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What's New in Python 2.7.1?
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*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Library
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- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
XML namespace attribute is encountered.
- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
is called without data.
- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
end of the file.
- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
Build
-----
- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
Tests
-----
- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
Library
-------
- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
Arfrever.
- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Xicluna.
- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
Stinner.
- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
parameter.
- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
mode.
- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
the same as passing no argument.
- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
argument like other file objects.
- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
proper end-of-line termination.
- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
C-API
-----
- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
now a DeprecationWarning.
- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Build
-----
- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
with Python.
- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
found.
- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
compiler might use the wrong library.
Tests
-----
- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
Documentation
-------------
- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Python 3.0.
- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
Python 3.0.
- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
Python 3.0.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
weakref.proxy.
- 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 4.7.3.
http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
raised an exception.
- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Library
-------
- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
sense).
- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
the patch.
- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
"close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
the patch).
- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
os.uname exists.
- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
pointer-like object.
- Added the ast module.
- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
to errno.
- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
msilib.Record objects.
- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
in Python 3.0.
- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
version from the X.org locale.alias file.
- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
False boolean value now.
- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
transfers.
- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
Python 3.0.
- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
when the TarFile is closed.
- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
an exception.
- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
otherwise be produced.
- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
cgensupport) 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 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.
- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
ignored.
- 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 ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The Canvas 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 bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
OverflowError.
- 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 new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
- pdb gained the "until" command.
- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
in Python 3.0.
- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
of Python.
- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3.x series.
Build
-----
- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
- ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
- ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the defa
ult)
- ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
C API
-----
- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
PyString names.
Library
-------
- 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.
- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
- 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.
- 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
(ignore-case)
- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
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 #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.
- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
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.
- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
supporting the context management protocol.
- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
default permissions for missing directories.
- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
each loop.
- 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.
- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
rollover time calculation.
- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
level.
- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
to add contextual information in logging output.
- 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``.
- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
library.
- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
file for pstats.
- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
to a directory.
- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
- 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.
- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
- 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.
- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
the last column of a line.
- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
comma-separated modules to be given.
- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
- 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
Textbox.gather().
- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
raised instead of a ValueError.
- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
that array types do not live longer than needed.
- 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 #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.
- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
(0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
good for long regular expression matches.
- 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.
- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
zipfile module.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
writing
- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
certain unicode characters.
- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
Tcl objects.
- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
- Issue #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 #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.
- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
--with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
- 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.
- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
configured with --with-system-ffi.
- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
--disable-toolbox-glue.
- 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.
- 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).
- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
to be orderable to properly represent them.
- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
- 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).
- 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.
- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
Janssen.
- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
- 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.
- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
represent the result in a single character.
- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
attribute.
- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
FTPS connections).
- 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.
- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
- 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.
- 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.
- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
- 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.
- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
the directories).
- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
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.
- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
SMTP servers which require authentication.
- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
(as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
".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.
- 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.
- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
(telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
closes patch #723312.
- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
- 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
directories.
- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
trying Mozilla variants.
- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
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.
- 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
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 #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
pydoc.doc() does.
- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
methods.
- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
delete-on-close behavior.
- Patch #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.
- 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 #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.
- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
number.
- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
- 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
.handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
Python would crash instead of raising an error.
- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
returned string up to the first NUL character.
- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
in HTMLParser.
- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
- Added itertools.izip_longest().
- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
absolute import semantics.
- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
doesn't exist.
- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
directories.
- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
- 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 new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
- 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.
- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
parameterless foreign function calls work.
- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
- 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.
- 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 #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.
- 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 #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.
- 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.
- 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 #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 #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
HTTPConnection.request().
- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
objects.
- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
(Patch by David Watson.)
- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
.close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
bdist_rpm.
- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
GNU modes.
- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
opcode.
- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
statement (bug #1586513).
- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
correctly.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 #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 #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
with a slash.
- 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 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).
- 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()
- 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 #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).
- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
longer than 3 bytes.
- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
(start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
members).
- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
Fenner.
- 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.
- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
siginterrupt(3).
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
- 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 #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.
- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
- 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 #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
parameter.
- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
required the function inputs to be tuples.
- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
chain.from_iterable().
- 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.
- 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__().
- 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.
- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
get_completion_type to readline.
- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
structure.
- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
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.
- 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.
- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
error in spite of a succesful compression.
- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
of Py_ssize_t.
- 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 #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
built-in types.
- 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 #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.
- Speed up function calls into the math module.
- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
does.
- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
datetime's strftime function.
- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
- 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 #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.)
- 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.
- 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
codepoints now.
- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
were transposed.
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4.6.x and 4.7.x.
- 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().
- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
databases without a DBEnv.
- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
Tests
-----
- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 some tests for modulefinder.
- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
- 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.
Tools
-----
- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
--nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
and script directory.
- Tools/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).
- 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.
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 #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
Python tutorial.
- 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.
- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
"extending and embedding" tutorial.
- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
docs.
- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
string pointed to by its parameter.
- 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.
Tools/Demos
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- 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.
- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
file not to get reported properly.
Build
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- 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.
- 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/.
- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
without this option!
- 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.
- 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+.
- 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
because that prevented the shared library from being used.
- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
directory within sys.exec_prefix.
- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
- 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.
- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
- 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.
C API
-----
- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
#ifndef block.
- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
- 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.
- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
incorrect results with huge strings.
- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
defined.
- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
(relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
- 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.
- 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.
Windows
-------
- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
builds.
- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
Mac
---
- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
- 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.
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**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**