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What's New in Python 3.1.1?
===========================
2009-08-02 19:09:35 +08:00
*Release date: XX-XX-XXXX*
2009-06-28 06:03:18 +08:00
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
occurred in the argument chain.
- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
documentation.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
surrogates.
C-API
-----
- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
2009-06-28 06:03:18 +08:00
Library
-------
- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, 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.
- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
- Issue #6637: defaultdict.copy() did not work when the default factory
was left unspecified. Also, the eval/repr round-trip would fail when
the default_factory was None.
- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
- Issue #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].
- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
descriptor errors
- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
Senthil Kumaran
- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
syntax error.
- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
Build
-----
- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
directories.
- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
extensions are installed.
2009-07-20 08:19:49 +08:00
Test
----
- Fix a test in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that was incorrectly
testing when a .pyc file lacked an code object bytecode.
2009-06-28 06:03:18 +08:00
2009-06-13 22:50:22 +08:00
What's New in Python 3.1?
=========================
*Release date: 27-June-2009*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
2009-06-25 03:01:32 +08:00
- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
large arguments.
- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2009-06-13 22:50:22 +08:00
Library
-------
- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
argument.
- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
io.UnsupportedOperation.
- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
(On Unix)
- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
2009-06-13 22:50:22 +08:00
2009-05-31 05:01:23 +08:00
What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
=============================================
2009-05-31 02:43:49 +08:00
2009-06-13 21:15:04 +08:00
*Release date: 13-June-2009*
2009-05-31 02:43:49 +08:00
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
(more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen F<>rstenau.
2009-05-31 02:43:49 +08:00
Library
-------
- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
binary files.
- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
TimedRotatingFileHandler.
- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
are always None now.
- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
new `fix_imports` optional argument.
- Removed the ipaddr module.
- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
parameters.
2009-06-01 12:13:14 +08:00
Windows
-------
- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
2009-06-01 12:13:14 +08:00
- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
C-API
-----
- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
--with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
2009-05-31 02:43:49 +08:00
Build
-----
- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
2009-05-12 00:41:34 +08:00
What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
=============================================
2009-05-07 07:26:59 +08:00
2009-05-30 23:30:16 +08:00
*Release date: 2009-05-30*
2009-05-07 07:26:59 +08:00
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
of the command line.
- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
that would raise SystemError.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
and imaginary literals.
- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
- Issue #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').
2009-05-07 07:26:59 +08:00
Library
-------
- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
argument to the 'help' function.
- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
arguments for strings with a space in them.
- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
- 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.
- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
the directory already exists.
- Issue #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).
- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
IO objects.
- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
deepcopy()ing.
- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
empty.
- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
corrects a pydoc regression.
- Issue 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.
Installation
------------
- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
now be known as python3.
2009-05-07 07:26:59 +08:00
- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
Extension Modules
-----------------
2009-05-30 14:15:30 +08:00
- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
2009-05-24 02:51:49 +08:00
- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
library instead of as extension modules.
2009-05-24 01:09:43 +08:00
Build
-----
- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
Clinton Roy.
Tests
-----
- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
2009-04-05 07:16:41 +08:00
What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
================================
2009-05-07 04:43:28 +08:00
*Release date: 2009-05-06*
2009-04-05 07:16:41 +08:00
Core and Builtins
-----------------
2009-05-08 00:37:01 +08:00
- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
a PendingDeprecation warning.
- Issue #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.
- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
- Issue #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__.
- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
12.34 no longer raise an exception.
- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
2009-04-30 09:00:33 +08:00
format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
some builtin types.
- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
2009-04-17 04:21:28 +08:00
- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
floats.
- The str function switches to exponential notation at
1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
long time.)
- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
avoids misleading output in some cases.
There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
reason or another.
The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
correctly rounded on these platforms.
See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
this change does not apply.
- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
methods available on the str class.
- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
its clarity and its speed.
- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
to avoid compiler warnings.
- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
Installation
------------
- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
2009-04-05 07:16:41 +08:00
Library
-------
- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
specific Python version.
- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
whitespace.
- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
the right type checkings anymore.
- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
return directories.
- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
looking for files given by a relative filename.
- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
extracting a file to the root directory.
- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
- Issue #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.
- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
Contributed by Google.
- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
names which should not be exported.
- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
instances.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
2009-04-14 01:06:33 +08:00
- Issue #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.
- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
new arguments introduced in 2.5.
- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
pwd.
- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
using Berkley-DB.
Tests
-----
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
incorrectly on __exit__.
C-API
-----
- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
2009-04-05 07:16:41 +08:00
2009-03-08 02:46:21 +08:00
What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
=================================
2009-04-05 05:06:52 +08:00
*Release date: 2009-4-4*
2009-03-08 02:46:21 +08:00
Core and Builtins
-----------------
2009-04-04 06:25:33 +08:00
- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
integers.
2009-03-08 02:46:21 +08:00
2009-04-04 06:22:42 +08:00
- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
are now between 50% and 150% faster.
- Issue #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.int_info structseq to provide information about
the internal format.
- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
short file names.
2009-03-08 02:46:21 +08:00
Library
-------
2009-04-06 04:24:29 +08:00
- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
mailbox.MH.get_message().
- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
the -T argument.
- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2009-04-01 12:28:33 +08:00
- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2009-03-31 11:25:07 +08:00
- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
2009-03-31 00:47:15 +08:00
- Issue #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.
2009-03-29 21:02:52 +08:00
- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
(typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
2009-03-27 01:10:29 +08:00
- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #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.
- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
value, and report it as -1 instead.
- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
_PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
have been removed from the struct module.
2009-03-08 02:46:21 +08:00
2009-03-08 00:34:40 +08:00
What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
2008-12-04 00:46:14 +08:00
================================
2008-11-21 23:13:37 +08:00
2009-03-08 00:34:40 +08:00
*Release date: 2009-03-07*
2008-11-21 23:13:37 +08:00
Core and Builtins
-----------------
merge the io-c branch: C implementation of the io module The main io module now uses the C implementation. The Python one still exists in Lib/_pyio.py for ease of testing new features and usefulness to other implementers. The rewrite was done by Antoine Pitrou and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. I was slightly helpful at the end. :) Following are the log messages from the io-c branch: Merged revisions 68683-68685,68687-68689,68693,68704,68741-68743,68745,68747,68752-68754,68756,68758,68812,68816-68817,68820-68822,68824-68825,68828,68876-68877,69037,69044,69104,69115,69194,69626-69629,69636,69638,69641-69642,69644-69654,69656-69661,69671,69677,69812-69815,69817,69827-69830,69839,69841-69845,69848,69850,69852,69854,69860,69865-69866,69868,69872-69873,69885,69888,69891-69893,69911,69913-69916,69963,70033,70035,70038,70041-70048,70067-70070,70075,70112,70133,70135,70140 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/io-c ........ r68683 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:13:48 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Merge in changes from the io-c sandbox. Tests will follow in separate commits. ........ r68684 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:17:26 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fixes and additions to test_io.py ........ r68685 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:22:04 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 1 line Fix test_fileio ........ r68687 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:35:11 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add dependency to _iomodule.h for the various C sources ........ r68688 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:38:18 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines These precautions are not needed anymore! ........ r68689 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:41:48 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix another test ........ r68693 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:49:58 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix test_uu (which was using private attributes of TextIOWrapper) ........ r68704 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 18:45:29 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Most io sources are Py_ssize_t-clean (I don't know about bytesio and stringio) ........ r68741 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:20:30 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Check return type in TextIOWrapper.__next__ ........ r68742 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:28:48 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 4 lines Make binary buffered readline and iteration much faster (8x as fast as the IOBase generic implementation) ........ r68743 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:47:47 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Reinsert test_io_after_close (was removed by mistake) ........ r68745 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 16:16:06 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add read, read1 and write methods to BufferedIOBase ........ r68747 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 16:35:58 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Kill test failure ........ r68752 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-18 17:05:43 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix a segfault when e.g a BufferedReader is created with a FileIO in read mode. ........ r68753 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 17:13:09 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add truncate() to text IO objects ........ r68754 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 17:51:08 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Remove IOBase.__del__ and replace it with custom code with tp_dealloc ........ r68756 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 18:10:16 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Remove irrelevant comment. ........ r68758 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 18:36:16 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines in importlib:_fileio._FileIO -> _io.FileIO ........ r68812 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 14:15:51 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add garbage collection support to FileIO objects ........ r68816 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 14:56:28 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add GC support to Buffered and Text IO objects ........ r68817 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:19:45 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add some file headers ........ r68820 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:29:59 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add class TextIOBase ........ r68821 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:36:16 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add properties to TextIOBase ........ r68822 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:41:19 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Disable the pure Python TextIOBase class, and inject C the implementation instead ........ r68824 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 16:36:28 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix two leaks ........ r68825 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 16:38:29 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines FileIO.name is just a plain attribute, we can set it directly ........ r68828 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 17:06:33 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Speed up closed checks on text IO objects. Good for a 25% speedup on small ops. ........ r68876 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-23 17:01:25 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Two typos ........ r68877 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-23 18:13:20 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Remove two unused functions ........ r69037 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-27 17:10:25 -0600 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Update the win32 project files ........ r69044 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-27 18:51:07 -0600 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Improve heuristic in IncrementalNewlineDecoder + some micro-optimizations ........ r69104 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-29 15:23:42 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix some crashers found by Victor ........ r69115 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-01-29 20:36:28 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 1 line Updated VC6 project file. ........ r69194 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-01 16:57:18 -0600 (Sun, 01 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix downcasting warnings in 32-bit mode with 64-bit offsets (Windows) ........ r69626 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 17:33:34 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line only catch AttributeError and UnsupportedOperation ........ r69627 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 21:35:28 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line give the IO module its own state and store the os and locale modules in it ........ r69628 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 22:08:32 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line put interned strings in the module state structure ........ r69629 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 22:15:29 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line put UnsupportedOperation in the module state ........ r69636 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 08:31:42 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line dealloc unsupported_operation ........ r69638 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 09:24:45 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line actually test the C implementation ........ r69641 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 10:12:37 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 5 lines make interned strings globals again ;( putting them in the module state was asking for trouble when the module was dealloced before the classes in it were ........ r69642 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 10:19:45 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line actually test the python implementations ........ r69644 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 11:59:30 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix memory leak in destructor when a Python class inherits from IOBase (or an IOBase-derived type) ........ r69645 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 12:23:26 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a warning about the embarassing state of IOBase finalization ........ r69646 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:14:42 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix opening of 8-bit filenames with FileIO ........ r69647 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:20:22 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix leak in FileIO constructor ........ r69648 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:58:16 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix some refleaks ........ r69649 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:05:13 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix a leak in IOBase.writelines ........ r69650 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:11:56 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix memory leak in BufferedWriter.truncate ........ r69651 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:25:34 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix a leak in TextIOWrapper.seek ........ r69652 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:26:28 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Unify implementations of truncate for buffered objects ........ r69653 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 15:15:15 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix more leaks in TextIOWrapper ........ r69654 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 15:21:57 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Smaller chunk size for a faster test ........ r69656 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 17:29:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line braces make this much clearer ........ r69657 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 17:46:07 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line use the correct macro ........ r69658 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 19:38:59 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 5 lines Fix crash in test_urllib2_localnet in debug mode. It was due to an HTTPResponse object being revived when calling its close() method in IOBase's tp_dealloc. _PyIOBase_finalize() starts looking scary... ........ r69659 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 20:55:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix segfault on initialization failing ........ r69660 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 21:09:31 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line apparently locale.getprefferedencoding() can raise a ImportError, too ........ r69661 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 21:54:15 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line it's amazing this worked at all; I was using the wrong structs! ........ r69671 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 08:38:27 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line add garbage collection support to bytesio ........ r69677 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 10:31:03 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 5 lines reduce ImportError catching code duplication I'm not sure this makes the code clearer with its new gotos, but at least I added a big fat comment ........ r69812 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 13:50:16 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines _StringIO now belongs to the _io modules, rather to its own _stringio module ........ r69813 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 13:58:22 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a test for StringIO properties ........ r69814 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:06:03 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Reimplement a few trivial StringIO functions and properties in C ........ r69815 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:13:11 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add the line_buffering property to TextIOWrapper, and test for it ........ r69817 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:45:50 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Allow IncrementalNewlineDecoder to take unicode objects as decoding input if the decoder parameter is None This will help rewriting StringIO to C ........ r69827 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 19:00:30 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Rewrite most of StringIO in C. Some almost empty stubs remain to be converted. ........ r69828 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 19:09:25 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Plug a leak, and remove an unused string ........ r69829 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-20 20:02:28 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line this assertions makes more sense here ........ r69830 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-20 20:03:04 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line PyModule_AddObject can fail; simplify this code with a macro ........ r69839 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-21 12:54:01 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 3 lines StringIO is now written entirely in C (and blazingly fast) ........ r69841 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:05:40 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line split the Python implementation of io into another module and rewrite the tests to test both implementations ........ r69842 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:10:00 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line closed is not a function ........ r69843 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:13:04 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix __all__ test ........ r69844 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:21:24 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix the rest of the Misc tests ........ r69845 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:26:59 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line RawIOBase is better for FileIO ........ r69848 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 15:33:53 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix some more tests broken by bag argument validation ........ r69850 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:16:42 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line make the python IncrementalNewineDecoder support a None decoder ........ r69852 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:36:09 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix a BlockingIOError.characters_written bug ........ r69854 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:49:02 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line check whence ........ r69860 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 17:42:50 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix some of these Misbehaving io tests ........ r69865 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 18:59:52 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line don't use super here() ........ r69866 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 19:05:28 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line use implementation specific classes ........ r69868 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 22:12:05 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line use a more DRY friendly approach to injecting module contents into test classes ........ r69872 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 13:39:45 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Sanitize destructor behaviour of IOBase. Now Python-defined attributes can be accessed from close(). ........ r69873 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 13:50:14 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Only set the internal fd after it has been checked to be valid (otherwise, the destructor will attempt to close it) ........ r69885 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 15:30:14 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line convert some other tests to use both io implementations ........ r69888 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 17:03:16 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Silence all exceptions when finalizing ........ r69891 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:27:24 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line convert another test to test both io implementations ........ r69892 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:32:15 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line help poor people like me to find their io tests (did I miss any?) ........ r69893 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:37:56 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line put a big note in the test telling people to write tests for both implementations now ........ r69911 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 13:57:18 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines expose DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE again (fixes a bunch of test failures) ........ r69913 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:10:30 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Do the cyclic garbage collection tests only on the C version. The Python version is helpless as it uses __del__. ........ r69914 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:21:41 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Adapt test_largefile to test both implementations ........ r69915 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:25:14 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines One small failure ........ r69916 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:28:33 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a comment, at BP's request ........ r69963 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-25 09:42:59 -0600 (Wed, 25 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a test of ABC inheritance ........ r70033 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 15:49:50 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines The base classes now are ABCs. ........ r70035 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 15:57:41 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line good house keeping ........ r70038 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 17:05:23 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Make the buffer allocation overflow tests specific to the C implementation, since the Python implementation resizes its buffers when needed rather than allocating them up front. ........ r70041 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 18:26:12 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line kill java naming for sanity ........ r70042 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 18:28:53 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 2 lines timingTest is superseded by iobench ........ r70043 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:13:50 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Remove the last traces of java naming in test_io ........ r70044 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:18:34 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Better resource cleanup ........ r70045 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:29:00 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Remove dubious uses of super(), and fix one test ........ r70046 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:31:00 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Bump up CHUNK_SIZE (no need to make the Python version look slower than it is) ........ r70047 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 20:03:26 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix typo ........ r70048 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 21:35:11 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line move code to a better place ........ r70067 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 10:43:20 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 4 lines 1. make sure to undo buffered read aheads in BufferedRandom.seek() 2. refill the buffer if have <= 0 3. fix the last failing test_io test! ........ r70068 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 10:57:50 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line define read1() on the python implementation's BufferedIOBase ........ r70069 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 11:01:17 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line document read1() in BufferedIOBase ........ r70070 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 11:06:42 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line give credit where credit is due ........ r70075 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-28 13:34:59 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Amaury's name ........ r70112 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-03-02 17:11:55 -0600 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) | 4 lines Looks like this is necessary in order to build cleanly under Windows (someone correct this if it's wrong, I'm no Windows user) ........ r70133 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 15:23:32 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line fix test_newline_property on _pyio.StringIO ........ r70135 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 15:47:30 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line fix typos and inconsistencies. thanks to Daniel Diniz ........ r70140 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 16:21:10 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line add the test from #5266 ........
2009-03-04 08:14:51 +08:00
- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
2009-03-03 18:52:49 +08:00
- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
contained non ascii character on windows.
- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
source has already been decoded into str.
- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
returns a non-number type.
2009-02-08 23:00:52 +08:00
- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
2009-04-06 04:24:29 +08:00
- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
Previously it returned a float.
- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
from a string.
- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
optional module state data.
- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
type to (void *).
- Issue #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.
- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
__next__ method.
- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
amount of loop unrolling.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
Python's overall memory).
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
items, rather than the size in bytes.
- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
did not get collected.
- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
failures on OS X.
- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
exceptions.
- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
"offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
(on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
Python 2.x.
- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
- Issue #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``.
- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
larger than 1.
- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A 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().
2008-11-21 23:13:37 +08:00
Library
-------
- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
behavior is similar when used with -O.
- Issue #6459: distutils.command.build_ext.get_export_symbols now uses the
"PyInit" prefix, rather than "init".
- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
subcommand.
- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
test_get_outputs in Distutils.
- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
for old-style extensions.
- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Cournapeau.
- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
anymore.
- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
sysconfig.get_config_vars.
- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2009-04-25 04:10:24 +08:00
- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
a value in SafeConfigParser.
- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
2009-04-06 04:24:29 +08:00
- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
2009-04-06 04:24:29 +08:00
- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
threads.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Brandl.
- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
character.
- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
Tim Golden.
- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
window flashing.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Original patch by Akira Kitada.
- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2009-03-03 05:24:57 +08:00
- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
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2009-03-10 05:04:33 +08:00
- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
import guess_extension`` was used.
- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
overrun.
- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
bdist_rpm command.
- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
in Distutils tests.
2008-11-21 23:13:37 +08:00
- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
IronPython.
- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
The file was resized to wrong size.
- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
encoding.
- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
deadlock.
- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
Ross Light.
- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
--enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
items being passed through ord().
- Issue #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").
- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2009-04-06 04:24:29 +08:00
- Issue #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.
- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
and compress().
2009-04-06 04:24:29 +08:00
- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
allowed non-integer arguments.
2009-01-25 11:45:53 +08:00
- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
examples.
- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
producing a ValueError on some platforms.
- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
allow adding directories to a zipfile.
- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
2009-01-23 22:09:08 +08:00
--without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
be disabled, and not compiled.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
parameter was set.
- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
- Add the importlib package.
2009-01-19 05:12:58 +08:00
- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
_check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2009-01-19 03:45:18 +08:00
- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
multiprocessing.
- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
without defaults.
2009-01-20 00:23:53 +08:00
- Issue #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.
2009-01-18 11:11:38 +08:00
- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
in sharedctypes.py.
- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
__getattr__.
- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
counting.
- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
function without defining argtypes.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
<http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
to the decimal module.
- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
cast as floats.
- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2009-04-06 04:24:29 +08:00
- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Merged revisions 68112,68115,68120,68133,68141-68142,68145-68146,68148-68149 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r68112 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 00:48:39 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line #4795 inspect.isgeneratorfunction() should return False instead of None ........ r68115 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 05:04:41 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line simplfy code ........ r68120 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:15:31 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 4 lines #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format. ........ r68133 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-01 16:38:03 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fill in actual issue number in tests ........ r68141 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 17:43:12 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fix highlighting ........ r68142 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 18:29:49 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines welcome to 2009, Python! ........ r68145 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-02 01:03:54 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 5 lines #4801 _collections module fails to build on cygwin. _PyObject_GC_TRACK is the macro version of PyObject_GC_Track, and according to documentation it should not be used for extension modules. ........ r68146 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:44:46 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4472: "configure --enable-shared doesn't work on OSX" ........ r68148 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:48:31 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Forgot to add a NEWS item in my previous checkin ........ r68149 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:50:48 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4780 ........
2009-01-04 06:33:39 +08:00
- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
the function is not a generator.
- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
works as expected in the interactive environment.
- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
Gabriel Genellina.
- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
boundary.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
Alexander Belopolsky.
- Issue #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.
- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
Alexander Belopolsky.
- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
a non-ASCII letter.
- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
libs.
- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
Content-Disposition headers.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
exception.
- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
statements.
- Issue #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.
- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
the corresponding tests now pass.
- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
it was calling the wrong open() function.
- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
Content-Disposition headers.
- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
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2009-02-06 10:40:07 +08:00
- Issue #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().
- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
and make it 2.6-compatible.
- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
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Build
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- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
- Issue #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).
- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
Merged revisions 68112,68115,68120,68133,68141-68142,68145-68146,68148-68149 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r68112 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 00:48:39 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line #4795 inspect.isgeneratorfunction() should return False instead of None ........ r68115 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 05:04:41 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line simplfy code ........ r68120 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:15:31 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 4 lines #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format. ........ r68133 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-01 16:38:03 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fill in actual issue number in tests ........ r68141 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 17:43:12 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fix highlighting ........ r68142 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 18:29:49 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines welcome to 2009, Python! ........ r68145 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-02 01:03:54 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 5 lines #4801 _collections module fails to build on cygwin. _PyObject_GC_TRACK is the macro version of PyObject_GC_Track, and according to documentation it should not be used for extension modules. ........ r68146 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:44:46 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4472: "configure --enable-shared doesn't work on OSX" ........ r68148 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:48:31 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Forgot to add a NEWS item in my previous checkin ........ r68149 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:50:48 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4780 ........
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- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
C-API
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- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Merged revisions 68112,68115,68120,68133,68141-68142,68145-68146,68148-68149 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r68112 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 00:48:39 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line #4795 inspect.isgeneratorfunction() should return False instead of None ........ r68115 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 05:04:41 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line simplfy code ........ r68120 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:15:31 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 4 lines #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format. ........ r68133 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-01 16:38:03 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fill in actual issue number in tests ........ r68141 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 17:43:12 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fix highlighting ........ r68142 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 18:29:49 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines welcome to 2009, Python! ........ r68145 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-02 01:03:54 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 5 lines #4801 _collections module fails to build on cygwin. _PyObject_GC_TRACK is the macro version of PyObject_GC_Track, and according to documentation it should not be used for extension modules. ........ r68146 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:44:46 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4472: "configure --enable-shared doesn't work on OSX" ........ r68148 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:48:31 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Forgot to add a NEWS item in my previous checkin ........ r68149 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:50:48 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4780 ........
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- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Extension Modules
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- Issue #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).
- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
(with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
Merged revisions 68112,68115,68120,68133,68141-68142,68145-68146,68148-68149 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r68112 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 00:48:39 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line #4795 inspect.isgeneratorfunction() should return False instead of None ........ r68115 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 05:04:41 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line simplfy code ........ r68120 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:15:31 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 4 lines #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format. ........ r68133 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-01 16:38:03 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fill in actual issue number in tests ........ r68141 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 17:43:12 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line fix highlighting ........ r68142 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 18:29:49 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines welcome to 2009, Python! ........ r68145 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-02 01:03:54 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 5 lines #4801 _collections module fails to build on cygwin. _PyObject_GC_TRACK is the macro version of PyObject_GC_Track, and according to documentation it should not be used for extension modules. ........ r68146 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:44:46 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4472: "configure --enable-shared doesn't work on OSX" ........ r68148 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:48:31 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Forgot to add a NEWS item in my previous checkin ........ r68149 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 11:50:48 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix for issue4780 ........
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- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
OpenBSD.
- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
buffer.
- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
Tests
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- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
Lib/tkinter/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.
Merged revisions 70734,70775,70856,70874,70876-70877 via svnmerge ........ r70734 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-30 15:04:00 -0400 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 7 lines Add import_function method to test.test_support, and modify a number of tests that expect to be skipped if imports fail or functions don't exist to use import_function and import_module. The ultimate goal is to change regrtest to not skip automatically on ImportError. Checking in now to make sure the buldbots don't show any errors on platforms I can't direct test on. ........ r70775 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-30 19:05:48 -0400 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 4 lines Change more tests to use import_module for the modules that should cause tests to be skipped. Also rename import_function to the more descriptive get_attribute and add a docstring. ........ r70856 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 14:32:17 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 7 lines A few more test skips via import_module, and change import_module to return the error message produced by importlib, so that if an import in the package whose import is being wrapped is what failed the skip message will contain the name of that module instead of the name of the wrapped module. Also fixed formatting of some previous comments. ........ r70874 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 15:33:15 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 5 lines Improve test_support.import_module docstring, remove deprecated flag from get_attribute since it isn't likely to do anything useful. ........ r70876 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 15:49:15 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 4 lines Remove the regrtest check that turns any ImportError into a skipped test. Hopefully all modules whose imports legitimately result in a skipped test have been properly wrapped by the previous commits. ........ r70877 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 15:57:24 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 2 lines Add NEWS entry for regrtest change. ........
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- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
Merged revisions 70734,70775,70856,70874,70876-70877 via svnmerge ........ r70734 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-30 15:04:00 -0400 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 7 lines Add import_function method to test.test_support, and modify a number of tests that expect to be skipped if imports fail or functions don't exist to use import_function and import_module. The ultimate goal is to change regrtest to not skip automatically on ImportError. Checking in now to make sure the buldbots don't show any errors on platforms I can't direct test on. ........ r70775 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-30 19:05:48 -0400 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 4 lines Change more tests to use import_module for the modules that should cause tests to be skipped. Also rename import_function to the more descriptive get_attribute and add a docstring. ........ r70856 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 14:32:17 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 7 lines A few more test skips via import_module, and change import_module to return the error message produced by importlib, so that if an import in the package whose import is being wrapped is what failed the skip message will contain the name of that module instead of the name of the wrapped module. Also fixed formatting of some previous comments. ........ r70874 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 15:33:15 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 5 lines Improve test_support.import_module docstring, remove deprecated flag from get_attribute since it isn't likely to do anything useful. ........ r70876 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 15:49:15 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 4 lines Remove the regrtest check that turns any ImportError into a skipped test. Hopefully all modules whose imports legitimately result in a skipped test have been properly wrapped by the previous commits. ........ r70877 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 15:57:24 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 2 lines Add NEWS entry for regrtest change. ........
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from test support, which does the conversion.
- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
Docs
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