======================================================================
+From 1.5.2c1 to 1.5.2 (final)
+=============================
+
+Tue Apr 13 15:44:49 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * PCbuild/python15.wse: Bump version to 1.5.2 (final)
+
+ * PCbuild/python15.dsp: Added shamodule.c
+
+ * PC/config.c: Added sha module!
+
+ * README, Include/patchlevel.h: Prepare for final release.
+
+ * Misc/ACKS:
+ More (Cameron Laird is honorary; the others are 1.5.2c1 testers).
+
+ * Python/thread_solaris.h:
+ While I can't really test this thoroughly, Pat Knight and the Solaris
+ man pages suggest that the proper thing to do is to add THR_NEW_LWP to
+ the flags on thr_create(), and that there really isn't a downside, so
+ I'll do that.
+
+ * Misc/ACKS:
+ Bunch of new names who helped iron out the last wrinkles of 1.5.2.
+
+ * PC/python_nt.rc:
+ Bump the myusterious M$ version number from 1,5,2,1 to 1,5,2,3.
+ (I can't even display this on NT, maybe Win/98 can?)
+
+ * Lib/pstats.py:
+ Fix mysterious references to jprofile that were in the source since
+ its creation. I'm assuming these were once valid references to "Jim
+ Roskind's profile"...
+
+ * Lib/Attic/threading_api.py:
+ Removed; since long subsumed in Doc/lib/libthreading.tex
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c:
+ Put back __osf__ support for gethostbyname_r(); the real bug was that
+ it was being used even without threads. This of course might be an
+ all-platform problem so now we only use the _r variant when we are
+ using threads.
+
+Mon Apr 12 22:51:20 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/cPickle.c:
+ Fix accidentally reversed NULL test in load_mark(). Suggested by
+ Tamito Kajiyama. (This caused a bug only on platforms where malloc(0)
+ returns NULL.)
+
+ * README:
+ Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer.
+
+ * README: Add note about -D_REENTRANT for HP-UX 10.20.
+
+ * Modules/Makefile.pre.in: 'clean' target should remove hassignal.
+
+ * PC/Attic/vc40.mak, PC/readme.txt:
+ Remove all VC++ info (except VC 1.5) from readme.txt;
+ remove the VC++ 4.0 project file; remove the unused _tkinter extern defs.
+
+ * README: Clarify PC build instructions (point to PCbuild).
+
+ * Modules/zlibmodule.c: Cast added by Jack Jansen (for Mac port).
+
+ * Lib/plat-sunos5/CDIO.py, Lib/plat-linux2/CDROM.py:
+ Forgot to add this file. CDROM device parameters.
+
+ * Lib/gzip.py: Two different changes.
+
+ 1. Jack Jansen reports that on the Mac, the time may be negative, and
+ solves this by adding a write32u() function that writes an unsigned
+ long.
+
+ 2. On 64-bit platforms the CRC comparison fails; I've fixed this by
+ casting both values to be compared to "unsigned long" i.e. modulo
+ 0x100000000L.
+
+Sat Apr 10 18:42:02 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * PC/Attic/_tkinter.def: No longer needed.
+
+ * Misc/ACKS: Correct missed character in Andrew Dalke's name.
+
+ * README: Add DEC Ultrix notes (from Donn Cave's email).
+
+ * configure: The usual
+
+ * configure.in:
+ Quote a bunch of shell variables used in test, related to long-long.
+
+ * Objects/fileobject.c, Modules/shamodule.c, Modules/regexpr.c:
+ casts for picky compilers.
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c:
+ 3-arg gethostbyname_r doesn't really work on OSF/1.
+
+ * PC/vc15_w31/_.c, PC/vc15_lib/_.c, Tools/pynche/__init__.py:
+ Avoid totally empty files.
+
+Fri Apr 9 14:56:35 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/scripts/fixps.py: Use re instead of regex.
+ Don't rewrite the file in place.
+ (Reported by Andy Dustman.)
+
+ * Lib/netrc.py, Lib/shlex.py: Get rid of #! line
+
+Thu Apr 8 23:13:37 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * PCbuild/python15.wse: Use the Tcl 8.0.5 installer.
+ Add a variable %_TCL_% that makes it easier to switch to a different version.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+
+From 1.5.2b2 to 1.5.2c1
+=======================
+
+Thu Apr 8 23:13:37 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * PCbuild/python15.wse:
+ Release 1.5.2c1. Add IDLE and Uninstall to program group.
+ Don't distribute zlib.dll. Tweak some comments.
+
+ * PCbuild/zlib.dsp: Now using static zlib 1.1.3
+
+ * Lib/dos-8x3/userdict.py, Lib/dos-8x3/userlist.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_zli.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_use.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_pop.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_pic.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_ntp.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_gzi.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_fcn.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_cpi.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_bsd.py, Lib/dos-8x3/posixfil.py, Lib/dos-8x3/mimetype.py, Lib/dos-8x3/nturl2pa.py, Lib/dos-8x3/compilea.py, Lib/dos-8x3/exceptio.py, Lib/dos-8x3/basehttp.py:
+ The usual
+
+ * Include/patchlevel.h: Release 1.5.2c1
+
+ * README: Release 1.5.2c1.
+
+ * Misc/NEWS: News for the 1.5.2c1 release.
+
+ * Lib/test/test_strftime.py:
+ On Windows, we suddenly find, strftime() may return "" for an
+ unsupported format string. (I guess this is because the logic for
+ deciding whether to reallocate the buffer or not has been improved.)
+ This caused the test code to crash on result[0]. Fix this by assuming
+ an empty result also means the format is not supported.
+
+ * Demo/tkinter/matt/window-creation-w-location.py:
+ This demo imported some private code from Matt. Make it cripple along.
+
+ * Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py:
+ Delete an accidentally checked-in feature that actually broke more
+ than was worth it: when deleting a canvas item, it would try to
+ automatically delete the bindings for that item. Since there's
+ nothing that says you can't reuse the tag and still have the bindings,
+ this is not correct. Also, it broke at least one demo
+ (Demo/tkinter/matt/rubber-band-box-demo-1.py).
+
+ * Python/thread_wince.h: Win/CE thread support by Mark Hammond.
+
+Wed Apr 7 20:23:17 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/zlibmodule.c:
+ Patch by Andrew Kuchling to unflush() (flush() for deflating).
+ Without this, if inflate() returned Z_BUF_ERROR asking for more output
+ space, we would report the error; now, we increase the buffer size and
+ try again, just as for Z_OK.
+
+ * Lib/test/test_gzip.py: Use binary mode for all gzip files we open.
+
+ * Tools/idle/ChangeLog: New change log.
+
+ * Tools/idle/README.txt, Tools/idle/NEWS.txt: New version.
+
+ * Python/pythonrun.c:
+ Alas, get rid of the Win specific hack to ask the user to press Return
+ before exiting when an error happened. This didn't work right when
+ Python is invoked from a daemon.
+
+ * Tools/idle/idlever.py: Version bump awaiting impending new release.
+ (Not much has changed :-( )
+
+ * Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py:
+ lower, tkraise/lift hide Misc.lower, Misc.tkraise/lift,
+ so the preferred name for them is tag_lower, tag_raise
+ (similar to tag_bind, and similar to the Text widget);
+ unfortunately can't delete the old ones yet (maybe in 1.6)
+
+ * Python/thread.c, Python/strtod.c, Python/mystrtoul.c, Python/import.c, Python/ceval.c:
+ Changes by Mark Hammond for Windows CE. Mostly of the form
+ #ifdef DONT_HAVE_header_H ... #endif around #include <header.h>.
+
+ * Python/bltinmodule.c:
+ Remove unused variable from complex_from_string() code.
+
+ * Include/patchlevel.h:
+ Add the possibility of a gamma release (release candidate).
+ Add '+' to string version number to indicate we're beyond b2 now.
+
+ * Modules/posixmodule.c: Add extern decl for fsync() for SunOS 4.x.
+
+ * Lib/smtplib.py: Changes by Per Cederquist and The Dragon.
+
+ Per writes:
+
+ """
+ The application where Signum Support uses smtplib needs to be able to
+ report good error messages to the user when sending email fails. To
+ help in diagnosing problems it is useful to be able to report the
+ entire message sent by the server, not only the SMTP error code of the
+ offending command.
+
+ A lot of the functions in sendmail.py unfortunately discards the
+ message, leaving only the code. The enclosed patch fixes that
+ problem.
+
+ The enclosed patch also introduces a base class for exceptions that
+ include an SMTP error code and error message, and make the code and
+ message available on separate attributes, so that surrounding code can
+ deal with them in whatever way it sees fit. I've also added some
+ documentation to the exception classes.
+
+ The constructor will now raise an exception if it cannot connect to
+ the SMTP server.
+
+ The data() method will raise an SMTPDataError if it doesn't receive
+ the expected 354 code in the middle of the exchange.
+
+ According to section 5.2.10 of RFC 1123 a smtp client must accept "any
+ text, including no text at all" after the error code. If the response
+ of a HELO command contains no text self.helo_resp will be set to the
+ empty string (""). The patch fixes the test in the sendmail() method
+ so that helo_resp is tested against None; if it has the empty string
+ as value the sendmail() method would invoke the helo() method again.
+
+ The code no longer accepts a -1 reply from the ehlo() method in
+ sendmail().
+
+ [Text about removing SMTPRecipientsRefused deleted --GvR]
+ """
+
+ and also:
+
+ """
+ smtplib.py appends an extra blank line to the outgoing mail if the
+ `msg' argument to the sendmail method already contains a trailing
+ newline. This patch should fix the problem.
+ """
+
+ The Dragon writes:
+
+ """
+ Mostly I just re-added the SMTPRecipientsRefused exception
+ (the exeption object now has the appropriate info in it ) [Per had
+ removed this in his patch --GvR] and tweaked the behavior of the
+ sendmail method whence it throws the newly added SMTPHeloException (it
+ was closing the connection, which it shouldn't. whatever catches the
+ exception should do that. )
+
+ I pondered the change of the return values to tuples all around,
+ and after some thinking I decided that regularizing the return values was
+ too much of the Right Thing (tm) to not do.
+
+ My one concern is that code expecting an integer & getting a tuple
+ may fail silently.
+
+ (i.e. if it's doing :
+
+ x.somemethod() >= 400:
+ expecting an integer, the expression will always be true if it gets a
+ tuple instead. )
+
+ However, most smtplib code I've seen only really uses the
+ sendmail() method, so this wouldn't bother it. Usually code I've seen
+ that calls the other methods usually only calls helo() and ehlo() for
+ doing ESMTP, a feature which was not in the smtplib included with 1.5.1,
+ and thus I would think not much code uses it yet.
+ """
+
+Tue Apr 6 19:38:18 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/test_ntpath.py:
+ Fix the tests now that splitdrive() no longer treats UNC paths special.
+ (Some tests converted to splitunc() tests.)
+
+ * Lib/ntpath.py:
+ Withdraw the UNC support from splitdrive(). Instead, a new function
+ splitunc() parses UNC paths. The contributor of the UNC parsing in
+ splitdrive() doesn't like it, but I haven't heard a good reason to
+ keep it, and it causes some problems. (I think there's a
+ philosophical problem -- to me, the split*() functions are purely
+ syntactical, and the fact that \\foo is not a valid path doesn't mean
+ that it shouldn't be considered an absolute path.)
+
+ Also (quite separately, but strangely related to the philosophical
+ issue above) fix abspath() so that if win32api exists, it doesn't fail
+ when the path doesn't actually exist -- if GetFullPathName() fails,
+ fall back on the old strategy (join with getcwd() if neccessary, and
+ then use normpath()).
+
+ * configure.in, configure, config.h.in, acconfig.h:
+ For BeOS PowerPC. Chris Herborth.
+
+Mon Apr 5 21:54:14 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/timemodule.c:
+ Jonathan Giddy notes, and Chris Lawrence agrees, that some comments on
+ #else/#endif are wrong, and that #if HAVE_TM_ZONE should be #ifdef.
+
+ * Misc/ACKS:
+ Bunch of new contributors, including 9 who contributed to the Docs,
+ reported by Fred.
+
+Mon Apr 5 18:37:59 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/gzip.py:
+ Oops, missed mode parameter to open().
+
+ * Lib/gzip.py:
+ Made the default mode 'rb' instead of 'r', for better cross-platform
+ support. (Based on comment on the documentation by Bernhard Reiter
+ <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>).
+
+Fri Apr 2 22:18:25 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/scripts/dutree.py:
+ For reasons I dare not explain, this script should always execute
+ main() when imported (in other words, it is not usable as a module).
+
+Thu Apr 1 15:32:30 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/test_cpickle.py: Jonathan Giddy write:
+
+ In test_cpickle.py, the module os got imported, but the line to remove
+ the temp file has gone missing.
+
+Tue Mar 30 20:17:31 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py: Per Cederqvist writes:
+
+ If you send something like "PUT / HTTP/1.0" to something derived from
+ BaseHTTPServer that doesn't define do_PUT, you will get a response
+ that begins like this:
+
+ HTTP/1.0 501 Unsupported method ('do_PUT')
+ Server: SimpleHTTP/0.3 Python/1.5
+ Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:53:53 GMT
+
+ The server should complain about 'PUT' instead of 'do_PUT'. This
+ patch should fix the problem.
+
+Mon Mar 29 20:33:21 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/smtplib.py: Patch by Per Cederqvist, who writes:
+
+ """
+ - It needlessly used the makefile() method for each response that is
+ read from the SMTP server.
+
+ - If the remote SMTP server closes the connection unexpectedly the
+ code raised an IndexError. It now raises an SMTPServerDisconnected
+ exception instead.
+
+ - The code now checks that all lines in a multiline response actually
+ contains an error code.
+ """
+
+ The Dragon approves.
+
+Mon Mar 29 20:25:40 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/compileall.py:
+ When run as a script, report failures in the exit code as well.
+ Patch largely based on changes by Andrew Dalke, as discussed in the
+ distutils-sig.
+
+Mon Mar 29 20:23:41 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py:
+ Hack so that if a 302 or 301 redirect contains a relative URL, the
+ right thing "just happens" (basejoin() with old URL).
+
+ * Modules/cPickle.c:
+ Protection against picling to/from closed (real) file.
+ The problem was reported by Moshe Zadka.
+
+ * Lib/test/test_cpickle.py:
+ Test protection against picling to/from closed (real) file.
+
+ * Modules/timemodule.c: Chris Lawrence writes:
+
+ """
+ The GNU folks, in their infinite wisdom, have decided not to implement
+ altzone in libc6; this would not be horrible, except that timezone
+ (which is implemented) includes the current DST setting (i.e. timezone
+ for Central is 18000 in summer and 21600 in winter). So Python's
+ timezone and altzone variables aren't set correctly during DST.
+
+ Here's a patch relative to 1.5.2b2 that (a) makes timezone and altzone
+ show the "right" thing on Linux (by using the tm_gmtoff stuff
+ available in BSD, which is how the GLIBC manual claims things should
+ be done) and (b) should cope with the southern hemisphere. In pursuit
+ of (b), I also took the liberty of renaming the "summer" and "winter"
+ variables to "july" and "jan". This patch should also make certain
+ time calculations on Linux actually work right (like the tz-aware
+ functions in the rfc822 module).
+
+ (It's hard to find DST that's currently being used in the southern
+ hemisphere; I tested using Africa/Windhoek.)
+ """
+
+ * Lib/test/output/test_gzip:
+ Jonathan Giddy discovered this file was missing.
+
+ * Modules/shamodule.c:
+ Avoid warnings from AIX compiler. Reported by Vladimir (AIX is my
+ middlename) Marangozov, patch coded by Greg Stein.
+
+ * Tools/idle/ScriptBinding.py, Tools/idle/PyShell.py:
+ At Tim Peters' recommendation, add a dummy flush() method to PseudoFile.
+
+Sun Mar 28 17:55:32 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/scripts/ndiff.py: Tim Peters writes:
+
+ I should have waited overnight <wink/sigh>. Nothing wrong with the one I
+ sent, but I couldn't resist going on to add new -r1 / -r2 cmdline options
+ for recreating the original files from ndiff's output. That's attached, if
+ you're game! Us Windows guys don't usually have a sed sitting around
+ <wink>.
+
+Sat Mar 27 13:34:01 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/scripts/ndiff.py: Tim Peters writes:
+
+ Attached is a cleaned-up version of ndiff (added useful module
+ docstring, now echo'ed in case of cmd line mistake); added -q option
+ to suppress initial file identification lines; + other minor cleanups,
+ & a slightly faster match engine.
+
+Fri Mar 26 22:36:00 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/scripts/dutree.py:
+ During display, if EPIPE is raised, it's probably because a pager was
+ killed. Discard the error in that case, but propogate it otherwise.
+
+Fri Mar 26 16:20:45 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/output/test_userlist, Lib/test/test_userlist.py:
+ Test suite for UserList.
+
+ * Lib/UserList.py: Use isinstance() where appropriate.
+ Reformatted with 4-space indent.
+
+Fri Mar 26 16:11:40 1999 Barry Warsaw <bwarsaw@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/pynche/PyncheWidget.py:
+ Helpwin.__init__(): The text widget should get focus.
+
+ * Tools/pynche/pyColorChooser.py:
+ Removed unnecessary import `from PyncheWidget import PyncheWidget'
+
+Fri Mar 26 15:32:05 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/output/test_userdict, Lib/test/test_userdict.py:
+ Test suite for UserDict
+
+ * Lib/UserDict.py: Improved a bunch of things.
+ The constructor now takes an optional dictionary.
+ Use isinstance() where appropriate.
+
+Thu Mar 25 22:38:49 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/output/test_pickle, Lib/test/output/test_cpickle, Lib/test/test_pickle.py, Lib/test/test_cpickle.py:
+ Basic regr tests for pickle/cPickle
+
+ * Lib/pickle.py:
+ Don't use "exec" in find_class(). It's slow, unnecessary, and (as AMK
+ points out) it doesn't work in JPython Applets.
+
+Thu Mar 25 21:50:27 1999 Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/test_gzip.py:
+ Added a simple test suite for gzip. It simply opens a temp file,
+ writes a chunk of compressed data, closes it, writes another chunk, and
+ reads the contents back to verify that they are the same.
+
+ * Lib/gzip.py:
+ Based on a suggestion from bruce@hams.com, make a trivial change to
+ allow using the 'a' flag as a mode for opening a GzipFile. gzip
+ files, surprisingly enough, can be concatenated and then decompressed;
+ the effect is to concatenate the two chunks of data.
+
+ If we support it on writing, it should also be supported on reading.
+ This *wasn't* trivial, and required rearranging the code in the
+ reading path, particularly the _read() method.
+
+ Raise IOError instead of RuntimeError in two cases, 'Not a gzipped file'
+ and 'Unknown compression method'
+
+Thu Mar 25 21:25:01 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/test_b1.py:
+ Add tests for float() and complex() with string args (Nick/Stephanie
+ Lockwood).
+
+Thu Mar 25 21:21:08 1999 Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/zlibmodule.c:
+ Add an .unused_data attribute to decompressor objects. If .unused_data
+ is not an empty string, this means that you have arrived at the
+ end of the stream of compressed data, and the contents of .unused_data are
+ whatever follows the compressed stream.
+
+Thu Mar 25 21:16:07 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Python/bltinmodule.c:
+ Patch by Nick and Stephanie Lockwood to implement complex() with a string
+ argument. This closes TODO item 2.19.
+
+Wed Mar 24 19:09:00 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/webchecker/wcnew.py: Added Samuel Bayer's new webchecker.
+ Unfortunately his code breaks wcgui.py in a way that's not easy
+ to fix. I expect that this is a temporary situation --
+ eventually Sam's changes will be merged back in.
+ (The changes add a -t option to specify exceptions to the -x
+ option, and explicit checking for #foo style fragment ids.)
+
+ * Objects/dictobject.c:
+ Vladimir Marangozov contributed updated comments.
+
+ * Objects/bufferobject.c: Folded long lines.
+
+ * Lib/test/output/test_sha, Lib/test/test_sha.py:
+ Added Jeremy's test code for the sha module.
+
+ * Modules/shamodule.c, Modules/Setup.in:
+ Added Greg Stein and Andrew Kuchling's sha module.
+ Fix comments about zlib version and URL.
+
+ * Lib/test/test_bsddb.py: Remove the temp file when we're done.
+
+ * Include/pythread.h: Conform to standard boilerplate.
+
+ * configure.in, configure, BeOS/linkmodule, BeOS/ar-fake:
+ Chris Herborth: the new compiler in R4.1 needs some new options to work...
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c:
+ Implement two suggestions by Jonathan Giddy: (1) in AIX, clear the
+ data struct before calling gethostby{name,addr}_r(); (2) ignore the
+ 3/5/6 args determinations made by the configure script and switch on
+ platform identifiers instead:
+
+ AIX, OSF have 3 args
+ Sun, SGI have 5 args
+ Linux has 6 args
+
+ On all other platforms, undef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R altogether.
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c:
+ Vladimir Marangozov implements the AIX 3-arg gethostbyname_r code.
+
+ * Lib/mailbox.py:
+ Add readlines() to _Subfile class. Not clear who would need it, but
+ Chris Lawrence sent me a broken version; this one is a tad simpler and
+ more conforming to the standard.
+
+Tue Mar 23 23:05:34 1999 Jeremy Hylton <jhylton@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/gzip.py: use struct instead of bit-manipulate in Python
+
+Tue Mar 23 19:00:55 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/Makefile.pre.in:
+ Add $(EXE) to various occurrences of python so it will work on Cygwin
+ with egcs (after setting EXE=.exe). Patch by Norman Vine.
+
+ * configure, configure.in:
+ Ack! It never defined HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R so that code was never tested!
+
+Mon Mar 22 22:25:39 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Include/thread.h:
+ Adding thread.h -- unused but for b/w compatibility.
+ As requested by Bill Janssen.
+
+ * configure.in, configure:
+ Add code to test for all sorts of gethostbyname_r variants,
+ donated by David Arnold.
+
+ * config.h.in, acconfig.h:
+ Add symbols for gethostbyname_r variants (sigh).
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c: Clean up pass for the previous patches.
+
+ - Use HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_6_ARG instead of testing for Linux and
+ glibc2.
+
+ - If gethostbyname takes 3 args, undefine HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R --
+ don't know what code should be used.
+
+ - New symbol USE_GETHOSTBYNAME_LOCK defined iff the lock should be used.
+
+ - Modify the gethostbyaddr() code to also hold on to the lock until
+ after it is safe to release, overlapping with the Python lock.
+
+ (Note: I think that it could in theory be possible that Python code
+ executed while gethostbyname_lock is held could attempt to reacquire
+ the lock -- e.g. in a signal handler or destructor. I will simply say
+ "don't do that then.")
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c: Jonathan Giddy writes:
+
+ Here's a patch to fix the race condition, which wasn't fixed by Rob's
+ patch. It holds the gethostbyname lock until the results are copied out,
+ which means that this lock and the Python global lock are held at the same
+ time. This shouldn't be a problem as long as the gethostbyname lock is
+ always acquired when the global lock is not held.
+
+Mon Mar 22 19:25:30 1999 Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/zlibmodule.c:
+ Fixed the flush() method of compression objects; the test for
+ the end of loop was incorrect, and failed when the flushmode != Z_FINISH.
+ Logic cleaned up and commented.
+
+ * Lib/test/test_zlib.py:
+ Added simple test for the flush() method of compression objects, trying the
+ different flush values Z_NO_FLUSH, Z_SYNC_FLUSH, Z_FULL_FLUSH.
+
+Mon Mar 22 15:28:08 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/shlex.py:
+ Bug reported by Tobias Thelen: missing "self." in assignment target.
+
+Fri Mar 19 21:50:11 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/arraymodule.c:
+ Use an unsigned cast to avoid a warning in VC++.
+
+ * Lib/dospath.py, Lib/ntpath.py:
+ New code for split() by Tim Peters, behaves more like posixpath.split().
+
+ * Objects/floatobject.c:
+ Fix a problem with Vladimir's PyFloat_Fini code: clear the free list; if
+ a block cannot be freed, add its free items back to the free list.
+ This is necessary to avoid leaking when Python is reinitialized later.
+
+ * Objects/intobject.c:
+ Fix a problem with Vladimir's PyInt_Fini code: clear the free list; if
+ a block cannot be freed, add its free items back to the free list, and
+ add its valid ints back to the small_ints array if they are in range.
+ This is necessary to avoid leaking when Python is reinitialized later.
+
+ * Lib/types.py:
+ Added BufferType, the type returned by the new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein.
+
+ * Python/bltinmodule.c:
+ New builtin buffer() creates a derived read-only buffer from any
+ object that supports the buffer interface (e.g. strings, arrays).
+
+ * Objects/bufferobject.c:
+ Added check for negative offset for PyBuffer_FromObject and check for
+ negative size for PyBuffer_FromMemory. Greg Stein.
+
+Thu Mar 18 15:10:44 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urlparse.py: Sjoerd Mullender writes:
+
+ If a filename on Windows starts with \\, it is converted to a URL
+ which starts with ////. If this URL is passed to urlparse.urlparse
+ you get a path that starts with // (and an empty netloc). If you pass
+ the result back to urlparse.urlunparse, you get a URL that starts with
+ //, which is parsed differently by urlparse.urlparse. The fix is to
+ add the (empty) netloc with accompanying slashes if the path in
+ urlunparse starts with //. Do this for all schemes that use a netloc.
+
+ * Lib/nturl2path.py: Sjoerd Mullender writes:
+
+ Pathnames of files on other hosts in the same domain
+ (\\host\path\to\file) are not translated correctly to URLs and back.
+ The URL should be something like file:////host/path/to/file.
+ Note that a combination of drive letter and remote host is not
+ possible.
+
+Wed Mar 17 22:30:10 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urlparse.py:
+ Delete non-standard-conforming code in urljoin() that would use the
+ netloc from the base url as the default netloc for the resulting url
+ even if the schemes differ.
+
+ Once upon a time, when the web was wild, this was a valuable hack
+ because some people had a URL referencing an ftp server colocated with
+ an http server without having the host in the ftp URL (so they could
+ replicate it or change the hostname easily).
+
+ More recently, after the file: scheme got added back to the list of
+ schemes that accept a netloc, it turns out that this caused weirdness
+ when joining an http: URL with a file: URL -- the resulting file: URL
+ would always inherit the host from the http: URL because the file:
+ scheme supports a netloc but in practice never has one.
+
+ There are two reasons to get rid of the old, once-valuable hack,
+ instead of removing the file: scheme from the uses_netloc list. One,
+ the RFC says that file: uses the netloc syntax, and does not endorse
+ the old hack. Two, neither netscape 4.5 nor IE 4.0 support the old
+ hack.
+
+ * Include/ceval.h, Include/abstract.h:
+ Add DLL level b/w compat for PySequence_In and PyEval_CallObject
+
+Tue Mar 16 21:54:50 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py: Bug reported by Jim Robinson:
+
+ An attempt to execute grid_slaves with arguments (0,0) results in
+ *all* of the slaves being returned, not just the slave associated with
+ row 0, column 0. This is because the test for arguments in the method
+ does not test to see if row (and column) does not equal None, but
+ rather just whether is evaluates to non-false. A value of 0 fails
+ this test.
+
+Tue Mar 16 14:17:48 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Modules/cmathmodule.c:
+ Docstring fix: acosh() returns the hyperbolic arccosine, not the
+ hyperbolic cosine. Problem report via David Ascher by one of his
+ students.
+
+Mon Mar 15 21:40:59 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * configure.in:
+ Should test for gethost*by*name_r, not for gethostname_r (which
+ doesn't exist and doesn't make sense).
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c:
+ Patch by Rob Riggs for Linux -- glibc2 has a different argument
+ converntion for gethostbyname_r() etc. than Solaris!
+
+ * Python/thread_pthread.h: Rob Riggs wrote:
+
+ """
+ Spec says that on success pthread_create returns 0. It does not say
+ that an error code will be < 0. Linux glibc2 pthread_create() returns
+ ENOMEM (12) when one exceed process limits. (It looks like it should
+ return EAGAIN, but that's another story.)
+
+ For reference, see:
+ http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/pthread_create.html
+ """
+
+ [I have a feeling that similar bugs were fixed before; perhaps someone
+ could check that all error checks no check for != 0?]
+
+ * Tools/bgen/bgen/bgenObjectDefinition.py:
+ New mixin class that defines cmp and hash that use
+ the ob_itself pointer. This allows (when using the mixin)
+ different Python objects pointing to the same C object and
+ behaving well as dictionary keys.
+
+ Or so sez Jack Jansen...
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py: Yet another patch by Sjoerd Mullender:
+
+ Don't convert URLs to URLs using pathname2url.
+
+Fri Mar 12 22:15:43 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/cmd.py: Patch by Michael Scharf. He writes:
+
+ The module cmd requires for each do_xxx command a help_xxx
+ function. I think this is a little old fashioned.
+
+ Here is a patch: use the docstring as help if no help_xxx
+ function can be found.
+
+ [I'm tempted to rip out all the help_* functions from pdb, but I'll
+ resist it. Any takers? --Guido]
+
+ * Tools/freeze/freeze.py: Bug submitted by Wayne Knowles, who writes:
+
+ Under Windows, python freeze.py -o hello hello.py
+ creates all the correct files in the hello subdirectory, but the
+ Makefile has the directory prefix in it for frozen_extensions.c
+ nmake fails because it tries to locate hello/frozen_extensions.c
+
+ (His fix adds a call to os.path.basename() in the appropriate place.)
+
+ * Objects/floatobject.c, Objects/intobject.c:
+ Vladimir has restructured his code somewhat so that the blocks are now
+ represented by an explicit structure. (There are still too many casts
+ in the code, but that may be unavoidable.)
+
+ Also added code so that with -vv it is very chatty about what it does.
+
+ * Demo/zlib/zlibdemo.py, Demo/zlib/minigzip.py:
+ Change #! line to modern usage; also chmod +x
+
+ * Demo/pdist/rrcs, Demo/pdist/rcvs, Demo/pdist/rcsbump:
+ Change #! line to modern usage
+
+ * Lib/nturl2path.py, Lib/urllib.py: From: Sjoerd Mullender
+
+ The filename to URL conversion didn't properly quote special
+ characters.
+ The URL to filename didn't properly unquote special chatacters.
+
+ * Objects/floatobject.c:
+ OK, try again. Vladimir gave me a fix for the alignment bus error,
+ so here's his patch again. This time it works (at least on Solaris,
+ Linux and Irix).
+
+Thu Mar 11 23:21:23 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Tools/idle/PathBrowser.py:
+ Don't crash when sys.path contains an empty string.
+
+ * Tools/idle/PathBrowser.py:
+ - Don't crash in the case where a superclass is a string instead of a
+ pyclbr.Class object; this can happen when the superclass is
+ unrecognizable (to pyclbr), e.g. when module renaming is used.
+
+ - Show a watch cursor when calling pyclbr (since it may take a while
+ recursively parsing imported modules!).
+
+Thu Mar 11 16:04:04 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/mimetypes.py:
+ Added .rdf and .xsl as application/xml types. (.rdf is for the
+ Resource Description Framework, a metadata encoding, and .xsl is for
+ the Extensible Stylesheet Language.)
+
+Thu Mar 11 13:26:23 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/test/output/test_popen2, Lib/test/test_popen2.py:
+ Test for popen2 module, by Chris Tismer.
+
+ * Objects/floatobject.c:
+ Alas, Vladimir's patch caused a bus error (probably double
+ alignment?), and I didn't test it. Withdrawing it for now.
+
+Wed Mar 10 22:55:47 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Objects/floatobject.c:
+ Patch by Vladimir Marangoz to allow freeing of the allocated blocks of
+ floats on finalization.
+
+ * Objects/intobject.c:
+ Patch by Vladimir Marangoz to allow freeing of the allocated blocks of
+ integers on finalization.
+
+ * Tools/idle/EditorWindow.py, Tools/idle/Bindings.py:
+ Add PathBrowser to File module
+
+ * Tools/idle/PathBrowser.py:
+ "Path browser" - 4 scrolled lists displaying:
+ directories on sys.path
+ modules in selected directory
+ classes in selected module
+ methods of selected class
+
+ Sinlge clicking in a directory, module or class item updates the next
+ column with info about the selected item. Double clicking in a
+ module, class or method item opens the file (and selects the clicked
+ item if it is a class or method).
+
+ I guess eventually I should be using a tree widget for this, but the
+ ones I've seen don't work well enough, so for now I use the old
+ Smalltalk or NeXT style multi-column hierarchical browser.
+
+ * Tools/idle/MultiScrolledLists.py:
+ New utility: multiple scrolled lists in parallel
+
+ * Tools/idle/ScrolledList.py: - White background.
+ - Display "(None)" (or text of your choosing) when empty.
+ - Don't set the focus.
+
+Tue Mar 9 19:31:21 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py:
+ open_http also had the 'data is None' test backwards. don't call with the
+ extra argument if data is None.
+
+ * Demo/embed/demo.c:
+ Call Py_SetProgramName() instead of redefining getprogramname(),
+ reflecting changes in the runtime around 1.5 or earlier.
+
+ * Python/ceval.c:
+ Always test for an error return (usually NULL or -1) without setting
+ an exception.
+
+ * Modules/timemodule.c: Patch by Chris Herborth for BeOS code.
+ He writes:
+
+ I had an off-by-1000 error in floatsleep(),
+ and the problem with time.clock() is that it's not implemented properly
+ on QNX... ANSI says it's supposed to return _CPU_ time used by the
+ process, but on QNX it returns the amount of real time used... so I was
+ confused.
+
+ * Tools/bgen/bgen/macsupport.py: Small change by Jack Jansen.
+ Test for self.returntype behaving like OSErr rather than being it.
+
+Thu Feb 25 16:14:58 1999 Jeremy Hylton <jhylton@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py:
+ http_error had the 'data is None' test backwards. don't call with the
+ extra argument if data is None.
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py: change indentation from 8 spaces to 4 spaces
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py: pleasing the tabnanny
+
+Thu Feb 25 14:26:02 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/colorsys.py:
+ Oops, one more "x, y, z" to convert...
+
+ * Lib/colorsys.py:
+ Adjusted comment at the top to be less confusing, following Fredrik
+ Lundh's example.
+
+ Converted comment to docstring.
+
+Wed Feb 24 18:49:15 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/toaiff.py:
+ Use sndhdr instead of the obsolete whatsound module.
+
+Wed Feb 24 18:42:38 1999 Jeremy Hylton <jhylton@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py:
+ When performing a POST request, i.e. when the second argument to
+ urlopen is used to specify form data, make sure the second argument is
+ threaded through all of the http_error_NNN calls. This allows error
+ handlers like the redirect and authorization handlers to properly
+ re-start the connection.
+
+Wed Feb 24 16:25:17 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/mhlib.py: Patch by Lars Wirzenius:
+
+ o the initial comment is wrong: creating messages is already
+ implemented
+
+ o Message.getbodytext: if the mail or it's part contains an
+ empty content-transfer-encoding header, the code used to
+ break; the change below treats an empty encoding value the same
+ as the other types that do not need decoding
+
+ o SubMessage.getbodytext was missing the decode argument; the
+ change below adds it; I also made it unconditionally return
+ the raw text if decoding was not desired, because my own
+ routines needed that (and it was easier than rewriting my
+ own routines ;-)
+
+Wed Feb 24 00:35:43 1999 Barry Warsaw <bwarsaw@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Python/bltinmodule.c (initerrors):
+ Make sure that the exception tuples ("base-classes" when
+ string-based exceptions are used) reflect the real class hierarchy,
+ i.e. that SystemExit derives from Exception not StandardError.
+
+ * Lib/exceptions.py:
+ Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
+ error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError. The
+ docstring was incorrect but the implementation was fine.
+
+Tue Feb 23 23:07:51 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/shutil.py:
+ Add import sys, needed by reference to sys.exc_info() in rmtree().
+ Discovered by Mitch Chapman.
+
+ * config.h.in:
+ Now that we don't have AC_CHECK_LIB(m, pow), the HAVE_LIBM symbol
+ disappears. It wasn't used anywhere anyway...
+
+ * Modules/arraymodule.c:
+ Carefully check for overflow when allocating the memory for fromfile
+ -- someone tried to pass in sys.maxint and got bitten by the bogus
+ calculations.
+
+ * configure.in:
+ Get rid of AC_CHECK_LIB(m, pow) since this is taken care of later with
+ LIBM (from --with-libm=...); this actually broke the customizability
+ offered by the latter option. Thanks go to Clay Spence for reporting
+ this.
+
+ * Lib/test/test_dl.py:
+ 1. Print the error message (carefully) when a dl.open() fails in verbose mode.
+ 2. When no test case worked, raise ImportError instead of failing.
+
+ * Python/bltinmodule.c:
+ Patch by Tim Peters to improve the range checks for range() and
+ xrange(), especially for platforms where int and long are different
+ sizes (so sys.maxint isn't actually the theoretical limit for the
+ length of a list, but the largest C int is -- sys.maxint is the
+ largest Python int, which is actually a C long).
+
+ * Makefile.in:
+ 1. Augment the DG/UX rule so it doesn't break the BeOS build.
+ 2. Add $(EXE) to various occurrences of python so it will work on
+ Cygwin with egcs (after setting EXE=.exe). These patches by
+ Norman Vine.
+
+ * Lib/posixfile.py:
+ According to Jeffrey Honig, bsd/os 2.0 - 4.0 should be added to the
+ list (of bsd variants that have a different lock structure).
+
+ * Lib/test/test_fcntl.py:
+ According to Jeffrey Honig, bsd/os 4.0 should be added to the list.
+
+ * Modules/timemodule.c:
+ Patch by Tadayoshi Funaba (with some changes) to be smarter about
+ guessing what happened when strftime() returns 0. Is it buffer
+ overflow or was the result simply 0 bytes long? (This happens for an
+ empty format string, or when the format string is a single %Z and the
+ timezone is unknown.) if the buffer is at least 256 times as long as
+ the format, assume the latter.
+
+Mon Feb 22 19:01:42 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urllib.py:
+ As Des Barry points out, we need to call pathname2url(file) in two
+ calls to addinfourl() in open_file().
+
+ * Modules/Setup.in: Document *static* -- in two places!
+
+ * Modules/timemodule.c:
+ We don't support leap seconds, so the seconds field of a time 9-tuple
+ should be in the range [0-59]. Noted by Tadayoshi Funaba.
+
+ * Modules/stropmodule.c:
+ In atoi(), don't use isxdigit() to test whether the last character
+ converted was a "digit" -- use isalnum(). This test is there only to
+ guard against "+" or "-" being interpreted as a valid int literal.
+ Reported by Takahiro Nakayama.
+
+ * Lib/os.py:
+ As Finn Bock points out, _P_WAIT etc. don't have a leading underscore
+ so they don't need to be treated specially here.
+
+Mon Feb 22 15:38:58 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Misc/NEWS:
+ Typo: "apparentlt" --> "apparently"
+
+Mon Feb 22 15:38:46 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/urlparse.py: Steve Clift pointed out that 'file' allows a netloc.
+
+ * Modules/posixmodule.c:
+ The docstring for ttyname(..) claims a second "mode" argument. The
+ actual code does not allow such an argument. (Finn Bock.)
+
+ * Lib/lib-old/poly.py:
+ Dang. Even though this is obsolete code, somebody found a bug, and I
+ fix it. Oh well.
+
+Thu Feb 18 20:51:50 1999 Fred Drake <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
+
+ * Lib/pyclbr.py:
+ Bow to font-lock at the end of the docstring, since it throws stuff
+ off.
+
+ Make sure the path paramter to readmodule() is a list before adding it
+ with sys.path, or the addition could fail.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+
+From 1.5.2b1 to 1.5.2b2
+=======================
+
+General
+-------
+
+- Many memory leaks fixed.
+
+- Many small bugs fixed.
+
+- Command line option -OO (or -O -O) suppresses inclusion of doc
+strings in resulting bytecode.
+
+Windows-specific changes
+------------------------
+
+- New built-in module winsound provides an interface to the Win32
+PlaySound() call.
+
+- Re-enable the audioop module in the config.c file.
+
+- On Windows, support spawnv() and associated P_* symbols.
+
+- Fixed the conversion of times() return values on Windows.
+
+- Removed freeze from the installer -- it doesn't work without the
+source tree. (See FAQ 8.11.)
+
+- On Windows 95/98, the Tkinter module now is smart enough to find
+Tcl/Tk even when the PATH environment variable hasn't been set -- when
+the import of _tkinter fails, it searches in a standard locations,
+patches os.environ["PATH"], and tries again. When it still fails, a
+clearer error message is produced. This should avoid most
+installation problems with Tkinter use (e.g. in IDLE).
+
+- The -i option doesn't make any calls to set[v]buf() for stdin --
+this apparently screwed up _kbhit() and the _tkinter main loop.
+
+- The ntpath module (and hence, os.path on Windows) now parses out UNC
+paths (e.g. \\host\mountpoint\dir\file) as "drive letters", so that
+splitdrive() will \\host\mountpoint as the drive and \dir\file as the
+path. ** EXPERIMENTAL **
+
+- Added a hack to the exit code so that if (1) the exit status is
+nonzero and (2) we think we have our own DOS box (i.e. we're not
+started from a command line shell), we print a message and wait for
+the user to hit a key before the DOS box is closed.
+
+- Updated the installer to WISE 5.0g. Added a dialog warning about
+the imminent Tcl installation. Added a dialog to specify the program
+group name in the start menu. Upgraded the Tcl installer to Tcl
+8.0.4.
+
+Changes to intrinsics
+---------------------
+
+- The repr() or str() of a module object now shows the __file__
+attribute (i.e., the file which it was loaded), or the string
+"(built-in)" if there is no __file__ attribute.
+
+- The range() function now avoids overflow during its calculations (if
+at all possible).
+
+- New info string sys.hexversion, which is an integer encoding the
+version in hexadecimal. In other words, hex(sys.hexversion) ==
+0x010502b2 for Python 1.5.2b2.
+
+New or improved ports
+---------------------
+
+- Support for Nextstep descendants (future Mac systems).
+
+- Improved BeOS support.
+
+- Support dynamic loading of shared libraries on NetBSD platforms that
+use ELF (i.e., MIPS and Alpha systems).
+
+Configuration/build changes
+---------------------------
+
+- The Lib/test directory is no longer included in the default module
+search path (sys.path) -- "test" has been a package ever since 1.5.
+
+- Now using autoconf 2.13.
+
+New library modules
+-------------------
+
+- New library modules asyncore and asynchat: these form Sam Rushing's
+famous asynchronous socket library. Sam has gracefully allowed me to
+incorporate these in the standard Python library.
+
+- New module statvfs contains indexing constants for [f]statvfs()
+return tuple.
+
+Changes to the library
+----------------------
+
+- The wave module (platform-independent support for Windows sound
+files) has been fixed to actually make it work.
+
+- The sunau module (platform-independent support for Sun/NeXT sound
+files) has been fixed to work across platforms. Also, a weird
+encoding bug in the header of the audio test data file has been
+corrected.
+
+- Fix a bug in the urllib module that occasionally tripped up
+webchecker and other ftp retrieves.
+
+- ConfigParser's get() method now accepts an optional keyword argument
+(vars) that is substituted on top of the defaults that were setup in
+__init__. You can now also have recusive references in your
+configuration file.
+
+- Some improvements to the Queue module, including a put_nowait()
+module and an optional "block" second argument, to get() and put(),
+defaulting to 1.
+
+- The updated xmllib module is once again compatible with the version
+present in Python 1.5.1 (this was accidentally broken in 1.5.2b1).
+
+- The bdb module (base class for the debugger) now supports
+canonicalizing pathnames used in breakpoints. The derived class must
+override the new canonical() method for this to work. Also changed
+clear_break() to the backwards compatible old signature, and added
+clear_bpbynumber() for the new functionality.
+
+- In sgmllib (and hence htmllib), recognize attributes even if they
+don't have space in front of them. I.e. '<a
+name="foo"href="bar.html">' will now have two attributes recognized.
+
+- In the debugger (pdb), change clear syntax to support three
+alternatives: clear; clear file:line; clear bpno bpno ...
+
+- The os.path module now pretends to be a submodule within the os
+"package", so you can do things like "from os.path import exists".
+
+- The standard exceptions now have doc strings.
+
+- In the smtplib module, exceptions are now classes. Also avoid
+inserting a non-standard space after "TO" in rcpt() command.
+
+- The rfc822 module's getaddrlist() method now uses all occurrences of
+the specified header instead of just the first. Some other bugfixes
+too (to handle more weird addresses found in a very large test set,
+and to avoid crashes on certain invalid dates), and a small test
+module has been added.
+
+- Fixed bug in urlparse in the common-case code for HTTP URLs; it
+would lose the query, fragment, and/or parameter information.
+
+- The sndhdr module no longer supports whatraw() -- it depended on a
+rare extenral program.
+
+- The UserList module/class now supports the extend() method, like
+real list objects.
+
+- The uu module now deals better with trailing garbage generated by
+some broke uuencoders.
+
+- The telnet module now has an my_interact() method which uses threads
+instead of select. The interact() method uses this by default on
+Windows (where the single-threaded version doesn't work).
+
+- Add a class to mailbox.py for dealing with qmail directory
+mailboxes. The test code was extended to notice these being used as
+well.
+
+Changes to extension modules
+----------------------------
+
+- Support for the [f]statvfs() system call, where it exists.
+
+- Fixed some bugs in cPickle where bad input could cause it to dump
+core.
+
+- Fixed cStringIO to make the writelines() function actually work.
+
+- Added strop.expandtabs() so string.expandtabs() is now much faster.
+
+- Added fsync() and fdatasync(), if they appear to exist.
+
+- Support for "long files" (64-bit seek pointers).
+
+- Fixed a bug in the zlib module's flush() function.
+
+- Added access() system call. It returns 1 if access granted, 0 if
+not.
+
+- The curses module implements an optional nlines argument to
+w.scroll(). (It then calls wscrl(win, nlines) instead of scoll(win).)
+
+Changes to tools
+----------------
+
+- Some changes to IDLE; see Tools/idle/NEWS.txt.
+
+- Latest version of Misc/python-mode.el included.
+
+Changes to Tkinter
+------------------
+
+- Avoid tracebacks when an image is deleted after its root has been
+destroyed.
+
+Changes to the Python/C API
+---------------------------
+
+- When parentheses are used in a PyArg_Parse[Tuple]() call, any
+sequence is now accepted, instead of requiring a tuple. This is in
+line with the general trend towards accepting arbitrary sequences.
+
+- Added PyModule_GetFilename().
+
+- In PyNumber_Power(), remove unneeded and even harmful test for float
+to the negative power (which is already and better done in
+floatobject.c).
+
+- New version identification symbols; read patchlevel.h for info. The
+version numbers are now exported by Python.h.
+
+- Rolled back the API version change -- it's back to 1007!
+
+- The frozenmain.c function calls PyInitFrozenExtensions().
+
+- Added 'N' format character to Py_BuildValue -- like 'O' but doesn't
+INCREF.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+
+From 1.5.2a2 to 1.5.2b1
+=======================
+
+Changes to intrinsics
+---------------------
+
+- New extension NotImplementedError, derived from RuntimeError. Not
+used, but recommended use is for "abstract" methods to raise this.
+
+- The parser will now spit out a warning or error when -t or -tt is
+used for parser input coming from a string, too.
+
+- The code generator now inserts extra SET_LINENO opcodes when
+compiling multi-line argument lists.
+
+- When comparing bound methods, use identity test on the objects, not
+equality test.
+
+New or improved ports
+---------------------
+
+- Chris Herborth has redone his BeOS port; it now works on PowerPC
+(R3/R4) and x86 (R4 only). Threads work too in this port.
+
+Renaming
+--------
+
+- Thanks to Chris Herborth, the thread primitives now have proper Py*
+names in the source code (they already had those for the linker,
+through some smart macros; but the source still had the old, un-Py
+names).
+
+Configuration/build changes
+---------------------------
+
+- Improved support for FreeBSD/3.
+
+- Check for pthread_detach instead of pthread_create in libc.
+
+- The makesetup script now searches EXECINCLUDEPY before INCLUDEPY.
+
+- Misc/Makefile.pre.in now also looks at Setup.thread and Setup.local.
+Otherwise modules such as thread didn't get incorporated in extensions.
+
+New library modules
+-------------------
+
+- shlex.py by Eric Raymond provides a lexical analyzer class for
+simple shell-like syntaxes.
+
+- netrc.py by Eric Raymond provides a parser for .netrc files. (The
+undocumented Netrc class in ftplib.py is now obsolete.)
+
+- codeop.py is a new module that contains the compile_command()
+function that was previously in code.py. This is so that JPython can
+provide its own version of this function, while still sharing the
+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
+or other novices without prior programming experience.
+
+Obsoleted library modules
+-------------------------
+
+- poly.py and zmod.py have been moved to Lib/lib-old to emphasize
+their status of obsoleteness. They don't do a particularly good job
+and don't seem particularly relevant to the Python core.
+
+New tools
+---------
+
+- I've added IDLE: my Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python.
+Requires Tcl/Tk (and Tkinter). Works on Windows and Unix (and should
+work on Macintosh, but I haven't been able to test it there; it does
+depend on new features in 1.5.2 and perhaps even new features in
+1.5.2b1, especially the new code module). This is very much a work in
+progress. I'd like to hear how people like it compared to PTUI (or
+any other IDE they are familiar with).
+
+- New tools by Barry Warsaw:
+
+ = audiopy: controls the Solaris Audio device
+ = pynche: The PYthonically Natural Color and Hue Editor
+ = world: Print mappings between country names and DNS country codes
+
+New demos
+---------
+
+- Demo/scripts/beer.py prints the lyrics to an arithmetic drinking
+song.
+
+- Demo/tkinter/guido/optionmenu.py shows how to do an option menu in
+Tkinter. (By Fredrik Lundh -- not by me!)
+
+Changes to the library
+----------------------
+
+- compileall.py now avoids recompiling .py files that haven't changed;
+it adds a -f option to force recompilation.
+
+- New version of xmllib.py by Sjoerd Mullender (0.2 with latest
+patches).
+
+- nntplib.py: statparse() no longer lowercases the message-id.
+
+- types.py: use type(__stdin__) for FileType.
+
+- urllib.py: fix translations for filenames with "funny" characters.
+Patch by Sjoerd Mullender. Note that if you subclass one of the
+URLopener classes, and you have copied code from the old urllib.py,
+your subclass may stop working. A long-term solution is to provide
+more methods so that you don't have to copy code.
+
+- cgi.py: In read_multi, allow a subclass to override the class we
+instantiate when we create a recursive instance, by setting the class
+variable 'FieldStorageClass' to the desired class. By default, this
+is set to None, in which case we use self.__class__ (as before).
+Also, a patch by Jim Fulton to pass additional arguments to recursive
+calls to the FieldStorage constructor from its read_multi method.
+
+- UserList.py: In __getslice__, use self.__class__ instead of
+UserList.
+
+- In SimpleHTTPServer.py, the server specified in test() should be
+BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer, in case the request handler should want to
+reference the two attributes added by BaseHTTPServer.server_bind. (By
+Jeff Rush, for Bobo). Also open the file in binary mode, so serving
+images from a Windows box might actually work.
+
+- In CGIHTTPServer.py, the list of acceptable formats is -split-
+on spaces but -joined- on commas, resulting in double commas
+in the joined text. (By Jeff Rush.)
+
+- SocketServer.py, patch by Jeff Bauer: a minor change to declare two
+new threaded versions of Unix Server classes, using the ThreadingMixIn
+class: ThreadingUnixStreamServer, ThreadingUnixDatagramServer.
+
+- bdb.py: fix bomb on deleting a temporary breakpoint: there's no
+method do_delete(); do_clear() was meant. By Greg Ward.
+
+- getopt.py: accept a non-list sequence for the long options (request
+by Jack Jansen). Because it might be a common mistake to pass a
+single string, this situation is treated separately. Also added
+docstrings (copied from the library manual) and removed the (now
+redundant) module comments.
+
+- tempfile.py: improvements to avoid security leaks.
+
+- code.py: moved compile_command() to new module codeop.py.
+
+- pickle.py: support pickle format 1.3 (binary float added). By Jim
+Fulton. Also get rid of the undocumented obsolete Pickler dump_special
+method.
+
+- uu.py: Move 'import sys' to top of module, as noted by Tim Peters.
+
+- imaplib.py: fix problem with some versions of IMAP4 servers that
+choose to mix the case in their CAPABILITIES response.
+
+- cmp.py: use (f1, f2) as cache key instead of f1 + ' ' + f2. Noted
+by Fredrik Lundh.
+
+Changes to extension modules
+----------------------------
+
+- More doc strings for several modules were contributed by Chris
+Petrilli: math, cmath, fcntl.
+
+- Fixed a bug in zlibmodule.c that could cause core dumps on
+decompression of rarely occurring input.
+
+- cPickle.c: new version from Jim Fulton, with Open Source copyright
+notice. Also, initialize self->safe_constructors early on to prevent
+crash in early dealloc.
+
+- cStringIO.c: new version from Jim Fulton, with Open Source copyright
+notice. Also fixed a core dump in cStringIO.c when doing seeks.
+
+- mpzmodule.c: fix signed character usage in mpz.mpz(stringobjecty).
+
+- readline.c: Bernard Herzog pointed out that rl_parse_and_bind
+modifies its argument string (bad function!), so we make a temporary
+copy.
+
+- sunaudiodev.c: Barry Warsaw added more smarts to get the device and
+control pseudo-device, per audio(7I).
+
+Changes to tools
+----------------
+
+- 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
+only the names of offending files to be printed.
+
+- freeze: when printing missing modules, also print the module they
+were imported from.
+
+- untabify.py: patch by Detlef Lannert to implement -t option
+(set tab size).
+
+Changes to Tkinter
+------------------
+
+- grid_bbox(): support new Tk API: grid bbox ?column row? ?column2
+row2?
+
+- _tkinter.c: RajGopal Srinivasan noted that the latest code (1.5.2a2)
+doesn't work when running in a non-threaded environment. He added
+some #ifdefs that fix this.
+
+Changes to the Python/C API
+---------------------------
+
+- Bumped API version number to 1008 -- enough things have changed!
+
+- There's a new macro, PyThreadState_GET(), which does the same work
+as PyThreadState_Get() without the overhead of a function call (it
+also avoids the error check). The two top calling locations of
+PyThreadState_Get() have been changed to use this macro.
+
+- All symbols intended for export from a DLL or shared library are now
+marked as such (with the DL_IMPORT() macro) in the header file that
+declares them. This was needed for the BeOS port, and should also
+make some other ports easier. The PC port no longer needs the file
+with exported symbols (PC/python_nt.def). There's also a DL_EXPORT
+macro which is only used for init methods in extension modules, and
+for Py_Main().
+
+Invisible changes to internals
+------------------------------
+
+- Fixed a bug in new_buffersize() in fileobject.c which could
+return a buffer size that was way too large.
+
+- Use PySys_WriteStderr instead of fprintf in most places.
+
+- dictobject.c: remove dead code discovered by Vladimir Marangozov.
+
+- tupleobject.c: make tuples less hungry -- an extra item was
+allocated but never used. Tip by Vladimir Marangozov.
+
+- mymath.h: Metrowerks PRO4 finally fixes the hypot snafu. (Jack
+Jansen)
+
+- import.c: Jim Fulton fixes a reference count bug in
+PyEval_GetGlobals.
+
+- glmodule.c: check in the changed version after running the stubber
+again -- this solves the conflict with curses over the 'clear' entry
+point much nicer. (Jack Jansen had checked in the changes to cstubs
+eons ago, but I never regenrated glmodule.c :-( )
+
+- frameobject.c: fix reference count bug in PyFrame_New. Vladimir
+Marangozov.
+
+- stropmodule.c: add a missing DECREF in an error exit. Submitted by
+Jonathan Giddy.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+
+From 1.5.2a1 to 1.5.2a2
+=======================
+
+General
+-------
+
+- It is now a syntax error to have a function argument without a
+default following one with a default.
+
+- __file__ is now set to the .py file if it was parsed (it used to
+always be the .pyc/.pyo file).
+
+- Don't exit with a fatal error during initialization when there's a
+problem with the exceptions.py module.
+
+- New environment variable PYTHONOPTIMIZE can be used to set -O.
+
+- New version of python-mode.el for Emacs.
+
+Miscellaneous fixed bugs
+------------------------
+
+- No longer print the (confusing) error message about stack underflow
+while compiling.
+
+- Some threading and locking bugs fixed.
+
+- When errno is zero, report "Error", not "Success".
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Documentation will be released separately.
+
+- Doc strings added to array and md5 modules by Chris Petrilli.
+
+Ports and build procedure
+-------------------------
+
+- Stop installing when a move or copy fails.
+
+- New version of the OS/2 port code by Jeff Rush.
+
+- The makesetup script handles absolute filenames better.
+
+- The 'new' module is now enabled by default in the Setup file.
+
+- I *think* I've solved the problem with the Linux build blowing up
+sometimes due to a conflict between sigcheck/intrcheck and
+signalmodule.
+
+Built-in functions
+------------------
+
+- The second argument to apply() can now be any sequence, not just a
+tuple.
+
+Built-in types
+--------------
+
+- Lists have a new method: L1.extend(L2) is equivalent to the common
+idiom L1[len(L1):] = L2.
+
+- Better error messages when a sequence is indexed with a non-integer.
+
+- Bettter error message when calling a non-callable object (include
+the type in the message).
+
+Python services
+---------------
+
+- New version of cPickle.c fixes some bugs.
+
+- pickle.py: improved instantiation error handling.
+
+- code.py: reworked quite a bit. New base class
+InteractiveInterpreter and derived class InteractiveConsole. Fixed
+several problems in compile_command().
+
+- py_compile.py: print error message and continue on syntax errors.
+Also fixed an old bug with the fstat code (it was never used).
+
+- pyclbr.py: support submodules of packages.
+
+String Services
+---------------
+
+- StringIO.py: raise the right exception (ValueError) for attempted
+I/O on closed StringIO objects.
+
+- re.py: fixed a bug in subn(), which caused .groups() to fail inside
+the replacement function called by sub().
+
+- The struct module has a new format 'P': void * in native mode.
+
+Generic OS Services
+-------------------
+
+- Module time: Y2K robustness. 2-digit year acceptance depends on
+value of time.accept2dyear, initialized from env var PYTHONY2K,
+default 0. Years 00-68 mean 2000-2068, while 69-99 mean 1969-1999
+(POSIX or X/Open recommendation).
+
+- os.path: normpath(".//x") should return "x", not "/x".
+
+- getpass.py: fall back on default_getpass() when sys.stdin.fileno()
+doesn't work.
+
+- tempfile.py: regenerate the template after a fork() call.
+
+Optional OS Services
+--------------------
+
+- In the signal module, disable restarting interrupted system calls
+when we have siginterrupt().
+
+Debugger
+--------
+
+- No longer set __args__; this feature is no longer supported and can
+affect the debugged code.
+
+- cmd.py, pdb.py and bdb.py have been overhauled by Richard Wolff, who
+added aliases and some other useful new features, e.g. much better
+breakpoint support: temporary breakpoint, disabled breakpoints,
+breakpoints with ignore counts, and conditions; breakpoints can be set
+on a file before it is loaded.
+
+Profiler
+--------
+
+- Changes so that JPython can use it. Also fix the calibration code
+so it actually works again
+.
+Internet Protocols and Support
+------------------------------
+
+- imaplib.py: new version from Piers Lauder.
+
+- smtplib.py: change sendmail() method to accept a single string or a
+list or strings as the destination (commom newbie mistake).
+
+- poplib.py: LIST with a msg argument fixed.
+
+- urlparse.py: some optimizations for common case (http).
+
+- urllib.py: support content-length in info() for ftp protocol;
+support for a progress meter through a third argument to
+urlretrieve(); commented out gopher test (the test site is dead).
+
+Internet Data handling
+----------------------
+
+- sgmllib.py: support tags with - or . in their name.
+
+- mimetypes.py: guess_type() understands 'data' URLs.
+
+Restricted Execution
+--------------------
+
+- The classes rexec.RModuleLoader and rexec.RModuleImporter no
+longer exist.
+
+Tkinter
+-------
+
+- When reporting an exception, store its info in sys.last_*. Also,
+write all of it to stderr.
+
+- Added NS, EW, and NSEW constants, for grid's sticky option.
+
+- Fixed last-minute bug in 1.5.2a1 release: need to include "mytime.h".
+
+- Make bind variants without a sequence return a tuple of sequences
+(formerly it returned a string, which wasn't very convenient).
+
+- Add image commands to the Text widget (these are new in Tk 8.0).
+
+- Added new listbox and canvas methods: {xview,yview}_{scroll,moveto}.)
+
+- Improved the thread code (but you still can't call update() from
+another thread on Windows).
+
+- Fixed unnecessary references to _default_root in the new dialog
+modules.
+
+- Miscellaneous problems fixed.
+
+
+Windows General
+---------------
+
+- Call LoadLibraryEx(..., ..., LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH) to
+search for dependent dlls in the directory containing the .pyd.
+
+- In debugging mode, call DebugBreak() in Py_FatalError().
+
+Windows Installer
+-----------------
+
+- Install zlib.dll in the DLLs directory instead of in the win32
+system directory, to avoid conflicts with other applications that have
+their own zlib.dll.
+
+Test Suite
+----------
+
+- test_long.py: new test for long integers, by Tim Peters.
+
+- regrtest.py: improved so it can be used for other test suites as
+well.
+
+- test_strftime.py: use re to compare test results, to support legal
+variants (e.g. on Linux).
+
+Tools and Demos
+---------------
+
+- Four new scripts in Tools/scripts: crlf.py and lfcr.py (to
+remove/add Windows style '\r\n' line endings), untabify.py (to remove
+tabs), and rgrep.yp (reverse grep).
+
+- Improvements to Tools/freeze/. Each Python module is now written to
+its own C file. This prevents some compilers or assemblers from
+blowing up on large frozen programs, and saves recompilation time if
+only a few modules are changed. Other changes too, e.g. new command
+line options -x and -i.
+
+- Much improved (and smaller!) version of Tools/scripts/mailerdaemon.py.
+
+Python/C API
+------------
+
+- New mechanism to support extensions of the type object while
+remaining backward compatible with extensions compiled for previous
+versions of Python 1.5. A flags field indicates presence of certain
+fields.
+
+- Addition to the buffer API to differentiate access to bytes and
+8-bit characters (in anticipation of Unicode characters).
+
+- New argument parsing format t# ("text") to indicate 8-bit
+characters; s# simply means 8-bit bytes, for backwards compatibility.
+
+- New object type, bufferobject.c is an example and can be used to
+create buffers from memory.
+
+- Some support for 64-bit longs, including some MS platforms.
+
+- Many calls to fprintf(stderr, ...) have been replaced with calls to
+PySys_WriteStderr(...).
+
+- The calling context for PyOS_Readline() has changed: it must now be
+called with the interpreter lock held! It releases the lock around
+the call to the function pointed to by PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer
+(default PyOS_StdioReadline()).
+
+- New APIs PyLong_FromVoidPtr() and PyLong_AsVoidPtr().
+
+- Renamed header file "thread.h" to "pythread.h".
+
+- The code string of code objects may now be anything that supports the
+buffer API.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+
+From 1.5.1 to 1.5.2a1
+=====================
+
+General
+-------
+
+- When searching for the library, a landmark that is a compiled module
+(string.pyc or string.pyo) is also accepted.
+
+- When following symbolic links to the python executable, use a loop
+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
+Ctrl-Z) to exit.
+
+- New and improved Misc/python-mode.el (Python mode for Emacs).
+
+- Revert a new feature in Unix dynamic loading: for one or two
+revisions, modules were loaded using the RTLD_GLOBAL flag. It turned
+out to be a bad idea.
+
+Miscellaneous fixed bugs
+------------------------
+
+- All patches on the patch page have been integrated. (But much more
+has been done!)
+
+- Several memory leaks plugged (e.g. the one for classes with a
+__getattr__ method).
+
+- Removed the only use of calloc(). This triggered an obscure bug on
+multiprocessor Sparc Solaris 2.6.
+
+- Fix a peculiar bug that would allow "import sys.time" to succeed
+(believing the built-in time module to be a part of the sys package).
+
+- Fix a bug in the overflow checking when converting a Python long to
+a C long (failed to convert -2147483648L, and some other cases).
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Doc strings have been added to many extension modules: __builtin__,
+errno, select, signal, socket, sys, thread, time. Also to methods of
+list objects (try [].append.__doc__). A doc string on a type will now
+automatically be propagated to an instance if the instance has methods
+that are accessed in the usual way.
+
+- The documentation has been expanded and the formatting improved.
+(Remember that the documentation is now unbundled and has its own
+release cycle though; see http://www.python.org/doc/.)
+
+- Added Misc/Porting -- a mini-FAQ on porting to a new platform.
+
+Ports and build procedure
+-------------------------
+
+- The BeOS port is now integrated. Courtesy Chris Herborth.
+
+- Symbol files for FreeBSD 2.x and 3.x have been contributed
+(Lib/plat-freebsd[23]/*).
+
+- Support HPUX 10.20 DCE threads.
+
+- Finally fixed the configure script so that (on SGI) if -OPT:Olimit=0
+works, it won't also use -Olimit 1500 (which gives a warning for every
+file). Also support the SGI_ABI environment variable better.
+
+- The makesetup script now understands absolute pathnames ending in .o
+in the module -- it assumes it's a file for which we have no source.
+
+- Other miscellaneous improvements to the configure script and
+Makefiles.
+
+- The test suite now uses a different sound sample.
+
+Built-in functions
+------------------
+
+- Better checks for invalid input to int(), long(), string.atoi(),
+string.atol(). (Formerly, a sign without digits would be accepted as
+a legal ways to spell zero.)
+
+- Changes to map() and filter() to use the length of a sequence only
+as a hint -- if an IndexError happens earlier, take that. (Formerly,
+this was considered an error.)
+
+- Experimental feature in getattr(): a third argument can specify a
+default (instead of raising AttributeError).
+
+- Implement round() slightly different, so that for negative ndigits
+no additional errors happen in the last step.
+
+- The open() function now adds the filename to the exception when it
+fails.
+
+Built-in exceptions
+-------------------
+
+- New standard exceptions EnvironmentError and PosixError.
+EnvironmentError is the base class for IOError and PosixError;
+PosixError is the same as os.error. All this so that either exception
+class can be instantiated with a third argument indicating a filename.
+The built-in function open() and most os/posix functions that take a
+filename argument now use this.
+
+Built-in types
+--------------
+
+- List objects now have an experimental pop() method; l.pop() returns
+and removes the last item; l.pop(i) returns and removes the item at
+i. Also, the sort() method is faster again. Sorting is now also
+safer: it is impossible for the sorting function to modify the list
+while the sort is going on (which could cause core dumps).
+
+- Changes to comparisons: numbers are now smaller than any other type.
+This is done to prevent the circularity where [] < 0L < 1 < [] is
+true. As a side effect, cmp(None, 0) is now positive instead of
+negative. This *shouldn't* affect any working code, but I've found
+that the change caused several "sleeping" bugs to become active, so
+beware!
+
+- Instance methods may now have other callable objects than just
+Python functions as their im_func. Use new.instancemethod() or write
+your own C code to create them; new.instancemethod() may be called
+with None for the instance to create an unbound method.
+
+- Assignment to __name__, __dict__ or __bases__ of a class object is
+now allowed (with stringent type checks); also allow assignment to
+__getattr__ etc. The cached values for __getattr__ etc. are
+recomputed after such assignments (but not for derived classes :-( ).
+
+- Allow assignment to some attributes of function objects: func_code,
+func_defaults and func_doc / __doc__. (With type checks except for
+__doc__ / func_doc .)
+
+Python services
+---------------
+
+- New tests (in Lib/test): reperf.py (regular expression benchmark),
+sortperf.py (list sorting benchmark), test_MimeWriter.py (test case
+for the MimeWriter module).
+
+- Generalized test/regrtest.py so that it is useful for testing other
+packages.
+
+- The ihooks.py module now understands package imports.
+
+- In code.py, add a class that subsumes Fredrik Lundh's
+PythonInterpreter class. The interact() function now uses this.
+
+- In rlcompleter.py, in completer(), return None instead of raising an
+IndexError when there are no more completions left.
+
+- Fixed the marshal module to test for certain common kinds of invalid
+input. (It's still not foolproof!)
+
+- In the operator module, add an alias (now the preferred name)
+"contains" for "sequenceincludes".
+
+String Services
+---------------
+
+- In the string and strop modules, in the replace() function, treat an
+empty pattern as an error (since it's not clear what was meant!).
+
+- Some speedups to re.py, especially the string substitution and split
+functions. Also added new function/method findall(), to find all
+occurrences of a given substring.
+
+- In cStringIO, add better argument type checking and support the
+readonly 'closed' attribute (like regular files).
+
+- In the struct module, unsigned 1-2 byte sized formats no longer
+result in long integer values.
+
+Miscellaneous services
+----------------------
+
+- In whrandom.py, added new method and function randrange(), same as
+choice(range(start, stop, step)) but faster. This addresses the
+problem that randint() was accidentally defined as taking an inclusive
+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
+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
+exceptions, support underscore in section header and option name. No
+longer add 'name' option to every section; instead, add '__name__'.
+
+- In getpass.py, don't use raw_input() to ask for the password -- we
+don't want it to show up in the readline history! Also don't catch
+interrupts (the try-finally already does all necessary cleanup).
+
+Generic OS Services
+-------------------
+
+- New functions in os.py: makedirs(), removedirs(), renames(). New
+variable: linesep (the line separator as found in binary files,
+i.e. '\n' on Unix, '\r\n' on DOS/Windows, '\r' on Mac. Do *not* use
+this with files opened in (default) text mode; the line separator used
+will always be '\n'!
+
+- Changes to the 'os.path' submodule of os.py: added getsize(),
+getmtime(), getatime() -- these fetch the most popular items from the
+stat return tuple.
+
+- In the time module, add strptime(), if it exists. (This parses a
+time according to a format -- the inverse of strftime().) Also,
+remove the call to mktime() from strftime() -- it messed up the
+formatting of some non-local times.
+
+- In the socket module, added a new function gethostbyname_ex().
+Also, don't use #ifdef to test for some symbols that are enums on some
+platforms (and should exist everywhere).
+
+Optional OS Services
+--------------------
+
+- Some fixes to gzip.py. In particular, the readlines() method now
+returns the lines *with* trailing newline characters, like readlines()
+of regular file objects. Also, it didn't work together with cPickle;
+fixed that.
+
+- In whichdb.py, support byte-swapped dbhash (bsddb) files.
+
+- In anydbm.py, look at the type of an existing database to determine
+which module to use to open it. (The anydbm.error exception is now a
+tuple.)
+
+Unix Services
+-------------
+
+- In the termios module, in tcsetattr(), initialize the structure vy
+calling tcgetattr().
+
+- Added some of the "wait status inspection" macros as functions to
+the posix module (and thus to the os module): WEXITSTATUS(),
+WIFEXITED(), WIFSIGNALED(), WIFSTOPPED(), WSTOPSIG(), WTERMSIG().
+
+- In the syslog module, make the default facility more intuitive
+(matching the docs).
+
+Debugger
+--------
+
+- In pdb.py, support for setting breaks on files/modules that haven't
+been loaded yet.
+
+Internet Protocols and Support
+------------------------------
+
+- Changes in urllib.py; sped up unquote() and quote(). Fixed an
+obscure bug in quote_plus(). Added urlencode(dict) -- convenience
+function for sending a POST request with urlopen(). Use the getpass
+module to ask for a password. Rewrote the (test) main program so that
+when used as a script, it can retrieve one or more URLs to stdout.
+Use -t to run the self-test. Made the proxy code work again.
+
+- In cgi.py, treat "HEAD" the same as "GET", so that CGI scripts don't
+fail when someone asks for their HEAD. Also, for POST, set the
+default content-type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Also, in
+FieldStorage.__init__(), when method='GET', always get the query
+string from environ['QUERY_STRING'] or sys.argv[1] -- ignore an
+explicitly passed in fp.
+
+- The smtplib.py module now supports ESMTP and has improved standard
+compliance, for picky servers.
+
+- Improved imaplib.py.
+
+- Fixed UDP support in SocketServer.py (it never worked).
+
+- Fixed a small bug in CGIHTTPServer.py.
+
+Internet Data handling
+----------------------
+
+- In rfc822.py, add a new class AddressList. Also support a new
+overridable method, isheader(). Also add a get() method similar to
+dictionaries (and make getheader() an alias for it). Also, be smarter
+about seekable (test whether fp.tell() works) and test for presence of
+unread() method before trying seeks.
+
+- In sgmllib.py, restore the call to report_unbalanced() that was lost
+long ago. Also some other improvements: handle <? processing
+instructions >, allow . and - in entity names, and allow \r\n as line
+separator.
+
+- Some restructuring and generalization done to multifile.py; support
+a 'seekable' flag.
+
+Restricted Execution
+--------------------
+
+- Improvements to rexec.py: package support; support a (minimal)
+sys.exc_info(). Also made the (test) main program a bit fancier (you
+can now use it to run arbitrary Python scripts in restricted mode).
+
+Tkinter
+-------
+
+- On Unix, Tkinter can now safely be used from a multi-threaded
+application. (Formerly, no threads would make progress while
+Tkinter's mainloop() was active, because it didn't release the Python
+interpreter lock.) Unfortunately, on Windows, threads other than the
+main thread should not call update() or update_idletasks() because
+this will deadlock the application.
+
+- An interactive interpreter that uses readline and Tkinter no longer
+uses up all available CPU time.
+
+- Even if readline is not used, Tk windows created in an interactive
+interpreter now get continuously updated. (This even works in Windows
+as long as you don't hit a key.)
+
+- New demos in Demo/tkinter/guido/: brownian.py, redemo.py, switch.py.
+
+- No longer register Tcl_finalize() as a low-level exit handler. It
+may call back into Python, and that's a bad idea.
+
+- Allow binding of Tcl commands (given as a string).
+
+- Some minor speedups; replace explicitly coded getint() with int() in
+most places.
+
+- In FileDialog.py, remember the directory of the selected file, if
+given.
+
+- Change the names of all methods in the Wm class: they are now
+wm_title(), etc. The old names (title() etc.) are still defined as
+aliases.
+
+- Add a new method of interpreter objects, interpaddr(). This returns
+the address of the Tcl interpreter object, as an integer. Not very
+useful for the Python programmer, but this can be called by another C
+extension that needs to make calls into the Tcl/Tk C API and needs to
+get the address of the Tcl interpreter object. A simple cast of the
+return value to (Tcl_Interp *) will do the trick.
+
+Windows General
+---------------
+
+- Don't insist on proper case for module source files if the filename
+is all uppercase (e.g. FOO.PY now matches foo; but FOO.py still
+doesn't). This should address problems with this feature on
+oldfashioned filesystems (Novell servers?).
+
+Windows Library
+---------------
+
+- os.environ is now all uppercase, but accesses are case insensitive,
+and the putenv() calls made as a side effect of changing os.environ
+are case preserving.
+
+- Removed samefile(), sameopenfile(), samestat() from os.path (aka
+ntpath.py) -- these cannot be made to work reliably (at least I
+wouldn't know how).
+
+- Fixed os.pipe() so that it returns file descriptors acceptable to
+os.read() and os.write() (like it does on Unix), rather than Windows
+file handles.
+
+- Added a table of WSA error codes to socket.py.
+
+- In the select module, put the (huge) file descriptor arrays on the
+heap.
+
+- The getpass module now raises KeyboardInterrupt when it sees ^C.
+
+- In mailbox.py, fix tell/seek when using files opened in text mode.
+
+- In rfc822.py, fix tell/seek when using files opened in text mode.
+
+- In the msvcrt extension module, release the interpreter lock for
+calls that may block: _locking(), _getch(), _getche(). Also fix a
+bogus error return when open_osfhandle() doesn't have the right
+argument list.
+
+Windows Installer
+-----------------
+
+- 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
+resynchronized.
+
+Windows Tools
+-------------
+
+- Several improvements to freeze specifically for Windows.
+
+Windows Build Procedure
+-----------------------
+
+- The VC++ project files and the WISE installer have been moved to the
+PCbuild subdirectory, so they are distributed in the same subdirectory
+where they must be used. This avoids confusion.
+
+- New project files for Windows 3.1 port by Jim Ahlstrom.
+
+- Got rid of the obsolete subdirectory PC/setup_nt/.
+
+- The projects now use distinct filenames for the .exe, .dll, .lib and
+.pyd files built in debug mode (by appending "_d" to the base name,
+before the extension). This makes it easier to switch between the two
+and get the right versions. There's a pragma in config.h that directs
+the linker to include the appropriate .lib file (so python15.lib no
+longer needs to be explicit in your project).
+
+- The installer now installs more files (e.g. config.h). The idea is
+that you shouldn't need the source distribution if you want build your
+own extensions in C or C++.
+
+Tools and Demos
+---------------
+
+- New script nm2def.py by Marc-Andre Lemburg, to construct
+PC/python_nt.def automatically (some hand editing still required).
+
+- New tool ndiff.py: Tim Peters' text diffing tool.
+
+- Various and sundry improvements to the freeze script.
+
+- The script texi2html.py (which was part of the Doc tree but is no
+longer used there) has been moved to the Tools/scripts subdirectory.
+
+- Some generalizations in the webchecker code. There's now a
+primnitive gui for websucker.py: wsgui.py. (In Tools/webchecker/.)
+
+- The ftpmirror.py script now handles symbolic links properly, and
+also files with multiple spaces in their names.
+
+- The 1.5.1 tabnanny.py suffers an assert error if fed a script whose
+last line is both indented and lacks a newline. This is now fixed.
+
+Python/C API
+------------
+
+- Added missing prototypes for PyEval_CallFunction() and
+PyEval_CallMethod().
+
+- New macro PyList_SET_ITEM().
+
+- New macros to access object members for PyFunction, PyCFunction
+objects.
+
+- New APIs PyImport_AppendInittab() an PyImport_ExtendInittab() to
+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
+you to pass an obscure version number constant which is always the same.)
+
+- New APIs PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() to write to
+sys.stdout or sys.stderr using a printf-like interface. (Used in
+_tkinter.c, for example.)
+
+- New APIs for conversion between Python longs and C 'long long' if
+your compiler supports it.
+
+- PySequence_In() is now called PySequence_Contains().
+(PySequence_In() is still supported for b/w compatibility; it is
+declared obsolete because its argument order is confusing.)
+
+- PyDict_GetItem() and PyDict_GetItemString() are changed so that they
+*never* raise an exception -- (even if the hash() fails, simply clear
+the error). This was necessary because there is lots of code out
+there that already assumes this.
+
+- Changes to PySequence_Tuple() and PySequence_List() to use the
+length of a sequence only as a hint -- if an IndexError happens
+earlier, take that. (Formerly, this was considered an error.)
+
+- Reformatted abstract.c to give it a more familiar "look" and fixed
+many error checking bugs.
+
+- Add NULL pointer checks to all calls of a C function through a type
+object and extensions (e.g. nb_add).
+
+- The code that initializes sys.path now calls Py_GetPythonHome()
+instead of getenv("PYTHONHOME"). This, together with the new API
+Py_SetPythonHome(), makes it easier for embedding applications to
+change the notion of Python's "home" directory (where the libraries
+etc. are sought).
+
+- Fixed a very old bug in the parsing of "O?" format specifiers.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+
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