Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that equals
- ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
- ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also contains
- this name.
+- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
+ equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
+ ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
+ contains this name.
- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
-- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError
- was sometimes incorrectly raised.
+- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
+ ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
-- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning attribute.
+- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
+ attribute.
-- Issue #2196: hasattr now lets exceptions which do not inherit Exception
- (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of ignoring them
+- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
+ Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
+ ignoring them.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the platform.
+- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
+ platform.
- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
- bsddb module updated to version 4.6.4.
-- issue2858: Fix potential memory corruption when bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get
- and other bsddb.db object constructors raised an exception.
+- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
+ bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
+ raised an exception.
-- Fixed #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error
+- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Library
-------
- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
-- Issue 1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
+- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
'm' or 'c'.
-- The Tkinter module has been made a package and renamed 'tkinter'. All
- Tkinter-related modules (like Tix, ScrolledText, turtle etc.) are now
- submodules of that package and have been renamed to conform to PEP 8
- standards.
+- The Tkinter module has been made a package and renamed 'tkinter'.
+ All Tkinter-related modules (like Tix, ScrolledText, turtle etc.)
+ are now submodules of that package and have been renamed to conform
+ to PEP 8 standards.
- The repr module has been renamed 'reprlib'. The old name is now
deprecated.
- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for removal in
- Python 3.0.
+- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
+ removal in Python 3.0.
-- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Python 3.0.
--The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
-- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
- Python 3.0.
+- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
+ removal in Python 3.0.
-- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
-- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes cgensupport)
- have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
+ cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The ConfigParser module has been renamed 'configparser'. The old
name is now deprecated.
-- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
- Python 3.0.
+- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
+ removal in Python 3.0.
-- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
-- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
Python 3.0.
- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
Python 3.0.
-- #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
+- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in rlcompleter's
- ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and ignored.
+- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
+ rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
+ ignored.
-- #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap TextWrapper class.
+- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
+ TextWrapper class.
- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
+ Python 3.0.
- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
+ 3.0.
- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- pdb gained the "until" command.
-- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal in
- 3.0.
+- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
+ in Python 3.0.
Build
-----
- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
-- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now it
- properly raises a SyntaxError.
+- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
+ it properly raises a SyntaxError.
-- Patch #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and other
- implementations of Python.
+- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
+ other implementations of Python.
-- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory
+- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed two
- handlers that derive the same default base class.
+- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
+ two handlers that derive the same default base class.
- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
-- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to the cmath
- module.
+- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
+ the cmath module.
-- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules:
- acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p.
+- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
+ asinh, atanh and log1p.
-- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter when
- passed a value less than or equal to zero.
+- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
+ when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
-- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the original Python
- code has been kept as backup). This will allow for using the 'warning's
- machinery in such places as the parser where use of pure Python code is not
- possible. Both the ``showarning()`` and ``formatwarning()`` gain an
- optional 'line' argument which is not called by default for
- backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting ``warnings.showwarning()`` to
- an implementation that lacks support for the ``line`` argument will raise a
- DeprecationWarning.
+- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
+ original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
+ using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
+ use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
+ and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
+ not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
+ ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
+ for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Library
-------
- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
-- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed
- by Bob Ippolito.
+- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
+ contributed by Bob Ippolito.
- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
-- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst
+- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
+ bdist_wininst.
- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
now implemented in C for better performance.
-- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in implementation
- detail of the public ``types`` module, has been removed and replaced by pure
- python code.
+- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
+ implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
+ removed and replaced by pure python code.
-- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
+- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
build documentation for more information.
libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
-- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, so the
- controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical script
- environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to data files.
+- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
+ so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
+ script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
+ data files.
Tests
-----
-- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining ports
- to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an effort to
- facilitate running multiple instances of the entire regression test suite
- in parallel without issue. test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such
- that it will always return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case
- with the previous implementation, especially if socket options had been
- set that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
- new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception if it
- is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the SO_REUSEADDR or
- SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if available, bind_port()
- will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on the socket it's been passed.
- This currently only applies to Windows. This option prevents any other
- sockets from binding to the host/port we've bound to, thus removing the
- possibility of the 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it,
- that occurs when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a
- host/port that's already been bound by another socket. The optional
- preferred port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
+
+- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
+ ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
+ effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
+ regression test suite in parallel without issue.
+ test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
+ return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
+ previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
+ that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
+ new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
+ if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
+ SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
+ available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
+ the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
+ Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
+ host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
+ 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
+ when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
+ that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
+ port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
-
- test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will pass
- a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an unused port.
- The temporary socket object is then closed and deleted, and the port is
- returned. This method should only be used for obtaining an unused port
- in order to pass to an external program (i.e. the -accept [port] argument
- to openssl's s_server mode) or as a parameter to a server-oriented class
- that doesn't give you direct access to the underlying socket used.
-
- Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used for
- the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and connect).
+
+ test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
+ pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
+ unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
+ deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
+ for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
+ (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
+ a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
+ access to the underlying socket used.
+
+ Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
+ for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
+ connect).
The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
- test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
+ test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
- It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test suite to
- run in parallel without issue.
+ It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
+ suite to run in parallel without issue.
Build
-----
gcc is used as compiler.
- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
- with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
+ with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
C API
-----
-- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p
- to the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for
- platforms which provide the functions through their libm. The
- files also contains several helpers and constants for math.
+- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
+ the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
+ which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
+ contains several helpers and constants for math.
- Added a new convenience function, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k
warnings.
Core and builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the tracing
- function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to call
- threading.currentThread().
+- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
+ tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
+ call threading.currentThread().
- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
cannot be executed.
reference on the outer class name.
- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
- compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST).
+ ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
-- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping
- of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
+- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
+ dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
- \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. This
- affected raw unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now
- UTF-16 surrogates are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals
- and the 'unicode-escape' codec.
+ \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
+ Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
+ 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
+ this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
+ codec.
- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
-- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__.
+- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
+ __members__.
- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
-- Issue 1745. Backport print function with:
- from __future__ import print_function
+- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
+ print_function``.
-- Issue 2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
- The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
+- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
+ The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
-- Issue 2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
+- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
exception instances.
- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
- doesn't derive from BaseException. Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning
- when raising an exception that doesn't derive from BaseException.
+ doesn't derive from BaseException.
+
+- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
+ doesn't derive from BaseException.
- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
memory usage in some circumstances.
-- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals
- are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
- This also affects int(x, 0).
+- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
+ literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
+ "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
-- Issue #1779871: Gnu gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
+- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
longer passed.
- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
-- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method
- on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin)
+- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
+ method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
+ Jeffrey Yaskin)
-- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give
- bogus error messages.
+- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
+ could give bogus error messages.
- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
Library
-------
-- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for
- daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
+- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
+ for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
-- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates
- rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while.
+- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
+ calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
+ while.
-- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved
- logic for removing old files.
+- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
+ improved logic for removing old files.
-- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive
- string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is
- incorrect python code.
+- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
+ consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
+ [""""], which is incorrect python code.
-- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit().
+- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
+ SMTP.quit().
- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
advertised in the docs.
-- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
+- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
-- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
+- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
-- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the
- WWW-Authenticate header.
+- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
+ in the WWW-Authenticate header.
- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
-- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine
- and processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
+- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
+ processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
information as well.
-- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added
- to the standard distribution.
+- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
+ the standard distribution.
-- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit
- platforms.
+- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
+ 64-bit platforms.
-- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different values
- on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct, but they now
- both return a signed integer object for consistency.
+- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
+ values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
+ but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
strftime.
- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
- platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; previously
- it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
+ platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
+ previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
correctly under win32
-- #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
+- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
- optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is currently
- being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an exception, otherwise
- it raises ValueError).
+ optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
+ currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
+ exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
-- Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
+- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
+ gracefully.
-- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non-
- zero status code if not all files could be compiled successfully.
+- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
+ non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
+ successfully.
-- Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
+- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
- Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
- On OS X, preconfigured libffi files are used.
- On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option defaults
- to "yes".
+ Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
+ files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
+ configure option defaults to "yes".
-- Issue 1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination is a
- directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
+- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
+ is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Tests
-----
-- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and NIS is
- not set up on the testing machine.
+- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
+ NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
-- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to unittest.
+- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
+ unittest.
- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
-- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest.
+- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
+ unittest.
- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
-- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both functions are
- in the C89 standard library.
+- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
+ functions are in the C89 standard library.
- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
-----
- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
- PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx()
+ PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
+
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
=================================
datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
PyObject_Format().
-- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__
- methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state.
+- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
+ __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
+ state.
- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
- prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot
- on a registered virtual subclass.
+ prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
+ a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
-- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or
- imaginary part.
+- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
+ real or imaginary part.
-- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order
- to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the
- OS earlier.
+- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
+ in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
+ memory to the OS earlier.
-- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
- collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
+- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
+ subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
+ to a bound method.
- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
-- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries
- each.
+- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
+ entries each.
-- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions
- ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
+- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
+ functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
-- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
- Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t.
+- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
+ calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
+ returns pi_t.
-- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
- in the same code unit.
+- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
+ appear in the same code unit.
-- Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with
- the collections.Sequence API.
+- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
+ with the collections.Sequence API.
-- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak
- detection
+- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
+ linebreak detection
-- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the
- internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
+- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
+ the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
-- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is the
- same object as the func_code attribute of the function that produced the
- generator.
+- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
+ the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
+ produced the generator.
-- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler,
- even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when
- the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the
- "else" suite.
+- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
+ compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
+ supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
+ correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
-- Bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
+- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
support.
- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
-- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of most
- command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
+- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
+ most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
-- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The patch
- makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more readable.
+- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
+ patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
+ readable.
-- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses,
- resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
+- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
+ accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
-- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar
- and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python
- to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
+- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
+ envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
+ to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
-- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
- module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
- of 'error code 193'.
+- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
+ extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
+ application' instead of 'error code 193'.
-- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan'))!=0L.
+- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
-- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y)
- functions.
+- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
+ y) functions.
- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
- and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on every
- platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
+ and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
+ every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
-- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary literals.
- The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated dictionary size.
- There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding entries to the dictionary.
+- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
+ literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
+ dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
+ entries to the dictionary.
-- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux
+- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
-- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator
- in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
+- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
+ decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
-- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split
- char is not found.
+- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
+ is not found.
- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
SystemError.
inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
__package__ attribute.
-- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and
- if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() /
- PyGILState_Release() functions.
+- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
+ running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
+ PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
attribute of an empty cell object.
-- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
- It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
+- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
+ input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
-- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py file can
- now be directly executed by passing their name to the interpreter. The
- directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the first entry in sys.path.
+- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
+ file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
+ interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
+ first entry in sys.path.
-- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a
- generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a
- paused generator.
+- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
+ function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
+ executed code is closing a paused generator.
- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
-- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences smaller
- than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically
- shifts from ints to longs.
+- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
+ smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
+ automatically shifts from ints to longs.
-- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the possibility of
- having a self-referential tuple, which is possible from C code. Nor did
- object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str could do something that could
- lead to an inifinite recursion. Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(),
- respectively, fixed the issues.
+- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
+ possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
+ from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
+ could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
+ Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
+ issues.
-- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the 'print'
- statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released as needed. Now
- PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with various tp_print
- implementations of the built-in types and those in the collections module.
+- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
+ 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
+ as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
+ various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
+ the collections module.
-- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their
- throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed.
+- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
+ their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
+ allowed.
-- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested
- list by using the recursion counter.
+- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
+ deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
- PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion
- depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static RuntimeError
- instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past
- its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
+ PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
+ recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
+ RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
+ recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
+ infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
-- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source
- encoding.
+- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
+ original source encoding.
- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
with %G.
-- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault
- when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
+- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
+ segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
-- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
+- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
-- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
+- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
- __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.)
+ __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
+ __name__.)
- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
calls.
- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
- "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility with
- Python 3.0.
+ "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
+ with Python 3.0.
- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
-- Bug #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
+- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
inherited from a builtin base.
- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
as supported by type.__new__().
-- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object
- to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the
- __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now
- can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method.
+- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
+ object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
+ to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
+ module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
+ method.
-- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__.
- The old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names.
+- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
+ __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
+ same slot names.
-- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in
- complex if statements.
+- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
+ in complex if statements.
-- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()``
- is called with an object that is faking its type.
+- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
+ ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
+ its type.
-- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an unicode
- name.
+- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
+ unicode name.
- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
- its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows
- customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__().
+ its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
+ allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
+ __getattr__().
- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
-- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
+- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
+ method.
-- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized
- forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a
- ValueError.
+- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
+ parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
+ raising a ValueError.
- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
- makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible when
- a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
+ makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
+ when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
- variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just like
- on other exceptions or normal program exit.
+ variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
+ like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
-- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long().
+- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
+ long().
-- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
+- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
+ condition.
- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
-- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name.
- This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions.
+- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
+ the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
+ exceptions.
-- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power.
+- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
+ slot_nb_inplace_power.
-- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError. Attempting to
- catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
+- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
+ Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
-- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created
- a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic
- classes still have the bug).
+- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
+ created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
+ classes (classic classes still have the bug).
- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
frame's thread state.
-- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py
+- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
+ sitecustomize.py.
-- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object
- raised a warning.
+- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
+ a warning.
-- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
- to avoid relying on atexit.
+- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
+ avoid relying on atexit.
-- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number
+- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
+ number.
-- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings,
- tuples and lists.
+- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
+ strings, tuples and lists.
- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
-- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that
- the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
+- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
+ that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
-- Bug #1565514, SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
+- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
again, no longer the posix error code.
- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
-- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after returns)
- and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
+- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
+ returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
embedded in the string to convert.
number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
- keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't
- use them).
+ keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
+ didn't use them).
-- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with"
- not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement:
- from __future__ import division, with_statement
+- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
+ "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
+ statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
-- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This
- allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.
+- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
+ method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
+ directly to succeed.
- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
head is the original string if sep was not found.
- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
- generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this problem
- required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that .pyc files
- generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
+ generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
+ problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
+ .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
-- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded.
+- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
+ decoded.
- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
BaseException.
-- Fix Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
+- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
it actually exited.
Library
-------
-- #2274 Add heapq.heappushpop().
+- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
-- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out timestamps.
+- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
+ timestamps.
-- #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
+- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
-- #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a server,
- httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead
- of raising ValueError.
+- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
+ server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
+ connection instead of raising ValueError.
-- #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can now be
- overridden.
+- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
+ now be overridden.
-- Issue 1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
+- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
(ignore-case)
- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
be done in the rest of the stdlib.
-- Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py.
+- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
+ inspect.py.
-- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash.
+- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
+ slash.
- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
pickled.
to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
-- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function
- that eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
+- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
+ eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
-- #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile
- to be used in with statements by correctly supporting the context
- management protocol.
+- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
+ SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
+ supporting the context management protocol.
-- #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons
- involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
+- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
+ comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
-- #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default
- permissions for missing directories.
+- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
+ default permissions for missing directories.
-- #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement
- after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and
- breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop.
+- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
+ statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
+ expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
+ each loop.
-- #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and its
- subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
+- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
+ its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
-- #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and
- storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
+- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
+ and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
-- #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
+- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
-- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover
- time calculation.
+- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
+ rollover time calculation.
-- #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level.
+- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
+ level.
-- #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add
- contextual information in logging output.
+- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
+ to add contextual information in logging output.
-- #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in
- flush().
+- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
+ in flush().
-- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
- when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled
- with ``--with-pydebug``.
+- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
+ directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
+ compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
-- #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library.
+- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
+ library.
-- #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for
- pstats.
+- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
+ file for pstats.
-- #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a
- directory.
+- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
+ to a directory.
-- #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
- returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
+- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
+ ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
-- #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the
- ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
+- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
+ using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
-- #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open()
- returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
+- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
+ urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
with extended local headers.
-- #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers
- past the 2**31 byte boundary.
+- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
+ headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
-- #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
+- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
-- #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the
- last column of a line.
+- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
+ the last column of a line.
-- #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated
- modules to be given.
+- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
+ comma-separated modules to be given.
-- #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created
- (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
+- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
+ just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
-- #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered
- list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
+- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
+ ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
-- #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue.
+- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
+ priority queue.
- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
(patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
and when creating a recursive instance.
-- Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string
- expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object.
+- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
+ expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
+ object.
- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
-- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions
- that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
+- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
+ functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
(0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
-- Issue #846388. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
+- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
good for long regular expression matches.
-- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute
- on Parser objects to set the character data buffer size.
+- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
+ objects to set the character data buffer size.
- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
the current context.
- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
-- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are
- equal instead of raising an exception.
+- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
+ are equal instead of raising an exception.
- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
-- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
- and times.
+- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
+ permissions and times.
- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
-- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
+- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
+ writing
-- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
- unicode characters.
+- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
+ certain unicode characters.
- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
-- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created
- on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
- of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded
- in Python 2.5.
+- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
+ created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
+ consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
+ cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
-- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for
- both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
+- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
+ for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
-- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not
- seek to the start.
+- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
+ not seek to the start.
-- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the
- internal floating point type to the sys module.
+- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
+ about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
-- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely
- together.
+- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
+ nicely together.
- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
method used universal newlines.
- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
files are updated.
-- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop()
- and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
+- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
+ os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
configured with --with-system-ffi.
- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
-- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised
- an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs.
+- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
+ raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
+ longs.
-- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of
- the input iterables.
+- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
+ input iterables.
- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
-- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).
+- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
+ (v1.66).
- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
to be orderable to properly represent them.
- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
-- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser
- no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986).
+- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
+ RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
+ password (bug 813986).
- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
-- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility
- with Python 3000.
+- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
+ compatibility with Python 3000.
-- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen.
+- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
+ Janssen.
- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
syllables.
-- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that
- are missing in GBK.
+- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
+ missing in GBK.
- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
-- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.
+- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
+ attribute.
-- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note
- that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections).
+- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
+ parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
+ FTPS connections).
-- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses
- the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at
- connection time.
+- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
+ uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
+ specified at connection time.
- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
- reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
- for .read() is specified.
+ reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
+ argument for .read() is specified.
-- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when
- matching spaces in the specified format argument.
+- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
+ ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
-- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
- even if package_dir is empty.
+- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
+ package_dir is empty.
- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
-- Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes
- with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
+- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
+ using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
+ and sha512).
- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
-- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher
- support in urllib/urllib2.
+- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
+ gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
-- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
- lack of an infinite recursion check.
+- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
+ of an infinite recursion check.
- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
the directories).
the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
injecting HTML into the error page.
-- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
+- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
+ module.
-- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP
- servers which require authentication.
+- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
+ SMTP servers which require authentication.
- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
".cpp" too.
- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
- the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
- Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2.
+ the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
+ accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
+ #1177) and urllib2.
-- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now
- properly recreated when the locale is changed.
+- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
+ is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
-- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
+- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
+ distutils.MSVCCompiler.
- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
(telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
-- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to
- True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
+- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
+ to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
directories.
- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
initialization failed.
- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
- AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
- contain a valid HTTP status line.
+ AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
+ didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
-- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly
- expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references
- are recognized and handled on Windows.
+- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
+ properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
+ directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
-- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for
- the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
+- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
+ for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
correctly now.
- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
-- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged
- Python program, optionally with different arguments.
+- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
+ debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
-- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation
- for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does.
+- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
+ documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
+ pydoc.doc() does.
-- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to
- strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
- convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods.
+- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
+ to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
+ convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
+ methods.
-- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter
- which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close
- behavior.
+- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
+ parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
+ delete-on-close behavior.
- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
whitespace while wrapping.
- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
- are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors
- on reading back those values.
+ are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
+ errors on reading back those values.
-- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended
- and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar.
+- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
+ tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
+ testtar.tar.
- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
-- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to
- pydoc's help keywords.
+- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
+ to pydoc's help keywords.
- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
concatenation in robotparser.
- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
- field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with
- a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
+ field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
+ with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
-- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap
- the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
+- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
+ trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
+ number.
-- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind()
- and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer
- and DocXMLRPCServer.
+- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
+ server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
+ TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
-- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always
- be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
+- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
+ equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
patch #1545011.
- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
-- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module.
- The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
- a descriptive message.
+- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
+ module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
+ names now has a descriptive message.
- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
-- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase
- and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in
- TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it
- never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred
- later, with a more cumbersome exception.
+- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
+ TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
+ accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
+ incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
+ -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
+ exception.
-- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to unittest's
- main() function.
+- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
+ unittest's main() function.
- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
comprehensive test suite for the module.
- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
-- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how
- to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build.
+- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
+ know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
+ build.
- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
in HTMLParser.
- Added itertools.izip_longest().
-- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute
- import semantics.
+- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
+ absolute import semantics.
- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
-- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
+- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
-- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
- relative directory names.
+- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
+ of relative directory names.
-- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR,
- not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
+- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
+ lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
-- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and
- allow appending to empty files.
+- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
+ and allow appending to empty files.
- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
subprocess.
- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
iso8859_16.
-- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
- a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
- compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
+- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
+ compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
+ with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
+ interpreter.
- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
-- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring.
+- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
+ docstring.
- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
return a tuple (it used to return a list).
- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
-- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types
- instead.
+- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
+ types instead.
- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
-- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__.
- Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
+- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
+ LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
+ AttributeError are trapped.
-- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument.
+- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
+ argument.
- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
-- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under
- certain conditions.
+- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
+ under certain conditions.
-- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell()
- work correctly together with readline().
+- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
+ tell() work correctly together with readline().
-- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception
- if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
+- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
+ exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
separated lists read from logging config files.
-- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown
- when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems.
+- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
+ shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
+ problems.
-- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory
- to be created is already there.
+- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
+ directory to be created is already there.
- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
-- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type
- for ordering, sorting, etc.
+- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
+ ordering, sorting, etc.
- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
-- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType
- in xmlrpclib.
+- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
+ xmlrpclib.
- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
regular files.
- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
-- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even
- if an exception occurs.
+- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
+ exception occurs.
-- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if
- the parent window is withdrawn.
+- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
+ parent window is withdrawn.
- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
to facilitate usage as a decorator.
- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
file name mangling.
-- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer
- that precedes an 1xx response.
+- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
+ precedes an 1xx response.
- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
objects.
-- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's
- a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David
- Watson.)
+- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
+ there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
+ (Patch by David Watson.)
-- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically
- written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David
- Watson.)
+- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
+ physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
+ .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
-- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that
- ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
+- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
+ isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
partial fix for Bug #1574584.
-- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library. Allows
- the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only when the
- module is run as a script.
+- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
+ Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
+ when the module is run as a script.
-- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
- is started with that option.
+- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
+ started with that option.
- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
-- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
- to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
+- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
+ given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
-- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes,
- but also for functions.
+- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
+ classes, but also for functions.
- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
-- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and format do
- match be more clear.
+- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
+ format do match be more clear.
- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
-- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because
- the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
+- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
+ because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
-- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop.
+- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
+ loop.
-- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE
- by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
+- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
+ & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
-- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup()
- function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
+- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
+ setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
-- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers
- on systems with low clock resolution.
+- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
+ systems with low clock resolution.
- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
-- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
+- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
+ #299092).
-- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
- first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3
- bytes.
+- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
+ the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
+ longer than 3 bytes.
-- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end
- attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members).
+- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
+ (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
+ members).
-- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
- RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained
- from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
+- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
+ with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
+ obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
+ Fenner.
-- Issue1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
+- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
- does not claim to support starttls. Adds the SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
- method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
+ does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
+ SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
+ Fenner.
-- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around siginterrupt(3).
+- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
+ siginterrupt(3).
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3)
-- #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a
- direct EnvironmentError
+- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
+ a direct EnvironmentError.
-- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ
+- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
+ PROT_READ.
-- #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows.
+- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
+ Windows.
- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
-- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
- as the documentation says.
+- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
+ curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
-- #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also
- subclassable now.
+- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
+ is also subclassable now.
- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
-- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close a range
- of file descriptors without considering errors.
+- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
+ a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
-- Patch 976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
+- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
parameter.
-- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to support
- the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also gained a new function
- ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
+- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
+ support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
+ gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
+ REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
-- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it required
- the function inputs to be tuples.
+- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
+ required the function inputs to be tuples.
-- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor, chain.from_iterable().
+- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
+ chain.from_iterable().
-- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has support
- for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more information.
+- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
+ support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
+ information.
-- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an example
- for a simple network sniffer.
+- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
+ example for a simple network sniffer.
- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
-- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior contents
- before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings the behavior into
- line with that for list.__init__().
+- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
+ contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
+ the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
-- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch and
- ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
+- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
+ and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
-- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float, complex,
- tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would silently miscode
- subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a ValueError instead.
+- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
+ complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
+ silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
+ ValueError instead.
- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
get_completion_type to readline.
intended for RECNO databases.
- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
- time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP or
- DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent opens.
- Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will replace all
- values for a given key when the database allows duplicate values.
- DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want to store duplicates; not
- DB[k] = v.
+ time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
+ or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
+ opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
+ replace all values for a given key when the database allows
+ duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
+ to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
-- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary characters
- with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes dots only if
- they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous behavior of
- quoting dots if they are the second character of any line.
+- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
+ characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
+ dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
+ behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
+ line.
- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
error in spite of a succesful compression.
- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
fractional times. With unittest.
-- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and os.lchflags()
- functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available.
+- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
+ os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
+ calls are available.
- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
-- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin
- types.
+- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
+ builtin types.
-- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for
- C99 _Bool.
+- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
+ _Bool.
-- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or
- return negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
+- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
+ negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
-- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned
- when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt fails.
+- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
+ returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
+ fails.
- Speed up function calls into the math module.
- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
-- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version
- of os.urandom().
+- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
+ os.urandom().
- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
- other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long.
- (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
+ other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
+ long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
-- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n.
+- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
+ for n.
- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
- - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT correctly.
+ - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
+ correctly.
- iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
codepoints to conform the standard.
- iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
and 4.6.x.
-- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is called,
- update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and curses.COLS.
+- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
+ called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
+ curses.COLS.
- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
-- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile.
+- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
+ profile.
-- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any module
- being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a reload on the
- second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
+- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
+ module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
+ reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
-- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a space.
+- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
+ space.
-- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager to
- surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even if
- test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
+- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
+ to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
+ if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
-- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that provides a
- context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset environment
- variables.
+- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
+ provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
+ environment variables.
- Added some tests for modulefinder.
- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
number properly.
-- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be used
- to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
-
+- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
+ used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Tools
-----
-- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using shutil.copy
- to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a --nobackup option
- to not create the backup if the user is concerned regarding this. Check
- issue 1050828 for more details.
+- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
+ shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
+ --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
+ regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
-- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes the
- PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin and script
- directory.
+- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
+ the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
+ and script directory.
- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
-- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which
- was patch #1563844)
+- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
+ patch #1563844).
-- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user
- to see which Python version is running pybench
+- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
+ which Python version is running pybench.
- Added support for the new platform module feature
- platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved
- in the benchmark pickle
+ platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
+ benchmark pickle.
Documentation
- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
include new optional delay argument.
-- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging
- output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class.
+- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
+ logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
+ class.
- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
-- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for
- writing is undefined.
+- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
+ open for writing is undefined.
- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
- Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied
- to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea.
+ Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
+ applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
+ a good idea.
Tools/Demos
- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
- alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if
- the file is stale or not.
+ alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
+ tell if the file is stale or not.
- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
file not to get reported properly.
Build
-----
-- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in
- $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment
- variables.
+- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
+ order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
+ environment variables.
- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
smaller or equal sizeof(long).
- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
-- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj
+- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
-- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005
- based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
- PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0.
+- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
+ 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
+ PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
+ PC/VS8.0.
-- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/
- directory to PCBuild/.
+- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
+ PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
- periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default,
- this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged,
- performance critical applications.
+ periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
+ default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
+ debugged, performance critical applications.
-- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
- a readonly source.
+- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
+ readonly source.
- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
-- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+.
+- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
+ 4.1+.
-- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform.
+- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
+ platform.
- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
-- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format
- attribute.
+- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
+ format attribute.
- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
-- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant
- files in VC7.
+- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
+ in VC7.
- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
-- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0.
+- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
-- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
- to include some information about the build environment.
+- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
+ pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
+ environment.
C API
-----
-- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists
- in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper
- limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block.
+- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
+ lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
+ and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
+ #ifndef block.
-- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to
- ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but
- it does not steal a reference to the added item.
+- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
+ to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
+ frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
-- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and
- _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t
- public functions.
+- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
+ and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
+ PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
-- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w#
- format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when
- PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect
- results with huge strings.
+- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
+ of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
+ when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
+ incorrect results with huge strings.
-- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE
- and Py_REFCNT.
+- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
+ Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
-- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
- backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
- PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
+- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
+ keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
+ and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
-- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
+- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
+ defined.
- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
-- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do absolute
- imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative imports under
- some conditions.
+- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
+ absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
+ imports under some conditions.
-- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)``
- and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
+- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
+ char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
-- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro
- so it can be used as an expression.
+- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
+ macro so it can be used as an expression.
Windows
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-- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires
- Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to
- Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds.
+- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
+ requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
+ macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
+ builds.
-- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
- and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
+- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
+ _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
-- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5. This
- lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied solely on macfs
- and was a no-op under OS X.
+- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
+ This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
+ solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
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