From: Ned Deily Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 01:13:02 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Issue #14777: merge X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a4~153^2~11 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a0082788e4a1e7d821f2ced3a33988882e360fb1;p=python Issue #14777: merge --- a0082788e4a1e7d821f2ced3a33988882e360fb1 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index 2ff55e8d90,9b9ca674c3..418bfc3d16 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -10,63 -10,67 +10,69 @@@ What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 4 Core and Builtins ----------------- -- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery. +- Issue #14624: UTF-16 decoding is now 3x to 4x faster on various inputs. + Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. -- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly. - -- Issue #14433: Prevent msvcrt crash in interactive prompt when stdin - is closed. +- asdl_seq and asdl_int_seq are now Py_ssize_t sized. -- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError - when repr() or str() is called on such an object. +- Issue #14133 (PEP 415): Implement suppression of __context__ display with an + attribute on BaseException. This replaces the original mechanism of PEP 409. -- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a - special method with a different name. +- Issue #14417: Mutating a dict during lookup now restarts the lookup instead + of raising a RuntimeError (undoes issue #14205). -- Issue #14630: Fix a memory access bug for instances of a subclass of int - with value 0. +- Issue #14738: Speed-up UTF-8 decoding on non-ASCII data. Patch by Serhiy + Storchaka. -- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno. +- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks + in old-style string formatting. -- Issue #14607: Fix keyword-only arguments which started with ``__``. +- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format + unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python + value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise. -- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling - any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of - Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app. +Library +------- -- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread() - while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception. ++- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when ++ accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type ++ UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing ++ environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails. ++ Original patch by Thomas Kluyver. + -- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch - by Suman Saha. +- Issue #14773: Fix os.fwalk() failing on dangling symlinks. -- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as - the module name that was not interned. +- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field of HTTP Basic + Authentation in urllib2. -- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by - allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack. +- Issue #14807: move undocumented tarfile.filemode() to stat.filemode() and add + doc entry. Add tarfile.filemode alias with deprecation warning. -- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not - passed strings. +- Issue #13815: TarFile.extractfile() now returns io.BufferedReader objects. -- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be - collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``). +- Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate + timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide. -- Issue #14172: Fix reference leak when marshalling a buffer-like object - (other than a bytes object). +- Add importlib.util.resolve_name(). -- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key, - making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński. +- Issue #14366: Support lzma compression in zip files. + Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. -- Issue #14471: Fix a possible buffer overrun in the winreg module. +- Issue #13959: Introduce importlib.find_loader() and document + imp.find_module/load_module as deprecated. -Library -------- +- Issue #14082: shutil.copy2() now copies extended attributes, if possible. + Patch by Hynek Schlawack. -- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when - accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type - UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing - environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails. - Original patch by Thomas Kluyver. +- Issue #13959: Make importlib.abc.FileLoader.load_module()/get_filename() and + importlib.machinery.ExtensionFileLoader.load_module() have their single + argument be optional. Allows for the replacement (and thus deprecation) of + imp.load_source()/load_package()/load_compiled(). -- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field of HTTP Basic - Authentation in urllib2. +- Issue #13959: imp.get_suffixes() has been deprecated in favour of the new + attributes on importlib.machinery: SOURCE_SUFFIXES, DEBUG_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, + OPTIMIZED_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, and EXTENSION_SUFFIXES. This + led to an indirect deprecation of inspect.getmoduleinfo(). - Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.