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What's New in Python 2.7.16 final?
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==================================
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*Release date: 2019-03-02*
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IDLE
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----
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- bpo-32129: Avoid blurry IDLE application icon on macOS with Tk 8.6. Patch
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by Kevin Walzer.
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What's New in Python 2.7.16 release candidate 1?
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================================================
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*Release date: 2019-02-16*
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Security
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--------
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- bpo-35746: [CVE-2019-5010] Fix a NULL pointer deref in ssl module. The
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cert parser did not handle CRL distribution points with empty DP or URI
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correctly. A malicious or buggy certificate can result into segfault.
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Vulnerability (TALOS-2018-0758) reported by Colin Read and Nicolas Edet of
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Cisco.
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- bpo-16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of ``readline()`` in
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:class:`imaplib.IMAP4_SSL` to limit line length.
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- bpo-28043: SSLContext has improved default settings: OP_NO_SSLv2,
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OP_NO_SSLv3, OP_NO_COMPRESSION, OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE,
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OP_SINGLE_DH_USE, OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE and HIGH ciphers without MD5.
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- bpo-34791: The xml.sax and xml.dom.domreg no longer use environment
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variables to override parser implementations when
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sys.flags.ignore_environment is set by -E or -I arguments.
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- bpo-34623: CVE-2018-14647: The C accelerated _elementtree module now
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initializes hash randomization salt from _Py_HashSecret instead of
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libexpat's default CSPRNG.
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- bpo-34540: When ``shutil.make_archive`` falls back to the external ``zip``
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problem, it uses :mod:`subprocess` to invoke it rather than
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:mod:`distutils.spawn`. This closes a possible shell injection vector.
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- bpo-34405: Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2p for Windows builds.
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- bpo-35552: Format character ``%s`` in :c:func:`PyString_FromFormat` no
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longer read memory past the limit if *precision* is specified.
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- bpo-35504: Fix segfaults and :exc:`SystemError`\ s when deleting certain
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attributes. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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- bpo-35368: :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` is now also thread-safe in debug mode.
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- bpo-35214: Fixed an out of bounds memory access when parsing a truncated
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unicode escape sequence at the end of a string such as ``u'\N'``. It
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would read one byte beyond the end of the memory allocation.
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- bpo-34974: The :class:`bytearray` constructor no longer convert unexpected
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exceptions (e.g. :exc:`MemoryError` and :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`) to
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:exc:`TypeError`.
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- bpo-22851: Fix a segfault when accessing
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``generator.gi_frame.f_restricted`` when the generator is exhausted.
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Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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- bpo-18560: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sum().
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- bpo-34400: Fix undefined behavior in parsetok.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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- bpo-25083: Adding I/O error checking when reading .py files and aborting
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importing on error.
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- bpo-25943: Fix potential heap corruption in the :mod:`bsddb` module.
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Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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- bpo-34068: In :meth:`io.IOBase.close`, ensure that the
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:attr:`~io.IOBase.closed` attribute is not set with a live exception.
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Patch by Zackery Spytz and Serhiy Storchaka.
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- bpo-34080: Fixed a memory leak in the compiler when it raised some
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uncommon errors during tokenizing.
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- bpo-33956: Update vendored Expat library copy to version 2.2.5.
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- bpo-30654: Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter
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shutdown even when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by
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Philipp Kerling.
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- bpo-33645: Fixed an "unknown parsing error" on parsing the "<>" operator
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when run Python with both options ``-3`` and ``-We``.
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- bpo-33622: Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object
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with the ``__del__`` method or referenced by it into the
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:data:`gc.garbage` list. :c:func:`PyGC_Collect` can now be called when an
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exception is set and preserves it.
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- bpo-33391: Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().
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- bpo-25750: Fix rare Python crash due to bad refcounting in
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``type_getattro()`` if a descriptor deletes itself from the class. Patch
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by Jeroen Demeyer.
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- bpo-25862: Fix assertion failures in the ``tell()`` method of
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``io.TextIOWrapper``. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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Library
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-------
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- bpo-8765: The write() method of buffered and unbuffered binary streams in
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the io module emits now a DeprecationWarning in Py3k mode for unicode
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argument.
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- bpo-35052: Fix xml.dom.minidom cloneNode() on a document with an entity:
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pass the correct arguments to the user data handler of an entity.
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- bpo-10496: :func:`~distutils.utils.check_environ` of
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:mod:`distutils.utils` now catchs :exc:`KeyError` on calling
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:func:`pwd.getpwuid`: don't create the ``HOME`` environment variable in
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this case.
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- bpo-10496: :func:`posixpath.expanduser` now returns the input *path*
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unchanged if the ``HOME`` environment variable is not set and the current
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user has no home directory (if the current user identifier doesn't exist
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in the password database). This change fix the :mod:`site` module if the
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current user doesn't exist in the password database (if the user has no
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home directory).
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- bpo-24746: Avoid stripping trailing whitespace in doctest fancy diff.
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Orignial patch by R. David Murray & Jairo Trad. Enhanced by Sanyam
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Khurana.
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- bpo-35277: Update ensurepip to install pip 18.1 and setuptools 40.6.2.
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- bpo-35062: Fix incorrect parsing of
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:class:`_io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder`'s *translate* argument.
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- bpo-35079: Improve difflib.SequenceManager.get_matching_blocks doc by
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adding 'non- overlapping' and changing '!=' to '<'.
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- bpo-35017: :meth:`socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever` now exits
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immediately if it's :meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.shutdown` method is
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called while it is polling for new events.
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- bpo-34794: Fixed a leak in Tkinter when pass the Python wrapper around
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Tcl_Obj back to Tcl/Tk.
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- bpo-23420: Verify the value for the parameter '-s' of the cProfile CLI.
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Patch by Robert Kuska
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- bpo-16965: The :term:`2to3` :2to3fixer:`execfile` fixer now opens the file
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with mode ``'rb'``. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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- bpo-34936: Fix ``TclError`` in ``tkinter.Spinbox.selection_element()``.
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Patch by Juliette Monsel.
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- bpo-34866: Adding ``max_num_fields`` to ``cgi.FieldStorage`` to make DOS
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attacks harder by limiting the number of ``MiniFieldStorage`` objects
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created by ``FieldStorage``.
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- bpo-34738: ZIP files created by :mod:`distutils` will now include entries
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for directories.
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- bpo-34652: Ensure :func:`os.lchmod` is never defined on Linux.
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- bpo-34625: Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.6.
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- bpo-34610: Fixed iterator of :class:`multiprocessing.managers.DictProxy`.
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- bpo-34530: ``distutils.spawn.find_executable()`` now falls back on
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:data:`os.defpath` if the ``PATH`` environment variable is not set.
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- bpo-34472: Improved compatibility for streamed files in :mod:`zipfile`.
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Previously an optional signature was not being written and certain ZIP
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applications were not supported. Patch by Silas Sewell.
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- bpo-6700: Fix inspect.getsourcelines for module level frames/tracebacks.
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Patch by Vladimir Matveev.
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- bpo-31715: Associate ``.mjs`` file extension with
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``application/javascript`` MIME Type.
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- bpo-32947: Add OP_ENABLE_MIDDLEBOX_COMPAT and test workaround for TLSv1.3
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for future compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1.
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- bpo-34341: Appending to the ZIP archive with the ZIP64 extension no longer
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grows the size of extra fields of existing entries.
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- bpo-34052: :meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate`,
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:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_function`,
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:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer`,
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:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler` methods raises TypeError
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when unhashable objects are passed as callable. These methods now don't
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pass such objects to SQLite API. Previous behavior could lead to
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segfaults. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
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- bpo-34019: webbrowser: Correct the arguments passed to Opera Browser when
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opening a new URL using the ``webbrowser`` module. Patch by Bumsik Kim.
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- bpo-33974: Fixed passing lists and tuples of strings containing special
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characters ``"``, ``\``, ``{``, ``}`` and ``\n`` as options to
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:mod:`~tkinter.ttk` widgets.
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- bpo-26544: Fixed implementation of :func:`platform.libc_ver`. It almost
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always returned version '2.9' for glibc.
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- bpo-33767: The concatenation (``+``) and repetition (``*``) sequence
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operations now raise :exc:`TypeError` instead of :exc:`SystemError` when
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performed on :class:`mmap.mmap` objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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- bpo-11874: Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts.
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Avoids bogus assertion errors from custom metavar strings.
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- bpo-33570: Change TLS 1.3 cipher suite settings for compatibility with
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OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6 and newer. OpenSSL 1.1.1 will have TLS 1.3 cipers
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enabled by default.
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- bpo-33542: Prevent ``uuid.get_node`` from using a DUID instead of a MAC on
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Windows. Patch by Zvi Effron
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- bpo-33096: Removed unintentionally backported from Python 3 Tkinter files.
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- bpo-20087: Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales.
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- bpo-33422: Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up
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byte/string literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino.
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- bpo-33336: ``imaplib`` now allows ``MOVE`` command in ``IMAP4.uid()`` (RFC
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6851: IMAP MOVE Extension) and potentially as a name of supported method
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of ``IMAP4`` object.
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- bpo-33359: Fix running ``python -m curses.has_key``.
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- bpo-33131: Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.
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- bpo-33308: Fixed a crash in the :mod:`parser` module when converting an ST
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object to a tree of tuples or lists with ``line_info=False`` and
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``col_info=True``.
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- bpo-33256: Fix display of ``<module>`` call in the html produced by
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``cgitb.html()``. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.
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- bpo-32861: The urllib.robotparser's ``__str__`` representation now
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includes wildcard entries and the "Crawl-delay" and "Request-rate" fields.
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Patch by Michael Lazar.
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- bpo-33038: gzip.GzipFile no longer produces an AttributeError exception
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when used with a file object with a non-string name attribute. Patch by Bo
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Bayles.
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- bpo-32857: In :mod:`tkinter`, ``after_cancel(None)`` now raises a
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:exc:`ValueError` instead of canceling the first scheduled function.
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Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
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- bpo-32502: uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware
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address is encountered.
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- bpo-31608: Raise a ``TypeError`` instead of crashing if a
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``collections.deque`` subclass returns a non-deque from ``__new__``. Patch
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by Oren Milman.
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- bpo-16865: Support arrays >=2GiB in :mod:`ctypes`. Patch by Segev Finer.
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- bpo-29456: Fix bugs in hangul normalization: u1176, u11a7 and u11c3
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Documentation
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-------------
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- bpo-35035: Rename documentation for :mod:`email.utils` to
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``email.utils.rst``.
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- bpo-34967: Use app.add_object_type() instead of the deprecated Sphinx
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function app.description_unit()
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- bpo-13407: Add a note to :mod:`bz2` and :mod:`tarfile` stating that
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handling of multi- stream bzip2 files is not supported.
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- bpo-33503: Fix broken pypi link
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Tests
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-----
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- bpo-34279: :func:`test.support.run_unittest` no longer raise
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:exc:`TestDidNotRun` if the test result contains skipped tests. The
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exception is now only raised if no test have been run and no test have
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been skipped.
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- bpo-34279: regrtest issue a warning when no tests have been executed in a
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particular test file. Also, a new final result state is issued if no test
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have been executed across all test files. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
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- bpo-34661: Fix test_shutil if unzip doesn't support -t.
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- bpo-34542: Use 3072 RSA keys and SHA-256 signature for test certs and
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keys.
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- bpo-34391: Fix ftplib test for TLS 1.3 by reading from data socket.
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- bpo-34399: Update all RSA keys and DH params to use at least 2048 bits.
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- bpo-33901: Fix test_gdbm on macOS with gdbm 1.15: add a larger value to
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make sure that the file size changes.
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- bpo-33873: Fix a bug in ``regrtest`` that caused an extra test to run if
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--huntrleaks/-R was used. Exit with error in case that invalid parameters
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are specified to --huntrleaks/-R (at least one warmup run and one
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repetition must be used).
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- bpo-29512: Rename Lib/test/bisect.py to Lib/test/bisect_cmd.py. The old
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name was in conflict with Lib/bisect.py, causing test failures, depending
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how tests were run.
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- bpo-32962: Fixed test_gdb when Python is compiled with flags -mcet -fcf-
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protection -O0.
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- bpo-33354: Skip ``test_ssl.test_load_dh_params`` when Python filesystem
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encoding cannot encode the provided path.
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- bpo-19417: Add test_bdb.py.
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Build
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-----
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- bpo-35139: Fix a compiler error when statically linking `pyexpat` in
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`Modules/Setup`.
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- bpo-34710: Fixed SSL module build with OpenSSL & pedantic CFLAGS.
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- bpo-33015: Fix an undefined behaviour in the pthread implementation of
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:c:func:`PyThread_start_new_thread`: add a function wrapper to always
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return ``NULL``.
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- bpo-30345: Add -g to LDFLAGS when compiling with LTO to get debug symbols.
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Windows
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-------
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- bpo-35401: Updates Windows build to OpenSSL 1.0.2q
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- bpo-34603: Fix returning structs from functions produced by MSVC
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- bpo-33711: Fixed licence generation error when building the installer.
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macOS
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-----
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- bpo-15663: The macOS 10.6+ installer now provides a private copy of Tcl/Tk
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8.6, like the 10.9+ installer does.
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- bpo-35401: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2q.
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- bpo-34405: Update to OpenSSL 1.0.2p for macOS installer builds.
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IDLE
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----
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- bpo-34275: Make IDLE calltips always visible on Mac. Some MacOS-tk
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combinations need .update_idletasks(). Patch by Kevin Walzer.
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- bpo-34120: Fix unresponsiveness after closing certain windows and dialogs.
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- bpo-33856: Add "help" in the welcome message of IDLE
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- bpo-31500: Default fonts now are scaled on HiDPI displays.
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Tools/Demos
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-----------
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- bpo-34989: python-gdb.py now handles errors on computing the line number
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of a Python frame.
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- bpo-34500: Fix 2 ResourceWarning in difflib.py. Patch by Mickaël
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Schoentgen.
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- bpo-29367: python-gdb.py now supports also method-wrapper (wrapperobject)
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objects.
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- bpo-32962: python-gdb now catchs ``UnicodeDecodeError`` exceptions when
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calling ``string()``.
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- bpo-32962: python-gdb now catchs ValueError on read_var(): when Python has
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no debug symbols for example.
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C API
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-----
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- bpo-33817: Fixed :c:func:`_PyString_Resize` and
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:c:func:`_PyUnicode_Resize` for empty strings. This fixed also
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:c:func:`PyString_FromFormat` and :c:func:`PyUnicode_FromFormat` when they
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return an empty string (e.g. ``PyString_FromFormat("%s", "")``).
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- bpo-34229: Check start and stop of slice object to be long when they are
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not int in :c:func:`PySlice_GetIndices`.
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- bpo-23927: Fixed :exc:`SystemError` in
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:c:func:`PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords` when the ``w*`` format unit is used
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for optional parameter.
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What's New in Python 2.7.15 final?
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==================================
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*Release date: 2018-04-29*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- bpo-33374: Tweak the definition of PyGC_Head, so compilers do not believe
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it is always 16-byte aligned on x86. This prevents crashes with more
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aggressive optimizations present in GCC 8.
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What's New in Python 2.7.15 release candidate 1?
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================================================
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*Release date: 2018-04-14*
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Security
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--------
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- bpo-32997: A regex in fpformat was vulnerable to catastrophic
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backtracking. This regex was a potential DOS vector (REDOS). Based on
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typical uses of fpformat the risk seems low. The regex has been refactored
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and is now safe. Patch by Jamie Davis.
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- bpo-32981: Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic
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backtracking. These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They
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have been refactored. This resolves CVE-2018-1060 and CVE-2018-1061. Patch
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by Jamie Davis.
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- bpo-31339: Rewrite time.asctime() and time.ctime(). Backport and adapt the
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_asctime() function from the master branch to not depend on the
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implementation of asctime() and ctime() from the external C library. This
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change fixes a bug when Python is run using the musl C library.
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- bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on
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Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command
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arguments.
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- bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple
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security vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External entity
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infinite loop DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix),
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CVE-2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0's fix to CVE-2016-0718) and
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CVE-2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the
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CVE-2016-5300 (Use os- specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn't
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impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set the
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expat secret using ``XML_SetHashSalt()``.
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- bpo-30500: Fix urllib.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For
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example, ``splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')`` now correctly returns the
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``127.0.0.1`` host, instead of treating ``@evil.com`` as the host in an
|
||
authentification (``login@host``).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of
|
||
CVE-2016-0718 and CVE-2016-4472. See
|
||
https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-33026: Fixed jumping out of "with" block by setting f_lineno.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17288: Prevent jumps from 'return' and 'exception' trace events.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18533: ``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``viewvalues()`` or
|
||
``viewitems()`` no longer raises ``RuntimeError``. Instead, use ``...``,
|
||
as for other recursive structures. Patch by Ben North.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10544: Yield expressions are now deprecated in comprehensions and
|
||
generator expressions when checking Python 3 compatibility. They are still
|
||
permitted in the definition of the outermost iterable, as that is
|
||
evaluated directly in the enclosing scope.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32137: The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError
|
||
instead of crashing due to a stack overflow.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20047: Bytearray methods partition() and rpartition() now accept only
|
||
bytes-like objects as separator, as documented. In particular they now
|
||
raise TypeError rather of returning a bogus result when an integer is
|
||
passed as a separator.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31733: Add a new PYTHONSHOWREFCOUNT environment variable. In debug
|
||
mode, Python now only print the total reference count if
|
||
PYTHONSHOWREFCOUNT is set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31692: Add a new PYTHONSHOWALLOCCOUNT environment variable. When
|
||
Python is compiled with COUNT_ALLOCS, PYTHONSHOWALLOCCOUNT now has to be
|
||
set to dump allocation counts into stderr on shutdown. Moreover,
|
||
allocations statistics are now dumped into stderr rather than stdout.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31478: Prevent unwanted behavior in `_random.Random.seed()` in case
|
||
the argument has a bad ``__abs__()`` method. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31530: Fixed crashes when iterating over a file on multiple threads.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31490: Fix an assertion failure in `ctypes` class definition, in case
|
||
the class has an attribute whose name is specified in ``_anonymous_`` but
|
||
not in ``_fields_``. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31411: Raise a TypeError instead of SystemError in case
|
||
warnings.onceregistry is not a dictionary. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31343: Include sys/sysmacros.h for major(), minor(), and makedev().
|
||
GNU C libray plans to remove the functions from sys/types.h.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31311: Fix a crash in the ``__setstate__()`` method of
|
||
`ctypes._CData`, in case of a bad ``__dict__``. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31243: Fix a crash in some methods of `io.TextIOWrapper`, when the
|
||
decoder's state is invalid. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31095: Fix potential crash during GC caused by ``tp_dealloc`` which
|
||
doesn't call ``PyObject_GC_UnTrack()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30657: Fixed possible integer overflow in PyString_DecodeEscape. Patch
|
||
by Jay Bosamiya.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are
|
||
mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by
|
||
Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-
|
||
interned or unicode attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple and list
|
||
when pass indices of wrong type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before
|
||
str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor
|
||
for complex subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch
|
||
by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating
|
||
weakref objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14376: Allow sys.exit to accept longs as well as ints. Patch by Gareth
|
||
Rees.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29028: Fixed possible use-after-free bugs in the subscription of the
|
||
buffer object with custom index object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29145: Fix overflow checks in string, bytearray and unicode. Patch by
|
||
jan matejek and Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-33096: Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false
|
||
boolean value. Note iid=0 and iid=False would be same. Patch by Garvit
|
||
Khatri.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-33127: The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30622: The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21060: Rewrite confusing message from setup.py upload from "No dist
|
||
file created in earlier command" to the more helpful "Must create and
|
||
upload files in one command".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30157: Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when
|
||
only the last field is quoted. Patch by Jake Davis.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32647: The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for
|
||
dlopen. The shared extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on
|
||
platforms with dl.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32304: distutils' upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending
|
||
with a CR byte, and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the
|
||
upload text fields.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31848: Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND
|
||
chunk is not found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32521: The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers
|
||
location.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32539: Fix ``OSError`` for ``os.listdir`` with deep paths (starting
|
||
with ``\\?\``) on windows. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32521: glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and
|
||
library in nis module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18035: ``telnetlib``: ``select.error`` doesn't have an ``errno``
|
||
attribute. Patch by Segev Finer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32185: The SSL module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS
|
||
extension on platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.2+ or inet_pton.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32186: Creating io.FileIO() and builtin file() objects now release the
|
||
GIL when checking the file descriptor. io.FileIO.readall(),
|
||
io.FileIO.read(), and file.read() now release the GIL when getting the
|
||
file size. Fixed hang of all threads with inaccessible NFS server. Patch
|
||
by Nir Soffer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32110: ``codecs.StreamReader.read(n)`` now returns not more than *n*
|
||
characters/bytes for non-negative *n*. This makes it compatible with
|
||
``read()`` methods of other file-like objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21149: Silence a `'NoneType' object is not callable` in
|
||
`_removeHandlerRef` error that could happen when a logging Handler is
|
||
destroyed as part of cyclic garbage collection during process shutdown.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31764: Prevent a crash in ``sqlite3.Cursor.close()`` in case the
|
||
``Cursor`` object is uninitialized. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31955: Fix CCompiler.set_executable() of distutils to handle properly
|
||
Unicode strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9678: Fixed determining the MAC address in the uuid module:
|
||
|
||
* Using ifconfig on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
|
||
* Using arp on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
|
||
|
||
Based on patch by Takayuki Shimizukawa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30057: Fix potential missed signal in signal.signal().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31927: Fixed reading arbitrary data when parse a AF_BLUETOOTH address
|
||
on NetBSD and DragonFly BSD.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27666: Fixed stack corruption in curses.box() and curses.ungetmouse()
|
||
when the size of types chtype or mmask_t is less than the size of C long.
|
||
curses.box() now accepts characters as arguments. Based on patch by Steve
|
||
Fink.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25720: Fix the method for checking pad state of curses WINDOW. Patch
|
||
by Masayuki Yamamoto.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31893: Fixed the layout of the kqueue_event structure on OpenBSD and
|
||
NetBSD. Fixed the comparison of the kqueue_event objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31891: Fixed building the curses module on NetBSD.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30058: Fixed buffer overflow in select.kqueue.control().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31770: Prevent a crash when calling the ``__init__()`` method of a
|
||
``sqlite3.Cursor`` object more than once. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31728: Prevent crashes in `_elementtree` due to unsafe cleanup of
|
||
`Element.text` and `Element.tail`. Patch by Oren Milman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31752: Fix possible crash in timedelta constructor called with custom
|
||
integers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31681: Fix pkgutil.get_data to avoid leaking open files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31675: Fixed memory leaks in Tkinter's methods splitlist() and split()
|
||
when pass a string larger than 2 GiB.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30806: Fix the string representation of a netrc object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30347: Stop crashes when concurrently iterate over itertools.groupby()
|
||
iterators.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25732: `functools.total_ordering()` now implements the `__ne__`
|
||
method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31351: python -m ensurepip now exits with non-zero exit code if pip
|
||
bootstrapping has failed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31544: The C accelerator module of ElementTree ignored exceptions
|
||
raised when looking up TreeBuilder target methods in XMLParser().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31455: The C accelerator module of ElementTree ignored exceptions
|
||
raised when looking up TreeBuilder target methods in XMLParser().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25404: SSLContext.load_dh_params() now supports non-ASCII path.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28958: ssl.SSLContext() now uses OpenSSL error information when a
|
||
context cannot be instantiated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27448: Work around a `gc.disable()` race condition in the `subprocess`
|
||
module that could leave garbage collection disabled when multiple threads
|
||
are spawning subprocesses at once. Users are *strongly encouraged* to use
|
||
the `subprocess32` module from PyPI on Python 2.7 instead, it is much more
|
||
reliable.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31170: expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of
|
||
partial characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115):
|
||
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29136: Add TLS 1.3 cipher suites and OP_NO_TLSv1_3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31334: Fix ``poll.poll([timeout])`` in the ``select`` module for
|
||
arbitrary negative timeouts on all OSes where it can only be a non-
|
||
negative integer or -1. Patch by Riccardo Coccioli.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10746: Fix ctypes producing wrong PEP 3118 type codes for integer
|
||
types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30102: The ssl and hashlib modules now call
|
||
OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf() on OpenSSL < 1.1.0. The function
|
||
detects CPU features and enables optimizations on some CPU architectures
|
||
such as POWER8. Patch is based on research from Gustavo Serra Scalet.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30502: Fix handling of long oids in ssl. Based on patch by Christian
|
||
Heimes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25684: Change ``ttk.OptionMenu`` radiobuttons to be unique across
|
||
instances of ``OptionMenu``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30746: Prohibited the '=' character in environment variable names in
|
||
``os.putenv()`` and ``os.spawn*()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore
|
||
EINVAL on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed
|
||
the pipe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot
|
||
handle IPv6 addresses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises
|
||
an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30310: tkFont now supports unicode options (e.g. font family).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not
|
||
break from main loop on exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by
|
||
Ma Lin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always
|
||
point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into
|
||
inners of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30363: Running Python with the -3 option now warns about regular
|
||
expression syntax that is invalid or has different semantic in Python 3 or
|
||
will change the behavior in future Python versions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30365: Running Python with the -3 option now emits deprecation
|
||
warnings for getchildren() and getiterator() methods of the Element class
|
||
in the xml.etree.cElementTree module and when pass the html argument to
|
||
xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30365: Fixed a deprecation warning about the doctype() method of the
|
||
xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser class. Now it is emitted only when define
|
||
the doctype() method in the subclass of XMLParser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30329: imaplib now catchs the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code
|
||
10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This
|
||
error occurs sometimes on SSL connections.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30342: Fix sysconfig.is_python_build() if Python is built with Visual
|
||
Studio 2008 (VS 9.0).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma
|
||
Lin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json's scanner and encoder.
|
||
Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and
|
||
encoder objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26293: Change resulted because of zipfile breakage. (See also:
|
||
bpo-29094)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods next() and readlines() when
|
||
readline() or next() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed
|
||
possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(),
|
||
PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30011: Fixed race condition in HTMLParser.unescape().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it's closed first when hint
|
||
is present.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions
|
||
and wrong types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering
|
||
long runs of empty iterables.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results
|
||
as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27880: Fixed integer overflow in cPickle when pickle large strings or
|
||
too many objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a
|
||
filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Original patch by Anthony
|
||
Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29354: Fixed inspect.getargs() for parameters which are cell
|
||
variables.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited
|
||
to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized
|
||
ctypes.CDLL instances.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29082: Fixed loading libraries in ctypes by unicode names on Windows.
|
||
Original patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29188: Support glibc 2.24 on Linux: don't use getentropy() function
|
||
but read from /dev/urandom to get random bytes, for example in
|
||
os.urandom(). On Linux, getentropy() is implemented which getrandom() is
|
||
blocking mode, whereas os.urandom() should not block.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29142: In urllib, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with
|
||
leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches
|
||
a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized
|
||
curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative
|
||
integers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary
|
||
when collecting from another thread.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28998: More APIs now support longs as well as ints.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py, including encoding not
|
||
recognized by codecs.lookup.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29019: Fix dict.fromkeys(x) overallocates when x is sparce dict.
|
||
Original patch by Rasmus Villemoes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
|
||
WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another thread.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28925: cPickle now correctly propagates errors when unpickle instances
|
||
of old-style classes.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27212: Modify documentation for the :func:`islice` recipe to consume
|
||
initial values up to the start index.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32800: Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17799: Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and
|
||
their C-API counterparts regarding which type of events are received in
|
||
each function. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8243: Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception
|
||
behavior when writing outside a window, or pad.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21649: Add RFC 7525 and Mozilla server side TLS links to SSL
|
||
documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses
|
||
documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major
|
||
version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12067: Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter of the
|
||
language reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed types were
|
||
incorrect or ambiguous. Added default behaviour and consistency
|
||
suggestions for user- defined classes. Based on patch from Andy Maier.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31719: Fix test_regrtest.test_crashed() on s390x. Add a new
|
||
_testcapi._read_null() function to crash Python in a reliable way on
|
||
s390x. On s390x, ctypes.string_at(0) returns an empty string rather than
|
||
crashing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31518: Debian Unstable has disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for
|
||
SSLv23_METHOD(). Change TLS/SSL protocol of some tests to PROTOCOL_TLS or
|
||
PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2 to make them pass on Debian.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25674: Remove sha256.tbs-internet.com ssl test
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11790: Fix sporadic failures in
|
||
test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30236: Backported test.regrtest options -m/--match and -G/--failfast
|
||
from Python 3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30223: To unify running tests in Python 2.7 and Python 3, the test
|
||
package can be run as a script. This is equivalent to running the
|
||
test.regrtest module as a script.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30207: To simplify backports from Python 3, the test.test_support
|
||
module was converted into a package and renamed to test.support. The
|
||
test.script_helper module was moved into the test.support package. Names
|
||
test.test_support and test.script_helper are left as aliases to
|
||
test.support and test.support.script_helper.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30197: Enhanced function swap_attr() in the test.test_support module.
|
||
It now works when delete replaced attribute inside the with statement.
|
||
The old value of the attribute (or None if it doesn't exist) now will be
|
||
assigned to the target of the "as" clause, if there is one. Also
|
||
backported function swap_item().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28087: Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS. Skip
|
||
some tests of select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved issues
|
||
with the underlying system poll function on some macOS versions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15083: Convert ElementTree doctests to unittests.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-33163: Upgrade pip to 9.0.3 and setuptools to v39.0.1.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32616: Disable computed gotos by default for clang < 5.0. It caused
|
||
significant performance regression.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32635: Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided
|
||
instead of libcrypt at the system.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31934: Abort the build when building out of a not clean source tree.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31474: Fix -Wint-in-bool-context warnings in PyMem_MALLOC and
|
||
PyMem_REALLOC macros
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during ``make test``,
|
||
``make install`` and some other make targets when configured with
|
||
``--enable- optimizations``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23404: Don't regenerate generated files based on file modification
|
||
time anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace ``make touch`` with
|
||
``make regen-all``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27593: sys.version and the platform module python_build(),
|
||
python_branch(), and python_revision() functions now use git information
|
||
rather than hg when building from a repo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29643: Fix ``--enable-optimization`` configure option didn't work.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29572: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by
|
||
Masayuki Yamamoto
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-33184: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2o.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32903: Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current
|
||
directory is set to a UNC path.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30855: Bump Tcl/Tk to 8.5.19.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30450: Pull build dependencies from GitHub rather than svn.python.org.
|
||
|
||
macOS
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-32726: Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that
|
||
supports macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only. Upgrade the supplied
|
||
third-party libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.2n and SQLite 3.22.0. The 10.9+
|
||
installer now supplies its own private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24414: Default macOS deployment target is now set by ``configure`` to
|
||
the build system's OS version (as is done by Python 3), not ``10.4``;
|
||
override with, for example, ``./configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17128: All 2.7 macOS installer variants now supply their own version
|
||
of ``OpenSSL 1.0.2``; the Apple-supplied SSL libraries and root
|
||
certificates are not longer used. The ``Installer Certificate`` command
|
||
in ``/Applications/Python 2.7`` may be used to download and install a
|
||
default set of root certificates from the third-party ``certifi`` package.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11485: python.org macOS Pythons no longer supply a default SDK value
|
||
(e.g. ``-isysroot /``) or specific compiler version default (e.g.
|
||
``gcc-4.2``) when building extension modules. Use ``CC``, ``SDKROOT``,
|
||
and ``DEVELOPER_DIR`` environment variables to override compilers or to
|
||
use an SDK. See Apple's ``xcrun`` man page for more info.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-33184: Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2o.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31920: Fixed handling directories as arguments in the ``pygettext``
|
||
script. Based on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30109: Fixed Tools/scripts/reindent.py for non-ASCII files. It now
|
||
processes files as binary streams. This also fixes "make reindent".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24960: 2to3 and lib2to3 can now read pickled grammar files using
|
||
pkgutil.get_data() rather than probing the filesystem. This lets 2to3 and
|
||
lib2to3 work when run from a zipfile.
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20891: Fix PyGILState_Ensure(). When PyGILState_Ensure() is called in
|
||
a non-Python thread before PyEval_InitThreads(), only call
|
||
PyEval_InitThreads() after calling PyThreadState_New() to fix a crash.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31626: When Python is built in debug mode, the memory debug hooks now
|
||
fail with a fatal error if realloc() fails to shrink a memory block,
|
||
because the debug hook just erased freed bytes without keeping a copy of
|
||
them.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.14 release candidate 1?
|
||
================================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2017-08-26*
|
||
|
||
Security
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30947: Upgrade libexpat embedded copy from version 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 to
|
||
get security fixes.
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30765: Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when
|
||
PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked not to block.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31135: ttk: Fix LabeledScale and OptionMenu destroy() method. Call the
|
||
parent destroy() method even if the used attribute doesn't exist. The
|
||
LabeledScale.destroy() method now also explicitly clears label and scale
|
||
attributes to help the garbage collector to destroy all widgets.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-31107: Fix `copy_reg._slotnames()` mangled attribute calculation for
|
||
classes whose name begins with an underscore. Patch by Shane Harvey.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29519: Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown when
|
||
used with a rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30119: ftplib.FTP.putline() now throws ValueError on commands that
|
||
contains CR or LF. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30595: multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader
|
||
in non- blocking mode if it succeeded to aquire the lock but the acquire
|
||
took longer than the timeout.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29902: Py3k deprecation warning now is emitted when pickling or
|
||
copying some builtin and extension objects that don't support pickling
|
||
explicitly and are pickled incorrectly by default (like memoryview or
|
||
staticmethod). This is a TypeError in Python 3.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-29854: Fix segfault in readline when using readline's history-size
|
||
option. Patch by Nir Soffer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny
|
||
value.
|
||
|
||
Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(),
|
||
which is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on
|
||
some platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero
|
||
interval, therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30715: Address ALPN callback changes for OpenSSL 1.1.0f. The latest
|
||
version behaves like OpenSSL 1.0.2 and no longer aborts handshake.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30822: Fix regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u
|
||
extralargefile to run test_zipfile64.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30283: regrtest: Enhance regrtest and backport features from the
|
||
master branch.
|
||
|
||
Add options: --coverage, --testdir, --list-tests (list test files, don't
|
||
run them), --list-cases (list test identifiers, don't run them,
|
||
:issue:`30523`), --matchfile (load a list of test filters from a text
|
||
file, :issue:`30540`), --slowest (alias to --slow).
|
||
|
||
Enhance output: add timestamp, test result, currently running tests,
|
||
"Tests result: xxx" summary with total duration, etc.
|
||
|
||
Fix reference leak hunting in regrtest, --huntrleaks: regrtest now warms
|
||
up caches, create explicitly all internal singletons which are created on
|
||
demand to prevent false positives when checking for reference leaks.
|
||
(:issue:`30675`).
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.13 final?
|
||
==================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2016-12-17*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5322: Revert a37cc3d926ec.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.13 release candidate 1?
|
||
================================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2016-12-03*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5322: Fixed setting __new__ to a PyCFunction inside Python code.
|
||
Original patch by Andreas Stührk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28847: dumbdbm no longer writes the index file in when it is not
|
||
changed and supports reading read-only files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11145: Fixed miscellaneous issues with C-style formatting of types
|
||
with custom __oct__ and __hex__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24469: Fixed memory leak caused by int subclasses without overridden
|
||
tp_free (e.g. C-inherited Cython classes).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of
|
||
empty compile- time PYTHONPATH components.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21720: Improve exception message when the type of fromlist is unicode.
|
||
fromlist parameter of __import__() only accepts str in Python 2 and this
|
||
will help to identify the problem especially when the unicode_literals
|
||
future import is used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes
|
||
implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original
|
||
patch by Niklas Koep.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of
|
||
compiling it.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and
|
||
frozensets.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15578: Correctly incref the parent module while importing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented
|
||
behaviour.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27870: A left shift of zero by a large integer no longer attempts to
|
||
allocate large amounts of memory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25604: Fix a minor bug in integer true division; this bug could
|
||
potentially have caused off-by-one-ulp results on platforms with
|
||
unreliable ldexp implementations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in str, unicode and bytearray
|
||
concatenations and repetitions. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by
|
||
Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
|
||
PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23908: os functions, open() and the io.FileIO constructor now reject
|
||
unicode paths with embedded null character on Windows instead of silently
|
||
truncating them.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError
|
||
instead of SystemError.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and
|
||
from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28563: Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when handle
|
||
plural form selections in the gettext module. The expression parser now
|
||
supports exact syntax supported by GNU gettext.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when the
|
||
garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by Sebastian
|
||
Cufre.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode "r" or "r:" now tries to open a tar
|
||
file with compression before trying to open it without compression.
|
||
Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in Tix module by adding a
|
||
workaround to Tix library bug.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28480: Fix error building _sqlite3 module when multithreading is
|
||
disabled.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26293: Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start of the
|
||
file. Offsets in ZIP file now are relative to the start of the archive in
|
||
conforming to the specification.
|
||
|
||
- Fix possible integer overflows and crashes in the mmap module with unusual
|
||
usage patterns.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation()
|
||
if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Original patch by Xiang
|
||
Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1703178: Fix the ability to pass the --link-objects option to the
|
||
distutils build_ext command.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and
|
||
9999-12.
|
||
|
||
Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that
|
||
they don't call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date
|
||
under/overflow.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27963: Fixed possible null pointer dereference in
|
||
ctypes.set_conversion_mode(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28284: Strengthen resistance of ``_json.encode_basestring_ascii()`` to
|
||
integer overflow.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the Tix module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24363: When parsing HTTP header fields, if an invalid line is
|
||
encountered, skip it and continue parsing. Previously, no more header
|
||
fields were parsed, which could lead to fields for HTTP framing like
|
||
Content-Length and Transfer- Encoding being overlooked.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and
|
||
binascii.a2b_qp().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking
|
||
generalizations added in 3.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source pointers
|
||
in the "ctypes" and "array" modules.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22450: urllib now includes an "Accept: */*" header among the default
|
||
headers. This makes the results of REST API requests more consistent and
|
||
predictable especially when proxy servers are involved.
|
||
|
||
- lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache file
|
||
between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the hash
|
||
randomization setting.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27691: Fix ssl module's parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name
|
||
fields in X.509 certs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module's default cipher list to counter
|
||
measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module's default ciper list.
|
||
(Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27944: Fix some memory-corruption bugs in the log reading code of the
|
||
_hotshot module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27934: Use ``float.__repr__`` instead of plain ``repr`` when JSON-
|
||
encoding an instance of a float subclass. Thanks Eddie James.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a factory
|
||
creates not a cursor. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit(). Statements should not
|
||
be reset after a commit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which
|
||
the user does not have permission to access.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in
|
||
operator.methodcaller.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.
|
||
|
||
- In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or window.instr()
|
||
is passed a negative value.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large
|
||
record lengths.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23369: Fixed possible integer overflow in
|
||
_json.encode_basestring_ascii.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the
|
||
HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which
|
||
indicates that the script is in CGI mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27130: In the "zlib" module, fix handling of large buffers (typically
|
||
2 or 4 GiB). Previously, inputs were limited to 2 GiB, and compression and
|
||
decompression operations did not properly handle results of 2 or 4 GiB.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23804: Fix SSL zero-length recv() calls to not block and not raise an
|
||
error about unclean EOF.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27466: Change time format returned by http.cookie.time2netscape,
|
||
confirming the netscape cookie format and making it consistent with
|
||
documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22115: Fixed tracing Tkinter variables: trace_vdelete() with wrong
|
||
mode no longer break tracing, trace_vinfo() now always returns a list of
|
||
pairs of strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and
|
||
ispunct().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22636: Avoid shell injection problems with ctypes.util.find_library().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27330: Fixed possible leaks in the ctypes module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module. Original patch
|
||
by Jelle Zijlstra.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id's
|
||
containing spaces.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25455: Fixed a crash in repr of cElementTree.Element with recursive
|
||
tag.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message. Thanks
|
||
to Wojciech Walczak for patch.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27854: Make Help => IDLE Help work again on Windows. Include
|
||
idlelib/help.html in 2.7 Windows installer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25507: Add back import needed for 2.x encoding warning box. Add
|
||
pointer to 'Encoding declaration' in Language Reference.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15308: Add 'interrupt execution' (^C) to Shell menu. Patch by Roger
|
||
Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27922: Stop IDLE tests from 'flashing' gui widgets on the screen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17642: add larger font sizes for classroom projection.
|
||
|
||
- Add version to title of IDLE help window.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25564: In section on IDLE -- console differences, mention that using
|
||
exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-run in the
|
||
same process. This occurs when test_idle fails when run with the -w
|
||
option but without -jn. Fix warning from test_config.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings.
|
||
Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a cascade
|
||
of warnings was emitted. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16484: Change the default PYTHONDOCS URL to "https:", and fix the
|
||
resulting links to use lowercase. Patch by Sean Rodman, test by Kaushik
|
||
Nadikuditi.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28666: Now test.test_support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or
|
||
unreadable directories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that
|
||
changed in Expat 2.2.0.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and
|
||
Michael Haubenwallner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (distclean target in
|
||
Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15819: The Include directory in the build tree is already searched;
|
||
drop unused code trying to add it again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required
|
||
for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when
|
||
``--with- optimizations`` is enabled. Also improve our ability to find
|
||
the llvm- profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26359: Add the --with-optimizations configure flag.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X. Also update
|
||
FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27806: Fix 32-bit builds on macOS Sierra 10.12 broken by removal of
|
||
deprecated QuickTime/QuickTime.h header file. Patch by Aleks Bunin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS.
|
||
Initial patch by Gareth Rees.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27952: Get Tools/scripts/fixcid.py working with the current "re"
|
||
module, avoid invalid Python backslash escapes, and fix a bug parsing
|
||
escaped C quote signs.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27888: Prevent Windows installer from displaying console windows and
|
||
failing when pip cannot be installed/uninstalled.
|
||
|
||
macOS
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-28440: No longer add /Library/Python/site-packages, the Apple-supplied
|
||
system Python site-packages directory, to sys.path for macOS framework
|
||
builds. The coupling between the two Python instances often caused
|
||
confusion and, as of macOS 10.12, changes to the site-packages layout can
|
||
cause pip component installations to fail. This change reverts the
|
||
effects introduced in 2.7.0 by Issue #4865. If you are using a package
|
||
with both the Apple system Python 2.7 and a user-installed Python 2.7, you
|
||
will need to ensure that copies of the package are installed with both
|
||
Python instances.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.12 final?
|
||
==================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2016-06-25*
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile to
|
||
prevent the pgen executable from being cross-compiled.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27365: Fix about dialog.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.12 release candidate 1?
|
||
================================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2016-06-12*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None. Patch by
|
||
Xavier de Gaye.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25702: A --with-lto configure option has been added that will enable
|
||
link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt. Some
|
||
compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable code when using
|
||
LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before relying on it. It can
|
||
provide a few % speed up over profile-opt alone.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with the "N"
|
||
format unit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127. Patch by
|
||
Joe Jevnik.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star
|
||
(*) unpacking and the exception was raised from a generator. Based on
|
||
patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called multiple times.
|
||
NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not endorsed!
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13410: Fixed a bug in PyUnicode_Format where it failed to properly
|
||
ignore errors from a __int__() method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26494: Fixed crash on iterating exhausting iterators. Affected classes
|
||
are generic sequence iterators, iterators of bytearray, list, tuple, set,
|
||
frozenset, dict, OrderedDict and corresponding views.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line in
|
||
Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22836: Ensure exception reports from PyErr_Display() and
|
||
PyErr_WriteUnraisable() are sensible even when formatting them produces
|
||
secondary errors. This affects the reports produced by
|
||
sys.__excepthook__() and when __del__() raises an exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22847: Improve method cache efficiency.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25843: When compiling code, don't merge constants if they are equal
|
||
but have a different types. For example, ``f1, f2 = lambda: 1, lambda:
|
||
1.0`` is now correctly compiled to two different functions: ``f1()``
|
||
returns ``1`` (``int``) and ``f2()`` returns ``1.0`` (``int``), even if
|
||
``1`` and ``1.0`` are equal.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22995: [UPDATE] Remove the one of the pickleability tests in
|
||
_PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based projects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22995: Instances of extension types with a state that aren't
|
||
subclasses of list or dict and haven't implemented any pickle-related
|
||
methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__, __getnewargs_ex__, or
|
||
__getstate__), can no longer be pickled. Including memoryview.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20440: Massive replacing unsafe attribute setting code with special
|
||
macro Py_SETREF.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25421: __sizeof__ methods of builtin types now use dynamic basic size.
|
||
This allows sys.getsize() to work correctly with their subclasses with
|
||
__slots__ defined.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19543: Added Py3k warning for decoding unicode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside
|
||
__getattr__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods __str__,
|
||
__trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of str, long,
|
||
and float to subclasses of str, long, and float correspondingly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary
|
||
views and tuples.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in
|
||
zipimporter.get_data().
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
|
||
|
||
- Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smptlib, CVE-2016-0772. Reported by
|
||
Team Oststrom
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
|
||
locale.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25738: Stop BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error() from
|
||
sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don't send the
|
||
Content-Type header field in responses that don't have a body. Based on
|
||
patch by Susumu Koshiba.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version contains
|
||
truncated build information.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27211: Fix possible memory corruption in io.IOBase.readline().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
|
||
PermissionError
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target only has a
|
||
query string. Fix by Ján Janech.
|
||
|
||
- Removed the requirements for the ctypes and modulefinder modules to be
|
||
compatible with earlier Python versions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected to
|
||
stdout even when stdout is not redirected. Patch by Akira Li.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
|
||
ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26960: Backported #16270 from Python 3 to Python 2, to prevent urllib
|
||
from hanging when retrieving certain FTP files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword arguments.
|
||
Patch by Georg Brandl.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26873: xmlrpclib now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags
|
||
instead of silently return incorrect result.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
|
||
|
||
The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches for
|
||
the `crle` program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by Kees Bos.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26864: In urllib, change the proxy bypass host checking against
|
||
no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host names
|
||
that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix. Patch by Xiang
|
||
Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26804: urllib will prefer lower_case proxy environment variables over
|
||
UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones. Patch contributed by Hans-Peter Jansen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-stringified
|
||
differing items. This affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no longer
|
||
silently ignore keyword arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with SimpleHTTPServer on
|
||
Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 2.7.7. Based on
|
||
patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19377: Add .svg to mimetypes.types_map.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Geoff Wilson.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by installing our
|
||
own SIGWINCH handler. Patch by Eric Price.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26644: Raise ValueError rather than SystemError when a negative length
|
||
is passed to SSLSocket.recv() or read().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23804: Fix SSL recv(0) and read(0) methods to return zero bytes
|
||
instead of up to 1024.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the search
|
||
mode when compiled with Readline 7.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23857: Implement PEP 493, adding a Python-2-only ssl module API and
|
||
environment variable to configure the default handling of SSL/TLS
|
||
certificates for HTTPS connections.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows cert store is
|
||
empty. Patch by Baji.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26513: Fixes platform module detection of Windows Server
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1. Original patch by
|
||
Tamás Bence Gedai.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar widgets.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in the fileinput module. The
|
||
bufsize parameter is no longer used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in
|
||
AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu
|
||
Dupuy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the (?x)
|
||
flag.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26385: Remove the file if the internal fdopen() call in
|
||
NamedTemporaryFile() fails. Based on patch by Silent Ghost.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26309: In the "SocketServer" module, shut down the request (closing
|
||
the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false. Based on patch
|
||
by Aviv Palivoda.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in
|
||
ssl.enum_certificates.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24303: Fix random EEXIST upon multiprocessing semaphores creation with
|
||
Linux PID namespaces enabled.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25698: Importing module if the stack is too deep no longer replaces
|
||
imported module with the empty one.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12923: Reset FancyURLopener's redirect counter even if there is an
|
||
exception. Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25945: Fixed a crash when unpickle the functools.partial object with
|
||
wrong state. Fixed a leak in failed functools.partial constructor. "args"
|
||
and "keywords" attributes of functools.partial have now always types tuple
|
||
and dict correspondingly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19883: Fixed possible integer overflows in zipimport.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26147: xmlrpclib now works with unicode not encodable with used non-
|
||
UTF-8 encoding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16620: Fixed AttributeError in msilib.Directory.glob().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21847: Fixed xmlrpclib on Unicode-disabled builds.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6500: Fixed infinite recursion in urllib2.Request.__getattr__().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26083: Workaround a subprocess bug that raises an incorrect
|
||
"ValueError: insecure string pickle" exception instead of the actual
|
||
exception on some platforms such as Mac OS X when an exception raised in
|
||
the forked child process prior to the exec() was large enough that it
|
||
overflowed the internal errpipe_read pipe buffer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.iterparse().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20954: _args_from_interpreter_flags used by multiprocessing and some
|
||
tests no longer behaves incorrectly in the presence of the PYTHONHASHSEED
|
||
environment variable.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14285: When executing a package with the "python -m package" option,
|
||
and package initialization raises ImportError, a proper traceback is now
|
||
reported.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6478: _strptime's regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone
|
||
with time.tzset().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is false.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25742: :func:`locale.setlocale` now accepts a Unicode string for its
|
||
second parameter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents. Based on patch by
|
||
Marian Ganisin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25725: Fixed a reference leak in cPickle.loads() when unpickling
|
||
invalid data including tuple instructions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate global
|
||
names, and search the global namespace before searching builtins.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23914: Fixed SystemError raised by CPickle unpickler on broken data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25924: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on OS X
|
||
versions 10.5 or higher. Original patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26406: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on
|
||
current versions of OpenBSD and NetBSD. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11. This
|
||
matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps, and ttk
|
||
widgets. Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory is
|
||
a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. Such fonts
|
||
on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
|
||
|
||
- In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify how
|
||
running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing.
|
||
Change also prevented saving shell window with non-ascii characters.
|
||
Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ' to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION
|
||
MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with 'ascii'. Re-encode
|
||
CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with 'utf-8'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26417: Prevent spurious errors and incorrect defaults when installing
|
||
IDLE 2.7 on OS X: default configuration settings are no longer installed
|
||
from OS X specific copies.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if possible.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group related
|
||
functions together, and add more details such as what underlying Readline
|
||
functions and variables are accessed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26014: Guide users to the newer packaging documentation as was done
|
||
for Python 3.x. In particular, the top-level 2.7 documentation page now
|
||
links to the newer installer and distributions pages rather than the
|
||
legacy install and Distutils pages; these are still linked to in the
|
||
library/distutils doc page.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21916: Added tests for the turtle module. Patch by ingrid, Gregory
|
||
Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25940: Changed test_ssl to use self-signed.pythontest.net. This
|
||
avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root certificate.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections into
|
||
separate file test_ordered_dict.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22359: Avoid incorrect recursive $(MAKE), and disable the rules for
|
||
running pgen when cross-compiling. The pgen output is normally saved with
|
||
the source code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native
|
||
build. Patch by Jonas Wagner and Xavier de Gaye.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19450: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.8.11.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds. Patch by
|
||
Xavier de Gaye.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17603: Avoid error about nonexistant fileblocks.o file by using a
|
||
lower-level check for st_blocks in struct stat.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions.
|
||
Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds
|
||
were concurrent.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25824: Fixes sys.winver to not include any architecture suffix.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25348: Added ``--pgo`` and ``--pgo-job`` arguments to
|
||
``PCbuild\build.bat`` for building with Profile-Guided Optimization. The
|
||
old ``PCbuild\build_pgo.bat`` script is now deprecated, and simply calls
|
||
``PCbuild\build.bat --pgo %*``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25827: Add support for building with ICC to ``configure``, including a
|
||
new ``--with-icc`` flag.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and link with
|
||
OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25136: Support Apple Xcode 7's new textual SDK stub libraries.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don't get C types once when the Python code
|
||
is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if python-
|
||
gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable. Patch written by Thomas
|
||
Ilsche.
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30255: PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX,
|
||
PY_SSIZE_T_MAX] instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This
|
||
makes it safe to do "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-26476: Fixed compilation error when use PyErr_BadInternalCall() in
|
||
C++. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17500: Remove unused and outdated icons. (See also:
|
||
https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945)
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.11 final?
|
||
==================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2015-12-05*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory
|
||
entries. Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.11 release candidate 1?
|
||
================================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2015-11-21*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25678: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), long(), float(), and
|
||
compile() are passed buffer objects. These objects are not necessarily
|
||
terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed they were.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25388: Fixed tokenizer hang when processing undecodable source code
|
||
with a null byte.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now
|
||
rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7267: format(int, 'c') now raises OverflowError when the argument is
|
||
not in range(0, 256).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed
|
||
from being subclassed through multiple inheritance.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25003: os.urandom() doesn't use getentropy() on Solaris because
|
||
getentropy() is blocking, whereas os.urandom() should not block.
|
||
getentropy() is supported since Solaris 11.3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21167: NAN operations are now handled correctly when python is
|
||
compiled with ICC even if -fp-model strict is not specified.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24467: Fixed possible buffer over-read in bytearray. The bytearray
|
||
object now always allocates place for trailing null byte and it's buffer
|
||
now is always null-terminated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19543: encode() and decode() methods and constructors of str, unicode
|
||
and bytearray classes now emit deprecation warning for known non-text
|
||
encodings when Python is ran with the -3 option.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24115: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue(), PyObject_Not(),
|
||
PyObject_IsInstance(), PyObject_RichCompareBool() and _PyDict_Contains()
|
||
to check for and handle errors correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4753: On compilers where it is supported, use "computed gotos" for
|
||
bytecode dispatch in the interpreter. This improves interpretation
|
||
performance.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22939: Fixed integer overflow in iterator object. Original patch by
|
||
Clement Rouault.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error handlers.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10128: backport issue #10845's mitigation of incompatibilities between
|
||
the multiprocessing module and directory and zipfile execution.
|
||
Multiprocessing on Windows will now automatically skip rerunning __main__
|
||
in spawned processes, rather than failing with AssertionError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per
|
||
attribute.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating
|
||
ssl.SSLContext.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7759: Fixed the mhlib module on filesystems that doesn't support link
|
||
counting for directories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-892902: Fixed pickling recursive objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18010: Fix the pydoc GUI's search function to handle exceptions from
|
||
importing packages.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common
|
||
whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace. Based on patch
|
||
by Robert Li.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21709: Fix the logging module to not depend upon __file__ being set
|
||
properly to get the filename of its caller from the stack. This allows it
|
||
to work if run in a frozen or embedded environment where the module's
|
||
.__file__ attribute does not match its code object's .co_filename.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition
|
||
should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the
|
||
first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the query
|
||
part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22958: Constructor and update method of weakref.WeakValueDictionary
|
||
now accept the self keyword argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22609: Constructor and the update method of collections.UserDict now
|
||
accept the self keyword argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the
|
||
module in inconsistent state.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19143: platform module now reads Windows version from kernel32.dll to
|
||
avoid compatibility shims.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25135: Make deque_clear() safer by emptying the deque before clearing.
|
||
This helps avoid possible reentrancy issues.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24684: socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls
|
||
PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of calling the encode() method of the
|
||
host, to handle correctly custom unicode string with an encode() method
|
||
which doesn't return a byte string. The encoder of the IDNA codec is now
|
||
called directly instead of calling the encode() method of the string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24982: shutil.make_archive() with the "zip" format now adds entries
|
||
for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17849: Raise a sensible exception if an invalid response is received
|
||
for a HTTP tunnel request, as seen with some servers that do not support
|
||
tunnelling. Initial patch from Cory Benfield.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16180: Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping user in
|
||
an infinite loop. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22812: Fix unittest discovery examples. Patch from Pam McA'Nulty.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24634: Importing uuid should not try to load libc on Windows
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23652: Make it possible to compile the select module against the libc
|
||
headers from the Linux Standard Base, which do not include some EPOLL
|
||
macros. Initial patch by Matt Frank.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15138: Speed up base64.urlsafe_b64{en,de}code considerably.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23319: Fix ctypes.BigEndianStructure, swap correctly bytes. Patch
|
||
written by Matthieu Gautier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23254: Document how to close the TCPServer listening socket. Patch
|
||
from Martin Panter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17527: Add PATCH to wsgiref.validator. Patch from Luca Sbardella.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24613: Calling array.fromstring() with self is no longer allowed to
|
||
prevent the use-after-free error. Patch by John Leitch.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24708: Fix possible integer overflow in strop.replace().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24620: Random.setstate() now validates the value of state last
|
||
element.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13938: 2to3 converts StringTypes to a tuple. Patch from Mark Hammond.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24611: Fixed compiling the posix module on non-Windows platforms
|
||
without mknod() or makedev() (e.g. on Unixware).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24259: tarfile now raises a ReadError if an archive is truncated
|
||
inside a data segment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24514: tarfile now tolerates number fields consisting of only
|
||
whitespace.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20387: Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize
|
||
for tab- indented blocks.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24456: Fixed possible buffer over-read in adpcm2lin() and lin2adpcm()
|
||
functions of the audioop module. Fixed SystemError when the state is not
|
||
a tuple. Fixed possible memory leak.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24481: Fix possible memory corruption with large profiler info strings
|
||
in hotshot.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24489: ensure a previously set C errno doesn't disturb cmath.polar().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19543: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence io.open()) now uses the internal
|
||
codec marking system added to emit deprecation warning for known non-text
|
||
encodings at stream construction time when Python is ran with the -3
|
||
option.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24264: Fixed buffer overflow in the imageop module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5633: Fixed timeit when the statement is a string and the setup is
|
||
not.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24326: Fixed audioop.ratecv() with non-default weightB argument.
|
||
Original patch by David Moore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22095: Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port. The port
|
||
value in the host header was set to "None". Patch by Demian Brecht.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24257: Fixed segmentation fault in sqlite3.Row constructor with faked
|
||
cursor type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24286: Dict view were not registered with the MappingView abstract
|
||
base classes. This caused key and item views in OrderedDict to not be
|
||
equal to their regular dict counterparts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22107: tempfile.gettempdir() and tempfile.mkdtemp() now try again when
|
||
a directory with the chosen name already exists on Windows as well as on
|
||
Unix. tempfile.mkstemp() now fails early if parent directory is not valid
|
||
(not exists or is a file) on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6598: Increased time precision and random number range in
|
||
email.utils.make_msgid() to strengthen the uniqueness of the message ID.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24091: Fixed various crashes in corner cases in cElementTree.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15267: HTTPConnection.request() now is compatible with old-style
|
||
classes (such as TemporaryFile). Original patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20014: array.array() now accepts unicode typecodes. Based on patch by
|
||
Vajrasky Kok.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23637: Showing a warning no longer fails with UnicodeError. Formatting
|
||
unicode warning in the file with the path containing non-ascii characters
|
||
no longer fails with UnicodeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24134: Reverted issue #24134 changes.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process) before
|
||
closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process). This prevents
|
||
the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the
|
||
debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button
|
||
(15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455). The
|
||
patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes. 1. Suspend and
|
||
resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait mechanism intended
|
||
for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit). 2. In gui.run, allow
|
||
any existing interaction to terminate first.
|
||
|
||
- Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?' message
|
||
to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running
|
||
user program, not IDLE itself.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar.
|
||
Patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better
|
||
address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark.
|
||
Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences
|
||
dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted
|
||
list. Patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content
|
||
about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme. It is
|
||
more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background.
|
||
Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red, orange, ... . To
|
||
use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the 'Save as New
|
||
Custom Theme' button and enter a new name, such as 'Custom Dark'. The
|
||
custom theme will work with any IDLE release, and can be modified.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and
|
||
curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter.
|
||
'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in Settings -> Custom
|
||
Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection
|
||
background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now
|
||
always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs affected
|
||
by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) now work on
|
||
Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. Patch by
|
||
Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. For Mac
|
||
OSX, make them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. *
|
||
Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). * Give code
|
||
snippet a very Sphinx- like light blueish-gray background. * Re-use
|
||
initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. * When the
|
||
Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header at the top of
|
||
the screen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. Some were missing and
|
||
notes were not correct.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. Use
|
||
idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display. The new
|
||
idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. It looks
|
||
better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released. The
|
||
tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Mark Roseman.
|
||
The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are
|
||
deprecated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name.
|
||
Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to platform-
|
||
sensitive TkFixedFont. This should not affect current customized font
|
||
selections. If there is a problem, edit $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg and
|
||
remove 'fontxxx' entries from [Editor Window]. Patch by Mark Roseman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the restart
|
||
bar. Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan Umer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15809: IDLE shell now uses locale encoding instead of Latin1 for
|
||
decoding unicode literals.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in the
|
||
"threading" and "thread" modules. Patch from Mattip.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22155: Add File Handlers subsection with createfilehandler to Tkinter
|
||
doc. Remove obsolete example from FAQ. Patch by Martin Panter.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24751: When running regrtest with the ``-w`` command line option, a
|
||
test run is no longer marked as a failure if all tests succeed when re-
|
||
run.
|
||
|
||
- PCbuild\rt.bat now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along
|
||
to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24915: When doing a PGO build, the test suite is now used instead of
|
||
pybench; Clang support was also added as part off this work. Initial patch
|
||
by Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors
|
||
when external libraries are not available.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24508: Backported the MSBuild project files from Python 3.5. The
|
||
backported files replace the old project files in PCbuild; the old files
|
||
moved to PC/VS9.0 and remain supported.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL
|
||
1.0.2d.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.10 final?
|
||
==================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2015-05-23*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22931: Allow '[' and ']' in cookie values.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.10 release candidate 1?
|
||
================================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2015-05-10*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23971: Fix underestimated presizing in dict.fromkeys().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23757: PySequence_Tuple() incorrectly called the concrete list API
|
||
when the data was a list subclass.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized
|
||
objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23055: Fixed a buffer overflow in PyUnicode_FromFormatV. Analysis and
|
||
fix by Guido Vranken.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a dictionary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if passed
|
||
any keyword arguments. Previously it silently ignored them.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20274: Remove ignored and erroneous "kwargs" parameters from three
|
||
METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24134: assertRaises() and assertRaisesRegexp() checks are not longer
|
||
successful if the callable is None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23008: Fixed resolving attributes with boolean value is False in
|
||
pydoc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-24099: Fix use-after-free bug in heapq's siftup and siftdown
|
||
functions. (See also: bpo-24100, bpo-24101)
|
||
|
||
- Backport collections.deque fixes from Python 3.5. Prevents reentrant
|
||
badness during deletion by deferring the decref until the container has
|
||
been restored to a consistent state.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23842: os.major(), os.minor() and os.makedev() now support ints again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23811: Add missing newline to the PyCompileError error message. Patch
|
||
by Alex Shkop.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17898: Fix exception in gettext.py when parsing certain plural forms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent and more
|
||
robust at shutdown. If they need to release multiple resources, all are
|
||
released even if errors occur.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23881: urllib.ftpwrapper constructor now closes the socket if the FTP
|
||
connection failed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15133: _tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports long and Tcl_Obj and
|
||
always returns bool. tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values
|
||
(accepted bool, int, long, str, unicode, and Tcl_Obj).
|
||
tkinter.BooleanVar.get() now always returns bool.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23338: Fixed formatting ctypes error messages on Cygwin. Patch by
|
||
Makoto Kato.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16840: Tkinter now supports 64-bit integers added in Tcl 8.4 and
|
||
arbitrary precision integers added in Tcl 8.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C long type to store the result of
|
||
sendto() instead of the C int type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty result on
|
||
MemoryError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single quotes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing
|
||
writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23671: string.Template now allows specifying the "self" parameter as a
|
||
keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows specifying the "self" and
|
||
the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21560: An attempt to write a data of wrong type no longer cause
|
||
GzipFile corruption. Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23647: Increase impalib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now sets
|
||
Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid 411 errors
|
||
from some web servers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0, including
|
||
Dec 30 of previous year. Based on patch by Jim Carroll.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in cookiejar.
|
||
Patch by Demian Brecht.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered() now
|
||
handle exceptions raised by an iterator. Patch by Alon Diamant and Davin
|
||
Potts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in httplib. Original patch by
|
||
Demian Brecht.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23615: Module tarfile is now can be reloaded with imp.reload().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22853: Fixed a deadlock when use multiprocessing.Queue at import time.
|
||
Patch by Florian Finkernagel and Davin Potts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23476: In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL's X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST
|
||
flag on certificate stores when it is available.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23576: Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached in the
|
||
SSL layer but the underlying connection hasn't been closed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23504: Added an __all__ to the types module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23458: On POSIX, the file descriptor kept open by os.urandom() is now
|
||
set to non inheritable
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22113: struct.pack_into() now supports new buffer protocol (in
|
||
particular accepts writable memoryview).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-814253: Warnings now are raised when group references and conditional
|
||
group references are used in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions.
|
||
(See also: bpo-9179)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores errors
|
||
consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError. Original
|
||
patch by Aleksi Torhamo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file. flush() was
|
||
not called in close() if closefd=False.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with empty
|
||
docstrings. Initial patch by Yuyang Guo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dumbdbm
|
||
module. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module's default cipher list.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21849: Fixed xmlrpclib serialization of non-ASCII unicode strings in
|
||
the multiprocessing module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21840: Fixed expanding unicode variables of form $var in
|
||
posixpath.expandvars(). Fixed all os.path implementations on unicode-
|
||
disabled builds.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23365: Fixed possible integer overflow in
|
||
itertools.combinations_with_replacement.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23191: fnmatch functions that use caching are now threadsafe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18518: timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled outside a
|
||
function or a loop (e.g. "return" or "break").
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19996: Make :mod:`httplib` ignore headers with no name rather than
|
||
assuming the body has started.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20188: Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the
|
||
ssl module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23063: In the disutils' check command, fix parsing of reST with code
|
||
or code-block directives.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The
|
||
availability of the function is checked during the compilation. Patch
|
||
written by Bernard Spil.
|
||
|
||
- Backport the context argument to ftplib.FTP_TLS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23111: Maximize compatibility in protocol versions of ftplib.FTP_TLS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string and
|
||
fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(),
|
||
instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached
|
||
streams.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when sys.stderr
|
||
is None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21032: Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails.
|
||
Original patch by Martin Panter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the
|
||
collections module now accept the self keyword argument.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__. Add
|
||
an entry in the language datamodel special methods section. Revise and
|
||
index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section. Backport the
|
||
code example from 3.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC
|
||
7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23330: h2py now supports arbitrary filenames in #include.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after
|
||
closing the window.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18905: "pydoc -p 0" now outputs actually used port. Based on patch by
|
||
Wieland Hoffmann.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level values
|
||
(like 0.9.8zc).
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23799: Added test.test_support.start_threads() for running and
|
||
cleaning up multiple threads.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22390: test.regrtest now emits a warning if temporary files or
|
||
directories are left after running a test.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23583: Added tests for standard IO streams in IDLE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19949: The test_xpickle test now tests compatibility with installed
|
||
Python 2.7 and reports skipped tests. Based on patch by Zachary Ware.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11578: Backported test for the timeit module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22943: bsddb tests are locale independend now.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23583: Fixed writing unicode to standard output stream in IDLE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph
|
||
extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences
|
||
dialog to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog. Patch
|
||
by Tal Einat.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new
|
||
information.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window". Patch by Al
|
||
Sweigart.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the
|
||
configure script.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23032: Fix installer build failures on OS X 10.4 Tiger by disabling
|
||
assembly code in the OpenSSL build.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23686: Update OS X 10.5 installer and Windows builds to use OpenSSL
|
||
1.0.2a.
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-23998: PyImport_ReInitLock() now checks for lock allocation error
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has no
|
||
dynamically allocated bases.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.9 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2014-12-10*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22959: Remove the *check_hostname* parameter of
|
||
httplib.HTTPSConnection. The *context* parameter should be used instead.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16043: Add a default limit for the amount of data
|
||
xmlrpclib.gzip_decode will return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16042: CVE-2013-1752: smtplib: Limit amount of data read by limiting
|
||
the call to readline(). Original patch by Christian Heimes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16041: In poplib, limit maximum line length read from the server to
|
||
prevent CVE-2013-1752.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22960: Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22935: Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn't support
|
||
SSL 3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17128: Use private version of OpenSSL for 2.7.9 OS X 10.5+ installer.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.9 release candidate 1?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2014-11-25*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21963: backout issue #1856 patch (avoid crashes and lockups when
|
||
daemon threads run while the interpreter is shutting down; instead, these
|
||
threads are now killed when they try to take the GIL), as it seems to
|
||
break some existing code.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex
|
||
number by (nan+0j).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace" and
|
||
"xmlcharrefreplace" error handlers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22526: Fix iterating through files with lines longer than 2^31 bytes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22519: Fix overflow checking in PyString_Repr.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22379: Fix empty exception message in a TypeError raised in
|
||
``str.join``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22221: Now the source encoding declaration on the second line isn't
|
||
effective if the first line contains anything except a comment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22023: Fix ``%S``, ``%R`` and ``%V`` formats of
|
||
:c:func:`PyUnicode_FromFormat`.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21591: Correctly handle qualified exec statements in tuple form by
|
||
moving compatibility layer from run-time to AST transformation.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22417: Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22927: Allow urllib.urlopen to take a *context* parameter to control
|
||
SSL settings for HTTPS connections.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22921: Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even if
|
||
OpenSSL doesn't support SNI.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9003: httplib.HTTPSConnection, urllib2.HTTPSHandler and
|
||
urllib2.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
|
||
certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS. This
|
||
backport is part of PEP 467. (See also: bpo-22366)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but
|
||
different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular
|
||
expressions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian
|
||
platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17293: uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat.
|
||
Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22787: Allow the keyfile argument of SSLContext.load_cert_chain to be
|
||
None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22775: Fixed unpickling of Cookie.SimpleCookie with protocol 2. Patch
|
||
by Tim Graham.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in
|
||
SysLogHandler.emit().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17381: Fixed ranges handling in case-insensitive regular expressions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled
|
||
locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking
|
||
doesn't work. This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox
|
||
shared folders.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser are no
|
||
longer ignored when also set on the parent parser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20421: Add a .version() method to SSL sockets exposing the actual
|
||
protocol version in use.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22435: Fix a file descriptor leak when SocketServer bind fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13664: GzipFile now supports non-ascii Unicode filenames.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13096: Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11694: Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented. Patch by Filip
|
||
Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11866: Eliminated race condition in the computation of names for new
|
||
threads.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22219: The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories
|
||
(including empty directories) in ZIP file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22449: In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the
|
||
environmental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8473: doctest.testfile now uses universal newline mode to read the
|
||
test file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22530: Allow the ``group()`` method of regular expression match
|
||
objects to take a ``long`` as an index.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22517: When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its
|
||
weakrefs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10510: distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards
|
||
compliant CRLF line endings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9850: Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component. Patch by Oleg
|
||
Oshmyan.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20912: Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS
|
||
directory attributes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21866: ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory
|
||
records if allowZip64 is false.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22415: Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled
|
||
AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to
|
||
65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch
|
||
contributed by Devin Cook.
|
||
|
||
- Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined
|
||
with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by
|
||
Sergey Bobrov.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null
|
||
character instead of truncating it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with
|
||
empty string or tuple argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash if
|
||
the memory allocation fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in the
|
||
result of Treeview.heading().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22051: turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them.
|
||
Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(), which
|
||
is called each time a demo is run, but not on import.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21597: The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing
|
||
canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse. The code text pane
|
||
can be widened to easily view or copy the full width of the text. The
|
||
canvas can be widened on small screens. Original patches by Jan Kanis and
|
||
Lita Cho.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18132: Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is
|
||
shrunk. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22312: Fix ntpath.splitdrive IndexError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22216: smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit. The
|
||
most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure
|
||
during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21305: os.urandom now caches a fd to /dev/urandom. This is a PEP 466
|
||
backport from Python 3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21307: As part of PEP 466, backport hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed and
|
||
hashlib.algorithms_available.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22259: Fix segfault when attempting to fopen a file descriptor
|
||
corresponding to a directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22191: Fixed warnings.__all__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21308: Backport numerous features from Python's ssl module. This is
|
||
part of PEP 466.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately.
|
||
Initial patch by Sam Bull.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when
|
||
parsing long line. Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on
|
||
AIX. Based on patch by Delhallt.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular
|
||
when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in
|
||
the __new__() method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more
|
||
than 100 headers are read. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen and Daniel Eriksson.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles binary "data" and "maskdata"
|
||
configure options of tkinter.PhotoImage.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19612: subprocess.communicate() now also ignores EINVAL when using at
|
||
least two pipes.
|
||
|
||
- Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don't fail with OverflowError
|
||
on closed socket.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores
|
||
socket.error() exceptions with blocking I/O errors: EAGAIN, EALREADY,
|
||
EINPROGRESS, or EWOULDBLOCK.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21990: Clean-up unnecessary and slow inner class definition in
|
||
saxutils (Contributed by Alex Gaynor).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1730136: Fix the comparison between a tkFont.Font and an object of
|
||
another kind.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not a
|
||
terminal to not write the ANSI sequence "\033[1034h" into stdout. This
|
||
sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable
|
||
support of 8 bit characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22017: Correct reference counting error in the initialization of the
|
||
_warnings module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21868: Prevent turtle crash when undo buffer set to a value less than
|
||
one.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21151: Fixed a segfault in the _winreg module when ``None`` is passed
|
||
as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before,
|
||
it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19870: BaseCookie now parses 'secure' and 'httponly' flags. Backport
|
||
of issue #16611.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21923: Prevent AttributeError in
|
||
distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler due to possible uninitialized
|
||
_config_vars.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21323: Fix CGIHTTPServer to again handle scripts in CGI
|
||
subdirectories, broken by the fix for security issue #19435. Patch by
|
||
Zach Byrne.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22199: Make get_makefile_filename() available in Lib/sysconfig.py for
|
||
2.7 to match other versions of sysconfig.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu. Changes
|
||
are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. Original patch by Tal
|
||
Einat.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an
|
||
editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise,
|
||
from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays
|
||
an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name
|
||
is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the name
|
||
you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems
|
||
automatically add .txt when type is Text files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module. To
|
||
match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22221: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second
|
||
line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python', move version to
|
||
end.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear when inserting or
|
||
deleting lines.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22381: Update zlib to 1.2.8.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22176: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1. This release adds
|
||
support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian
|
||
architectures.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10712: 2to3 has a new "asserts" fixer that replaces deprecated names
|
||
of unittest methods (e.g. failUnlessEqual -> assertEqual).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22221: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now ignore the source
|
||
encoding declaration on the second line if the first line contains
|
||
anything except a comment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly
|
||
extracts ZIP files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22236: Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window. New root
|
||
window is created for every test class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18004: test_overflow in test_list by mistake consumed 40 GiB of memory
|
||
on 64-bit systems.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks to
|
||
William Orr.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20221: Removed conflicting (or circular) hypot definition when
|
||
compiled with VS 2010 or above. Initial patch by Tabrez Mohammed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by
|
||
Jonathan Hosmer.
|
||
|
||
- The documentation Makefile no longer automatically downloads Sphinx. Users
|
||
are now required to have Sphinx already installed to build the
|
||
documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and
|
||
above. Patch by Zachary Turner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15759: "make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest" in Doc/
|
||
now display special message when and only when there are failures.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python
|
||
``--generate- posix-vars`` in pybuilddir.txt build target.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22877: PEP 477 - OS X installer now installs pip.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22878: PEP 477 - "make install" and "make altinstall" can now install
|
||
or upgrade pip, using the bundled pip provided by the backported ensurepip
|
||
module. A configure option, --with-ensurepip[=upgrade|install|no], is
|
||
available to set the option for subsequent installs; the default for
|
||
Python 2 in "no" (do not install or upgrade pip). The option can also be
|
||
set with "make [alt]install ENSUREPIP=[upgrade|install|no]".
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources
|
||
to be in ``PCbuild\..\externals`` rather than ``PCbuild\..\..``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from
|
||
svn.python.org to build OpenSSL.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-22644: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.8 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2014-06-29*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4346: In PyObject_CallMethod and PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs, don't
|
||
overwrite the error set in PyObject_GetAttr.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21831: Avoid integer overflow when large sizes and offsets are given
|
||
to the buffer type. CVE-2014-7185.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19656: Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about non-
|
||
ascii bytes literals.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21642: If the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written
|
||
with no space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if
|
||
42else False``) to be valid syntax.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21523: Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of some
|
||
opcodes in the compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation time
|
||
issue noticeable when compiling code with a large number of "and" and "or"
|
||
operators.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21652: Prevent mimetypes.type_map from containing unicode keys on
|
||
Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21729: Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure
|
||
files closing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21672: Fix the behavior of ntpath.join on UNC-style paths.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19145: The times argument for itertools.repeat now handles negative
|
||
values the same way for keyword arguments as it does for positional
|
||
arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8343: Named group error messages in the re module did not show the
|
||
name of the erroneous group.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21491: SocketServer: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21635: The difflib SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks() method cache
|
||
didn't match the actual result. The former was a list of tuples and the
|
||
latter was a list of named tuples.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21722: The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero return
|
||
code when uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths
|
||
before checking for a CGI script at that path.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21304: Backport the key derivation function hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac from
|
||
Python 3 per PEP 466.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a
|
||
valid file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods
|
||
that use 'self' in the example code is generated correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in
|
||
the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central
|
||
directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a
|
||
struct.unpack error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real
|
||
world zip files in the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21402: Tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particulr
|
||
it supports reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu
|
||
Popa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8743: Fix interoperability between set objects and the
|
||
collections.Set() abstract base class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21481: Argparse equality and inequality tests now return
|
||
NotImplemented when comparing to an unknown type.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav
|
||
Heblikar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav
|
||
Heblikar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key
|
||
bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger
|
||
Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is still
|
||
in progress no longer closes Idle.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers
|
||
so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering
|
||
Engine) does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the
|
||
tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly
|
||
rather than silently.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by
|
||
regrtest.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21605: Added tests for Tkinter images.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by Claudiu
|
||
Popa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky
|
||
Kok.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13355: random.triangular() no longer fails with a ZeroDivisionError
|
||
when low equals high.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
|
||
PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20635: Added tests for Tk geometry managers.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21671: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1h. (See
|
||
also: CVE-2014-0224)
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.7 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2014-05-31*
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21462: Build the Windows installers with OpenSSL 1.0.1g.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19866: Include some test data in the Windows installers, so tests
|
||
don't fail.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.7 release candidate 1?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2014-05-17*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21350: Fix file.writelines() to accept arbitrary buffer objects, as
|
||
advertised. Patch by Brian Kearns.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20437: Fixed 43 potential bugs when deleting object references.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized
|
||
UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20494: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released on POSIX
|
||
systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by Charles-François
|
||
Natali.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17825: Cursor "^" is correctly positioned for SyntaxError and
|
||
IndentationError.
|
||
|
||
- Raise a better error when non-unicode codecs are used for a file's coding
|
||
cookie.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17976: Fixed potential problem with file.write() not detecting IO
|
||
error by inspecting the return value of fwrite(). Based on patches by
|
||
Jaakko Moisio and Victor Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14432: Generator now clears the borrowed reference to the thread
|
||
state. Fix a crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is
|
||
destroyed while the generator is still used. The issue was that a
|
||
generator contains a frame, and the frame kept a reference to the Python
|
||
state of the destroyed C thread. The crash occurs when a trace function is
|
||
setup.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19932: Fix typo in import.h, missing whitespaces in function
|
||
prototypes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2
|
||
billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12546: Allow \x00 to be used as a fill character when using str, int,
|
||
float, and complex __format__ methods.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial
|
||
shape.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7776: Backport Fix ``Host:'' header and reconnection when using
|
||
http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel() from Python 3. Patch by Nikolaus
|
||
Rath.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21306: Backport hmac.compare_digest from Python 3. This is part of PEP
|
||
466.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21470: Do a better job seeding the random number generator by using
|
||
enough bytes to span the full state space of the Mersenne Twister.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21469: Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by checking
|
||
to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist prior to
|
||
returning True in can_fetch().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source
|
||
iterator when the slice is exhausted. Patch by Anton Afanasyev.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9291: Do not attempt to re-encode mimetype data read from registry in
|
||
ANSI mode. Initial patches by Dmitry Jemerov & Vladimir Iofik.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21349: Passing a memoryview to _winreg.SetValueEx now correctly raises
|
||
a TypeError where it previously crashed the interpreter. Patch by Brian
|
||
Kearns
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21529: Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a
|
||
negative second parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken. (See also:
|
||
CVE-2014-4616)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21172: isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21191: In os.fdopen, never close the file descriptor when an exception
|
||
happens.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter
|
||
shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.
|
||
|
||
- Fix possible overflow bug in strop.expandtabs. You shouldn't be using this
|
||
module!
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20145: `assertRaisesRegex` now raises a TypeError if the second
|
||
argument is not a string or compiled regex.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(),
|
||
close the file descriptor if os.fdopen() fails
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters as
|
||
documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as
|
||
deprecated aliases.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now
|
||
prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if
|
||
the environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages
|
||
anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.
|
||
|
||
- Improve the random module's default seeding to use 256 bits of entropy
|
||
from os.urandom(). This was already done for Python 3, mildly improving
|
||
security with a bigger seed space.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15618: Make turtle.py compatible with 'from __future__ import
|
||
unicode_literals'. Initial patch by Juancarlo Añez.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20501: fileinput module no longer reads whole file into memory when
|
||
using fileinput.hook_encoded.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6815: os.path.expandvars() now supports non-ASCII Unicode environment
|
||
variables names and values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20635: Fixed grid_columnconfigure() and grid_rowconfigure() methods of
|
||
Tkinter widgets to work in wantobjects=True mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17671: Fixed a crash when use non-initialized io.BufferedRWPair. Based
|
||
on patch by Stephen Tu.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8478: Untokenizer.compat processes first token from iterator input.
|
||
Patch based on lines from Georg Brandl, Eric Snow, and Gareth Rees.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19856: shutil.move() failed to move a directory to other directory on
|
||
Windows if source name ends with os.altsep.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME
|
||
boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue. This
|
||
fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is deleted,
|
||
and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully. Now it handles the 'bye'
|
||
correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the debug
|
||
output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python (in
|
||
unicode strings only). Improved error handling in variables-related
|
||
commands.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
|
||
translation settings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive
|
||
is present.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of
|
||
codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
|
||
readline() or read(size). Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20374: Fix build with GNU readline >= 6.3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before running to
|
||
cope with possibility of gc running just after fork. (Backport from 3.x.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20262: Warnings are raised now when duplicate names are added in the
|
||
ZIP file or too long ZIP file comment is truncated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20270: urllib and urlparse now support empty ports.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20243: TarFile no longer raise ReadError when opened in write mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20245: The open functions in the tarfile module now correctly handle
|
||
empty mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20086: Restored the use of locale-independent mapping instead of
|
||
locale-dependent str.lower() in locale.normalize().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19082: Working SimpleXMLRPCServer and xmlrpclib examples, both in
|
||
modules and documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13107: argparse and optparse no longer raises an exception when output
|
||
a help on environment with too small COLUMNS. Based on patch by Elazar
|
||
Gershuni.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20207: Always disable SSLv2 except when PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is explicitly
|
||
asked for.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20072: Fixed multiple errors in tkinter with wantobjects is False.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1065986: pydoc can now handle unicode strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to
|
||
limit line length. Patch by Emil Lind.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19422: Explicitly disallow non-SOCK_STREAM sockets in the ssl module,
|
||
rather than silently let them emit clear text data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20027: Fixed locale aliases for devanagari locales.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20067: Tkinter variables now work when wantobjects is false.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19020: Tkinter now uses splitlist() instead of split() in configure
|
||
methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12226: HTTPS is now used by default when connecting to PyPI.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20048: Fixed ZipExtFile.peek() when it is called on the boundary of
|
||
the uncompress buffer and read() goes through more than one readbuffer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20034: Updated alias mapping to most recent locale.alias file from
|
||
X.org distribution using makelocalealias.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5815: Fixed support for locales with modifiers. Fixed support for
|
||
locale encodings with hyphens.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20026: Fix the sqlite module to handle correctly invalid isolation
|
||
level (wrong type).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18829: csv.Dialect() now checks type for delimiter, escapechar and
|
||
quotechar fields. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19855: uuid.getnode() on Unix now looks on the PATH for the
|
||
executables used to find the mac address, with /sbin and /usr/sbin as
|
||
fallbacks.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20007: HTTPResponse.read(0) no more prematurely closes connection.
|
||
Original patch by Simon Sapin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19912: Fixed numerous bugs in ntpath.splitunc().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19623: Fixed writing to unseekable files in the aifc module. Fixed
|
||
writing 'ulaw' (lower case) compressed AIFC files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17919: select.poll.register() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
|
||
Fixed integer overflow in the eventmask parameter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17200: telnetlib's read_until and expect timeout was broken by the fix
|
||
to Issue #14635 in Python 2.7.4 to be interpreted as milliseconds instead
|
||
of seconds when the platform supports select.poll (ie: everywhere). It is
|
||
now treated as seconds once again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19099: The struct module now supports Unicode format strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19878: Fix segfault in bz2 module after calling __init__ twice with
|
||
non-existent filename. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16373: Prevent infinite recursion for ABC Set class comparisons.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when no
|
||
exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or a
|
||
colon does follow but no text follows the colon).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16231: Fixed pickle.Pickler to only fallback to its default pickling
|
||
behaviour when Pickler.persistent_id returns None, but not for any other
|
||
false values. This allows false values other than None to be used as
|
||
persistent IDs. This behaviour is consistent with cPickle.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11508: Fixed uuid.getnode() and uuid.uuid1() on environment with
|
||
virtual interface. Original patch by Kent Frazier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.
|
||
|
||
- Fix test.test_support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was
|
||
compiled on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on a
|
||
system with an OS kernel that does not support that new socket option.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19633: Fixed writing not compressed 16- and 32-bit wave files on big-
|
||
endian platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the
|
||
error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12853: Fix NameError in distutils.command.upload.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19523: Closed FileHandler leak which occurred when delay was set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1575020: Fixed support of 24-bit wave files on big-endian platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19480: HTMLParser now accepts all valid start-tag names as defined by
|
||
the HTML5 standard.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and
|
||
``codecs.decode``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6157: Fixed Tkinter.Text.debug(). Original patch by Guilherme Polo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of
|
||
integers instead of a string. Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to the
|
||
filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting to parse
|
||
more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance. (Original
|
||
patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with suggested
|
||
wording by David Gutteridge)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21311: Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler
|
||
configurations. Patch by John Szakmeister.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3561: The Windows installer now has an option, off by default, for
|
||
placing the Python installation into the system "Path" environment
|
||
variable. This was backported from Python 3.3.
|
||
|
||
- Add support for ``yield from`` to 2to3.
|
||
|
||
- Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19936: Added executable bits or shebang lines to Python scripts which
|
||
requires them. Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and
|
||
benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in
|
||
source files of modules which don't provide command line interface.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin
|
||
consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other
|
||
files as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs
|
||
all tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat
|
||
width.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars. Patch
|
||
mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21029: Occurrences of "print" are now consistently colored as being a
|
||
keyword (the colorizer doesn't know if print functions are enabled in the
|
||
source).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
|
||
make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar. Original
|
||
patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19481: print() of unicode, str or bytearray subclass instance in IDLE
|
||
no more hangs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial
|
||
shell window is present.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for non-
|
||
framework builds and for all variants of Tk.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18604: Consolidated checks for GUI availability. All platforms now at
|
||
least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is
|
||
requested.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20946: Correct alignment assumptions of some ctypes tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20510: Rewrote test_exit in test_sys to match existing comments, use
|
||
modern unittest features, and use helpers from test.script_helper instead
|
||
of using subprocess directly. Initial patch by Gareth Rees.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20532: Tests which use _testcapi now are marked as CPython only.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19920: Added tests for TarFile.list(). Based on patch by Vajrasky
|
||
Kok.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19990: Added tests for the imghdr module. Based on patch by Claudiu
|
||
Popa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
|
||
ifconfig executable is not available.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19886: Use better estimated memory requirements for bigmem tests.
|
||
|
||
- Backported tests for Tkinter variables.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19320: test_tcl no longer fails when wantobjects is false.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19683: Removed empty tests from test_minidom. Initial patch by
|
||
Ajitesh Gupta.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19928: Implemented a test for repr() of cell objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19595: Re-enabled a long-disabled test in test_winsound. (See also:
|
||
bpo-19987)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19588: Fixed tests in test_random that were silently skipped most of
|
||
the time. Patch by Julian Gindi.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17883: Tweak test_tcl testLoadWithUNC to skip the test in the event of
|
||
a permission error on Windows and to properly report other skip
|
||
conditions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17883: Backported _is_gui_available() in test.test_support to avoid
|
||
hanging Windows buildbots on test_ttk_guionly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped. (See also:
|
||
bpo-19572)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20605: Make test_socket getaddrinfo OS X segfault test more robust.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new redirect of
|
||
http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org: use
|
||
http://www.example.com instead.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a copy of
|
||
libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search in a
|
||
ncursesw directory.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-20255: Update the about and bugs pages.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18840: Introduce the json module in the tutorial, and de-emphasize the
|
||
pickle module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19795: Improved markup of True/False constants.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-21303: Updated the version of Tcl/Tk included in the installer from
|
||
8.5.2 to 8.5.15. (See also: bpo-20565)
|
||
|
||
macOS
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- As of 2.7.8, the 32-bit-only installer will support OS X 10.5 and later
|
||
systems as is currently done for Python 3.x installers. For 2.7.7 only, we
|
||
will provide three installers: the legacy deprecated 10.3+ 32-bit-only
|
||
format; the newer 10.5+ 32-bit-only format; and the unchanged 10.6+
|
||
64-/32-bit format. Although binary installers will no longer be available
|
||
from python.org as of 2.7.8, it will still be possible to build from
|
||
source on 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems if necessary. See
|
||
Mac/BuildScript/README.txt for more information.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.6 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2013-11-10*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19435: Fix directory traversal attack on CGIHttpRequestHandler.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19426: Fixed the opening of Python source file with specified
|
||
encoding.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19457: Fixed xmlcharrefreplace tests on wide build when tests are
|
||
loaded from .py[co] files.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15663: Revert OS X installer built-in Tcl/Tk support for 2.7.6. Some
|
||
third-party projects, such as Matplotlib and PIL/Pillow, depended on being
|
||
able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in /Library/Frameworks.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.6 release candidate 1?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2013-10-26*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
|
||
Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19279: UTF-7 decoder no more produces illegal unicode strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18739: Fix an inconsistency between math.log(n) and math.log(long(n));
|
||
the results could be off from one another by a ulp or two.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13461: Fix a crash in the "replace" error handler on 64-bit platforms.
|
||
Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15866: The xmlcharrefreplace error handler no more produces two XML
|
||
entities for a non-BMP character on narrow build.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
|
||
OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__() and
|
||
complex.__format__().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
|
||
encoding now always contains an encoding name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18019: Fix crash in the repr of dictionaries containing their own
|
||
views.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18427: str.replace could crash the interpreter with huge strings.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19393: Fix symtable.symtable function to not be confused when there
|
||
are functions or classes named "top".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19327: Fixed the working of regular expressions with too big charset.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19350: Increasing the test coverage of macurl2path. Patch by Colin
|
||
Williams.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19352: Fix unittest discovery when a module can be reached through
|
||
several paths (e.g. under Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15207: Fix mimetypes to read from correct part of Windows registry
|
||
Original patch by Dave Chambers
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+. Patch by
|
||
Martin Matusiak.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by limiting
|
||
the call to readline(). Original patch by Michał Jastrzębski and
|
||
Giampaolo Rodola.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline
|
||
emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline.
|
||
Original patch by Ronald Oussoren.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18919: If the close() method of a writer in the sunau or wave module
|
||
failed, second invocation of close() and destructor no more raise an
|
||
exception. Second invocation of close() on sunau writer now has no
|
||
effects. The aifc module now accepts lower case of names of the 'ulaw' and
|
||
'alaw' codecs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of
|
||
compressed streams.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19158: A rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
|
||
often.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18037: 2to3 now escapes '\u' and '\U' in native strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19137: The pprint module now correctly formats empty set and frozenset
|
||
and instances of set and frozenset subclasses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
|
||
prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki
|
||
Pulliainen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except
|
||
when necessary. Patch by Oscar Benjamin.
|
||
|
||
- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared is
|
||
used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module.
|
||
Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct
|
||
number of frames from multichannel stream. Au_write.writeframesraw() now
|
||
correctly updates current file position. Au_read and Au_write now
|
||
correctly work with file object if start file position is not a zero.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18050: Fixed an incompatibility of the re module with Python 2.7.3 and
|
||
older binaries.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files
|
||
before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other
|
||
programs that may be accessing the maildir directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename
|
||
argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now
|
||
enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file
|
||
must be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable
|
||
by any other user.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
|
||
contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError in
|
||
the underlying iterables.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
|
||
if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid. Patch by Evgeny
|
||
Sologubov.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function
|
||
has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
|
||
the _sre module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18830: inspect.getclasstree() no more produces duplicated entries even
|
||
when input list contains duplicates.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast
|
||
64-bit pointer to long (32 bits).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode
|
||
under which the file was opened. Patch by Erik Bray.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18851: Avoid a double close of subprocess pipes when the child process
|
||
fails starting.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
|
||
Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
|
||
properly handled as unsigned.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16809: Fixed some tkinter incompatibilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
|
||
argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large Unicode strings
|
||
and tuples in the tkinter module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
|
||
module will be called in a deterministic order.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork. A
|
||
pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
|
||
and some stack data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
|
||
RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
|
||
platforms. Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of OpenSSL
|
||
1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
|
||
malloc weak symbols.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes inside
|
||
subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
|
||
GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string representation of ASN.1
|
||
strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
|
||
``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure is due
|
||
to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example, exhausting
|
||
the file descriptor limit).
|
||
|
||
- Fix tkinter regression introduced by the security fix in issue #16248.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
|
||
docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
|
||
getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8. Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18455: multiprocessing should not retry connect() with same socket.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
|
||
gcc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18101: Tcl.split() now process Unicode strings nested in a tuple as it
|
||
do with byte strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of closing
|
||
tags.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use a
|
||
delimiter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
|
||
throwing an exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
|
||
string in longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl module does not support partial
|
||
write.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
|
||
when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
|
||
ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a
|
||
conservative manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.
|
||
|
||
- Implement inequality on weakref.WeakSet.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18015: Fix unpickling of 2.7.3 and 2.7.4 namedtuples.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
|
||
|
||
- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X with port
|
||
None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler is
|
||
overridden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as the
|
||
default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overridden. This restores
|
||
Distutils behavior introduced in 2.7.3 and inadvertently dropped in 2.7.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18071: C extension module builds on OS X could fail with TypeError if
|
||
the Xcode command line tools were not installed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
|
||
set_userptr() method. Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
|
||
existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
|
||
retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19400: Prevent extension module build failures with Xcode 5 on OS X
|
||
10.8+ when using a universal Python that included a PPC architecture, such
|
||
as with a python.org 32-bit-only binary installer.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18873: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now detect Python source
|
||
code encoding only in comment lines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18448: Fix a typo in Demo/newmetaclasses/Eiffel.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts
|
||
that have paths that include wide characters.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's temporary
|
||
name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases. Patch by David
|
||
Edelsohn.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18098: The deprecated OS X Build Applet.app fails to build on OS X
|
||
10.8 systems because the Apple-deprecated QuickDraw headers have been
|
||
removed from Xcode 4. Skip building it in this case.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1584: Provide options to override default search paths for Tcl and Tk
|
||
when building _tkinter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 is now included with the OS X 10.6+ 64-bit/32-bit
|
||
installer for 10.6+. It is no longer necessary to install a third-party
|
||
version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the problems in the Apple-supplied
|
||
Tcl/Tk 8.5 shipped in OS X 10.6 and later releases.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead of
|
||
OPT for special build options. By setting OPT, some compiler-specific
|
||
options like -fwrapv were overridden and thus not used, which could result
|
||
in broken interpreters when building with clang.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment
|
||
lines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks are
|
||
selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection only
|
||
includes complete lines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py. Original
|
||
patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
|
||
changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
|
||
test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18539: Calltips now work for float default arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File". Patch
|
||
by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE. Initial patch by Bruce
|
||
Frederiksen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next". Original
|
||
patch by Sarah K.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE. Preliminary patch by
|
||
Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how
|
||
to run Idle tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X. Patch by
|
||
Guilherme Simões.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18919: Added tests for the sunau module. Unified and extended tests
|
||
for audio modules: aifc, sunau and wave.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
|
||
possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
|
||
versions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18357: add tests for dictview set difference. Patch by Fraser
|
||
Tweedale.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18094: test_uuid no more reports skipped tests as passed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18758: Fixed and improved cross-references.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-18718: datetime documentation contradictory on leap second support.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17701: Improving strftime documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17844: Refactor a documentation of Python specific encodings. Add
|
||
links to encoders and decoders for binary-to-binary codecs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.5 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2013-05-12*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15535: Fixed regression in the pickling of named tuples by removing
|
||
the __dict__ property introduced in 2.7.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3, such
|
||
as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17703: Fix a regression where an illegal use of Py_DECREF() after
|
||
interpreter finalization can cause a crash.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
|
||
class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17979: Fixed the re module in build with --disable-unicode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
|
||
.characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods. Original patch by
|
||
Sebastian Ortiz Vasquez.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile no more continues from where
|
||
it left off. Patch by Michael Birtwell.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16584: in filecomp._cmp, catch IOError as well as os.error. Patch by
|
||
Till Maas.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17926: Fix dbm.__contains__ on 64-bit big-endian machines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-19267: Fix support of multibyte encoding (ex: UTF-16) in the logging
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17918: When using SSLSocket.accept(), if the SSL handshake failed on
|
||
the new socket, the socket would linger indefinitely. Thanks to Peter
|
||
Saveliev for reporting.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules or
|
||
applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
|
||
variable. Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
|
||
platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during interpreter
|
||
shutdown.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17192: Restore the patch for Issue #10309 which was ommitted in 2.7.4
|
||
when updating the bundled version of libffi used by ctypes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17843: Removed test data file that was triggering false-positive virus
|
||
warnings with certain antivirus software.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested
|
||
datastructures
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
|
||
condition variable. Original patch by Thomas Rachel.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
|
||
Unix domain sockets.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork registry
|
||
does not grow exponentially with generation of process.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17710: Fix cPickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
|
||
invalid group names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
|
||
in the re module. Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: xdg-open, gvfs-open, www-
|
||
browser, x-www- browser, chromium browsers, iceweasel, iceape.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17656: Fix extraction of zip files with unicode member paths.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files when
|
||
imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing sysconfig
|
||
faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%. (See also: bpo-17512)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13163: Rename operands in smtplib.SMTP._get_socket to correct names;
|
||
fixes otherwise misleading output in tracebacks and when when debug is on.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
|
||
inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
|
||
4.8.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17682: Add the _io module to Modules/Setup.dist (commented out).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17086: Search the include and library directories provided by the
|
||
compiler.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17928: Fix test_structmembers on 64-bit big-endian machines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17883: Fix buildbot testing of Tkinter on Windows. Patch by Zachary
|
||
Ware.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
|
||
Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
|
||
test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog. Patch by Todd
|
||
Rovito.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer raises
|
||
an exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17390: Display Python version on Idle title bar. Initial patch by
|
||
Edmond Burnett.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
|
||
profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.4 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2013-04-06*
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15801: With string % formatting, relax the type check for a mapping
|
||
such that any type with a __getitem__ can be used on the right hand side.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger than
|
||
one million bytes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17531: Fix tests that thought group and user ids were always the int
|
||
type. Also, always allow -1 as a valid group and user id.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17533: Fix test_xpickle with older versions of Python 2.5.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2013-03-23*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10211: Buffer objects expose the new buffer interface internally
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16445: Fixed potential segmentation fault when deleting an exception
|
||
message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
|
||
BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is called
|
||
without arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
|
||
with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
|
||
input buffer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals are
|
||
now initialized dynamically as needed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode decoder.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping" in
|
||
any mapping, not only in a Unicode string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by Amaury
|
||
Forgeot d'Arc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15516: Fix a bug in PyString_FromFormat where it failed to properly
|
||
ignore errors from a __int__() method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16839: Fix a segfault when calling unicode() on a classic class early
|
||
in interpreter initialization.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16761: Calling ``int()`` and ``long()`` with *base* argument only now
|
||
raises TypeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py when
|
||
retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
|
||
winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg when
|
||
passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes ValueError in winreg.SetValueEx when given
|
||
a long.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13863: Work around buggy 'fstat' implementation on Windows / NTFS that
|
||
lead to incorrect timestamps (off by one hour) being stored in .pyc files
|
||
on some systems.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain,
|
||
the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its
|
||
refcount had dropped to zero.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling a
|
||
negated numeric literal.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
|
||
parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
|
||
decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet handled
|
||
by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
|
||
Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
|
||
literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
|
||
narrow and wide builds.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
|
||
raises an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision in
|
||
string formatting operations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
|
||
received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the user
|
||
that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
|
||
unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
|
||
with large start, step or length.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
|
||
start, step or length.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
|
||
HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
|
||
3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
|
||
sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
|
||
chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
|
||
types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
|
||
subscriptable.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle errors
|
||
correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by Serhiy
|
||
Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-
|
||
deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek(). Patch by
|
||
Felipe Cruz.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
|
||
return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff
|
||
Knupp.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose data
|
||
when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no longer
|
||
raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
|
||
methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
|
||
Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
|
||
on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
|
||
the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
|
||
collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that absolute
|
||
imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7. Patch by Sven
|
||
Marnach.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11603: Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError when
|
||
repr() or str() is called on such an object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
|
||
special method with a different name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects created
|
||
with PyFile_FromString().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
|
||
while writing error message if the thread leaves an unhandled exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch by
|
||
Suman Saha.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string
|
||
as the module name that was not interned.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
|
||
allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
|
||
passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
|
||
methods of old-style classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
|
||
collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
|
||
making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``) now
|
||
fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
|
||
Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
|
||
PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly
|
||
added to the Py_buffer.obj member.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12718: Fix interaction with winpdb overriding __import__ by setting
|
||
importer attribute on BaseConfigurator instance.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
|
||
fileConfig().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17508: Corrected MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() where the
|
||
target handler wasn't configured first.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes using the
|
||
same sys.flags as the current process. Initial patch by Sergey Mezentsev.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrupted by a signal.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
|
||
retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select()
|
||
can incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it
|
||
received some data with an invalid checksum).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up
|
||
urllib.unquote().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
|
||
a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
|
||
specified.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when the
|
||
list is being resized concurrently.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly. Patch by Lowe
|
||
Thiderman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting with
|
||
1, as in other lines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
|
||
a unicode argument contains non-BMP character.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in non-
|
||
greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
|
||
increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
|
||
64-bit).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11311: StringIO.readline(0) now returns an empty string as all other
|
||
file-like objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when the
|
||
disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13555: cPickle now supports files larger than 2 GiB.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no more hangs for large kappas.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in the
|
||
range [0, 2*math.pi].
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1470548: XMLGenerator now works with UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
|
||
symlinks on POSIX platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from a
|
||
stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode and name properties and
|
||
xreadlines method now work for unrolled files. encoding and newlines
|
||
properties now removed as they have no sense and always produced
|
||
AttributeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in
|
||
avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(),
|
||
bias(), and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose
|
||
precision for 32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative
|
||
result and various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample
|
||
-0x80000000.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occurred when PyArg_ParseTuple
|
||
parses nested mutating sequence.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
|
||
stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
|
||
io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes
|
||
codec).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13994: Add compatibility alias in distutils.ccompiler for
|
||
distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server sends
|
||
less than the advertised Content-Length.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14340: Upgrade the embedded expat library to version 2.1.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11159: SAX parser now supports unicode file names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of its
|
||
destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17049: Localized calendar methods now return unicode if a locale
|
||
includes an encoding and the result string contains month or weekday (was
|
||
regression from Python 2.6).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile when opens a ZIP file with an
|
||
incomplete "End of Central Directory" record. Original patch by Guilherme
|
||
Polo and Alan McIntyre.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
|
||
set to a callable object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
|
||
Robert Xiao.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by
|
||
itertools.tee() if all other iterators were very advanced before.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
|
||
descriptor argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
|
||
strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10527: Use poll() instead of select() for multiprocessing pipes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than 4
|
||
GiB.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
|
||
when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]'). Patch by Matthew
|
||
Barnett.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers and
|
||
doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15109: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it would die
|
||
with an encoding error if the database contained string values containing
|
||
non-ASCII. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
|
||
failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
|
||
produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
|
||
Martin Packman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if
|
||
available.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
|
||
on closing an aifc file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
|
||
when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects. Patch by
|
||
Anton Kasyanov.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
|
||
if invoking flush() fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers
|
||
information.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details. (patch
|
||
by Serhiy Storchaka)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
|
||
pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy
|
||
Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
|
||
Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran
|
||
Rundstein.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
|
||
tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
|
||
Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
|
||
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so
|
||
superfluous list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which
|
||
are directly passed enumerate().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds. Patch by
|
||
Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
|
||
type is unknown.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions in
|
||
the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors used for
|
||
stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
|
||
expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to
|
||
access previously- freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
|
||
successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the
|
||
argument to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets
|
||
unused_data and unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when
|
||
setting the unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy
|
||
Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
|
||
is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
|
||
no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one of the lists changes
|
||
size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size while
|
||
it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and struct.pack_into.
|
||
Patch by Matti Mäki.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text mode when the
|
||
logdir option is specified.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response. Patch
|
||
by Brent Tubbs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files, and
|
||
sample rate of 44100 Hz.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to return a
|
||
returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot be waited on.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
|
||
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
|
||
datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
|
||
elements 'meta' and 'param'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the offset check.
|
||
Patch by Steven Willis.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot be
|
||
opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of io.BytesIO
|
||
and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has been
|
||
closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
|
||
/usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12776: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument) only
|
||
once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
|
||
default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
|
||
especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would
|
||
always be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command
|
||
line. (See also: bpo-11839)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
|
||
when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
|
||
using the clang compiler
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
|
||
Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
|
||
system- supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using multiprocessing on
|
||
Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'" idiom.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects. Patch by
|
||
Ludwig Hähne.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo() emulation
|
||
code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue for tkinter
|
||
SimpleDialog.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects. Patch by
|
||
Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects. Patch by
|
||
Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects. Patch
|
||
by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser. Patch by Serhiy
|
||
Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
|
||
return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
|
||
Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
|
||
lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
|
||
the first one.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
|
||
type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
|
||
avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
|
||
pointing to a directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
|
||
Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
|
||
flush().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with invalid
|
||
parameters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer created and
|
||
renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
|
||
mailbox.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system mktime()
|
||
when timezone offest is supplied.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
|
||
uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals with 'b'
|
||
and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed. Patch by
|
||
Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done between
|
||
operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox, MMDF, or
|
||
Babyl mailboxes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read fails.
|
||
Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer non-string
|
||
argument to SystemExit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial patch by
|
||
mouad.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
|
||
not go in illegal range and returns None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data larger
|
||
than 2**32 bytes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data larger
|
||
than 2**32 bytes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating" on
|
||
data larger than 2**32 bytes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3, such
|
||
as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
|
||
Header in Cookie.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
|
||
string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
|
||
ports stricter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
|
||
scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError when the
|
||
first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error message
|
||
produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
|
||
accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboard_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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
|
||
Authentation in urllib2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
|
||
support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
|
||
Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't work correctly when HOME is
|
||
'/'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
|
||
step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a test
|
||
class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when the
|
||
links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they were
|
||
missing, instead of raising an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
|
||
which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
|
||
module's active list after a fork().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain a
|
||
bare '/'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
|
||
to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
|
||
if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is
|
||
now a new style class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
|
||
returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
|
||
Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
|
||
OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
|
||
was not meant to connect.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
|
||
that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
|
||
attribute.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
|
||
Windows when the child process has already exited.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
|
||
return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has
|
||
been fixed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
|
||
when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
|
||
O(1) rather than O(n).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils on
|
||
Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip files
|
||
using the gzip module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15782: Prevent compile errors of OS X Carbon modules _Fm, _Qd, and
|
||
_Qdoffs when compiling with an SDK of 10.7 or later. The OS X APIs they
|
||
wrap have long been deprecated and have now been removed with 10.7. These
|
||
modules were already empty for 64-bit builds and have been removed in
|
||
Python 3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17477: Update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, supporting db-5.x,
|
||
and dropping support for db-4.1 and db-4.2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This
|
||
specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
|
||
some more recent platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
|
||
when a write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
|
||
|
||
- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
|
||
interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods no longer
|
||
lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted within an io
|
||
module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read system call
|
||
returning EINTR from within these methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
|
||
method doesn't require an argument again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13590: OS X Xcode 4 - improve support for universal extension modules
|
||
In particular, fix extension module build failures when trying to use
|
||
32-bit- only installer Pythons on systems with Xcode 4 (currently OS X
|
||
10.8, 10.7, and optionally 10.6). * Backport 3.3.0 fixes to 2.7 branch
|
||
(for release in 2.7.4) * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension
|
||
module builds now check for ppc compiler support and by default remove ppc
|
||
and ppc64 archs when they are not available. * Extension module builds
|
||
now revert to using system installed headers and libs (/usr and
|
||
/System/Library) if the SDK used to build the interpreter is not
|
||
installed or has moved. * Try to avoid building extension modules with
|
||
deprecated and problematic Apple llvm-gcc compiler. If original
|
||
compiler is not available, use clang instead by default.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
|
||
that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
|
||
interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
|
||
special characters in the file path.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode
|
||
literals.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
|
||
Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu.
|
||
Patch by Todd Rovito.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
|
||
ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open. Patch by Roger
|
||
Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
|
||
byte literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
|
||
options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
|
||
Original patch by Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when parent
|
||
window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration. Patch by
|
||
Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window when it
|
||
cannot read the normal config files on startup and has to use the built-in
|
||
default key bindings. There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
|
||
(directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15318: Prevent writing to sys.stdin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13532: Check that arguments to sys.stdout.write are strings. (See
|
||
also: bpo-15319)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when parent
|
||
window is closed while dialog is open.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14018: Update checks for unstable system Tcl/Tk versions on OS X to
|
||
include versions shipped with OS X 10.7 and 10.8 in addition to 10.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15853: Prevent IDLE crash on OS X when opening Preferences menu with
|
||
certain versions of Tk 8.5. Initial patch by Kevin Walzer.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
|
||
localhost tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
|
||
scripts found in the Tools directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set. Initial
|
||
patch by Thomas Wouters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects and general IO
|
||
objects. Original patch by Aman Shah.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
|
||
|
||
- We now run both test_email.py and test_email_renamed.py when running the
|
||
test_email regression test. test_email_renamed contains some tests that
|
||
test_email does not.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the --without-doc-
|
||
strings option.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile and --randomize options.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16618: Add more regression tests for glob. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
|
||
starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
|
||
UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
|
||
tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag and
|
||
Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
|
||
official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility. Original
|
||
patch by Matti Picus.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch by Serhiy
|
||
Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
|
||
getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid input
|
||
data. Patch by Kushal Das.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows. Patch by
|
||
Jeremy Kloth.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings block
|
||
loading of the gdb hooks
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing a
|
||
test failure in test_ssl.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X deployment
|
||
target prior to 10.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17111: Prevent test_surrogates (test_fileio) failure on OS X 10.4.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17425: Build against openssl 0.9.8y on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16004: Add `make touch`.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the SQLite
|
||
library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build the
|
||
package.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
|
||
HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
|
||
2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development tools
|
||
(dpkg-dev) installed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
|
||
source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode. Patch by Stefano
|
||
Taschini.
|
||
|
||
- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with Retina
|
||
displays. Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X framework builds
|
||
linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17161: make install now also installs a python2 and python man page.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16848: python-config now returns proper --ldflags values for OS X
|
||
framework builds.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
|
||
pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
|
||
improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken
|
||
after "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of
|
||
line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in
|
||
Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17412: update 2.7 Doc/make.bat to also use sphinx-1.0.7.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings reported by Serhiy
|
||
Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16406: combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in PKG-INFO.
|
||
Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot.
|
||
Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses of the
|
||
/tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation. Patch by
|
||
Geoff Wilson.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values all
|
||
return the same result?" programming FAQ.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ. Patch by Ashish Nitin
|
||
Patil.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
|
||
PyPI displays.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
|
||
mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by Yury
|
||
Selivanov.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
|
||
and executable arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15979: Improve timeit documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
|
||
arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
|
||
default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type of JSON
|
||
decoding functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
|
||
Patch by Chris Rebert.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
|
||
Patch by Chris Rebert.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
|
||
Daniel Ellis.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
|
||
execfile().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14034: added the argparse tutorial.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
|
||
contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
|
||
supported.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2012-03-17*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
|
||
table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid
|
||
a denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with
|
||
some modifications by the expat project.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2012-02-23*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
|
||
fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
|
||
environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial
|
||
of service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types.
|
||
Patch by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
|
||
modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
|
||
UnicodeDecodeErrors.
|
||
|
||
- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
|
||
effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
|
||
noticing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
|
||
calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
|
||
already accepts them).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in setobject.c.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c. Patch by
|
||
Suman Saha.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
|
||
warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
|
||
longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
|
||
embedded situations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
|
||
PySequence_DelItem.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
|
||
which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
|
||
name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file
|
||
twice.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
|
||
int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
|
||
incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
|
||
compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks in
|
||
list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
|
||
bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
|
||
titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12610: Verify that user generated AST has correct string and
|
||
identifier types before compiling. (See also: bpo-12609)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on an exception returns a non-
|
||
exception class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets cleared
|
||
by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance and its
|
||
type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's deallocator calls
|
||
one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing IOBase). Diagnosis
|
||
and patch by Davide Rizzo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported again
|
||
in Python 3.2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9611: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and os.write()
|
||
clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows. (See also: bpo-9015)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
|
||
the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
|
||
raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
|
||
delimiter in URLs.
|
||
|
||
- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
|
||
name.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions on 32-bit
|
||
architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
|
||
|
||
- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
|
||
SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
|
||
construct and malformed start tags.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__. Patch by
|
||
Suman Saha.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused the wrong library
|
||
name to be returned has been fixed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now correctly
|
||
parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields with a name
|
||
that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko Kohtala.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7 has
|
||
left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
|
||
distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
|
||
parts of distutils calling one and others using the other. Complete the
|
||
revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as is the case in
|
||
3.x.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building Distutils-based
|
||
packages with C extension modules may fail because Apple has removed
|
||
gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If
|
||
the user does not explicitly override the default C compiler by setting
|
||
the CC environment variable, Distutils will now attempt to compile
|
||
extension modules with clang if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as
|
||
a convenience, if the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as
|
||
the default compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for
|
||
OS X. (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
|
||
SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
|
||
attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
|
||
relevant, instead send method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing, raise a
|
||
ProgrammingError now.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
|
||
strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC IV
|
||
attack countermeasure.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
|
||
file objects opened with os.fdopen().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module. Patch by
|
||
Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness in the
|
||
directory name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
|
||
Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
|
||
(except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
|
||
Cédric Krier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
|
||
condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
|
||
redirection or an error.
|
||
|
||
- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
|
||
other than 900k.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than
|
||
str(). This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random seed
|
||
for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian Harring.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a certificate
|
||
with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
|
||
raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would
|
||
block. Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise
|
||
BlockingIOError, but RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when
|
||
the call would block. Patch by sbt.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
|
||
node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
|
||
Kenigsberg.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1745761: HTMLParser now correctly handles non-valid attributes,
|
||
including adjacent and unquoted attributes. (See also: bpo-755670,
|
||
bpo-13357, bpo-12629, bpo-1200313)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
|
||
when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of locale.setlocale().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents are read
|
||
correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
|
||
``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
|
||
when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
|
||
multiple encodings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
|
||
before all tasks have completed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
|
||
arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
|
||
does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling
|
||
of unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
|
||
semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
|
||
earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
|
||
now available on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the long
|
||
description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose contents cannot
|
||
be read.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors. (Backport
|
||
to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale. Reported
|
||
and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
|
||
metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
|
||
Craig Citro.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
|
||
Thomas Jarosch.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
|
||
failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report Metadata-
|
||
Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
|
||
present.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
|
||
of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
|
||
and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective
|
||
id of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
|
||
information was lost.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
|
||
now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
|
||
greater than FD_SETSIZE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch. Fix by
|
||
Richard M. Tew.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
|
||
avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
|
||
interpreter shutdown.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
|
||
Pipe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
|
||
could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python is
|
||
compiled on Linux 3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
|
||
resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
|
||
accepting unicode strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
|
||
paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11104: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with manually-
|
||
maintained MANIFEST files. (See also: bpo-8688)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or
|
||
help('somebuiltin.somemethod') in Python code) now finds the doc of the
|
||
method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
|
||
collections when it is done.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
|
||
given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
|
||
with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
|
||
locales.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
|
||
directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on Linux
|
||
3.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
|
||
commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that
|
||
form.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
|
||
Andreas Stührk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in an endian different
|
||
than the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
|
||
if the process has only one pipe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
|
||
shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
|
||
the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
|
||
check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
|
||
interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils
|
||
subprocesses and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify
|
||
the interpreter environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have
|
||
Distutils set the deployment target only in the environment of each build
|
||
subprocess. It is still possible to globally override the default by
|
||
setting MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its
|
||
value must be greater or equal to the default value, the value with which
|
||
the interpreter was built.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that it
|
||
won't grow without bound.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
|
||
Kitada.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
|
||
times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
|
||
connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
|
||
written by Ezio Melotti.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
|
||
functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
|
||
instead of os.stat.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
|
||
some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
|
||
|
||
- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
|
||
|
||
- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
|
||
updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
|
||
the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
|
||
before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
|
||
interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have
|
||
an early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
|
||
constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument.
|
||
Patch written by Oleg Oshmyan.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
|
||
ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
|
||
case of overflow has been fixed.
|
||
|
||
- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
|
||
Possible crash.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
|
||
json.loads().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
|
||
Vilmos Nebehaj.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a linear-
|
||
time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
|
||
would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
|
||
writer got cleared by the GC.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype. Thanks
|
||
to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that file
|
||
descriptor was actually received.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback object
|
||
triggers the garbage collector.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
|
||
OpenIndiana/Illumos.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
|
||
a string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
|
||
some functions like file.write().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper signature.
|
||
Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are broken.
|
||
Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal. Patch by Guilherme Polo and
|
||
Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported module, like
|
||
hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with
|
||
Restart Shell. Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
|
||
display a message popup and continue rather than crash. (original patch by
|
||
Roger Serwy)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
|
||
sequences.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
|
||
(Patch by Roger Serwy)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window when it
|
||
cannot read the normal config files on startup and has to use the built-in
|
||
default key bindings. There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
|
||
(directory(ies) instead of file(s)).
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
|
||
os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions
|
||
(*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and
|
||
UF_COMPRESSED).
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
|
||
Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
|
||
directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
|
||
suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
|
||
useful in many automated code translation workflows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise an error
|
||
if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
|
||
traceback if Python is optimized.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support. Patch by
|
||
Serhiy Storchaka.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test. Initial patch
|
||
by Torsten Landschoff.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
|
||
PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
|
||
Python.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64' as
|
||
the processor type on some Mac systems.
|
||
|
||
- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a
|
||
temporary failure in name resolution.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost' in
|
||
test_telnetlib.py.
|
||
|
||
- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
|
||
|
||
- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and an
|
||
overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder Web
|
||
site.
|
||
|
||
- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous DNS
|
||
service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test is
|
||
now skipped instead.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
|
||
test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
|
||
in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext
|
||
of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a
|
||
build directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch
|
||
by Garrett Cooper.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac
|
||
OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
|
||
iso2022_kr).
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13491: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation. Initial patch for
|
||
#13491 by Johannes Vogel. (See also: bpo-13995)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why all
|
||
operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
|
||
io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
|
||
functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.2 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2011-06-11*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2011-05-29*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS
|
||
X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum
|
||
recursion depth" RuntimeError exception. (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
|
||
|
||
- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to
|
||
have __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup
|
||
to be propagated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
|
||
clear the end- of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
|
||
doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
|
||
(length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
|
||
written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
|
||
the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
|
||
Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of
|
||
the str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
|
||
APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
|
||
by Charles-François Natali.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
|
||
accepted too.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
|
||
between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
|
||
chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
|
||
(EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X.
|
||
Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
|
||
Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
|
||
though the result was within the range of an int.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when there
|
||
are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10451: memoryview objects could allow mutating a readable buffer.
|
||
Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
|
||
class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read non-
|
||
Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
|
||
by Matt Bandy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
|
||
can now handle dates after 2038.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly rather
|
||
than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python error in certain
|
||
circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index. Patch
|
||
by Torsten Becker.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
|
||
float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0,
|
||
not -0.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
|
||
empty, instead of OverflowError.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
|
||
closed StringIO instance.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
|
||
division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
|
||
if the file is closed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
|
||
heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
|
||
their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if
|
||
the final argument is True.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
|
||
to be able to unload the module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10154: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead of "UTF8"
|
||
in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
|
||
(See also: bpo-10090)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set
|
||
in shell.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the
|
||
unconsumed_tail attribute when called without a max_length argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
|
||
type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
|
||
seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
|
||
still within buffered data, and writing again).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8498: In socket.accept(), allow specifying 0 as a backlog value in
|
||
order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch by
|
||
Kasun Herath.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying
|
||
to detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
|
||
previous value of the mtime.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
|
||
filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except for
|
||
the case.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
|
||
around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode
|
||
Nurpmeso.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
|
||
present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
|
||
strings are too long.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
|
||
Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
|
||
parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily mutating
|
||
the object instead of just working on a copy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
|
||
to avoid XSS attacks.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
|
||
specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
|
||
|
||
- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
|
||
Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
|
||
_json is not available.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
|
||
url contains #fragment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
|
||
adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
|
||
from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse a
|
||
closed file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module. It
|
||
was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
|
||
sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
|
||
worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
|
||
shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the scheme is
|
||
not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
|
||
arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
|
||
trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
|
||
are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
|
||
documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods that
|
||
start with a leading underscore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
|
||
size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
|
||
comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module setup
|
||
and teardown.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
|
||
ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
|
||
that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
|
||
IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when the context
|
||
rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
|
||
initialization fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
|
||
``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
|
||
TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open certain
|
||
files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by checking for
|
||
EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
|
||
on accept(), send() and recv().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
|
||
and make it work for non-blocking connects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
|
||
has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
|
||
argparse.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than 4GB,
|
||
even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
|
||
32-bit Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
|
||
of non- weakrefable objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix != --exec-
|
||
prefix, which caused Python to not start.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
|
||
a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
|
||
by Stan Mihai.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
|
||
length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines a
|
||
symbol named FSTAT.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
|
||
length and a non- zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
|
||
is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime function
|
||
will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is false and will
|
||
accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range accepted by
|
||
``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system dependent, but
|
||
``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported by the OS.
|
||
Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
|
||
twice.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows on
|
||
an existing file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by the
|
||
application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10806: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file descriptors
|
||
(0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
|
||
Lagerwall. (See also: bpo-9905)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
|
||
DeprecationWarning.
|
||
|
||
- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
|
||
variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util
|
||
's request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a
|
||
part of params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
|
||
browsers actually parse cookies.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
|
||
email.header.Header.encode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5258: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error, it
|
||
now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
|
||
the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
|
||
(See also: bpo-10642)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
|
||
about input.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client, to
|
||
avoid denial of services from the other party.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
|
||
rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading
|
||
.editrc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations from
|
||
the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
|
||
';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
|
||
for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
|
||
causes debug mode to fail.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by way
|
||
of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
|
||
current process.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
|
||
OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our
|
||
process or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
|
||
argparse.FileType.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
|
||
their children.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
|
||
|
||
- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the
|
||
_sre module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
|
||
attributes. (See #12099)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
|
||
objects using the C accelerations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
|
||
objects using the C accelerations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is
|
||
set to an instance of the class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py file in
|
||
a package.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line when
|
||
opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
|
||
with Tk 8.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the menu
|
||
accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width. The
|
||
accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
|
||
than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
|
||
64-/32-bit installer variant.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save commands.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and Cocoa
|
||
AquaTk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
|
||
platforms).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6378: Further adjust idle.bat to start associated Python
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11896: Save on Close failed despite selecting "Yes" in dialog.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4676: <Home> toggle failing on Tk 8.5, causing IDLE exits and strange
|
||
selection behavior. Improve selection extension behaviour.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3851: <Home> toggle non-functional when NumLock set on Windows.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure
|
||
"make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the
|
||
framework bin directory like the installer does.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation package had
|
||
previously been installed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
|
||
installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with the
|
||
system- provided Python.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
|
||
installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with
|
||
FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support
|
||
enabled).
|
||
|
||
- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
|
||
the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD and
|
||
DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
|
||
timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
|
||
support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems
|
||
to only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with
|
||
GCC.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
|
||
using GCC 4.0.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without
|
||
accelerations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
|
||
|
||
- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before
|
||
finishing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
|
||
platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@' or
|
||
'.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
|
||
false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch by
|
||
Ross Lagerwall.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
|
||
in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
|
||
explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
|
||
encountering them.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
|
||
tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.1 final?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-11-27*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
|
||
|
||
- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
|
||
before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
|
||
undefined.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both ``__iter__``
|
||
and ``next``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
|
||
XML namespace attribute is encountered.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
|
||
start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
|
||
is called without data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
|
||
end of the file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather
|
||
than the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
|
||
===============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-11-13*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
|
||
missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
|
||
``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
|
||
length of the offending line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
|
||
resolution.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value
|
||
as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
|
||
warning.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
|
||
dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type long for
|
||
a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This fixes an
|
||
interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long subclass from an
|
||
object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid thread-
|
||
local storage key.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
|
||
encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to
|
||
get the same behaviour than the print statement.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
|
||
memoryview object.
|
||
|
||
- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
|
||
array.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
|
||
type specifier failed to match the str output:
|
||
|
||
- format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
|
||
- format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
|
||
compiler.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
|
||
M. Catucci.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with --enable-
|
||
shared.
|
||
|
||
- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
|
||
not in build_clib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
|
||
Arfrever.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
|
||
tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
|
||
low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
|
||
from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
|
||
EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
|
||
instead.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as
|
||
a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
|
||
were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
|
||
append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file object
|
||
with custom buffering from two threads at once.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
|
||
xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
|
||
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
|
||
ntpath.relpath().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
|
||
debugging in doctests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
|
||
current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the end of
|
||
the "file" in cStringIO.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
|
||
after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
|
||
gettext.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
|
||
gname field.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
|
||
characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
|
||
invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
|
||
received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
|
||
retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with
|
||
a timeout.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
|
||
non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
|
||
to match the corresponding socket methods. Also, fix various SSLSocket
|
||
methods to raise socket.error rather than an unhelpful TypeError when
|
||
called on an unconnected socket. Original patch by Andrew Bennetts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
|
||
d['x'] = d.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
|
||
ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
|
||
This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
|
||
becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
|
||
removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait
|
||
for GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt
|
||
drops to zero.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
|
||
different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
|
||
value.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
|
||
swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch
|
||
the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error
|
||
is re-raised.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
|
||
the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be
|
||
updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
|
||
types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
|
||
ConfigParser.write.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
|
||
issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
|
||
can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
|
||
heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
|
||
falling into recursion.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
|
||
character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
|
||
operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
|
||
error handling when accepting a new connection.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
|
||
errors.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
|
||
module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
|
||
ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
|
||
are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
|
||
the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
|
||
overridden to provide ordered views.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
|
||
indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
|
||
marker will not be overwritten or removed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
|
||
BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
|
||
Python 2.5 and earlier).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
|
||
original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
|
||
when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
|
||
patch by Jason V. Miller.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
|
||
SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
|
||
Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
|
||
Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
|
||
timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
|
||
node.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
|
||
PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url. This
|
||
is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
|
||
behavior was wrong.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded
|
||
word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the
|
||
option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not
|
||
contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
|
||
command line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
|
||
browser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
|
||
regular expressions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
|
||
generated with the profile module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
|
||
entries, consider the first one.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
|
||
reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
|
||
top-level debugged frame.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
|
||
doctests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
|
||
source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
|
||
reassigned.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
|
||
breakpoint command.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when re-
|
||
initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or
|
||
``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
|
||
http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
|
||
sys.stdout is reassigned.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
|
||
across devices.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty string
|
||
when Unicode was previously output.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
|
||
newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command
|
||
line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
|
||
utf-16 incremental encoders.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
|
||
parameters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
|
||
error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
|
||
XML-RPC request.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
|
||
doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help=']
|
||
long options).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an I/O
|
||
error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck (Jan
|
||
Hosang).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
|
||
produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
|
||
iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
|
||
|
||
- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of
|
||
10 and the exponent is tiny (for example, Decimal(10) **
|
||
Decimal('1e-999999999')).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode strings in
|
||
add_option calls.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name for
|
||
tracing methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
|
||
version 2.0.1.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
|
||
introduced by issue #9324.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
|
||
descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
|
||
posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
|
||
|
||
- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
|
||
interpreter by default.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
|
||
prevent crashes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
|
||
module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
|
||
|
||
- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
|
||
result of history_get_history_state()).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
|
||
readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
|
||
compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not
|
||
reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basically always returns
|
||
the same information as the id command.
|
||
|
||
os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
|
||
struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
|
||
exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
|
||
wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside
|
||
gdb) and the interpreter under test.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
|
||
Kitada.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file directly. It
|
||
used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
|
||
built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
|
||
Sablé.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
|
||
become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(),
|
||
respectively.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
|
||
Sébastien Sablé.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
|
||
``/usr/local/bin``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name of
|
||
the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
|
||
2.7 edition of 2to3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
|
||
the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path.
|
||
This feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
|
||
of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
|
||
in test_os)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
|
||
case when running profile or trace, for example.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
|
||
|
||
- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
|
||
Michele Orrù.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses to
|
||
Doc/license.rst.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only with
|
||
os.kill.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
|
||
only.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 final?
|
||
===============================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-07-03*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- Prevent assignment to set literals.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
|
||
getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop
|
||
module, ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame
|
||
size.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
|
||
OpenSSL structure.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
|
||
=============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-06-20*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
|
||
option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of
|
||
``sys.path``. See tracker issue for details.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
|
||
interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher
|
||
than 0x10000).
|
||
|
||
- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments
|
||
are too large.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
|
||
raises an exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi library on
|
||
Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before and after calling
|
||
foreign functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
|
||
smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
|
||
between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
|
||
now honored in unittest debug methods.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
|
||
distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 1?
|
||
=============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-06-05*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
|
||
start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid,
|
||
instead of the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
|
||
'\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
|
||
replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation
|
||
byte ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
|
||
Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of __hash__
|
||
in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that arises from the
|
||
"Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning when turned into an
|
||
exception: in this case the exception simply gets ignored.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
|
||
objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
|
||
(2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality. (2)
|
||
The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
|
||
unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in
|
||
sets or dicts.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
|
||
removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
|
||
alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
|
||
and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
|
||
relative import semantics.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
|
||
from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the Window
|
||
Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
|
||
of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
|
||
helps fix `CVE-2008-5983 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-
|
||
bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
|
||
reported as a skip rather than an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8351: Excessively large diffs due to
|
||
unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
|
||
reports.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases accepted
|
||
by the codecs module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
|
||
part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
|
||
mistake.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
|
||
encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
|
||
timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR
|
||
range.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
|
||
Fredrik Håård
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8016: Add the CP858 codec.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
|
||
twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
|
||
StreamWriter classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
|
||
than 'strict'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
|
||
of files without one.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
|
||
comparing to a non-mapping.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
|
||
cases.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST every time.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the
|
||
methods it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up
|
||
during interpreter shutdown.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
|
||
curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not
|
||
safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
|
||
ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
|
||
overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new checks
|
||
also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
|
||
and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
|
||
|
||
- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
|
||
leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-
|
||
packages instead of two in a non-framework build.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
|
||
releases.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1759169: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for multiprocessing
|
||
only. (See also: bpo-8864)
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
|
||
================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-05-08*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
|
||
non-float non- integer argument is now converted to an integer (if
|
||
possible) using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were
|
||
treated this way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the
|
||
range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when
|
||
searching for the module file to be executed with the -m command line
|
||
option.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
|
||
``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
|
||
benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
|
||
Charles-François Natali.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize
|
||
is passed to bytearray.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
|
||
on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
|
||
``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
|
||
zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
|
||
larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
|
||
objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
|
||
error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the
|
||
cheap inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap
|
||
inheritance has been deprecated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
|
||
fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
|
||
parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
|
||
ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
|
||
operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
|
||
trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals
|
||
should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading
|
||
to the wrong Python exception being raised.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
|
||
exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
|
||
close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
|
||
gc.DEBUG_STATS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
|
||
just SIGCHLD.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
|
||
``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
|
||
between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
|
||
"Include".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
|
||
when mode="w|" is used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
|
||
the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
|
||
should correctly return an empty response now.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
|
||
suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the
|
||
module location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by
|
||
Lennart Regebro.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
|
||
before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
|
||
Ratnakumar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and
|
||
mappings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
|
||
the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
|
||
started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
|
||
test_httpservers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
|
||
indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
|
||
|
||
- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
|
||
the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
|
||
socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
|
||
Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
|
||
string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
|
||
keywords.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
|
||
non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
|
||
wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
|
||
OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the
|
||
_ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't
|
||
fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
|
||
resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
|
||
handler from the new IO library.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
|
||
code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
|
||
available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
|
||
Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
|
||
filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
|
||
designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
|
||
character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
|
||
7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
|
||
cover recent locale changes and additions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
|
||
|
||
- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
|
||
|
||
- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
|
||
|
||
- On Windows, ctypes no longer checks the stack before and after calling a
|
||
foreign function. This allows using the unmodified libffi library.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
|
||
handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
|
||
uncompressed data).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests
|
||
its API.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
|
||
test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
|
||
support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
|
||
SSL shutdowns.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
|
||
(Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds
|
||
in 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with
|
||
autoconf's strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for
|
||
gcc.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
|
||
your home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
|
||
================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-04-10*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
|
||
changed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
|
||
on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
|
||
permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
|
||
|
||
- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
|
||
|
||
- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
|
||
with a non- empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
|
||
code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
|
||
adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
|
||
supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
|
||
Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
|
||
references.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case
|
||
it is set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1583863: A unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
|
||
arguments to a function correct.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
|
||
(SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
|
||
printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- Code objects now support weak references.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
|
||
using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
|
||
and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
|
||
converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
|
||
|
||
>>> Decimal(1.1)
|
||
Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
|
||
|
||
- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
|
||
|
||
- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to
|
||
simplify the specification of rich comparisons.
|
||
|
||
- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-
|
||
style comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
|
||
directly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
|
||
InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a
|
||
quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable;
|
||
Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
|
||
return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously
|
||
they returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of
|
||
id(float) and id(Decimal).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
|
||
argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each
|
||
line is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately.
|
||
(Original patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
|
||
function like a normal call.
|
||
|
||
- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B)
|
||
and form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in
|
||
Unicode Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
|
||
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
|
||
|
||
- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
|
||
Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False.
|
||
This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=>
|
||
complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
|
||
|
||
- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
|
||
|
||
- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
|
||
running from the build directory (POSIX only).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
|
||
didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
|
||
now silenced.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
|
||
deprecated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when
|
||
Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
|
||
|
||
- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor
|
||
method to LoggerAdapter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
|
||
existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
|
||
attempted to sort the existing loggers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
|
||
when logging occurs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3890: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets. Also,
|
||
enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking reads
|
||
and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself. (See also: bpo-8222)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support
|
||
writing into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays
|
||
or memoryviews.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
|
||
with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
|
||
set to a non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the
|
||
real program name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
|
||
for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
|
||
existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
|
||
not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
|
||
cElementTree module is updated too.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
|
||
classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
|
||
a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
|
||
This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped,
|
||
to version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
|
||
option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
|
||
|
||
- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout /
|
||
stderr during test runs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
|
||
sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1039: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument. (See also:
|
||
bpo-8154)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
|
||
http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update
|
||
drops support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
|
||
integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
|
||
using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
|
||
TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
|
||
integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
|
||
argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It
|
||
also produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the
|
||
behaviour was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but
|
||
not for others, and the set of integer codes for which it was used
|
||
differed between native packing and standard packing.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug
|
||
in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
|
||
measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
|
||
number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
|
||
|
||
- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing
|
||
to use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
|
||
anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when
|
||
building a shared library.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
|
||
|
||
- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
|
||
assembly file.
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
|
||
function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
|
||
is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
|
||
Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have
|
||
been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
|
||
PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if
|
||
any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
|
||
KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-8180: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special Unicode
|
||
normalization cases. (See also: bpo-8207)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
|
||
files from the local cache.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-03-06*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
|
||
fatal error in low memory condition.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
|
||
check fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
|
||
UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
|
||
strings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
|
||
UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using
|
||
the default encoding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
|
||
padding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
|
||
Parser/myreadline.c.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
|
||
``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
|
||
binary arithmetic operations.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
|
||
RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
|
||
authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
|
||
crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
|
||
Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the
|
||
profiler, reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7232: Add support for the context management protocol to the
|
||
``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
|
||
``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
|
||
and writing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
|
||
cycle garbage collector.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
|
||
message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
|
||
exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and
|
||
long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that
|
||
argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
|
||
compression type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
|
||
argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different
|
||
result class to be used without having to subclass.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
|
||
name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
|
||
instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
|
||
``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
|
||
|
||
- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several
|
||
obscure bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
|
||
handling.
|
||
|
||
- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010,
|
||
as msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
|
||
thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
|
||
lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
|
||
-1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
|
||
warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()``
|
||
is available.
|
||
|
||
- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
|
||
common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
|
||
|
||
- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
|
||
``--verbose`` flag.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
|
||
filesystem encoding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
|
||
is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
|
||
now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
|
||
The original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to
|
||
Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3920: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9. (See also:
|
||
bpo-7903)
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-02-06*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
|
||
and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
|
||
library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
|
||
the interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
|
||
manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
|
||
``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
|
||
very large step value.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
|
||
and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure.
|
||
The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask,
|
||
and product_type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
|
||
could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()``
|
||
macro returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
|
||
string instead.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
|
||
methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
|
||
implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent
|
||
Xicluna.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
|
||
including:
|
||
|
||
(1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit)
|
||
input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds
|
||
when parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal
|
||
values, (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow,
|
||
and (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7319: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3 option is
|
||
not used. (See also: bpo-7770)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
|
||
keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
|
||
interpreter shutdown.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
|
||
XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
|
||
allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
|
||
PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
|
||
specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket``
|
||
module). Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC
|
||
address type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
|
||
|
||
- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
|
||
file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
|
||
file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
|
||
ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
|
||
class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
|
||
implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in an
|
||
``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
|
||
where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong
|
||
results. Patch by Nir Aides.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
|
||
|
||
- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
|
||
Lib/test/test_support.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
|
||
when the release file is empty.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
|
||
Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return a utf-8
|
||
encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register
|
||
commands send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
|
||
headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
|
||
invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
|
||
1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
|
||
values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
|
||
module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional
|
||
tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
|
||
by Brian Curtin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
|
||
Matt Giuca.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
|
||
Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
|
||
file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
|
||
|
||
- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
|
||
(CVE_2009_3560).
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
|
||
memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
|
||
instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on MacOSX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path. Patch
|
||
by Florent Xicluna.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
|
||
added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
|
||
sandbox.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
|
||
instead of a hard coded port.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's
|
||
-J, -U and -X options.
|
||
|
||
- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
|
||
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2010-01-09*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
|
||
make it consistent with other special methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
|
||
`rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
|
||
DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was
|
||
expected. These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The
|
||
majority of the effects of this change are in the extension modules, but
|
||
some core functions and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range'
|
||
and 'xrange' builtins, and many unicode/str methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
|
||
AttributeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
|
||
in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex
|
||
F.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
|
||
used to drop the time part of the result.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true
|
||
division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints
|
||
a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not
|
||
depend on the internal representation of a long.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
|
||
same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is
|
||
overridden in the subclass.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
|
||
executables on OSX.
|
||
|
||
These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
|
||
python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode
|
||
(unlike previous releases).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
|
||
underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
|
||
middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
|
||
when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
|
||
Arfrever.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
|
||
Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
|
||
using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in
|
||
text mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
|
||
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
|
||
argument like other file objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
|
||
proper end-of- line termination.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
|
||
``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
|
||
to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the ``--with-
|
||
system-ffi`` flag is used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
|
||
compiler might use the wrong library.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
|
||
with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
|
||
instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 2009-12-05*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
|
||
when called with invalid values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
|
||
upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer
|
||
converts to 'g' for large values.
|
||
|
||
- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger
|
||
than 1e50 in absolute value.
|
||
|
||
- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
|
||
1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
|
||
significant digits instead.
|
||
|
||
- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
|
||
10.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
|
||
decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
|
||
(with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string
|
||
based on rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number
|
||
behaves similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and
|
||
dtoa code is not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
|
||
conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these
|
||
conversions occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float
|
||
and complex constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting;
|
||
serialization and deserialization of floats and complex numbers using
|
||
marshal, pickle and json; parsing of float and imaginary literals in
|
||
Python code; Decimal-to- float conversion.
|
||
|
||
The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known
|
||
dtoa.c, providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This
|
||
code is supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or
|
||
suncc as the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on
|
||
which correct operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is
|
||
not used: notably, this applies to platforms where the C double format is
|
||
not IEEE 754 binary64, and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU
|
||
is set to 64-bit precision and Python's configure script is unable to
|
||
determine how to change the FPU precision. On these platforms conversions
|
||
use the platform strtod and dtoa, as before.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
|
||
uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above
|
||
(when available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will
|
||
display nicely under the float repr. There are two related small changes:
|
||
(1) round now accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its
|
||
second argument (but no longer accepts floats for the second argument),
|
||
and (2) an excessively large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234,
|
||
10**100)``) no longer raises an exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
|
||
|
||
- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows
|
||
and Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
|
||
|
||
- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
|
||
string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
|
||
during the formation of an output tuple.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
|
||
which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when
|
||
the interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
|
||
and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
|
||
in GAE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
|
||
module is the only object holding a reference to it.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
|
||
should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
|
||
Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
|
||
thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
|
||
The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or
|
||
line breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database
|
||
files, and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
|
||
assignment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a
|
||
sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani
|
||
Hakala.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
|
||
producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around
|
||
after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
|
||
take keyword arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
|
||
stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
|
||
conversions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
|
||
attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
|
||
|
||
- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
|
||
when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
|
||
of tuple unpacking.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid
|
||
parameters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
|
||
occurred in the argument chain.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
|
||
the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
|
||
separator and end should be unicode also.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
|
||
built-in functions and methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes
|
||
a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h
|
||
instead of stdint.h on that platform.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4856: Remove checks for win NT.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
|
||
arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
|
||
|
||
- Removed the ipaddr module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
|
||
because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
|
||
|
||
- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
|
||
ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
|
||
|
||
- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
|
||
to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
|
||
the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen
|
||
Fürstenau.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function
|
||
with ``__func__``.
|
||
|
||
- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
|
||
Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
|
||
statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
|
||
consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
|
||
literals.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
|
||
|
||
- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely
|
||
ignored on classic classes and instances.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
|
||
|
||
(1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
|
||
rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was
|
||
locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match
|
||
that of float('-nan').
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
|
||
presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like
|
||
'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision of
|
||
12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
|
||
This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
|
||
alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
|
||
complex.__format__ in the same way.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed
|
||
by classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__
|
||
into the subclass instance __dict__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
|
||
sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
|
||
'.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
|
||
gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
|
||
Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
|
||
not their own uppercase.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
|
||
_PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z
|
||
involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
|
||
|
||
- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats,
|
||
ints, and longs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
|
||
formatting poorly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using
|
||
no type code and we have an exponent.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
|
||
rounded.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted
|
||
on some built-in types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
|
||
giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
|
||
clarity and its speed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
|
||
|
||
- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected
|
||
errors" when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
|
||
sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
|
||
untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
|
||
reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection
|
||
overhead on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of
|
||
datatypes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
|
||
performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50%
|
||
and 150% faster.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
|
||
internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30
|
||
is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option
|
||
to configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
|
||
provide information about the internal format.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As
|
||
a result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP
|
||
to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and
|
||
sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
|
||
{}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
|
||
requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
|
||
using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
|
||
|
||
- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
|
||
for ints and longs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
|
||
per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
|
||
rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
|
||
forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
|
||
were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
|
||
zip(), and bytearray().
|
||
|
||
- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with
|
||
other os functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
|
||
OSError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
|
||
str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
|
||
the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
|
||
__next__ method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4893: Use NT threading on CE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
|
||
collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects
|
||
without destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a
|
||
proposal by Martin von Löwis at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-
|
||
dev/2008-June/080579.html.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
|
||
existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
|
||
objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file
|
||
has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
|
||
Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
|
||
file with `str' filename on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
|
||
did not get collected.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
|
||
the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
|
||
directory on POSIX systems.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
|
||
systems.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
|
||
``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for
|
||
``bytes.translate()``.
|
||
|
||
- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
|
||
fail.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
|
||
print elapsed times, not only when some objects are
|
||
uncollectable/unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
|
||
Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
|
||
manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
|
||
exceptions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
|
||
``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
|
||
instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average)
|
||
per string allocation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
|
||
interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
|
||
instead of throwing a MemoryError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
|
||
of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
|
||
module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
|
||
file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open
|
||
but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also
|
||
got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
|
||
the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
|
||
exec statement.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
|
||
method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
|
||
__future__ import didn't work.
|
||
|
||
- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
|
||
because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
|
||
|
||
- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
|
||
GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's
|
||
doubtful this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such
|
||
directory on win2k)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
|
||
element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
|
||
eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the
|
||
missing key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
|
||
there are buffer exports.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
|
||
|
||
- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags
|
||
parameter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
|
||
short file names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
|
||
to avoid compiler warnings.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
|
||
returned them on 64bit platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
|
||
PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
|
||
step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the
|
||
effect of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of
|
||
characters consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of
|
||
bytes).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
|
||
allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind.
|
||
This gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind,
|
||
while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
|
||
|
||
- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
|
||
parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
|
||
|
||
- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use
|
||
of TLS with authentication credentials.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
|
||
generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions
|
||
with msvc9compiler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function
|
||
providing access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which
|
||
implement it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
|
||
ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
|
||
from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
|
||
Collins.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
|
||
``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional
|
||
"rest" argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
|
||
method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
|
||
Brian Quinlan.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
|
||
characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
|
||
raises ReadError on empty files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
|
||
__str__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
|
||
case of an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
|
||
Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
|
||
or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
|
||
registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
|
||
to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as
|
||
well as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that
|
||
contain a __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python
|
||
scripts to support the same flexibility as the CPython command line
|
||
itself.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
|
||
connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
|
||
default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local
|
||
connections.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
|
||
unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
|
||
test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
|
||
those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
|
||
``thread.start_new_thread()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
|
||
which are part of a reference cycle.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
|
||
kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
|
||
a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
|
||
failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7246: getpass now properly flushes input before reading from stdin so
|
||
that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect entry or an
|
||
IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the terminal
|
||
echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris. (See also: bpo-7208)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
|
||
they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy
|
||
handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the
|
||
current precision) in shift and rotate.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
|
||
header as required by RFC 1952.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
|
||
Distutils.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
|
||
an uppercase.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
|
||
threads at once.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
|
||
sys.dont_write_bytecode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
|
||
raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
|
||
protocol 2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
|
||
larger than emax.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
|
||
readline library version 6.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
|
||
|
||
- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
|
||
anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct
|
||
place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
|
||
large to fit in the current precision.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
|
||
Distutils.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
|
||
``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6236: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and other
|
||
platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen. (See also:
|
||
bpo-6348)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
|
||
always result in NULL.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
|
||
base class positional arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
|
||
message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
|
||
distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
|
||
Haubenwallner.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
|
||
NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
|
||
long(Decimal('nan')).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
|
||
type specifier.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
|
||
concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
|
||
significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
|
||
Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
|
||
as documented.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
|
||
names in the webbrowser module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
|
||
payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
|
||
|
||
- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
|
||
ScrolledText.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
|
||
and yview* methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
|
||
occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+"
|
||
or "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading.
|
||
This bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
|
||
possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
|
||
properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
|
||
The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
|
||
digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was
|
||
restricted to accepting [0-9].
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
|
||
opening an empty or very small file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
|
||
containing incomplete data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
|
||
behavior is similar when used with -O.
|
||
|
||
- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still
|
||
work.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know
|
||
how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct
|
||
handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses
|
||
the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
|
||
``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings
|
||
for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty
|
||
list.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
|
||
standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
|
||
attribute.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
|
||
when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when
|
||
possible.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5155: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was unconditionally calling
|
||
"os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file descriptor errors. (See
|
||
also: bpo-5313, bpo-5331)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
|
||
extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
|
||
a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
|
||
Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
|
||
argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
|
||
Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
|
||
httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
|
||
on Unix.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
|
||
(including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
|
||
``io`` module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
|
||
TimedRotatingFileHandler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
|
||
Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
|
||
``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch
|
||
by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
|
||
the 'help' function.
|
||
|
||
- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
|
||
skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been
|
||
removed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the
|
||
directory already exists.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
|
||
specific Python version.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
|
||
than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
|
||
DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
|
||
proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
|
||
the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms
|
||
have a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
|
||
Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
|
||
and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
|
||
place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
|
||
subcommand.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
|
||
deepcopy()ing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
|
||
test_get_outputs in Distutils.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the
|
||
'source' file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
|
||
inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
|
||
broken for old-style extensions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
|
||
trying to print a traceback.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
|
||
ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
|
||
an incomplete customization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
|
||
Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
|
||
Cournapeau.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
|
||
does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
|
||
directories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
|
||
looking for files given by a relative filename.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
|
||
extracting a file to the root directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
|
||
saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
|
||
and original patch by Jake McGuire.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
|
||
error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
|
||
Contributed by Google.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
|
||
is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
|
||
Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
|
||
at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't
|
||
been initialized before.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
|
||
names which should not be exported.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
|
||
``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
|
||
prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
|
||
``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
|
||
instances.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's
|
||
valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of
|
||
strings representing NaNs and infinities.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
|
||
handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL
|
||
now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
|
||
'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
|
||
'warning' by default.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
|
||
value in SafeConfigParser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
|
||
platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
|
||
now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
|
||
fix by Steven Bethard.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
|
||
fix by Wayne Davison.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
|
||
subclasses.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
|
||
mailbox.MH.get_message().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
|
||
multiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
|
||
the object when writefile is called causes an ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES.
|
||
Added docs to note the limitation.
|
||
|
||
- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of
|
||
the equality operator.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
|
||
unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
|
||
added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
|
||
unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown).
|
||
This allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during
|
||
tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
|
||
doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive
|
||
interpreter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
|
||
test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
|
||
"python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun
|
||
methods; called immediately before and after a test run.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
|
||
and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage
|
||
attribute. This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error
|
||
messages are shown in addition to explicit messages passed to assert
|
||
methods.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
|
||
|
||
- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
|
||
printing out values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1665206: Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module instead of
|
||
performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in threads.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
|
||
|
||
- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
|
||
been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
|
||
that it was failing to do localization.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
|
||
Brandl.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
|
||
popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not
|
||
created with the threading module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
|
||
use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
|
||
socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
|
||
wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
|
||
|
||
- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
|
||
defined (part of issue #5035).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
|
||
python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
|
||
output compared to previous Python versions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
|
||
|
||
- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager
|
||
when not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline
|
||
using a with statement.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
|
||
in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
|
||
comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
|
||
messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
|
||
forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
|
||
with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
|
||
partial bzip2 compressed data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
|
||
even if an exception occurs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
|
||
OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
|
||
``Decimal.__format__()``.
|
||
|
||
- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
|
||
alignment characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
|
||
character.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
|
||
Golden.
|
||
|
||
- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
|
||
it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
|
||
window flashing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be
|
||
safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl
|
||
interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler. Original
|
||
patch by Akira Kitada.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
|
||
|
||
- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
|
||
|
||
- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
|
||
|
||
- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data
|
||
all ready received.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
|
||
import guess_extension`` was used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
|
||
map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
|
||
overrun.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
|
||
bdist_rpm command.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
|
||
|
||
- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
|
||
is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
|
||
Distutils tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
|
||
IronPython.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
|
||
0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
|
||
and the data_files metadata.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
|
||
support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
|
||
Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
|
||
LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
|
||
function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
|
||
under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
|
||
to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on
|
||
the ctime of the files involved.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
|
||
deadlock.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
|
||
'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
|
||
positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This
|
||
is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4512: Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
|
||
documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
|
||
execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
|
||
submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not
|
||
be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
|
||
Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
|
||
the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
|
||
environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
|
||
Light.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
|
||
distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with --enabled-
|
||
shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
|
||
its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
|
||
"src.new").
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
|
||
MutableSet.
|
||
|
||
- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
|
||
collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
|
||
|
||
- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
|
||
been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
|
||
file was overridden by the gztar one.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
|
||
|
||
- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and
|
||
compress().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed non-
|
||
integer arguments.
|
||
|
||
- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support,
|
||
expose the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was producing a
|
||
ValueError on some platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
|
||
symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
|
||
directories to a zipfile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed --without-
|
||
threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be disabled, and
|
||
not compiled.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
|
||
an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file
|
||
size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
|
||
traditional 2.x file object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
|
||
parameter was set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
|
||
which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
|
||
numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
|
||
for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without
|
||
this check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying
|
||
issue in sharedctypes.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
|
||
__getattr__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
|
||
opened with other applications.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
|
||
AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context management
|
||
protocol.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
|
||
the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current
|
||
time. The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing.
|
||
Patch by Jacques Frechet.
|
||
|
||
- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
|
||
Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
|
||
|
||
- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
|
||
"createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
|
||
deprecated for removal in 3.x
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
|
||
Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
|
||
constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
|
||
the function is not a generator.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
|
||
MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
|
||
function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
|
||
|
||
- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
|
||
cast as floats.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
|
||
unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
|
||
the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
|
||
as expected in the interactive environment.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
|
||
Gabriel Genellina.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
|
||
handling.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
|
||
return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
|
||
and gets split on a chunk boundary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
|
||
packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader).
|
||
Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
|
||
(or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
|
||
Belopolsky.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
|
||
conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
|
||
subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
|
||
module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
|
||
based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4082: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
|
||
backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander
|
||
Belopolsky. (See also: bpo-4512)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
|
||
when given a Unicode string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give
|
||
correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the
|
||
other is a finite number that requires rounding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-
|
||
run option.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
|
||
statements.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
|
||
not a malformed option.
|
||
|
||
- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
|
||
from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
|
||
support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
|
||
Content-Disposition headers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
|
||
captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
|
||
it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
|
||
could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library
|
||
user doesn't configure logging.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
|
||
exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
|
||
ctypes module is not present.
|
||
|
||
- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
|
||
|
||
- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of
|
||
values for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a
|
||
while.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
|
||
and then remove it.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
|
||
debugging.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
|
||
inspect.getargvalues.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
|
||
to claiming it is Mature.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
|
||
when protocol 0 is used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
|
||
to be consistent with Apple tools.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
|
||
one of the needed subdirectories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
|
||
biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and
|
||
gcc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
|
||
protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
|
||
and getservbyport().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
|
||
correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
|
||
arguments introduced in 2.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5828: Fixed bogus logic in makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the
|
||
Unicode database (This fixes u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
|
||
|
||
- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
|
||
whitespace.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
|
||
|
||
- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental
|
||
versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5559: OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't
|
||
working with file paths containing spaces.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5783: Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not
|
||
being accessed. Patch by Guilherme Polo/
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1529142: Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist
|
||
simultaneously. Thanks to David Scherer for suggesting the use of an
|
||
ephemeral port for the GUI. Patch by Weeble.
|
||
|
||
- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to extract
|
||
port from command line when warnings are present.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5129: Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to
|
||
handle mixed space/tab properly. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
|
||
correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
|
||
--with-tsc build on x86-64.
|
||
|
||
- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel``
|
||
builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while
|
||
``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64``
|
||
architectures.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
|
||
installed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
|
||
error. Configure now explicitly tells you about this.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
|
||
python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton
|
||
Roy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
|
||
linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
|
||
the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
|
||
|
||
- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4728: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds. (See also:
|
||
bpo-4060)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
|
||
Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
|
||
Chenet.
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
|
||
PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
|
||
|
||
- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated
|
||
PyOS_ascii_atof and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
|
||
|
||
- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This
|
||
is in preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short
|
||
float repr.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
|
||
NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
|
||
PyCode_Addr2Line().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
|
||
object at a specified file, function, and line number.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
|
||
``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
|
||
|
||
- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
|
||
arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
|
||
the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
|
||
Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
|
||
asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation
|
||
added.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
|
||
outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
|
||
range.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
|
||
OSX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
|
||
something other than a tuple as first argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
|
||
|
||
- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
|
||
tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode
|
||
category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched
|
||
characters with category 'No'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
|
||
integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
|
||
consistently raises struct.error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1530559: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the integer
|
||
formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=', '<',
|
||
'>'.
|
||
|
||
- Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
|
||
only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
|
||
|
||
- If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
|
||
struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
|
||
'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
|
||
__long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
|
||
neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
|
||
confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
|
||
struct.error in other cases.
|
||
|
||
Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1,
|
||
any argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
|
||
triggers a DeprecationWarning. (See also: bpo-1741130)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is
|
||
now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
|
||
supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
|
||
implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3167: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris, OpenBSD. (See
|
||
also: bpo-3682)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
|
||
in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running
|
||
the tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the
|
||
case of an option with no handler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
|
||
fails. Can be combined with -j.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
|
||
primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference leak-
|
||
chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
|
||
threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
|
||
referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
|
||
``thread._count()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
|
||
runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
|
||
__all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
|
||
runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
|
||
and a new section in the summary report at the end.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
|
||
off the trailing 0 in the version number.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
|
||
Lib/lib- tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests
|
||
demonstrate the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk)
|
||
which is to skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
|
||
regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
|
||
import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
|
||
test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with
|
||
both C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it
|
||
over time.
|
||
|
||
- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
|
||
|
||
- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
|
||
|
||
- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
|
||
that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
|
||
from test support, which does the conversion.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
|
||
support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
|
||
incorrectly on __exit__.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 final?
|
||
===============================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
|
||
objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
|
||
filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a true
|
||
singleton object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
|
||
was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
|
||
into a float.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer sizes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_environment was fixed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread when
|
||
running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows installer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
|
||
=============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
|
||
segfault as a result.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
|
||
closed.
|
||
|
||
Tools/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can
|
||
raise AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API
|
||
call exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception
|
||
types are caught and silenced.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft C runtime
|
||
in the Windows installer.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
|
||
=============================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
|
||
PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
|
||
PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
|
||
``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
|
||
implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values. This
|
||
makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display 64bit
|
||
values.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
|
||
error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
|
||
object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
|
||
method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
|
||
float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with a
|
||
unicode argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
|
||
PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
|
||
was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to match
|
||
Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
|
||
mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
|
||
when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
|
||
__instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
|
||
type object.
|
||
|
||
- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
|
||
|
||
- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
|
||
|
||
- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory
|
||
reads.
|
||
|
||
- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
|
||
|
||
- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined function
|
||
'stringlib_contains_obj'.
|
||
|
||
- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
|
||
``__delslice__``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
|
||
library targets in the Makefile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries that may
|
||
be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues with x86_64
|
||
builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
|
||
stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent silent
|
||
misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple with statements,
|
||
or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
|
||
return a list or None rather than a custom object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via its
|
||
symbolic link.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module to
|
||
the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old module, it
|
||
will be deprecated in the future.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having non-ascii
|
||
characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the path to
|
||
the Python binary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
|
||
warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
|
||
for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
|
||
DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
|
||
|
||
- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
|
||
|
||
- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
|
||
|
||
- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
|
||
|
||
- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open
|
||
a directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
|
||
non-integer floating point number.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
|
||
SEM_VALUE_MAX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
|
||
_check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
|
||
from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
|
||
without limit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
|
||
exploitation of poor argument checking.
|
||
|
||
- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
|
||
remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
|
||
concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
|
||
threads/processes.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience wrapper
|
||
for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check that expected
|
||
warning messages are being reported.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
|
||
use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
|
||
|
||
- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
|
||
with GNU build target guidelines.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
|
||
================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when
|
||
not building the core. This means 3rd party extensions do not
|
||
automatically benefit from the class attribute cache; they will have to
|
||
explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG to their tp_flags field if they
|
||
care. This is a backwards compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will
|
||
use the cache by default.
|
||
|
||
- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
|
||
keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
|
||
|
||
- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True value
|
||
again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple, by
|
||
denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure, and
|
||
introducing s*.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict object
|
||
was stored in the freelist.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
|
||
ValueError consistently across platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
|
||
(64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
|
||
u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
|
||
|
||
- Apply security patches from Apple.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
|
||
PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on average
|
||
35% faster (as measured by pybench).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
|
||
the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables
|
||
(local variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the
|
||
outer scope.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory was not
|
||
always being done properly in some python types and extension modules.
|
||
PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have all been
|
||
updated to perform better checks and places in the code that would
|
||
previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation failed
|
||
have been fixed.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
|
||
|
||
- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
|
||
symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next
|
||
release.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
|
||
version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
|
||
version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable under
|
||
the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types which did
|
||
not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already unhashable in 3.0
|
||
have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in 2.6 as well
|
||
(collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
|
||
xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
|
||
|
||
- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include
|
||
things imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
|
||
|
||
- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
|
||
|
||
- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
|
||
|
||
- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and
|
||
dummy_thread.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray by
|
||
using 's*' instead of 't#'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename() fails unicode
|
||
conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received in a
|
||
redirect.
|
||
|
||
- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
|
||
BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2776: fixed small issue when handling a URL with double slash after a
|
||
302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
|
||
pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
|
||
regular expression.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
|
||
thread-safe.
|
||
|
||
- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
|
||
since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
|
||
subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to menu
|
||
entries were not deleted.
|
||
|
||
- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
|
||
version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise a
|
||
MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode" to
|
||
_sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody since
|
||
the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
|
||
upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
|
||
it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
|
||
the reload() built-in has been removed.
|
||
|
||
- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
|
||
while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
|
||
ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
|
||
filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
|
||
pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
|
||
subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
|
||
threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always raised an
|
||
AttributeError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
|
||
asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
|
||
using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification (v. 1.68)
|
||
and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted on a
|
||
closed shelf.
|
||
|
||
- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with invalid
|
||
arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions with
|
||
None arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
|
||
configuration files.
|
||
|
||
- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a file
|
||
name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with mode 0600
|
||
rather than 000 under Unix.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
|
||
argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include
|
||
its own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll
|
||
method.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
|
||
|
||
Documentation
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
|
||
interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
|
||
|
||
- bpo-643841: The language reference now provides more detailed coverage of
|
||
the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers regarding lack of
|
||
coverage of new-style classes have also been removed, since the coverage
|
||
is now fairly reasonable.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
|
||
================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all its methods
|
||
now allow for items objects that can be converted to an integer using
|
||
operator.index().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which produced a
|
||
ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output for
|
||
str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex' and a new
|
||
class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point numbers to and from
|
||
hexadecimal strings, respectively.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
|
||
collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the default
|
||
hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible to explicit
|
||
block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at the Python level, or
|
||
tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C level.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if the
|
||
parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import. This
|
||
means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will now only
|
||
prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing all imports
|
||
from that module to fail.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
|
||
bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on new-style
|
||
classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is set to
|
||
a custom object whose write() method happens to install another file in
|
||
sys.stdout.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
|
||
threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
|
||
another thread's dictionary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop arguments
|
||
are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier to describe and
|
||
understand. For example, slice(None, -10, 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0,
|
||
1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9,
|
||
9, -1) instead of (9, 10, -1).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments, f(a=2,
|
||
a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression from 2.4
|
||
caused by the switch to the new compiler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with other
|
||
freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into ClearFreeList apis and
|
||
calls them via gc.collect().
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python api
|
||
functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal error when
|
||
they failed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
|
||
ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set a valid
|
||
dlerror() message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an incomplete
|
||
structure was created.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral
|
||
arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
|
||
both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms)
|
||
and wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
|
||
content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but
|
||
never merged into trunk.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
|
||
archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing Zip
|
||
files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects when
|
||
completed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
|
||
handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like
|
||
__name__).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2885: The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for removal in
|
||
Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
|
||
interrupted by a signal.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock properly
|
||
when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed. Prevents a
|
||
deadlock.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
|
||
redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
|
||
default https port (443).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
|
||
up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread
|
||
counts if the new process uses the threading module.
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
|
||
and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
|
||
have been added to test_warnings.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
|
||
================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 18-June-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
|
||
argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in
|
||
error handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None,
|
||
triggering a bus error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
|
||
holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
|
||
|
||
- Add future_builtins.ascii().
|
||
|
||
- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
|
||
intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and
|
||
difference_update().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
|
||
|
||
- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2488: Add sys.maxsize.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError was
|
||
sometimes incorrectly raised.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning attribute.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit Exception
|
||
(KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of ignoring them.
|
||
|
||
- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are only
|
||
available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they can't be
|
||
triggered from Python code.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2819: add full-precision summation function to math module, based on
|
||
Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2858: Fix potential memory corruption when bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and
|
||
other bsddb.db object constructors raised an exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
|
||
|
||
- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
|
||
|
||
- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and used
|
||
issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
|
||
"close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf
|
||
for the patch).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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
|
||
specifies 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access to errno.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for msilib.Record objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest version from
|
||
the X.org locale.alias file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1797: ctypes NULL function pointers have a False boolean value now.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC transfers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
|
||
GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising an
|
||
exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
|
||
otherwise be produced.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword argument
|
||
"utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when deleting
|
||
old log files (filename only instead of full path).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(), read() or
|
||
extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling duplicate
|
||
filenames in zipfiles.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in rlcompleter's
|
||
``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and ignored.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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
|
||
default)
|
||
|
||
- ``--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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 08-May-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now it
|
||
properly raises a SyntaxError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and other
|
||
implementations of Python.
|
||
|
||
- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed
|
||
by Bob Ippolito.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option, where an
|
||
extra space was added after a word containing (but not ending in) '.', '!'
|
||
or '?'.
|
||
|
||
- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes data
|
||
types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic reference
|
||
to themselves.
|
||
|
||
- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty by
|
||
default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is issued
|
||
when input echo cannot be controlled.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before 1900-01-01.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a convenience
|
||
wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are now
|
||
implemented in C for better performance.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple threads
|
||
at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If file.close()
|
||
is called while an object is in use by another thread an IOError exception
|
||
will be raised and the file will not be closed.
|
||
|
||
- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
|
||
libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
|
||
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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).
|
||
|
||
The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when gcc is used
|
||
as compiler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework 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 a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the tracing
|
||
function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to call
|
||
threading.currentThread().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file cannot be
|
||
executed.
|
||
|
||
- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
|
||
reference on the outer class name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
|
||
``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping
|
||
of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
|
||
|
||
- Added backport of bytearray type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2346: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__. (See also:
|
||
bpo-2347)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
|
||
print_function``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects. The two
|
||
changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
|
||
exception instances.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that doesn't
|
||
derive from BaseException.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that doesn't derive
|
||
from BaseException.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method on
|
||
the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give
|
||
bogus error messages.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for
|
||
daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates
|
||
rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved
|
||
logic for removing old files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive
|
||
string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is
|
||
incorrect python code.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit().
|
||
|
||
- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always stored as
|
||
a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures that str(Decimal)
|
||
is always an instance of str.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes advertised
|
||
in the docs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the
|
||
WWW- Authenticate header.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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, platform.machine() and
|
||
platform.processor() will report this information as well.
|
||
|
||
- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to the
|
||
standard distribution.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit
|
||
platforms.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
|
||
microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
|
||
strftime.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2166: now distutils deals with HOME correctly under win32 (See also:
|
||
bpo-1741, bpo-1531505)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers which
|
||
terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non- zero
|
||
status code if not all files could be compiled successfully.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the root
|
||
directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed from 't'
|
||
to '?'.
|
||
|
||
- 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".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
|
||
|
||
- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
|
||
|
||
- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
|
||
|
||
- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
|
||
|
||
- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
|
||
unittest.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
|
||
|
||
- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest.
|
||
|
||
- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
|
||
|
||
- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no permission
|
||
to create files in the root directory.
|
||
|
||
Build
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
|
||
|
||
C API
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
|
||
PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
|
||
|
||
|
||
What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
|
||
=================================
|
||
|
||
*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
|
||
|
||
Core and Builtins
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission 644. The
|
||
mode is now inherited from the py file.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see issue
|
||
#215555 for a discussion.
|
||
|
||
- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct(). These
|
||
are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be compatible
|
||
with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They differ slightly
|
||
in their output formats from the existing, unchanged Python 2.6 builtins.
|
||
The expected usage of the future_builtins module is: from
|
||
future_builtins import hex, oct
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1600: Modified PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit exponents for
|
||
exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99 standard. This is a
|
||
change on Windows, which would use 3 digits. Also, added 'n' to the
|
||
formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands, so that any alterations it
|
||
does to the resulting string will be available in stringlib/formatter.h
|
||
(for float.__format__).
|
||
|
||
- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new builtin
|
||
format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a __format__() method to
|
||
object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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 built-in function objects to 256 entries
|
||
each.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
|
||
Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear in the
|
||
same code unit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with the
|
||
collections.Sequence API.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1970: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak detection. (Patch by
|
||
Antoine Pitrou.)
|
||
|
||
- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the
|
||
internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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); borrowed_ref_[34].py (not
|
||
in tracker).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is suppressed
|
||
while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in dynload_win.c. The
|
||
error is still reported properly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However several
|
||
extension methods and modules do not work without unicode support.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
|
||
second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
|
||
added.
|
||
|
||
- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information object
|
||
was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses,
|
||
resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform. The
|
||
first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y)
|
||
functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator in
|
||
place instead of creating a new decorator object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char is not
|
||
found.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
|
||
SystemError.
|
||
|
||
- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules inside
|
||
packages with the -m switch via a new module level __package__ attribute.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents`` attribute
|
||
of an empty cell object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
|
||
It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
|
||
|
||
- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
|
||
|
||
- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
|
||
smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
|
||
automatically shifts from ints to longs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their
|
||
throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested
|
||
list by using the recursion counter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
|
||
source encoding.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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__.)
|
||
|
||
- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
|
||
deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function 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.
|
||
|
||
- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is inherited
|
||
from a built-in base.
|
||
|
||
- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
|
||
setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for translations
|
||
that only remove characters without re-mapping the remaining characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer masked
|
||
by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
|
||
|
||
- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are now
|
||
stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when either allows
|
||
excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the other one is. For
|
||
backwards compatibility, when both are overridden, it is a deprecation
|
||
warning (for now; maybe a Py3k warning later). Also, type.__init__()
|
||
insists on the same signature as supported by type.__new__().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__. The
|
||
old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in complex
|
||
if statements.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is
|
||
called with an object that is faking its type.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains a unicode name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any 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__().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely self-
|
||
recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized forms.
|
||
This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a ValueError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the frame's
|
||
thread state.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py.
|
||
|
||
- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised a
|
||
warning.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to avoid
|
||
relying on atexit.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings,
|
||
tuples and lists.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that the
|
||
tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code again, no
|
||
longer the posix error code.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs embedded
|
||
in the string to convert.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
|
||
recognized and rejected.
|
||
|
||
- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
|
||
|
||
- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value, were
|
||
fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler anymore.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any number
|
||
of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept 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
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
|
||
|
||
- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
|
||
|
||
- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method.
|
||
This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack. Also make
|
||
sure that every exception class has __module__ set to 'exceptions'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative imports (if
|
||
not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
|
||
|
||
- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
|
||
optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
|
||
|
||
- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where head
|
||
is the original string if sep was not found.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
|
||
BaseException.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1703448: A joined thread could show up in the threading.enumerate()
|
||
list after the join() for a brief period until it actually exited.
|
||
|
||
Library
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can now be
|
||
overridden.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile to be
|
||
used in with statements by correctly supporting the context management
|
||
protocol.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons
|
||
involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default
|
||
permissions for missing directories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and
|
||
storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover time
|
||
calculation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add
|
||
contextual information in logging output.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in
|
||
flush().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
|
||
when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled with
|
||
``--with- pydebug``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for
|
||
pstats.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a
|
||
directory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
|
||
returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the
|
||
``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open()
|
||
returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files with
|
||
extended local headers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers past
|
||
the 2**31 byte boundary.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the last
|
||
column of a line.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated
|
||
modules to be given.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-
|
||
created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered
|
||
list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority
|
||
queue.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox (patch by
|
||
Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in Textbox.gather().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call and when
|
||
creating a recursive instance.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string expected
|
||
a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-846388: re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly good for
|
||
long regular expression matches.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser objects to
|
||
set the character data buffer size.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by the
|
||
current context.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the zipfile
|
||
module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are
|
||
equal instead of raising an exception.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
|
||
and times.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a
|
||
mountpoint.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
|
||
unicode characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
|
||
|
||
- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as Tcl
|
||
objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for both
|
||
the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not seek to
|
||
the start.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the
|
||
internal floating point type to the sys module.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing StopIteration
|
||
in some cases. This should no longer happen.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1181: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop() and
|
||
os.environ.clear() methods are used. (See also: bpo-1287)
|
||
|
||
- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is configured
|
||
with --with-system-ffi.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
|
||
|
||
- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot represent the
|
||
result in a single character.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
|
||
|
||
- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when
|
||
matching spaces in the specified format argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1668596: distutils now copies data files even if package_dir is empty.
|
||
(See also: bpo-1720897)
|
||
|
||
- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
|
||
|
||
- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now
|
||
properly recreated when the locale is changed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can now be
|
||
unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to True
|
||
(which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to directories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
|
||
initialization failed.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly
|
||
expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references
|
||
are recognized and handled on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged
|
||
Python program, optionally with different arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation for a
|
||
thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter
|
||
which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close behavior.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
|
||
whitespace while wrapping.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1449244: Support Unicode strings in
|
||
email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to pydoc's
|
||
help keywords.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string concatenation in
|
||
robotparser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of OSError if
|
||
accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap the
|
||
IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind()
|
||
and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer,
|
||
SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be equal
|
||
to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by patch #1545011.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
|
||
.handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call, Python
|
||
would crash instead of raising an error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
|
||
returned string up to the first NUL character.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module. The
|
||
KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has a
|
||
descriptive message.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-787789: allow passing custom TestRunner instances to unittest's main()
|
||
function.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1550273: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a comprehensive test suite
|
||
for the module. (See also: bpo-1550272)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was given a
|
||
unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values in
|
||
HTMLParser.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules using
|
||
"python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it doesn't
|
||
exist.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
|
||
relative directory names.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
|
||
lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and allow
|
||
appending to empty files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
|
||
subprocess.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and iso8859_16.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate directories.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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".
|
||
|
||
- bpo-411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
|
||
SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
|
||
SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__.
|
||
Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1182394: Speed up ``HMAC.hexdigest``. (Patch by Shane Holloway.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under certain
|
||
conditions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell() work
|
||
correctly together with readline().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception if a
|
||
buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
|
||
separated lists read from logging config files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown
|
||
when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory to be
|
||
created is already there.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for ordering,
|
||
sorting, etc.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in xmlrpclib.
|
||
|
||
- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and regular
|
||
files.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an exception
|
||
occurs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the parent
|
||
window is withdrawn.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register() to
|
||
facilitate usage as a decorator.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with file name
|
||
mangling.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that precedes an
|
||
1xx response.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1065257: Support passing open files as body in
|
||
HTTPConnection.request().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder() weren't
|
||
passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH objects.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically
|
||
written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David
|
||
Watson.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in bdist_rpm.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/ GNU modes.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
|
||
|
||
- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given to
|
||
encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes, but
|
||
also for functions.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
|
||
keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends with a
|
||
slash.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1504333: Reverted change to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
|
||
loop.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation to match
|
||
the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup()
|
||
function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on systems
|
||
with low clock resolution.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
|
||
|
||
- 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).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around siginterrupt(3).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a
|
||
direct EnvironmentError.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
|
||
PROT_READ.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
|
||
Windows.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
|
||
|
||
- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
|
||
as the documentation says.
|
||
|
||
- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also
|
||
subclassable now.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close a range
|
||
of file descriptors without considering errors.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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 management 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().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
|
||
|
||
- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
|
||
get_completion_type to readline.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
|
||
structure.
|
||
|
||
- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an error
|
||
in spite of a succesful compression.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range of
|
||
Py_ssize_t.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative fractional times.
|
||
With unittest.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and os.lchflags()
|
||
functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of built-in
|
||
types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99 _Bool.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return negative
|
||
numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving the
|
||
sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault when
|
||
encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
|
||
os.urandom().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.)
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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*.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
IDLE
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is started
|
||
with that option.
|
||
|
||
- IDLE: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
|
||
|
||
Tests
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and
|
||
support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random
|
||
side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz
|
||
Grzywacz.
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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/Demos
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging
|
||
output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
|
||
information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the Python
|
||
tutorial.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for
|
||
writing is undefined.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were updated to
|
||
reflect the current Python syntax.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1686451: Fix return type for PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate() and
|
||
parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
|
||
"extending and embedding" tutorial.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next docs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the string
|
||
pointed to by its parameter.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is smaller
|
||
or equal sizeof(long).
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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/.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important, newer GCC
|
||
versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks without this
|
||
option!
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a readonly
|
||
source.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a directory
|
||
within sys.exec_prefix.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure. Repair
|
||
so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files in VC7.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
|
||
``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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)``.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro so
|
||
it can be used as an expression.
|
||
|
||
Windows
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
- bpo-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.
|
||
|
||
- bpo-1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
|
||
|
||
macOS
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
- 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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**
|