Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.8.rst - platform/external/python/cpython2 - Git at Google

 .. bpo: 4346
 .. date: 9373
 .. nonce: UASH7u
 .. release date: 2014-06-29
 .. section: Core and Builtins

 In PyObject_CallMethod and PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs, don't overwrite the
 error set in PyObject_GetAttr.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21831
 .. date: 9372
 .. nonce: LMoAu3
 .. section: Core and Builtins

 Avoid integer overflow when large sizes and offsets are given to the buffer
 type. CVE-2014-7185.

 ..

 .. bpo: 19656
 .. date: 9371
 .. nonce: H_jvEi
 .. section: Core and Builtins

 Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about non-ascii bytes
 literals.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21642
 .. date: 9370
 .. nonce: CjIqaU
 .. section: Core and Builtins

 If the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written with no
 space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else
 False``) to be valid syntax.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21523
 .. date: 9369
 .. nonce: f_PPYO
 .. section: Core and Builtins

 Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of some opcodes in the
 compiler.  This also fixes a quadratic compilation time issue noticeable
 when compiling code with a large number of "and" and "or" operators.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21652
 .. date: 9368
 .. nonce: kCNkbE
 .. section: Library

 Prevent mimetypes.type_map from containing unicode keys on Windows.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21729
 .. date: 9367
 .. nonce: oa2kD6
 .. section: Library

 Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure files closing.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21672
 .. date: 9366
 .. nonce: iMRNWM
 .. section: Library

 Fix the behavior of ntpath.join on UNC-style paths.

 ..

 .. bpo: 19145
 .. date: 9365
 .. nonce: cRrKpW
 .. section: Library

 The times argument for itertools.repeat now handles negative values the same
 way for keyword arguments as it does for positional arguments.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21832
 .. date: 9364
 .. nonce: PBA0Uu
 .. section: Library

 Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.

 ..

 .. bpo: 8343
 .. date: 9363
 .. nonce: 2KNnCH
 .. section: Library

 Named group error messages in the re module did not show the name of the
 erroneous group.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21491
 .. date: 9362
 .. nonce: suNKZf
 .. section: Library

 SocketServer: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21635
 .. date: 9361
 .. nonce: ET3OJZ
 .. section: Library

 The difflib SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks() method cache didn't match
 the actual result.  The former was a list of tuples and the latter was a
 list of named tuples.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21722
 .. date: 9360
 .. nonce: WTHuRy
 .. section: Library

 The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero return code when
 uploading fails.  Patch by Martin Dengler.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21766
 .. date: 9359
 .. nonce: 0xk_xC
 .. section: Library

 Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths before
 checking for a CGI script at that path.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21310
 .. date: 9358
 .. nonce: 2mjByJ
 .. section: Library

 Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().

 ..

 .. bpo: 21304
 .. date: 9357
 .. nonce: xXyySz
 .. section: Library

 Backport the key derivation function hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac from Python 3 per
 PEP 466.

 ..

 .. bpo: 11709
 .. date: 9356
 .. nonce: JdObvL
 .. section: Library

 Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a valid file.

 ..

 .. bpo: 13223
 .. date: 9355
 .. nonce: 9AzEbN
 .. section: Library

 Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods that use
 'self' in the example code is generated correctly.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21552
 .. date: 9354
 .. nonce: uVy4tM
 .. section: Library

 Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in the tkinter
 module on 64-bit platforms.

 ..

 .. bpo: 14315
 .. date: 9353
 .. nonce: YzZzS8
 .. section: Library

 The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central directory that
 are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack error bubble
 up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in the wild and
 is ignored by other zip tools.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21402
 .. date: 9352
 .. nonce: GuVy1L
 .. section: Library

 Tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.

 ..

 .. bpo: 10203
 .. date: 9351
 .. nonce: gERvVk
 .. section: Library

 sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol.  In particulr it supports
 reverse() and negative indices.  Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

 ..

 .. bpo: 8743
 .. date: 9350
 .. nonce: I6_2r3
 .. section: Library

 Fix interoperability between set objects and the collections.Set() abstract
 base class.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21481
 .. date: 9349
 .. nonce: YDrlf7
 .. section: Library

 Argparse equality and inequality tests now return NotImplemented when
 comparing to an unknown type.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21940
 .. date: 9348
 .. nonce: VlIRz7
 .. section: IDLE

 Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

 ..

 .. bpo: 18592
 .. date: 9347
 .. nonce: sMG-SZ
 .. section: IDLE

 Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21694
 .. date: 9346
 .. nonce: 1oLmRo
 .. section: IDLE

 Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21686
 .. date: 9345
 .. nonce: TAkFB0
 .. section: IDLE

 add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

 ..

 .. bpo: 12387
 .. date: 9344
 .. nonce: XO7Ozk
 .. section: IDLE

 Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key bindings for
 Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21695
 .. date: 9343
 .. nonce: g-t0Tm
 .. section: IDLE

 Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is still in progress
 no longer closes Idle.

 ..

 .. bpo: 18910
 .. date: 9342
 .. nonce: ke8lMK
 .. section: IDLE

 Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.

 ..

 .. bpo: 18292
 .. date: 9341
 .. nonce: ks_3wm
 .. section: IDLE

 Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.

 ..

 .. bpo: 18409
 .. date: 9340
 .. nonce: 7fe-aK
 .. section: IDLE

 Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.

 ..

 .. bpo: 20155
 .. date: 9339
 .. nonce: nphzS3
 .. section: Tests

 Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers so that
 packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine) does
 not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.

 ..

 .. bpo: 19493
 .. date: 9338
 .. nonce: SwbzLQ
 .. section: Tests

 Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly rather than
 silently.

 ..

 .. bpo: 18492
 .. date: 9337
 .. nonce: ylPRU7
 .. section: Tests

 All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by regrtest.py.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21605
 .. date: 9336
 .. nonce: qsLV8d
 .. section: Tests

 Added tests for Tkinter images.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21493
 .. date: 9335
 .. nonce: NqhRsy
 .. section: Tests

 Added test for ntpath.expanduser().  Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

 ..

 .. bpo: 19925
 .. date: 9334
 .. nonce: dhMx08
 .. section: Tests

 Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.

 ..

 .. bpo: 13355
 .. date: 9333
 .. nonce: gCByXK
 .. section: Tests

 random.triangular() no longer fails with a ZeroDivisionError when low equals
 high.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21522
 .. date: 9332
 .. nonce: b-VwFW
 .. section: Tests

 Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
 PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().

 ..

 .. bpo: 20635
 .. date: 9331
 .. nonce: mzWmoS
 .. section: Tests

 Added tests for Tk geometry managers.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21811
 .. date: 9330
 .. nonce: 3_Xyr-
 .. section: Build

 Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.

 ..

 .. bpo: 21671
 .. date: 9329
 .. nonce: sm-hhO
 .. section: Windows

 The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1h. (See also:
 CVE-2014-0224)
	.. bpo: 4346
	.. date: 9373
	.. nonce: UASH7u
	.. release date: 2014-06-29
	.. section: Core and Builtins

	In PyObject_CallMethod and PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs, don't overwrite the
	error set in PyObject_GetAttr.

	..

	.. bpo: 21831
	.. date: 9372
	.. nonce: LMoAu3
	.. section: Core and Builtins

	Avoid integer overflow when large sizes and offsets are given to the buffer
	type. CVE-2014-7185.

	..

	.. bpo: 19656
	.. date: 9371
	.. nonce: H_jvEi
	.. section: Core and Builtins

	Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about non-ascii bytes
	literals.

	..

	.. bpo: 21642
	.. date: 9370
	.. nonce: CjIqaU
	.. section: Core and Builtins

	If the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written with no
	space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else
	False``) to be valid syntax.

	..

	.. bpo: 21523
	.. date: 9369
	.. nonce: f_PPYO
	.. section: Core and Builtins

	Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of some opcodes in the
	compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation time issue noticeable
	when compiling code with a large number of "and" and "or" operators.

	..

	.. bpo: 21652
	.. date: 9368
	.. nonce: kCNkbE
	.. section: Library

	Prevent mimetypes.type_map from containing unicode keys on Windows.

	..

	.. bpo: 21729
	.. date: 9367
	.. nonce: oa2kD6
	.. section: Library

	Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure files closing.

	..

	.. bpo: 21672
	.. date: 9366
	.. nonce: iMRNWM
	.. section: Library

	Fix the behavior of ntpath.join on UNC-style paths.

	..

	.. bpo: 19145
	.. date: 9365
	.. nonce: cRrKpW
	.. section: Library

	The times argument for itertools.repeat now handles negative values the same
	way for keyword arguments as it does for positional arguments.

	..

	.. bpo: 21832
	.. date: 9364
	.. nonce: PBA0Uu
	.. section: Library

	Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.

	..

	.. bpo: 8343
	.. date: 9363
	.. nonce: 2KNnCH
	.. section: Library

	Named group error messages in the re module did not show the name of the
	erroneous group.

	..

	.. bpo: 21491
	.. date: 9362
	.. nonce: suNKZf
	.. section: Library

	SocketServer: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.

	..

	.. bpo: 21635
	.. date: 9361
	.. nonce: ET3OJZ
	.. section: Library

	The difflib SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks() method cache didn't match
	the actual result. The former was a list of tuples and the latter was a
	list of named tuples.

	..

	.. bpo: 21722
	.. date: 9360
	.. nonce: WTHuRy
	.. section: Library

	The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero return code when
	uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler.

	..

	.. bpo: 21766
	.. date: 9359
	.. nonce: 0xk_xC
	.. section: Library

	Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths before
	checking for a CGI script at that path.

	..

	.. bpo: 21310
	.. date: 9358
	.. nonce: 2mjByJ
	.. section: Library

	Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().

	..

	.. bpo: 21304
	.. date: 9357
	.. nonce: xXyySz
	.. section: Library

	Backport the key derivation function hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac from Python 3 per
	PEP 466.

	..

	.. bpo: 11709
	.. date: 9356
	.. nonce: JdObvL
	.. section: Library

	Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a valid file.

	..

	.. bpo: 13223
	.. date: 9355
	.. nonce: 9AzEbN
	.. section: Library

	Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods that use
	'self' in the example code is generated correctly.

	..

	.. bpo: 21552
	.. date: 9354
	.. nonce: uVy4tM
	.. section: Library

	Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in the tkinter
	module on 64-bit platforms.

	..

	.. bpo: 14315
	.. date: 9353
	.. nonce: YzZzS8
	.. section: Library

	The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central directory that
	are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack error bubble
	up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in the wild and
	is ignored by other zip tools.

	..

	.. bpo: 21402
	.. date: 9352
	.. nonce: GuVy1L
	.. section: Library

	Tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.

	..

	.. bpo: 10203
	.. date: 9351
	.. nonce: gERvVk
	.. section: Library

	sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particulr it supports
	reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

	..

	.. bpo: 8743
	.. date: 9350
	.. nonce: I6_2r3
	.. section: Library

	Fix interoperability between set objects and the collections.Set() abstract
	base class.

	..

	.. bpo: 21481
	.. date: 9349
	.. nonce: YDrlf7
	.. section: Library

	Argparse equality and inequality tests now return NotImplemented when
	comparing to an unknown type.

	..

	.. bpo: 21940
	.. date: 9348
	.. nonce: VlIRz7
	.. section: IDLE

	Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

	..

	.. bpo: 18592
	.. date: 9347
	.. nonce: sMG-SZ
	.. section: IDLE

	Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.

	..

	.. bpo: 21694
	.. date: 9346
	.. nonce: 1oLmRo
	.. section: IDLE

	Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

	..

	.. bpo: 21686
	.. date: 9345
	.. nonce: TAkFB0
	.. section: IDLE

	add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

	..

	.. bpo: 12387
	.. date: 9344
	.. nonce: XO7Ozk
	.. section: IDLE

	Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key bindings for
	Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.

	..

	.. bpo: 21695
	.. date: 9343
	.. nonce: g-t0Tm
	.. section: IDLE

	Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is still in progress
	no longer closes Idle.

	..

	.. bpo: 18910
	.. date: 9342
	.. nonce: ke8lMK
	.. section: IDLE

	Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.

	..

	.. bpo: 18292
	.. date: 9341
	.. nonce: ks_3wm
	.. section: IDLE

	Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.

	..

	.. bpo: 18409
	.. date: 9340
	.. nonce: 7fe-aK
	.. section: IDLE

	Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.

	..

	.. bpo: 20155
	.. date: 9339
	.. nonce: nphzS3
	.. section: Tests

	Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers so that
	packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine) does
	not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.

	..

	.. bpo: 19493
	.. date: 9338
	.. nonce: SwbzLQ
	.. section: Tests

	Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly rather than
	silently.

	..

	.. bpo: 18492
	.. date: 9337
	.. nonce: ylPRU7
	.. section: Tests

	All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by regrtest.py.

	..

	.. bpo: 21605
	.. date: 9336
	.. nonce: qsLV8d
	.. section: Tests

	Added tests for Tkinter images.

	..

	.. bpo: 21493
	.. date: 9335
	.. nonce: NqhRsy
	.. section: Tests

	Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

	..

	.. bpo: 19925
	.. date: 9334
	.. nonce: dhMx08
	.. section: Tests

	Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.

	..

	.. bpo: 13355
	.. date: 9333
	.. nonce: gCByXK
	.. section: Tests

	random.triangular() no longer fails with a ZeroDivisionError when low equals
	high.

	..

	.. bpo: 21522
	.. date: 9332
	.. nonce: b-VwFW
	.. section: Tests

	Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
	PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().

	..

	.. bpo: 20635
	.. date: 9331
	.. nonce: mzWmoS
	.. section: Tests

	Added tests for Tk geometry managers.

	..

	.. bpo: 21811
	.. date: 9330
	.. nonce: 3_Xyr-
	.. section: Build

	Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.

	..

	.. bpo: 21671
	.. date: 9329
	.. nonce: sm-hhO
	.. section: Windows

	The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1h. (See also:
	CVE-2014-0224)