-- Issue #13609: Add two functions to query the terminal size:
- os.get_terminal_size (low level) and shutil.get_terminal_size (high level).
- Patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
-
-- Issue #13845: On Windows, time.time() now uses GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()
- instead of ftime() to have a resolution of 100 ns instead of 1 ms (the clock
- accuracy is between 0.5 ms and 15 ms).
-
-- Issue #13846: Add time.monotonic(), monotonic clock.
-
-- Issue #8184: multiprocessing: On Windows, don't set SO_REUSEADDR on
- Connection sockets, and set FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE on named pipes, to
- make sure two listeners can't bind to the same socket/pipe (or any existing
- socket/pipe).
-
-- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
- raise a ProgrammingError now.
-
-- Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
- descriptors.
-
-- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
-
-- Issue #13712: pysetup create should not convert package_data to extra_files.
-
-- Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.
-
-- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
-
-- Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
- with overwriting.
-
-- Issue #13848: open() and the FileIO constructor now check for NUL
- characters in the file name. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
- strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
-
-- Issue #13812: When a multiprocessing Process child raises an exception,
- flush stderr after printing the exception traceback.
-
-- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
- IV attack countermeasure.
-
-- Issue #13847: time.localtime() and time.gmtime() now raise an OSError instead
- of ValueError on failure. time.ctime() and time.asctime() now raises an
- OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
- processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
-
-- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
- target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
- call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
-
-- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
-
-- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
- registry.
-
-- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
- opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
-
-- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
- in the directory name.
-
-- Issue #10278: Add time.wallclock() function, monotonic clock.
-
-- Issue #13809: Fix regression where bz2 module wouldn't work when threads are
- disabled. Original patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
-
-- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
- Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
-
-- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
- Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
-
-- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
- The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
- the executor had been shut down.
-
-- Issue #13502: threading: Fix a race condition in Event.wait() that made it
- return False when the event was set and cleared right after.
-
-- Issue #9993: When the source and destination are on different filesystems,
- and the source is a symlink, shutil.move() now recreates a symlink on the
- destination instead of copying the file contents. Patch by Jonathan Niehof
- and Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.
-
-- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.
-
-- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
- (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
-
-- Issue #12715: Add an optional symlinks argument to shutil functions
- (copyfile, copymode, copystat, copy, copy2). When that parameter is
- true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead acts on the
- symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant). Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Add a flags parameter to select.epoll.
-
-- Issue #13626: Add support for SSL Diffie-Hellman key exchange, through the
- SSLContext.load_dh_params() method and the ssl.OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option.
-
-- Issue #11006: Don't issue low level warning in subprocess when pipe2() fails.
-
-- Issue #13620: Support for Chrome browser in webbrowser. Patch contributed
- by Arnaud Calmettes.
-
-- Issue #11829: Fix code execution holes in inspect.getattr_static for
- metaclasses with metaclasses. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #12708: Add starmap() and starmap_async() methods (similar to
- itertools.starmap()) to multiprocessing.Pool. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
-
-- Issue #13637: "a2b" functions in the binascii module now accept ASCII-only
- unicode strings.
-
-- Issue #13634: Add support for querying and disabling SSL compression.
-
-- Issue #13627: Add support for SSL Elliptic Curve-based Diffie-Hellman
- key exchange, through the SSLContext.set_ecdh_curve() method and the
- ssl.OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE option.
-
-- Issue #13635: Add ssl.OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE, so that SSL servers
- choose the cipher based on their own preferences, rather than on the
- client's.
-
-- Issue #11813: Fix inspect.getattr_static for modules. Patch by Andreas
- Stührk.
-
-- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
- Cédric Krier.
-
-- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
- condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
-
-- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
- redirection or an error.
-
-- Issue #13560: os.strerror() now uses the current locale encoding instead of
- UTF-8.
-
-- Issue #8373: The filesystem path of AF_UNIX sockets now uses the filesystem
- encoding and the surrogateescape error handler, rather than UTF-8. Patch
- by David Watson.
-
-- Issue #10350: Read and save errno before calling a function which might
- overwrite it. Original patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
-
-- Issue #11610: Introduce a more general way to declare abstract properties.
-
-- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
- to load a module twice.
-
-- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
- when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
- soonest (if any) and then return. Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
-
-- Issue #8684 sched.scheduler class can be safely used in multi-threaded
- environments. Patch by Josiah Carlson and Giampaolo Rodolà.
-
-- Alias resource.error to OSError ala PEP 3151.
-
-- Issue #5689: Add support for lzma compression to the tarfile module.
-
-- Issue #13248: Turn 3.2's PendingDeprecationWarning into 3.3's
- DeprecationWarning. It covers 'cgi.escape', 'importlib.abc.PyLoader',
- 'importlib.abc.PyPycLoader', 'nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle', 'nntplib.NNTP.xpath',
- and private attributes of 'smtpd.SMTPChannel'.
-
-- Issue #5905, Issue #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
- encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
-
-- Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse. Patch
- by Jon Kuhn.
-
-- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
- other than 900k.
-
-- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
-
-- Issue #6715: Add a module 'lzma' for compression using the LZMA algorithm.
- Thanks to Per Øyvind Karlsen for the initial implementation.
-
-- Issue #13487: Make inspect.getmodule robust against changes done to
- sys.modules while it is iterating over it.
-
-- Issue #12618: Fix a bug that prevented py_compile from creating byte
- compiled files in the current directory. Initial patch by Sjoerd de Vries.
-
-- Issue #13444: When stdout has been closed explicitly, we should not attempt
- to flush it at shutdown and print an error.
-
-- Issue #12567: The curses module uses Unicode functions for Unicode arguments
- when it is linked to the ncurses library. It encodes also Unicode strings to
- the locale encoding instead of UTF-8.
-
-- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
- seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
- Harring.
-
-- Issue #9957: SpooledTemporaryFile.truncate() now accepts an optional size
- parameter, as other file-like objects. Patch by Ryan Kelly.
-
-- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
- certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
-
-- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
-
-- Issue #13245: sched.scheduler class constructor's timefunc and
- delayfunct parameters are now optional.
- scheduler.enter and scheduler.enterabs methods gained a new kwargs parameter.
- Patch contributed by Chris Clark.
-
-- Issue #12328: Under Windows, refactor handling of Ctrl-C events and
- make _multiprocessing.win32.WaitForMultipleObjects interruptible when
- the wait_flag parameter is false. Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
- raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
- Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
- RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
- Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
-
-- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
- node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
- Kenigsberg.
-
-- Issue #13374: The Windows bytes API has been deprecated in the os module. Use
- Unicode filenames instead of bytes filenames to not depend on the ANSI code
- page anymore and to support any filename.
-
-- Issue #13297: Use bytes type to send and receive binary data through XMLRPC.
-
-- Issue #6397: Support "/dev/poll" polling objects in select module,
- under Solaris & derivatives.
-
-- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
- handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
-
-- Issue #13193: Fix distutils.filelist.FileList and packaging.manifest.Manifest
- under Windows.
-
-- Issue #13384: Remove unnecessary __future__ import in Lib/random.py
-
-- Issue #13149: Speed up append-only StringIO objects.
-
-- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
- when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
-
-- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
- are read correctly.
-
-- Issue #3067: locale.setlocale() now raises TypeError if the second
- argument is an invalid iterable. Its documentation and docstring
- were also updated. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
-
-- Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
- Thanks to Robert Xiao.
-
-- Byte compilation in packaging is now isolated from the calling Python -B or
- -O options, instead of being disallowed under -B or buggy under -O.
-
-- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tparm() are now expecting a byte
- string, instead of a Unicode string.
-
-- Issue #13295: http.server now produces valid HTML 4.01 strict.
-
-- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
-
-- Issue #13287: urllib.request and urllib.error now contains an __all__
- attribute to expose only relevant classes and functions. Patch by Florent
- Xicluna.
-
-- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
- ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
-
-- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
- when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
- urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
-
-- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
- xmlrpc.client.
-
-- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.
-
-- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.
-
-- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
- tags when strict=False.
-
-- Issue #11183: Add finer-grained exceptions to the ssl module, so that
- you don't have to inspect the exception's attributes in the common case.
-
-- Issue #13216: Add cp65001 codec, the Windows UTF-8 (CP_UTF8).
-
-- Issue #13226: Add RTLD_xxx constants to the os module. These constants can be
- used with sys.setdlopenflags().
-
-- Issue #10278: Add clock_getres(), clock_gettime() and CLOCK_xxx constants to
- the time module. time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) provides a
- monotonic clock
-
-- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
- before all tasks have completed.
-
-- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
-
-- Issue #8540: Remove deprecated Context._clamp attribute in Decimal module.
-
-- Issue #13235: Added DeprecationWarning to logging.warn() method and function.
-
-- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
-
-- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
- semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #13227: functools.lru_cache() now has a option to distinguish
- calls with different argument types.
-
-- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
- earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files
- when imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing
- sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
-
-- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
- in order to display the prompt correctly.
-
-- Issue #12454: The mailbox module is now using ASCII, instead of the locale
- encoding, to read and write .mh_sequences files.
-
-- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
- now available on Windows.
-
-- Issue #1673007: urllib.request now supports HEAD request via new method argument.
- Patch contributions by David Stanek, Patrick Westerhoff and Ezio Melotti.
-
-- Issue #12386: packaging does not fail anymore when writing the RESOURCES
- file.
-
-- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
- fields in tarfile.
-
-- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
- instead of the locale encoding.
-
-- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
- wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.
-
-- Issue #13150: The tokenize module doesn't compile large regular expressions
- at startup anymore.
-
-- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
- configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.
-
-- Issue #11254: Teach distutils and packaging to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
- PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
-
-- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
- contents cannot be read.
-
-- Issue #3163: The struct module gets new format characters 'n' and 'N'
- supporting C integer types ``ssize_t`` and ``size_t``, respectively.
-
-- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
- Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
-
-- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
- if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
- satisfied using the internal buffer. Patch by John O'Connor.
-
-- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
- metaclass is registered with copyreg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
- Citro.
-
-- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
- extension could be unreported.
-
-- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
- ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
-
-- Issue #12959: Add collections.ChainMap to collections.__all__.
-
-- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files and packaging's METADATA files will
- now correctly report Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or
- Download-URL field is present.
-
-- Issue #12567: Add curses.unget_wch() function. Push a character so the next
- get_wch() will return it.
-
-- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
- instead of the locale encoding.
-
-- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
- of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
-
-- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
- and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
- of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
- information was lost.
-
-- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
- more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
-
-- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
-
-- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
- getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
- read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
-
-- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
-
-- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
- now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist. The packaging commands
- were fixed too.
-
-- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
- the C pickle implementation.
-
-- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
- (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
-
-- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
- greater than FD_SETSIZE.
-
-- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
- Fix by Richard M. Tew.
-
-- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
- separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
-
-- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
- unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
- Watson.
-
-- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
- to be used if the private key is encrypted. Patch by Adam Simpkins.
-
-- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
- Pipe.
-
-- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
- Anthony Briggs.
-
-- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
- when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
- ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
-
-- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
- anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
- on the Linux version used to build Python.
-
-- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
- could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
-
-- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
- container of many small objects.
-
-- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
- resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
-
-- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
- 2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".
-
-- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
- detect truncated input streams.
-
-- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
- the file cannot be opened.
-
-- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
- (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
-
-- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
-
-- Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.
-
-- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.
-
-- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
- paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
-
-- Issue #12655: Expose functions from sched.h in the os module: sched_yield(),
- sched_setscheduler(), sched_getscheduler(), sched_setparam(),
- sched_get_min_priority(), sched_get_max_priority(), sched_rr_get_interval(),
- sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity().
-
-- Add ThreadError to threading.__all__.
-
-- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
- manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
-
-- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
- ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
- interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.
-
-- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
- symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
- in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
-
-- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Event,
- Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
- classes (_Event, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
- code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible
- to inherit from these classes, without having to import the private
- underscored names like multiprocessing did.
-
-- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
- lines.
-
-- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
-
-- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
- collections when it is done.
-
-- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
- given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
-
-- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
- ``Connection: close`` header.
-
-- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
-
-- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
-
-- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
- module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
-
-- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
- a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
- unbuffered writes.
-
-- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
-
-- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
-
-- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
-
-- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
- to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
- "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented). This allows the implementation
- of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS. Patch by
- Jacek Konieczny.
-
-- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
- functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.
-
-- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
- directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
- Linux 3.0.
-
-- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
- commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
-
-- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
- checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.
-
-- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
- ProcessPoolExecutor.
-
-- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
- by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.
-
-- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
- Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
- embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
- Serna.
-
-- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.
-
-- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
-
-- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
- the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
-
-- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
- TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
-
-- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
- This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.
-
-- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
- to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.
-
-- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
- ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
- b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.
-
-- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
- negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
- Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.
-
-- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
- Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
- of the script).
-
-- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
- if the process has only one pipe.
-
-- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
- shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
-
-- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
- instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
- instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
- than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
-
-- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
- of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
- conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
-
-- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
- the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
-
-- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now immediately calls the (Python) signal handler
- if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
- instruction.
-
-- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
- disk space statistics.
-
-- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
- UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
- also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
- to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
- anymore to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
- to read the Python script from the right encoding.
-
-- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
- encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
-
-- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
- check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
- interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
- and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
- environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the
- deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
- still possible to globally override the default by setting
- MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
- greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
- was built. Also, implement the same handling in packaging.
-
-- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
- in the memo dict.
-
-- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.
-
-- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
- Kitada.
-
-- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
- any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.
-
-- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
- variables, start with an empty environment.
-
-- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
- project directory.
-
-- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
- wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module. Since __init__ was
- already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.
-
-- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
- passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
- if given binary unknown-8bit input.
-
-- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
- times without error.
-
-- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
-
-- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
- connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
- written by Ezio Melotti.
-
-- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
- Original patch by Erik Bray.
-
-- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
- functions.
-
-- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
- compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition. Original patch
- by Erik Bray.
-
-- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
- methods.
-
-- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
-
-- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
- an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout). Original patch by
- Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
-
-- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
-
-- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
-
-- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
- arguments in the missing arguments error message.
-
-- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
- a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
-
-- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
- instead of os.stat.
-
-- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
- Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
- children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation. Previously it
- would reliably freeze/deadlock.
-
-- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
- ``multiprocessing.Process``. Also, fix Process.join() to not use polling
- anymore, when given a timeout.
-
-- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
- smtplib module. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
-
-- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
- to compute.
-
-- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
- pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
- left over from the Mercurial transition
-
-- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
-
-- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
- constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
- written by Oleg Oshmyan.
-
-- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
- threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
- _thread.get_ident().
-
-- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
- encreset() instead of decreset().
-
-- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
-
-- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
-
-- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
- Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
-
-- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
- Initial patch by Nir Aides.
-
-- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
-
-- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
- once.
-
-- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
-
-- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
- if the file is closed.
-
-- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
- class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Warkentin.
-
-- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
- ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
-
-- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
- pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
- server.
-
-- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
- reads and simplify code.
-
-- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
- correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
-
-- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
- their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
- final argument is True.
-
-- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
- module.
-
-- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
- has no console.
-
-- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
-
-- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
- now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
- than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
-
-- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
- to be able to unload the module.
-
-- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
- distutils2).
-
-- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
- when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
-
-- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
- passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
- Patch by Kasun Herath.
-
-- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
- is set in shell.
-
-- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
- their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
- larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
- an incorrect result.
-
-- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
- attribute when called without a max_length argument.
-
-- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
- on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
- writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
- data, and writing again).
-
-- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
- Patch by John O'Connor.
-
-- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
- when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
- by Yuval Greenfield.
-
-- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
- non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
- binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
- encoding of the script.
-
-- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
- order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
-
-- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
- instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
-
-- Issue #3709: add a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler, which
- manages the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal
- headers buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
-
-- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
-
-- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
-
-- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
- Dickinson.
-
-- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
-
-- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
- instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
- wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
-
-- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
- signal module.
-
-- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
- by Kasun Herath.
-
-- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
-
-- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
- Patch by Pierre Carrier.
-
-- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
- detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
- previous value of the mtime.
-
-- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
-
-- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
- parameter to control parameters of the secure channel. Patch by Sijin
- Joseph.
-
-- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
- file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
-
-- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
- dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
- Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
-
-- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
- assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
- managers. Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
-
-- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
- filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
- for the case.
-
-- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
- more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
- by Ysj Ray.
-
-- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
- Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
-
-- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
-
-- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
-
-- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
- around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
-
-- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
- signal mask of the calling thread.
-
-- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
- names.
-
-- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
-
-- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible. Patch
- by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
- strings are too long.
-
-- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
-
-- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.
-
-- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
- lock was not acquired.
-
-- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
- of 5 to 10. Initial patch by Jonas H.
-
-- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
- release the GIL. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
- the thread implementation.
-
-- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
- policy objects.
-
-- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
- Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
- parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
-
-- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
-
-- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
-
-- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
- mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
-
-- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
- specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
-
-- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
-
-- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
- Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
-
-- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.
-
-- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
-
-- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
- _json is not available.
-
-- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
-
-- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
- url contains #fragment.
-
-- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
- adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
-
-- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
- character in the index of modules.
-
-- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
- concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
-
-- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
- from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
-
-- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
- iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
- checks were also added to basicConfig.
-
-- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
-
-- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
- difflib.unified_diff().
-
-- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
- worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
- shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.
-
-- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
- is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised). Patch
- by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
-
-- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
- multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
- bytes.
-
-- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware: it now has a
- charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
- 2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
-
-- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
-
-- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
- to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
- Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-
-- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback(). Patch by
- Torsten Landschoff.
-
-- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
- private keys.
-
-- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
- file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument. Patch by
- Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.
-
-- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
- called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
-
-- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
-
-- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
-
-- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
- deprecated since Python 2.4.
-
-- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
- arguments.
-
-- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
-
-- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
- a user-supplied binary function.
-
-- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.
-
-- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
- trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
-
-- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
- are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
- documentation.
-
-- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
-
-- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
- concurrent.futures.
-
-- Issue #5845: Automatically read readline configuration to enable completion
- in interactive mode.
-
-- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
- to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
- object originally came from.
-
-- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
-
-- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
- was started with -S.
-
-- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
- class. This make the source more accessible than the outdated
- "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
- string available.
-
-- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable. Patch by Filip
- Gruszczyński.
-
-- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.
-
-- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.
-
-- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
- that start with a leading underscore.
-
-- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
- scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
-
-- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
- httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
-
-- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
-
-- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
-
-- Issue #11563: ``Connection: close`` header is sent by requests using URLOpener
- class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
- contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
- unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
-
-- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
- arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
-
-- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.
-
-- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
- setup and teardown.
-
-- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
- the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
-
-- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
- relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
-
-- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
- which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line
- of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
-
-- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
- parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
-
-- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.
-
-- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
- execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
- ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
- that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
-
-- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
- not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
- the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
-
-- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class is now a context manager so it can be used
- in a `with` statement. Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.
-
-- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
- encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
-
-- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
- Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
-
-- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the OS X proxy bypass code for fully qualified
- IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
-
-- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
- the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
- the documentation and general logic.
-
-- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
- fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.
-
-- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
- operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
-
-- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
-
-- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
- initialization fails.
-
-- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
- really necessary. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
- ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
- TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.
-
-- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
- certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
- checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
-
-- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
- on accept(), send() and recv().
-
-- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().
-
-- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.
-
-- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname(). Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
- to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
- The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError. Patch by
- Filip Gruszczyński. Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.
-
-- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
- (address, port) to bind to before connecting.
-
-- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
- and make it work for non-blocking connects.
-
-- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().
-
-- Issue #10755: Add the posix.flistdir() function. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #4761: Add the ``*at()`` family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the
- posix module. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
- occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
-
-- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().
-
-- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.
-
-- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
- and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
- default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
- thread/process.
-
-- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
- has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
-
-- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.
-
-- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
- to 1000x faster in some cases). It is still one to two order of magnitudes
- slower than binary tell().
-
-- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.
-
-- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
- decorator.
-
-- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
- objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
- consumption and failures with the stream interface.
-
-- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
- Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
- enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.
-
-- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
-
-- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
- module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
- For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
- module.
-
-- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
- 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
- 32-bit Windows.
-
-- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
- escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
-
-- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
- with large config files.
-
-- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
- larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence
-
-- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
- for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.
-
-- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
-
-- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
-
-- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
-
-- Issue #12191: Added shutil.chown() to change user and/or group owner of a
- given path also specifying their names.
-
-- Issue #13988: The _elementtree accelerator is used whenever available.
- Now xml.etree.cElementTree becomes a deprecated alias to ElementTree.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
-
-- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
-
-- Issue #13326: Clean __pycache__ directories correctly on OpenBSD.
-
-- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed.
-
-- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
- functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).
-
-- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
- (following PEP 11). These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
- SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.
-
-- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
- os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
- functions (BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
- (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
-
-- Issue #10645: Installing Python no longer creates a
- Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
-
-- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
- building sqlite3.
-
-- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
- ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
- files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
-
-- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
-
-- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
-
-- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
- package had previously been installed.
-
-- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
- when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
- has to use the built-in default key bindings.
- There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
-
-- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
-
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
- (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
-
-- Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
-
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
-
-- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
- Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
- module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
- Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
- display a message popup and continue rather than crash. Original patch by
- Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
- Patch by Tal Einat.
-
-- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
- (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
- with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
- (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
-
-- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
-
-- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
- in os.kill().
-
-- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
- when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
-
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
- with Tk 8.5.
-
-- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
- With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
- IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
-
-- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
- file in a package.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
- Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
-
-- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
- directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
- suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
- useful in many automated code translation workflows.
-
-- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
- traceback if Python is optimized.
-
-- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
- add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
-
-- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
-
-- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
- an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
- "--newline" option added to specify new line character.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #16847: Fixed improper use of _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() in
- non-pydebug builds. Several extension modules now compile cleanly when
- assert()s are enabled in standard builds (-DDEBUG flag).
-
-- Issue #13840: The error message produced by ctypes.create_string_buffer
- when given a Unicode string has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
- Vilmos Nebehaj.
-
-- Issue #7777: socket: Add Reliable Datagram Sockets (PF_RDS) support.
-
-- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2Compressor/BZ2Decompressor now use a linear-time
- buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.
-
-- Issue #10141: socket: Add SocketCAN (PF_CAN) support. Initial patch by
- Matthias Fuchs, updated by Tiago Gonçalves.
-
-- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
- would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
- writer got cleared by the GC.
-
-- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
-
-- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
- Thomas Jarosch.
-
-- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
- Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
-
-- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
- file descriptor was actually received.
-
-- Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.
- Initial patch by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-
-- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
- object triggers the garbage collector.
-
-- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
- OpenIndiana/Illumos.
-
-- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
- a string.
-
-- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
-
-- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
- some functions like file.write().
-
-- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
- signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
- broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
-
-- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
- objects using the C accelerations.
-
-- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
- objects using the C accelerations.
-
-- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
- to an instance of the class.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
- Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
-
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
- scripts found in the Tools directory.
-
-- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
-
-- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
-
-- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
- minor versions not matching.
-
-- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
- on a system without internet access.
-
-- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
- tests.
-
-- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
- Patch by Ben Hayden.
-
-- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
-
-- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
- Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
-
-- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test
-
-- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
-
-- Issue #13725: Fix regrtest to recognize the documented -d flag.
- Patch by Erno Tukia.
-
-- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
- PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
-
-- Issue #5661: Add a test for ECONNRESET/EPIPE handling to test_asyncore. Patch
- by Xavier de Gaye.
-
-- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
-
-- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
- (see issue 13125).
-
-- Issue #12656: Add tests for IPv6 and Unix sockets to test_asyncore.
-
-- Issue #6484: Add unit tests for mailcap module (patch by Gregory Nofi)
-
-- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
- more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
- the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
- now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
- twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
- an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.
-
-- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
- installed Python.
-
-- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
- Python.
-
-- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
- with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
- using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
- such as test_io or test_subprocess.
-
-- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
- running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
- (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
- such as test_io or test_subprocess.
-
-- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
- (Patch by Robert Xiao)
-
-- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
-
-- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
- as the processor type on some Mac systems.
-
-- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
- failure in name resolution.
-
-- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
- in test_telnetlib.py.
-
-- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
-
-- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
- an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
- Web site.
-
-- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
- DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
- is now skipped instead.
-
-- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
- reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
- rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
-
-- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.
-
-- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
- tests.
-
-- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
- testcase failure in test_ssl.
-
-- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
- test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
- handling of the parent process.
-
-- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
- test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
- in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
-
-- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
-
-- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
- the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
- error twice anymore if there is only one error.
-
-- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
- test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
- test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
- run outside of a build directory.
-
-- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
- Patch by Garrett Cooper.
-
-- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
- 2.8 + on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
-
-- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
- iso2022_kr).
-
-- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
- written by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
- Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
-
-- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
-
-- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
- when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
-
-- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
- Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
-
-- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
- pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
- thread.
-
-- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
- and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``. Patch by
- Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
-
-- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
- test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
- implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
- condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
- futex system call is restarted).
-
-- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
-
-- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
-
-- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
- platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
- TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.
-
-- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
-
-- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package. The test
- harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.
-
-- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.
-
-- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
-
-- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
- directory and confirm they fail as expected
-
-- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
-
-- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
-
-- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
- string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.
-
-- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
- Evan Dandrea.
-
-- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
-
-- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
- Arlen
-
-- Issue #11490: test_subprocess.test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
- false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
-
-- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
- non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
-
-- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
- Pierre Quentel.
-
-- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
- Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-
-- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.
-
-- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.
-
-- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
- to open door files.
-
-- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
- different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
- size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
-
-- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
- and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
- the current locale encoding.
-
-- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
-
-- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
- UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
- Patch written by Ray Allen.
-
-- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
- narrow build.
-
-- Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
- implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
- types.
-
-- Issue #13727: Add 3 macros to access PyDateTime_Delta members:
- PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_DAYS, PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_SECONDS,
- PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_MICROSECONDS.
-
-- Issue #10542: Add 4 macros to work with surrogates: Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE,
- Py_UNICODE_IS_HIGH_SURROGATE, Py_UNICODE_IS_LOW_SURROGATE,
- Py_UNICODE_JOIN_SURROGATES.
-
-- Issue #12724: Add Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED macro for returning NotImplemented.
-
-- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
- Mercurial.
-
-- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
- char *` instead of `char *`.
-
-- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
- more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
-
-- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
- which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
- backwards compatibility.
-
-- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
- with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
-
-- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-
-- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
- their children.
-
-- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with
- great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
-
-- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
- Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
-
-- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
-
-- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X.
-
-- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
-
-- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
- relevant, instead send method.
-
-- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
-
-- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
- C API function.
-
-- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
- io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
-
-- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
- functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
-
-- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
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-- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
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