| .. bpo: 7301 |
| .. date: 7972 |
| .. nonce: dlecRg |
| .. release date: 2010-04-10 |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8329 |
| .. date: 7971 |
| .. nonce: ZUTObm |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are changed. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8259 |
| .. date: 7970 |
| .. nonce: NNoD66 |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on 64-bit |
| machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted to be |
| up to sys.maxsize. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7969 |
| .. nonce: iwBvru |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 1222585 |
| .. date: 7968 |
| .. nonce: emqFT3 |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7967 |
| .. nonce: jCkZ20 |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7994 |
| .. date: 7966 |
| .. nonce: ZEBSAJ |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called with a |
| non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user code. If a |
| derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later adds its own |
| __format__, it would most likely break user code that had supplied a format |
| string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in Python 3.3 and it |
| will be an error in Python 3.4. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8268 |
| .. date: 7965 |
| .. nonce: usS51U |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak references. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8211 |
| .. date: 7964 |
| .. nonce: InhXpq |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it is set. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 1583863 |
| .. date: 7963 |
| .. nonce: tSkjxk |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| A unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 6474 |
| .. date: 7962 |
| .. nonce: yFxVuM |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword arguments to |
| a function correct. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8164 |
| .. date: 7961 |
| .. nonce: uRYEY5 |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 3137 |
| .. date: 7960 |
| .. nonce: Em70dh |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt (SIGINT). |
| If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is printed and |
| Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7959 |
| .. nonce: kIQmnN |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Code objects now support weak references. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 5277 |
| .. date: 7958 |
| .. nonce: CQ8CXN |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8321 |
| .. date: 7957 |
| .. nonce: Tul_aA |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module, using the new |
| attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and |
| `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8310 |
| .. date: 7956 |
| .. nonce: 6fu8uc |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Allow dis to examine new style classes. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8257 |
| .. date: 7955 |
| .. nonce: PzabSZ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly, converting that |
| float to a Decimal of equal value: |
| |
| >>> Decimal(1.1) |
| Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625') |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7954 |
| .. nonce: 02C1gn |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7953 |
| .. nonce: or8thG |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify |
| the specification of rich comparisons. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7952 |
| .. nonce: nshtA2 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition |
| old-style comparison functions to new-style key-functions. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8294 |
| .. date: 7951 |
| .. nonce: 42HIIC |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances directly. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7279 |
| .. date: 7950 |
| .. nonce: v1uyoh |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal InvalidOperation |
| instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet NaN are |
| unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal signaling |
| NaNs remain unhashable. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 2531 |
| .. date: 7949 |
| .. nonce: ELCENf |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now return a |
| result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they returned |
| an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and |
| id(Decimal). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8233 |
| .. date: 7948 |
| .. nonce: xJkVL4 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single argument `-` |
| which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is read on |
| demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by Piotr |
| Ożarowski). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 3135 |
| .. date: 7947 |
| .. nonce: 5u_w3h |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a function like a |
| normal call. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7946 |
| .. nonce: CTbVhT |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and |
| form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode |
| Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/ |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7945 |
| .. nonce: Y0P_8n |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a |
| Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. |
| This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, |
| float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7944 |
| .. nonce: POrUTx |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7943 |
| .. nonce: 6xyUXj |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8205 |
| .. date: 7942 |
| .. nonce: GK6syz |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is running from the |
| build directory (POSIX only). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7667 |
| .. date: 7941 |
| .. nonce: 581UIL |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7512 |
| .. date: 7940 |
| .. nonce: 3tQWru |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem didn't support |
| chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now silenced. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7703 |
| .. date: 7939 |
| .. nonce: _QnWbZ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is deprecated. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7860 |
| .. date: 7938 |
| .. nonce: DV2Y4E |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python is running |
| in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7937 |
| .. nonce: ZMh4CS |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor |
| method to LoggerAdapter. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8201 |
| .. date: 7936 |
| .. nonce: Zsfq9o |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names existing at |
| the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code attempted to |
| sort the existing loggers. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8200 |
| .. date: 7935 |
| .. nonce: QhAmka |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded when logging |
| occurs. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 3890 |
| .. date: 7934 |
| .. nonce: LxiC0p |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets. Also, enable the |
| SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking reads and writes |
| are always retried by OpenSSL itself. (See also: bpo-8222) |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8179 |
| .. date: 7933 |
| .. nonce: 8H5ich |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8024 |
| .. date: 7932 |
| .. nonce: OWylMQ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Update the Unicode database to 5.2. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8104 |
| .. date: 7931 |
| .. nonce: sE4WnG |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing into |
| objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or |
| memoryviews. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 4961 |
| .. date: 7930 |
| .. nonce: WDc-2x |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox with |
| Tcl/Tk-8.5. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8140 |
| .. date: 7929 |
| .. nonce: GfkB7_ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7774 |
| .. date: 7928 |
| .. nonce: BddO6b |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set to a non |
| existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program |
| name. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8117 |
| .. date: 7927 |
| .. nonce: CFgyRD |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time for |
| ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing |
| log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist, |
| the current time is used as the basis for the computation. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 6472 |
| .. date: 7926 |
| .. nonce: c0VR0M |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The cElementTree |
| module is updated too. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7880 |
| .. date: 7925 |
| .. nonce: oSpS50 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7624 |
| .. date: 7924 |
| .. nonce: P9QTki |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style classes. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7143 |
| .. date: 7923 |
| .. nonce: A30Qss |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from a base64 |
| transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does. This is a |
| behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to version |
| 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8235 |
| .. date: 7922 |
| .. nonce: 7txk3- |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket option |
| available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8038 |
| .. date: 7921 |
| .. nonce: GrZDC3 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7920 |
| .. nonce: V2kHuO |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr |
| during test runs. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 1220212 |
| .. date: 7919 |
| .. nonce: GqZ0L4 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for sending CTRL+C and |
| CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8314 |
| .. date: 7918 |
| .. nonce: s45vVC |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 1039 |
| .. date: 7917 |
| .. nonce: BQUTJH |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument. (See also: bpo-8154) |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8156 |
| .. date: 7916 |
| .. nonce: 5LG8uP |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4. |
| http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops |
| support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 3928 |
| .. date: 7915 |
| .. nonce: kY8ENm |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8142 |
| .. date: 7914 |
| .. nonce: ArTkHw |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8300 |
| .. date: 7913 |
| .. nonce: fAkvVk |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any integer format |
| code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer using its |
| __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises TypeError it |
| goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 1530559 |
| .. date: 7912 |
| .. nonce: KXF5m2 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any* integer format |
| code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the argument's |
| __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also produces a |
| DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was |
| inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, |
| and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native |
| packing and standard packing.) |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7347 |
| .. date: 7911 |
| .. nonce: RdqRiz |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in the return |
| value of QueryReflectionKey. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7993 |
| .. date: 7910 |
| .. nonce: M7oNRJ |
| .. section: Tools/Demos |
| |
| Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It measures the |
| number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the number of |
| background CPU-bound Python threads. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7909 |
| .. nonce: KeNbfw |
| .. section: Tools/Demos |
| |
| python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8032 |
| .. date: 7908 |
| .. nonce: gv-Du9 |
| .. section: Build |
| |
| For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to use |
| advanced gdb features when debugging Python. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 1628484 |
| .. date: 7907 |
| .. nonce: wcrSr1 |
| .. section: Build |
| |
| The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable anymore. It |
| also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a shared |
| library. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 6716 |
| .. date: 7906 |
| .. nonce: tQLBdR |
| .. section: Build |
| |
| Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7705 |
| .. date: 7905 |
| .. nonce: sw6ifg |
| .. section: Build |
| |
| Fix linking on FreeBSD. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 0 |
| .. date: 7904 |
| .. nonce: Dm_ncE |
| .. section: Build |
| |
| Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper |
| assembly file. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8276 |
| .. date: 7903 |
| .. nonce: 40pgLF |
| .. section: C API |
| |
| PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The function |
| declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is now |
| removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7992 |
| .. date: 7902 |
| .. nonce: 2eLlya |
| .. section: C API |
| |
| A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from Python 3.1. |
| All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been converted to |
| capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns, |
| PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 3864 |
| .. date: 7901 |
| .. nonce: bkbNiO |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any thread was |
| previously started, most likely due to a platform bug. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8348 |
| .. date: 7900 |
| .. nonce: Nygf2t |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8204 |
| .. date: 7899 |
| .. nonce: iYMJ7_ |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8344 |
| .. date: 7898 |
| .. nonce: kt2Sq_ |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8193 |
| .. date: 7897 |
| .. nonce: T8MbIc |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8248 |
| .. date: 7896 |
| .. nonce: pBx5bT |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8263 |
| .. date: 7895 |
| .. nonce: zNUf-5 |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a KeyboardInterrupt |
| (SIGINT). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 8180 |
| .. date: 7894 |
| .. nonce: yyLvZY |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special Unicode normalization |
| cases. (See also: bpo-8207) |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 7783 |
| .. date: 7893 |
| .. nonce: K20ttO |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from the |
| local cache. |