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What's new in Python 3.0b2?
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===========================
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*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Issue #3236: Return small longs from PyLong_FromString.
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Library
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-------
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- Issue #2683: Fix inconsistency in subprocess.Popen.communicate(): the
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argument now must be a bytes object in any case.
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- Issue #3145: help("modules whatever") failed when trying to load the source
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code of every single module of the standard library, including invalid files
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used in the test suite.
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Tools/Demos
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-----------
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- The Mac/Demos directory has been removed
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- All of the Mac scripts have been removed (including BuildApplet.py)
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What's new in Python 3.0b1?
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===========================
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*Release date: 18-Jun-2008*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
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argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
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handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
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bus error.
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- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
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holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
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- Issue #2630: implement PEP 3138. repr() now returns printable
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Unicode characters unescaped, to get an ASCII-only representation
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of an object use ascii().
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- Issue #1342: On windows, Python could not start when installed in a
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directory with non-ascii characters.
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- Implement PEP 3121: new module initialization and finalization API.
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- Removed the already-defunct ``-t`` option.
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- Issue #2957: Corrected a ValueError "recursion limit exceeded", when
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unmarshalling many code objects, which happens when importing a
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large .pyc file (~1000 functions).
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- Issue #2963: fix merging oversight that disabled method cache for
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all types.
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- Issue #2964: fix a missing INCREF in instancemethod_descr_get.
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- Issue #2895: Don't crash when given bytes objects as keyword names.
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- Issue #2798: When parsing arguments with PyArg_ParseTuple, the "s"
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code now allows any unicode string and returns a utf-8 encoded
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buffer, just like the "s#" code already does. The "z" code was
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corrected as well.
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- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
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equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
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``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
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contains this name.
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- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
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- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
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ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
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- The ``--with-toolbox-glue`` option (and the associated
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pymactoolbox.h) have been removed.
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- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
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Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
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ignoring them.
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- #3021 Exception reraising sematics have been significantly improved. However,
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f_exc_type, f_exc_value, and f_exc_traceback cannot be accessed from Python
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code anymore.
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- Three of PyNumberMethods' members, nb_coerce, nb_hex, and nb_oct, have been
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removed.
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Extension Modules
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-----------------
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- Renamed ``_winreg`` module to ``winreg``.
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- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
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platform.
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- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
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- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
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Library
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-------
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- Patch #3133: http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler did not work on windows.
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- a new ``urllib`` package was created. It consists of code from
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``urllib``, ``urllib2``, ``urlparse``, and ``robotparser``. The old
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modules have all been removed. The new package has five submodules:
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``urllib.parse``, ``urllib.request``, ``urllib.response``,
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``urllib.error``, and ``urllib.robotparser``. The
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``urllib.request.urlopen()`` function uses the url opener from
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``urllib2``. (Note that the unittests have not been renamed for the
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beta, but they will be renamed in the future.)
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- rfc822 has been removed in favor of the email package.
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- mimetools has been removed in favor of the email package.
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- Patch #2849: Remove use of rfc822 module from standard library.
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- Added C optimized implementation of io.StringIO.
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- The ``pickle`` module is now automatically use an optimized C
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implementation of Pickler and Unpickler when available. The
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``cPickle`` module is no longer needed.
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- Removed the ``htmllib`` and ``sgmllib`` modules.
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- The deprecated ``SmartCookie`` and ``SimpleCookie`` classes have
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been removed from ``http.cookies``.
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- The ``commands`` module has been removed. Its getoutput() and
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getstatusoutput() functions have been moved to the ``subprocess`` module.
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- The ``http`` package was created; it contains the old ``httplib``
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as ``http.client``, ``Cookie`` as ``http.cookies``, ``cookielib``
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as ``http.cookiejar``, and the content of the three ``HTTPServer``
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modules as ``http.server``.
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- The ``xmlrpc`` package was created; it contains the old
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``xmlrpclib`` module as ``xmlrpc.client`` and the content of
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the old ``SimpleXMLRPCServer`` and ``DocXMLRPCServer`` modules
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as ``xmlrpc.server``.
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- The ``dbm`` package was created, containing the old modules
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``anydbm`` and ``whichdb`` in its ``__init__.py``, and having
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``dbm.gnu`` (was ``gdbm``), ``dbm.bsd`` (was ``dbhash``),
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``dbm.ndbm`` (was ``dbm``) and ``dbm.dumb`` (was ``dumbdbm``)
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as submodules.
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- The ``repr`` module has been renamed to ``reprlib``.
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- The ``statvfs`` module has been removed.
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- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
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- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
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rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
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ignored.
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- Patch #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap's
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``TextWrapper`` class.
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- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
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large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
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suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
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OverflowError.
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- The ``ConfigParser`` module has been renamed to ``configparser``.
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- Issue #2865: webbrowser.open() works again in a KDE environment.
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- The ``multifile`` module has been removed.
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- The ``SocketServer`` module has been renamed to ``socketserver``.
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- Fixed the ``__all__`` setting on ``collections`` to include
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``UserList`` and ``UserString``.
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- The sre module has been removed.
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- The Queue module has been renamed to queue.
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- The copy_reg module has been renamed to copyreg.
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- The mhlib module has been removed.
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- The ihooks module has been removed.
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- The fpformat module has been removed.
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- The dircache module has been removed.
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- The Canvas module has been removed.
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- The Decimal module gained the magic methods __round__, __ceil__,
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__floor__ and __trunc__, to give support for round, math.ceil,
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math.floor and math.trunc.
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- The user module has been removed.
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- The mutex module has been removed.
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- The imputil module has been removed.
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- os.path.walk has been removed in favor of os.walk.
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- pdb gained the "until" command.
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- The test.test_support module has been renamed to test.support.
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- The threading module API was renamed to be PEP 8 complaint.
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Tools/Demos
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-----------
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- The bgen tool has been removed.
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Build
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-----
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What's New in Python 3.0a5?
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===========================
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*Release date: 08-May-2008*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Fixed misbehaviour of PyLong_FromSsize_t on systems where
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sizeof(size_t) > sizeof(long).
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- Issue #2221: Corrected a SystemError "error return without exception
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set", when the code executed by exec() raises an exception, and
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sys.stdout.flush() also raises an error.
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- Bug #2565: The repr() of type objects now calls them 'class', not
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'type' - whether they are builtin types or not.
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- The command line processing was converted to pass Unicode strings
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through as unmodified as possible; as a consequence, the C API
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related to command line arguments was changed to use wchar_t.
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- All backslashes in raw strings are interpreted literally. This
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means that '\u' and '\U' escapes are not treated specially.
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Extension Modules
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-----------------
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Library
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-------
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- ctypes objects now support the PEP3118 buffer interface.
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- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions now longer contain a cyclic
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reference to themselves.
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- Issue #2058: Remove the buf attribute and add __slots__ to the
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TarInfo class in order to reduce tarfile's memory usage.
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- Bug #2606: Avoid calling .sort() on a dict_keys object.
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- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
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libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
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Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
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Build
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-----
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- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
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- "make install" is now an alias for "make altinstall", to prevent
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accidentally overwriting a Python 2.x installation. Use "make
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fullinstall" to force Python 3.0 to be installed as "python".
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- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
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gcc is used as compiler.
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What's New in Python 3.0a4?
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===========================
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*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Bug #2301: Don't try decoding the source code into the original
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encoding for syntax errors.
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Extension Modules
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-----------------
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- The dl module was removed, use the ctypes module instead.
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- Use wchar_t functions in _locale module.
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Library
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-------
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- The class distutils.commands.build_py.build_py_2to3 can be used as a
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build_py replacement to automatically run 2to3 on modules that are
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going to be installed.
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- A new pickle protocol (protocol 3) is added with explicit support
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for bytes. This is the default protocol. It intentionally cannot
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be unpickled by Python 2.x.
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- When a pickle written by Python 2.x contains an (8-bit) str
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instance, this is now decoded to a (Unicode) str instance. The
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encoding used to do this defaults to ASCII, but can be overridden
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via two new keyword arguments to the Unpickler class. Previously
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this would create bytes instances, which is usually wrong: str
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instances are often used to pickle attribute names etc., and text is
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more common than binary data anyway.
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- Default to ASCII as the locale.getpreferredencoding, if the POSIX
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system doesn't support CODESET and LANG isn't set or doesn't allow
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deduction of an encoding.
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- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 now return an unsigned
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value.
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- Issue #719888: Updated tokenize to use a bytes API. generate_tokens
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has been renamed tokenize and now works with bytes rather than
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strings. A new detect_encoding function has been added for
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determining source file encoding according to PEP-0263. Token
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sequences returned by tokenize always start with an ENCODING token
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which specifies the encoding used to decode the file. This token is
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used to encode the output of untokenize back to bytes.
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What's New in Python 3.0a3?
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===========================
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*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- Issue #2282: io.TextIOWrapper was not overriding seekable() from
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io.IOBase.
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- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
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prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
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a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
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- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
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real or imaginary part.
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- Clear all free list during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
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in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
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memory to the OS earlier.
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- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
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subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
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to a bound method.
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- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
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list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
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- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
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entries each.
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- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
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functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
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to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
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- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
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Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns
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pi_t.
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- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
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appear in the same code unit.
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- Issue #2025: Added tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
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with the collections.Sequence API.
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- Fixed multiple reinitialization of the Python interpreter. The small
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int list in longobject.c has caused a seg fault during the third
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finalization.
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- Issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raised SystemError.
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- Issue #1771: remove cmp parameter from sorted() and list.sort().
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- Issue #1969: split and rsplit in bytearray are inconsistent.
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- map() no longer accepts None for the first argument. Use zip()
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instead.
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- Issue #1769: Now int("- 1") is not allowed any more.
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- Object/longobject.c: long(float('nan')) raises an OverflowError
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instead of returning 0.
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- Issue #1762972: __file__ points to the source file instead of the
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pyc/pyo file if the py file exists.
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- Issue #1393: object_richcompare() returns NotImplemented instead of
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False if the objects aren't equal, to give the other side a chance.
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- Issue #1692: Interpreter was not displaying location of SyntaxError.
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- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
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extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
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application' instead of 'error code 193'. Also use Unicode strings
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to deal with non-English locales.
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- Issue #1587: Added instancemethod wrapper for PyCFunctions. The
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Python C API has gained a new type *PyInstanceMethod_Type* and the
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functions *PyInstanceMethod_Check(o)*, *PyInstanceMethod_New(func)*
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and *PyInstanceMethod_Function(im)*.
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- Constants gc.DEBUG_OBJECT and gc.DEBUG_INSTANCE have been removed
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from the gc module; gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE or gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE
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are now enough to print the corresponding list of objects considered
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by the garbage collector.
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- Issue #1573: Improper use of the keyword-only syntax makes the
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parser crash.
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- Issue #1564: The set implementation should special-case PyUnicode
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instead of PyString.
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- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
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original source encoding.
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- inspect.getsource() includes the decorators again.
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- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a
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mountpoint.
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- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
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the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
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longer than 3 bytes.
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Extension Modules
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-----------------
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- Code for itertools ifilter(), imap(), and izip() moved to bultins
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and renamed to filter(), map(), and zip(). Also, renamed
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izip_longest() to zip_longest() and ifilterfalse() to filterfalse().
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- Issue #1762972: Readded the reload() function as imp.reload().
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- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
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PROT_READ.
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- Issue #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result
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on Windows.
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Library
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-------
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- Weakref dictionaries now inherit from MutableMapping.
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- Created new UserDict class in collections module. This one inherits
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from and complies with the MutableMapping ABC. Also, moved
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UserString and UserList to the collections module. The
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MutableUserString class was removed.
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- Removed UserDict.DictMixin. Replaced all its uses with
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collections.MutableMapping.
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- Issue #1703: getpass() should flush after writing prompt.
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- Issue #1585: IDLE uses non-existent xrange() function.
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- Issue #1578: Problems in win_getpass.
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Build
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-----
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- Renamed --enable-unicode configure flag to --with-wide-unicode,
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since Unicode strings can't be disabled anymore.
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C API
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-----
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- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
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Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
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- New API PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(), works like
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PyImport_ImportModule() but won't block on the import lock
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(returning an error instead).
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What's New in Python 3.0a2?
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===========================
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*Release date: 07-Dec-2007*
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(Note: this list is incomplete.)
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- str8 now has the same construction signature as bytes.
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- Comparisons between str and str8 now return False/True for ==/!=.
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sqlite3 returns str8 when recreating on object from it's __conform__
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value. The struct module returns str8 for all string-related
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formats. This was true before this change, but becomes more
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apparent thanks to string comparisons always being False.
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- Replaced `PyFile_FromFile()` with `PyFile_FromFd(fd, name. mode,
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buffer, encoding, newline)`.
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- Fixed `imp.find_module()` to obey the -*- coding: -*- header.
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- Changed `__file__` and `co_filename` to unicode. The path names are decoded
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with `Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding` and a new API method
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`PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(char*)` was added.
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- io.open() and _fileio.FileIO have grown a new argument closefd. A
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false value disables the closing of the file descriptor.
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- Added a new option -b to issues warnings (-bb for errors) about
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certain operations between bytes/buffer and str like str(b'') and
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comparison.
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- The standards streams sys.stdin, stdout and stderr may be None when
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the when the C runtime library returns an invalid file descriptor
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for the streams (fileno(stdin) < 0). For now this happens only for
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Windows GUI apps and scripts started with `pythonw.exe`.
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- Added PCbuild9 directory for VS 2008.
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- Renamed structmember.h WRITE_RESTRICTED to PY_WRITE_RESTRICTED to
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work around a name clash with VS 2008 on Windows.
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- Unbound methods are gone for good. ClassObject.method returns an
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ordinary function object, instance.method still returns a bound
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method object. The API of bound methods is cleaned up, too. The
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im_class attribute is removed and im_func + im_self are renamed to
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__func__ and __self__. The factory PyMethod_New takes only func and
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instance as argument.
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- intobject.h is no longer included by Python.h. The remains were
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moved to longobject.h. It still exists to define several aliases
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from PyInt_ to PyLong_ functions.
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- Removed sys.maxint, use sys.maxsize instead.
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Extension Modules
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-----------------
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- The `hotshot` profiler has been removed; use `cProfile` instead.
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Library
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-------
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- When loading an external file using testfile(), the passed-in
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encoding argument was being ignored if __loader__ is defined and
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forcing the source to be UTF-8.
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- The methods `os.tmpnam()`, `os.tempnam()` and `os.tmpfile()` have
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been removed in favor of the tempfile module.
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- Removed the 'new' module.
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- Removed all types from the 'types' module that are easily accessable
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through builtins.
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What's New in Python 3.0a1?
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==========================
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*Release date: 31-Aug-2007*
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Core and Builtins
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-----------------
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- PEP 3131: Support non-ASCII identifiers.
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- PEP 3120: Change default encoding to UTF-8.
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- PEP 3123: Use proper C inheritance for PyObject.
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- Removed the __oct__ and __hex__ special methods and added a bin()
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builtin function.
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- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
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literals are invalid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
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"0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
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- None, True, False are now keywords.
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- PEP 3119: isinstance() and issubclass() can be overridden.
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- Remove BaseException.message.
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- Remove tuple parameter unpacking (PEP 3113).
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- Remove the f_restricted attribute from frames. This naturally leads
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to the removal of PyEval_GetRestricted() and PyFrame_IsRestricted().
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- PEP 3132 was accepted. That means that you can do ``a, *b =
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range(5)`` to assign 0 to a and [1, 2, 3, 4] to b.
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- range() now returns an iterator rather than a list. Floats are not
|
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allowed. xrange() is no longer defined.
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- Patch #1660500: hide iteration variable in list comps, add set comps
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and use common code to handle compilation of iterative expressions.
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- By default, != returns the opposite of ==, unless the latter returns
|
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NotImplemented.
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- Patch #1680961: sys.exitfunc has been removed and replaced with a
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private C-level API.
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- PEP 3115: new metaclasses: the metaclass is now specified as a
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keyword arg in the class statement, which can now use the full
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syntax of a parameter list. Also, the metaclass can implement a
|
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__prepare__ function which will be called to create the dictionary
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for the new class namespace.
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- The long-deprecated argument "pend" of PyFloat_FromString() has been
|
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removed.
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- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
|
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its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
|
|
allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
|
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__getattr__().
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- Removed support for __members__ and __methods__.
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- Removed indexing/slicing on BaseException.
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|
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- input() became raw_input(): the name input() now implements the
|
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functionality formerly known as raw_input(); the name raw_input() is
|
|
no longer defined.
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|
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- Classes listed in an 'except' clause must inherit from
|
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BaseException.
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- PEP 3106: dict.iterkeys(), .iteritems(), .itervalues() are now gone;
|
|
and .keys(), .items(), .values() return dict views, which behave
|
|
like sets.
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|
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- PEP 3105: print is now a function. Also (not in the PEP) the
|
|
'softspace' attribute of files is now gone (since print() doesn't
|
|
use it). A side effect of this change is that you can get
|
|
incomplete output lines in interactive sessions:
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|
|
>>> print(42, end="")
|
|
42>>>
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|
We may be able to fix this after the I/O library rewrite.
|
|
|
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- PEP 3102: keyword-only arguments.
|
|
|
|
- Int/Long unification is complete. The 'long' built-in type and
|
|
literals with trailing 'L' or 'l' have been removed. Performance
|
|
may be sub-optimal (haven't really benchmarked).
|
|
|
|
- 'except E, V' must now be spelled as 'except E as V' and deletes V
|
|
at the end of the except clause; V must be a simple name.
|
|
|
|
- Added function annotations per PEP 3107.
|
|
|
|
- Added nonlocal declaration from PEP 3104:
|
|
|
|
>>> def f(x):
|
|
... def inc():
|
|
... nonlocal x
|
|
... x += 1
|
|
... return x
|
|
... return inc
|
|
...
|
|
>>> inc = f(0)
|
|
>>> inc()
|
|
1
|
|
>>> inc()
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
- Moved intern() to sys.intern().
|
|
|
|
- exec is now a function.
|
|
|
|
- Renamed nb_nonzero to nb_bool and __nonzero__ to __bool__.
|
|
|
|
- Classic classes are a thing of the past. All classes are new style.
|
|
|
|
- Exceptions *must* derive from BaseException.
|
|
|
|
- Integer division always returns a float. The -Q option is no more.
|
|
All the following are gone:
|
|
* PyNumber_Divide and PyNumber_InPlaceDivide
|
|
* __div__, __rdiv__, and __idiv__
|
|
* nb_divide, nb_inplace_divide
|
|
* operator.div, operator.idiv, operator.__div__, operator.__idiv__
|
|
(Only __truediv__ and __floordiv__ remain, not sure how to handle them
|
|
if we want to re-use __div__ and friends. If we do, it will make
|
|
it harder to write code for both 2.x and 3.x.)
|
|
|
|
- 'as' and 'with' are keywords.
|
|
|
|
- Absolute import is the default behavior for 'import foo' etc.
|
|
|
|
- Removed support for syntax: backticks (ie, `x`), <>.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these Python builtins: apply(), callable(), coerce(),
|
|
execfile(), file(), reduce(), reload().
|
|
|
|
- Removed these Python methods: {}.has_key.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these opcodes: BINARY_DIVIDE, INPLACE_DIVIDE, UNARY_CONVERT.
|
|
|
|
- Remove C API support for restricted execution.
|
|
|
|
- zip(), map() and filter() now return iterators, behaving like their
|
|
itertools counterparts. This also affect map()'s behavior on
|
|
sequences of unequal length -- it now stops after the shortest one
|
|
is exhausted.
|
|
|
|
- Additions: set literals, set comprehensions, ellipsis literal.
|
|
|
|
- Added class decorators per PEP 3129.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Extension Modules
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
- Removed the imageop module. Obsolete long with its unit tests
|
|
becoming useless from the removal of rgbimg and imgfile.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these attributes from the operator module: div, idiv,
|
|
__div__, __idiv__, isCallable, sequenceIncludes.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these attributes from the sys module: exc_clear(), exc_type,
|
|
exc_value, exc_traceback.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
- Removed the compiler package. Use of the _ast module and (an
|
|
eventual) AST -> bytecode mechanism.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these modules: audiodev, Bastion, bsddb185, exceptions,
|
|
linuxaudiodev, md5, MimeWriter, mimify, popen2, rexec, sets, sha,
|
|
stringold, strop, sunaudiodev, timing, xmllib.
|
|
|
|
- Moved the toaiff module to Tools/Demos.
|
|
|
|
- Removed obsolete IRIX modules: al/AL, cd/CD, cddb, cdplayer, cl/CL,
|
|
DEVICE, ERRNO, FILE, fl/FL, flp, fm, GET, gl/GL, GLWS, IN, imgfile,
|
|
IOCTL, jpeg, panel, panelparser, readcd, sgi, sv/SV, torgb, WAIT.
|
|
|
|
- Removed obsolete functions: commands.getstatus(), os.popen*().
|
|
|
|
- Removed functions in the string module that are also string methods;
|
|
Remove string.{letters, lowercase, uppercase}.
|
|
|
|
- Removed support for long obsolete platforms: plat-aix3, plat-irix5.
|
|
|
|
- Removed xmlrpclib.SlowParser. It was based on xmllib.
|
|
|
|
- Patch #1680961: atexit has been reimplemented in C.
|
|
|
|
- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
|
|
|
|
Build
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
C API
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Removed these Python slots: __coerce__, __div__, __idiv__, __rdiv__.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these C APIs: PyNumber_Coerce(), PyNumber_CoerceEx(),
|
|
PyMember_Get, PyMember_Set.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these C slots/fields: nb_divide, nb_inplace_divide.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these macros: staticforward, statichere, PyArg_GetInt,
|
|
PyArg_NoArgs, _PyObject_Del.
|
|
|
|
- Removed these typedefs: intargfunc, intintargfunc, intobjargproc,
|
|
intintobjargproc, getreadbufferproc, getwritebufferproc,
|
|
getsegcountproc, getcharbufferproc, memberlist.
|
|
|
|
Tests
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
- Removed test.testall as test.regrtest replaces it.
|
|
|
|
Documentation
|
|
-------------
|
|
|
|
Mac
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
- The cfmfile module was removed.
|
|
|
|
Platforms
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
- Support for BeOS and AtheOS was removed (according to PEP 11).
|
|
|
|
- Support for RiscOS, Irix, Tru64 was removed (alledgedly).
|
|
|
|
Tools/Demos
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
|
|
**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**
|