.. bpo: 2051 .. date: 6793 .. nonce: ra69cz .. release date: 29-Feb-2008 .. section: Core and Builtins pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file. .. .. bpo: 2067 .. date: 6792 .. nonce: dnOq_n .. section: Core and Builtins file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method. .. .. bpo: 1759 .. date: 6791 .. nonce: q41gVI .. section: Core and Builtins Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators. .. .. bpo: 1881 .. date: 6790 .. nonce: Z0XsUF .. section: Core and Builtins An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see issue #215555 for a discussion. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6789 .. nonce: t4RIVL .. section: Core and Builtins Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct(). These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins module is: from future_builtins import hex, oct .. .. bpo: 1600 .. date: 6788 .. nonce: s9YmZq .. section: Core and Builtins Modified PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits. Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands, so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6787 .. nonce: 3heWL4 .. section: Core and Builtins Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API PyObject_Format(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6786 .. nonce: 5DONqn .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state. .. .. bpo: 2115 .. date: 6785 .. nonce: 0hltM5 .. section: Core and Builtins Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot on a registered virtual subclass. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6784 .. nonce: mw1G3G .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or imaginary part. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6783 .. nonce: 9iXgfq .. section: Core and Builtins Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the OS earlier. .. .. bpo: 2045 .. date: 6782 .. nonce: r1Y5JL .. section: Core and Builtins Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6781 .. nonce: Ix4aiT .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free list was not freed on interpreter shutdown. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6780 .. nonce: cL2Owz .. section: Core and Builtins Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256 entries each. .. .. bpo: 1953 .. date: 6779 .. nonce: e_mPMK .. section: Core and Builtins Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList`` to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats. .. .. bpo: 1983 .. date: 6778 .. nonce: 8sFEOx .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t. .. .. bpo: 1678380 .. date: 6777 .. nonce: QDsVif .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear in the same code unit. .. .. bpo: 2025 .. date: 6776 .. nonce: S9iuHk .. section: Core and Builtins Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with the collections.Sequence API. .. .. bpo: 1970 .. date: 6775 .. nonce: QefSF6 .. section: Core and Builtins Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak detection. (Patch by Antoine Pitrou.) .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6774 .. nonce: YYnDHc .. section: Core and Builtins Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests. .. .. bpo: 1473257 .. date: 6773 .. nonce: Z579K3 .. section: Core and Builtins generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that produced the generator. .. .. bpo: 1920 .. date: 6772 .. nonce: z8WX6L .. section: Core and Builtins "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6771 .. nonce: VpT9Pm .. section: Core and Builtins A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858); loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py); borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker). .. .. bpo: 1069410 .. date: 6770 .. nonce: GX0t-e .. section: Core and Builtins The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly. .. .. bpo: 1915 .. date: 6769 .. nonce: MAhEEN .. section: Core and Builtins Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode support. .. .. bpo: 1882 .. date: 6768 .. nonce: -TxSag .. section: Core and Builtins when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the second line of code were not always recognized correctly. .. .. bpo: 1679 .. date: 6767 .. nonce: 48PPdV .. section: Core and Builtins "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal. .. .. bpo: 1865 .. date: 6766 .. nonce: wGzYDz .. section: Core and Builtins ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were added. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6765 .. nonce: x2ieFr .. section: Core and Builtins sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object. .. .. bpo: 1816 .. date: 6764 .. nonce: YBjd5H .. section: Core and Builtins Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6763 .. nonce: wmc0sT .. section: Core and Builtins Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more readable. .. .. bpo: 1700288 .. date: 6762 .. nonce: lwJfDZ .. section: Core and Builtins added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code. .. .. bpo: 1776 .. date: 6761 .. nonce: JYdqH- .. section: Core and Builtins __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform. The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name. .. .. bpo: 1668 .. date: 6760 .. nonce: mZ5kSj .. section: Core and Builtins renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG. .. .. bpo: 602345 .. date: 6759 .. nonce: OOgFXY .. section: Core and Builtins Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6758 .. nonce: _7a_Ll .. section: Core and Builtins Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead of 'error code 193'. .. .. bpo: 1481296 .. date: 6757 .. nonce: nRMqCX .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L. .. .. bpo: 1640 .. date: 6756 .. nonce: INvUrF .. section: Core and Builtins Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y) functions. .. .. bpo: 1635 .. date: 6755 .. nonce: fiXSfN .. section: Core and Builtins Platform independent creation and representation of NaN and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on every platform with IEEE 754 semantics. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6754 .. nonce: MNMsrF .. section: Core and Builtins Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding entries to the dictionary. .. .. bpo: 1638 .. date: 6753 .. nonce: eg4t3m .. section: Core and Builtins %zd configure test fails on Linux. .. .. bpo: 1620 .. date: 6752 .. nonce: 9qBeVK .. section: Core and Builtins New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object. .. .. bpo: 1538 .. date: 6751 .. nonce: OkvKJR .. section: Core and Builtins Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char is not found. .. .. bpo: 1553 .. date: 6750 .. nonce: FCgNDE .. section: Core and Builtins An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a SystemError. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6749 .. nonce: zw_5PA .. section: Core and Builtins PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level __package__ attribute. .. .. bpo: 1402 .. date: 6748 .. nonce: ZTegLQ .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6747 .. nonce: J3Bwhy .. section: Core and Builtins Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning. .. .. bpo: 1445 .. date: 6746 .. nonce: 6-yfkc .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents`` attribute of an empty cell object. .. .. bpo: 1460 .. date: 6745 .. nonce: y7TP5m .. section: Core and Builtins The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data. .. .. bpo: 1739468 .. date: 6744 .. nonce: yM3B3r .. section: Core and Builtins Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the first entry in sys.path. .. .. bpo: 1265 .. date: 6743 .. nonce: 4-IaJd .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a paused generator. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6742 .. nonce: 7h4lCb .. section: Core and Builtins sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6741 .. nonce: 1AoYAQ .. section: Core and Builtins optimize the performance of builtin.sum(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6740 .. nonce: FHJ_J8 .. section: Core and Builtins Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6739 .. nonce: 6dncrc .. section: Core and Builtins The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs. .. .. bpo: 1686386 .. date: 6738 .. nonce: mFw2O5 .. section: Core and Builtins Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion. Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the issues. .. .. bpo: 1164 .. date: 6737 .. nonce: uMHT40 .. section: Core and Builtins It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in the collections module. .. .. bpo: 1147 .. date: 6736 .. nonce: aoJ7OF .. section: Core and Builtins Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed. .. .. bpo: 1096 .. date: 6735 .. nonce: O7aCp5 .. section: Core and Builtins Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested list by using the recursion counter. .. .. bpo: 1202533 .. date: 6734 .. nonce: an8trG .. section: Core and Builtins Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py. .. .. bpo: 1031213 .. date: 6733 .. nonce: -pIcnp .. section: Core and Builtins Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source encoding. .. .. bpo: 1673759 .. date: 6732 .. nonce: BiojUu .. section: Core and Builtins add a missing overflow check when formatting floats with %G. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6731 .. nonce: irpf7S .. section: Core and Builtins Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms. .. .. bpo: 1733488 .. date: 6730 .. nonce: tl7wNc .. section: Core and Builtins Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX. .. .. bpo: 1722485 .. date: 6729 .. nonce: k6MqIQ .. section: Core and Builtins remove docstrings again when running with -OO. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6728 .. nonce: 7Ddptw .. section: Core and Builtins Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.) .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6727 .. nonce: yXfECI .. section: Core and Builtins Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0. .. .. bpo: 1686487 .. date: 6726 .. nonce: K8mtCR .. section: Core and Builtins you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function calls. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6725 .. nonce: JKXn1u .. section: Core and Builtins except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility with Python 3.0. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6724 .. nonce: 8LZd6s .. section: Core and Builtins Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352. .. .. bpo: 1303614 .. date: 6723 .. nonce: 4vwOmy .. section: Core and Builtins don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is inherited from a built-in base. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6722 .. nonce: VN88wa .. section: Core and Builtins When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers. .. .. bpo: 1191699 .. date: 6721 .. nonce: V0UWcO .. section: Core and Builtins Slices can now be pickled. .. .. bpo: 1193128 .. date: 6720 .. nonce: hTWYjG .. section: Core and Builtins str.translate() now allows a None argument for translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the remaining characters. .. .. bpo: 1682205 .. date: 6719 .. nonce: Ma5xwn .. section: Core and Builtins a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence". .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6718 .. nonce: 3y4NCG .. section: Core and Builtins Remove unused file Python/fmod.c. .. .. bpo: 1683368 .. date: 6717 .. nonce: 4DybJV .. section: Core and Builtins The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature as supported by type.__new__(). .. .. bpo: 1675423 .. date: 6716 .. nonce: 1JoPlp .. section: Core and Builtins PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method. .. .. bpo: 1623563 .. date: 6715 .. nonce: AMQ5t2 .. section: Core and Builtins allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names. .. .. bpo: 1642547 .. date: 6714 .. nonce: jkS5Ql .. section: Core and Builtins Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in complex if statements. .. .. bpo: 1462488 .. date: 6713 .. nonce: Ci87cu .. section: Core and Builtins Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking its type. .. .. bpo: 1680015 .. date: 6712 .. nonce: FS6aET .. section: Core and Builtins Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains a unicode name. .. .. bpo: 1444529 .. date: 6711 .. nonce: 69vMCk .. section: Core and Builtins the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments. .. .. bpo: 1678647 .. date: 6710 .. nonce: Ok4Qvk .. section: Core and Builtins write a newline after printing an exception in any case, even when converting the value to a string failed. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6709 .. nonce: ec6gzH .. section: Core and Builtins The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__(). .. .. bpo: 922167 .. date: 6708 .. nonce: gnPICc .. section: Core and Builtins Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342). .. .. bpo: 1675981 .. date: 6707 .. nonce: YDAUpa .. section: Core and Builtins remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method. .. .. bpo: 1491866 .. date: 6706 .. nonce: RNQumX .. section: Core and Builtins change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a ValueError. .. .. bpo: 703779 .. date: 6705 .. nonce: 609S2B .. section: Core and Builtins unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used. .. .. bpo: 697613 .. date: 6704 .. nonce: bnztSz .. section: Core and Builtins Don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just like on other exceptions or normal program exit. .. .. bpo: 1638879 .. date: 6703 .. nonce: 25rW83 .. section: Core and Builtins don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long(). .. .. bpo: 1674503 .. date: 6702 .. nonce: k_dwnR .. section: Core and Builtins close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition. .. .. bpo: 1674228 .. date: 6701 .. nonce: 936l-6 .. section: Core and Builtins when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6700 .. nonce: 4R0u4H .. section: Core and Builtins When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions. .. .. bpo: 1653736 .. date: 6699 .. nonce: puX_f- .. section: Core and Builtins Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6698 .. nonce: LM67G- .. section: Core and Builtins PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError. Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning. .. .. bpo: 1377858 .. date: 6697 .. nonce: PoWq_L .. section: Core and Builtins Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic classes still have the bug). .. .. bpo: 1579370 .. date: 6696 .. nonce: 0Jm29g .. section: Core and Builtins Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the frame's thread state. .. .. bpo: 1630975 .. date: 6695 .. nonce: MoA2CT .. section: Core and Builtins Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6694 .. nonce: fKwD4u .. section: Core and Builtins Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised a warning. .. .. bpo: 1566280 .. date: 6693 .. nonce: dDNq9b .. section: Core and Builtins Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to avoid relying on atexit. .. .. bpo: 1590891 .. date: 6692 .. nonce: VyFkXx .. section: Core and Builtins random.randrange don't return correct value for big number. .. .. bpo: 1586791 .. date: 6691 .. nonce: xyEZ-z .. section: Core and Builtins Better exception messages for some operations on strings, tuples and lists. .. .. bpo: 1067760 .. date: 6690 .. nonce: HtgVCb .. section: Core and Builtins Deprecate passing floats to file.seek. .. .. bpo: 1591996 .. date: 6689 .. nonce: j1ATtE .. section: Core and Builtins Correctly forward exception in instance_contains(). .. .. bpo: 1588287 .. date: 6688 .. nonce: Mux8Eb .. section: Core and Builtins fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds. .. .. bpo: 1576657 .. date: 6687 .. nonce: JfJVvT .. section: Core and Builtins when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple". .. .. bpo: 1565514 .. date: 6686 .. nonce: 3kM2zk .. section: Core and Builtins SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks. .. .. bpo: 1576174 .. date: 6685 .. nonce: Ks0OoN .. section: Core and Builtins WindowsError now displays the windows error code again, no longer the posix error code. .. .. bpo: 1549049 .. date: 6684 .. nonce: ufVmC9 .. section: Core and Builtins Support long values in structmember, issue warnings if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6683 .. nonce: v9ZHkl .. section: Core and Builtins Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns. .. .. bpo: 1545497 .. date: 6682 .. nonce: 0YntFv .. section: Core and Builtins when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs embedded in the string to convert. .. .. bpo: 1569998 .. date: 6681 .. nonce: mqCYRs .. section: Core and Builtins break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now recognized and rejected. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6680 .. nonce: MdIC85 .. section: Core and Builtins list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6679 .. nonce: nWa36P .. section: Core and Builtins A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value, were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler anymore. .. .. bpo: 1566800 .. date: 6678 .. nonce: 46JUvD .. section: Core and Builtins make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4. .. .. bpo: 1567691 .. date: 6677 .. nonce: rDDApW .. section: Core and Builtins super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't use them). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6676 .. nonce: FEPr2V .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement .. .. bpo: 1557232 .. date: 6675 .. nonce: 2eVXVS .. section: Core and Builtins fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6674 .. nonce: aEwDvG .. section: Core and Builtins Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6673 .. nonce: _XQgGS .. section: Core and Builtins Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again. .. .. bpo: 1551432 .. date: 6672 .. nonce: 4Fco_l .. section: Core and Builtins Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed. .. .. bpo: 1542051 .. date: 6671 .. nonce: lVPfnC .. section: Core and Builtins Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack. Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to 'exceptions'. .. .. bpo: 1550983 .. date: 6670 .. nonce: cUpUA- .. section: Core and Builtins emit better error messages for erroneous relative imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6669 .. nonce: _4DitC .. section: Core and Builtins Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming. .. .. bpo: 1542451 .. date: 6668 .. nonce: 2iFYEe .. section: Core and Builtins disallow continue anywhere under a finally. .. .. bpo: 1546288 .. date: 6667 .. nonce: IBkaPv .. section: Core and Builtins fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6666 .. nonce: kNIYss .. section: Core and Builtins The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where head is the original string if sep was not found. .. .. bpo: 1520864 .. date: 6665 .. nonce: G6F34n .. section: Core and Builtins unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6664 .. nonce: R3bZAP .. section: Core and Builtins ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords. .. .. bpo: 1664966 .. date: 6663 .. nonce: wU2avG .. section: Core and Builtins Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded. .. .. bpo: 1537 .. date: 6662 .. nonce: Qt9CQA .. section: Core and Builtins Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to BaseException. .. .. bpo: 1703448 .. date: 6661 .. nonce: dAcXJT .. section: Core and Builtins A joined thread could show up in the threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until it actually exited. .. .. bpo: 2274 .. date: 6660 .. nonce: COHFzM .. section: Library Add heapq.heappushpop(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6659 .. nonce: fQAzb9 .. section: Library Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223 .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6658 .. nonce: JXuX8j .. section: Library Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6657 .. nonce: ofhiG1 .. section: Library Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out timestamps. .. .. bpo: 1627 .. date: 6656 .. nonce: -5gXNT .. section: Library httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers. .. .. bpo: 900744 .. date: 6655 .. nonce: s5RLjb .. section: Library If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead of raising ValueError. .. .. bpo: 1492 .. date: 6654 .. nonce: 4bp5zb .. section: Library The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can now be overridden. .. .. bpo: 1781 .. date: 6653 .. nonce: m_snIp .. section: Library ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section (ignore-case) .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6652 .. nonce: a5mTI6 .. section: Library Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to be done in the rest of the stdlib. .. .. bpo: 1916 .. date: 6651 .. nonce: w1JiGM .. section: Library added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py. .. .. bpo: 1224 .. date: 6650 .. nonce: UN2SxX .. section: Library Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6649 .. nonce: T9Y4k2 .. section: Library ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be pickled. .. .. bpo: 1966 .. date: 6648 .. nonce: 8viueu .. section: Library Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers implements the chunked encoding incorrectly. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6647 .. nonce: p6a6jJ .. section: Library Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6646 .. nonce: KqfmO5 .. section: Library The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string. .. .. bpo: 2021 .. date: 6645 .. nonce: jhrI3F .. section: Library Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly supporting the context management protocol. .. .. bpo: 1979 .. date: 6644 .. nonce: Ji_oHm .. section: Library Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard. .. .. bpo: 2004 .. date: 6643 .. nonce: JJ0sxf .. section: Library tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default permissions for missing directories. .. .. bpo: 175006 .. date: 6642 .. nonce: 1yQpV- .. section: Library The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop. .. .. bpo: 1765140 .. date: 6641 .. nonce: 9htIhK .. section: Library add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true, defers opening the file until the first call to emit(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6640 .. nonce: kWAgVm .. section: Library The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets. .. .. bpo: 1221598 .. date: 6639 .. nonce: Tv3Q8D .. section: Library add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz) .. .. bpo: 1715 .. date: 6638 .. nonce: JieRLT .. section: Library include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output. .. .. bpo: 1836 .. date: 6637 .. nonce: dvWiAW .. section: Library fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover time calculation. .. .. bpo: 1021 .. date: 6636 .. nonce: oJ2Efg .. section: Library fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level. .. .. bpo: 932563 .. date: 6635 .. nonce: KzDj52 .. section: Library add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add contextual information in logging output. .. .. bpo: 1760556 .. date: 6634 .. nonce: TJk_Du .. section: Library fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in flush(). .. .. bpo: 1530959 .. date: 6633 .. nonce: FpNHxq .. section: Library distutils' build command now uses different build directory when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled with ``--with-pydebug``. .. .. bpo: 1555501 .. date: 6632 .. nonce: ZWMYzK .. section: Library move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library. .. .. bpo: 1269 .. date: 6631 .. nonce: mXhB8y .. section: Library fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for pstats. .. .. bpo: 1669 .. date: 6630 .. nonce: wYb4kk .. section: Library don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a directory. .. .. bpo: 1664522 .. date: 6629 .. nonce: iKq42P .. section: Library in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead. .. .. bpo: 856047 .. date: 6628 .. nonce: u8LcMz .. section: Library respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib. .. .. bpo: 1178141 .. date: 6627 .. nonce: kOvNOH .. section: Library add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code. .. .. bpo: 1003 .. date: 6626 .. nonce: WwyOlb .. section: Library Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files with extended local headers. .. .. bpo: 1189216 .. date: 6625 .. nonce: ux7ujo .. section: Library Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers past the 2**31 byte boundary. .. .. bpo: 1336 .. date: 6624 .. nonce: r4ZdAS .. section: Library fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process to hang when the child wrote to stderr. .. .. bpo: 1146 .. date: 6623 .. nonce: 3Fg8Y4 .. section: Library fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the last column of a line. .. .. bpo: 1693149 .. date: 6622 .. nonce: UDBT5O .. section: Library trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated modules to be given. .. .. bpo: 1822 .. date: 6621 .. nonce: p-ABc6 .. section: Library MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share. .. .. bpo: 1861 .. date: 6620 .. nonce: YK39Pw .. section: Library Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples). .. .. bpo: 1837 .. date: 6619 .. nonce: ltZfCW .. section: Library The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue. .. .. bpo: 1048820 .. date: 6618 .. nonce: hKddPS .. section: Library Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in Textbox.gather(). .. .. bpo: 1831 .. date: 6617 .. nonce: nEy8wq .. section: Library ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer. When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is raised instead of a ValueError. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6616 .. nonce: 2_XlvX .. section: Library Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so that array types do not live longer than needed. .. .. bpo: 1786 .. date: 6615 .. nonce: glzSfE .. section: Library pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call and when creating a recursive instance. .. .. bpo: 1698398 .. date: 6614 .. nonce: yxfh1R .. section: Library ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object. .. .. bpo: 1780 .. date: 6613 .. nonce: PEqfgx .. section: Library The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string. Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6612 .. nonce: e5MNna .. section: Library Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6611 .. nonce: r8_kX- .. section: Library Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability: (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7) .. .. bpo: 846388 .. date: 6610 .. nonce: h2AmOT .. section: Library re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly good for long regular expression matches. .. .. bpo: 1137 .. date: 6609 .. nonce: USs2NO .. section: Library allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser objects to set the character data buffer size. .. .. bpo: 1757 .. date: 6608 .. nonce: ZXonpG .. section: Library The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by the current context. .. .. bpo: 467924 .. date: 6607 .. nonce: VqzBRz .. section: Library add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the zipfile module. .. .. bpo: 1646 .. date: 6606 .. nonce: 0Shvv6 .. section: Library Make socket support the TIPC protocol. .. .. bpo: 1742 .. date: 6605 .. nonce: vdh5mh .. section: Library return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are equal instead of raising an exception. .. .. bpo: 1637 .. date: 6604 .. nonce: 9ck-BF .. section: Library fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'. .. .. bpo: 1698 .. date: 6603 .. nonce: KTC0EP .. section: Library allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py. .. .. bpo: 1735 .. date: 6602 .. nonce: Xgf-_n .. section: Library TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions and times. .. .. bpo: 1713 .. date: 6601 .. nonce: SO4g7K .. section: Library posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint. .. .. bpo: 1687 .. date: 6600 .. nonce: qmmQ39 .. section: Library Fxed plistlib.py restricts to Python int when writing .. .. bpo: 1700 .. date: 6599 .. nonce: u0StFP .. section: Library Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain unicode characters. .. .. bpo: 1689 .. date: 6598 .. nonce: dx0XAO .. section: Library PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6597 .. nonce: BOT6AN .. section: Library Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as Tcl objects. .. .. bpo: 1642 .. date: 6596 .. nonce: doGg1I .. section: Library Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes. .. .. bpo: 1727780 .. date: 6595 .. nonce: X0UJbf .. section: Library Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5. .. .. bpo: 1455 .. date: 6594 .. nonce: qerPO1 .. section: Library The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler. .. .. bpo: 1531 .. date: 6593 .. nonce: hM8cSV .. section: Library tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not seek to the start. .. .. bpo: 1534 .. date: 6592 .. nonce: 2S_yfp .. section: Library Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the internal floating point type to the sys module. .. .. bpo: 1429818 .. date: 6591 .. nonce: f7q9_- .. section: Library patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely together. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6590 .. nonce: ydUJ45 .. section: Library doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data() method used universal newlines. .. .. bpo: 1705170 .. date: 6589 .. nonce: 0iNdat .. section: Library contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen. .. .. bpo: 1292 .. date: 6588 .. nonce: kW3YuR .. section: Library On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes". .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6587 .. nonce: nGUzBY .. section: Library IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7 files are updated. .. .. bpo: 1181 .. date: 6586 .. nonce: -eJDB_ .. section: Library unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used. (See also: bpo-1287) .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6585 .. nonce: 76qRj0 .. section: Library ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is configured with --with-system-ffi. .. .. bpo: 1203 .. date: 6584 .. nonce: MPohFL .. section: Library ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with ``--disable-toolbox-glue``. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6583 .. nonce: 4gk9jK .. section: Library collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6582 .. nonce: KEzbqu .. section: Library itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6581 .. nonce: 8OaKab .. section: Library Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the input iterables. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6580 .. nonce: w2hxqg .. section: Library Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations(). .. .. bpo: 1541463 .. date: 6579 .. nonce: xGnI_Z .. section: Library optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6578 .. nonce: oJ3eSC .. section: Library Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66). .. .. bpo: 1153 .. date: 6577 .. nonce: oxsMZ- .. section: Library repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items to be orderable to properly represent them. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6576 .. nonce: 3NxHdM .. section: Library A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module. .. .. bpo: 1709599 .. date: 6575 .. nonce: ZInQo1 .. section: Library Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6574 .. nonce: dXPH7w .. section: Library When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6573 .. nonce: -jXdBx .. section: Library TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6572 .. nonce: OzvBf4 .. section: Library The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility with Python 3000. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6571 .. nonce: NBttxY .. section: Library Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6570 .. nonce: fKSKr7 .. section: Library socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6569 .. nonce: z663Ql .. section: Library uuid creation is now threadsafe. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6568 .. nonce: NGc_vS .. section: Library EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul syllables. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6567 .. nonce: abpzUy .. section: Library GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are missing in GBK. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6566 .. nonce: hoSWQ5 .. section: Library Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE. .. .. bpo: 1704793 .. date: 6565 .. nonce: o6G2FY .. section: Library Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot represent the result in a single character. .. .. bpo: 978833 .. date: 6564 .. nonce: nosP-g .. section: Library Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6563 .. nonce: Ha8_ga .. section: Library Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi .. .. bpo: 1701409 .. date: 6562 .. nonce: x3Qs1t .. section: Library Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6561 .. nonce: QHd-OV .. section: Library tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add(). .. .. bpo: 1734723 .. date: 6560 .. nonce: zfdFr7 .. section: Library Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6559 .. nonce: A7KLfz .. section: Library The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6558 .. nonce: mMxho- .. section: Library In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at connection time. .. .. bpo: 1728403 .. date: 6557 .. nonce: SusWve .. section: Library Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument for .read() is specified. .. .. bpo: 1730389 .. date: 6556 .. nonce: WVvA-8 .. section: Library Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument. .. .. bpo: 1668596 .. date: 6555 .. nonce: 5l2Qnk .. section: Library distutils now copies data files even if package_dir is empty. (See also: bpo-1720897) .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6554 .. nonce: jWDgV4 .. section: Library sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6553 .. nonce: fepG9O .. section: Library md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. .. .. bpo: 1385 .. date: 6552 .. nonce: pms34F .. section: Library The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6551 .. nonce: soFpEB .. section: Library mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6550 .. nonce: eSD3F7 .. section: Library MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6549 .. nonce: CQZoRW .. section: Library tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6548 .. nonce: NLgbaM .. section: Library urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6547 .. nonce: aRmxLC .. section: Library shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6546 .. nonce: 16HcrE .. section: Library The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6545 .. nonce: oUYKUV .. section: Library Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher support in urllib/urllib2. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6544 .. nonce: NH6RAh .. section: Library Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack of an infinite recursion check. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6543 .. nonce: 9XHU1_ .. section: Library Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in the directories). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6542 .. nonce: Sbs4OF .. section: Library HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and injecting HTML into the error page. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6541 .. nonce: fDPaFU .. section: Library The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6540 .. nonce: DiM9IG .. section: Library Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP servers which require authentication. .. .. bpo: 1695948 .. date: 6539 .. nonce: Gkj_1M .. section: Library Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler. .. .. bpo: 1652788 .. date: 6538 .. nonce: Wp3YON .. section: Library Minor fix for currentframe. .. .. bpo: 1598415 .. date: 6537 .. nonce: z3zZwM .. section: Library Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is only useful in Unix/Linux environments. .. .. bpo: 1706381 .. date: 6536 .. nonce: LwHKFI .. section: Library Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in ".cpp" too. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6535 .. nonce: 960i58 .. section: Library As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2. .. .. bpo: 1290505 .. date: 6534 .. nonce: bXfrzq .. section: Library time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now properly recreated when the locale is changed. .. .. bpo: 1685563 .. date: 6533 .. nonce: ce_7tt .. section: Library remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6532 .. nonce: 0VS9AQ .. section: Library Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and closes patch #723312. .. .. bpo: 1676823 .. date: 6531 .. nonce: Ujlmqa .. section: Library Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout). .. .. bpo: 978833 .. date: 6530 .. nonce: zF4H2Y .. section: Library Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup. .. .. bpo: 1675967 .. date: 6529 .. nonce: 1iw5U2 .. section: Library re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer. .. .. bpo: 1630118 .. date: 6528 .. nonce: eZiVxq .. section: Library add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py. .. .. bpo: 1273829 .. date: 6527 .. nonce: mj4QNT .. section: Library os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to directories. .. .. bpo: 1681228 .. date: 6526 .. nonce: 4MMQ01 .. section: Library the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before trying Mozilla variants. .. .. bpo: 1339796 .. date: 6525 .. nonce: Nn-Kby .. section: Library add a relpath() function to os.path. .. .. bpo: 1681153 .. date: 6524 .. nonce: fQELcx .. section: Library the wave module now closes a file object it opened if initialization failed. .. .. bpo: 767111 .. date: 6523 .. nonce: C9lOY0 .. section: Library fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't contain a valid HTTP status line. .. .. bpo: 957650 .. date: 6522 .. nonce: 2j9cb4 .. section: Library "%var%" environment variable references are now properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references are recognized and handled on Windows. .. .. bpo: 1429539 .. date: 6521 .. nonce: _VYWyV .. section: Library pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work correctly now. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6520 .. nonce: 8oczdW .. section: Library The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated. .. .. bpo: 1393667 .. date: 6519 .. nonce: qba-ui .. section: Library pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments. .. .. bpo: 1649190 .. date: 6518 .. nonce: WRBz2d .. section: Library Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool. .. .. bpo: 1530482 .. date: 6517 .. nonce: 1HDrw- .. section: Library add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does. .. .. bpo: 1533909 .. date: 6516 .. nonce: I3IRRD .. section: Library the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods. .. .. bpo: 1537850 .. date: 6515 .. nonce: mojZP- .. section: Library tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close behavior. .. .. bpo: 1581073 .. date: 6514 .. nonce: Im5bIV .. section: Library add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of whitespace while wrapping. .. .. bpo: 1603688 .. date: 6513 .. nonce: Mv_jlM .. section: Library ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors on reading back those values. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6512 .. nonce: ZYo06p .. section: Library Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar. .. .. bpo: 1449244 .. date: 6511 .. nonce: uHkKjk .. section: Library Support Unicode strings in email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}. .. .. bpo: 1542681 .. date: 6510 .. nonce: 5y5uCV .. section: Library add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to pydoc's help keywords. .. .. bpo: 1555098 .. date: 6509 .. nonce: mO79lM .. section: Library use str.join() instead of repeated string concatenation in robotparser. .. .. bpo: 1635454 .. date: 6508 .. nonce: 8Gv5Ek .. section: Library the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list. .. .. bpo: 1668100 .. date: 6507 .. nonce: BfAU9i .. section: Library urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails. .. .. bpo: 1677862 .. date: 6506 .. nonce: YuXNs6 .. section: Library Require a space or tab after import in .pth files. .. .. bpo: 1192590 .. date: 6505 .. nonce: d2uMgi .. section: Library Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number. .. .. bpo: 1599845 .. date: 6504 .. nonce: 9zhNQX .. section: Library Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer. .. .. bpo: 1531963 .. date: 6503 .. nonce: p5GJcu .. section: Library Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by patch #1545011. .. .. bpo: 742598 .. date: 6502 .. nonce: -50Nso .. section: Library Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls .handle_timeout() when no requests are received. .. .. bpo: 1651235 .. date: 6501 .. nonce: cY8CV7 .. section: Library When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call, Python would crash instead of raising an error. .. .. bpo: 1646630 .. date: 6500 .. nonce: rkS7gc .. section: Library ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0) returned string up to the first NUL character. .. .. bpo: 957003 .. date: 6499 .. nonce: SskRob .. section: Library Implement smtplib.LMTP. .. .. bpo: 1481079 .. date: 6498 .. nonce: gEYAkC .. section: Library add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer. .. .. bpo: 1675424 .. date: 6497 .. nonce: 8A9fwo .. section: Library Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has a descriptive message. .. .. bpo: 1115886 .. date: 6496 .. nonce: Q-42A9 .. section: Library os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', ''). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6495 .. nonce: wlVTpz .. section: Library unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome exception. .. .. bpo: 787789 .. date: 6494 .. nonce: jzIMu8 .. section: Library allow passing custom TestRunner instances to unittest's main() function. .. .. bpo: 1550273 .. date: 6493 .. nonce: Ra8QUZ .. section: Library fix a few bugs in unittest and add a comprehensive test suite for the module. (See also: bpo-1550272) .. .. bpo: 1001604 .. date: 6492 .. nonce: Vdqhuq .. section: Library glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames. .. .. bpo: 1673619 .. date: 6491 .. nonce: j16YPr .. section: Library setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build. .. .. bpo: 912410 .. date: 6490 .. nonce: mh0cGH .. section: Library Replace HTML entity references for attribute values in HTMLParser. .. .. bpo: 1663234 .. date: 6489 .. nonce: YZlp53 .. section: Library you can now run doctest on test files and modules using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...". .. .. bpo: 1121142 .. date: 6488 .. nonce: EulpqL .. section: Library Implement ZipFile.open. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6487 .. nonce: jimAik .. section: Library Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6486 .. nonce: qbUsHo .. section: Library Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6485 .. nonce: c69oKw .. section: Library Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6484 .. nonce: 5y6Y9N .. section: Library Added itertools.izip_longest(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6483 .. nonce: VzsTJi .. section: Library Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute import semantics. .. .. bpo: 1647484 .. date: 6482 .. nonce: FkN5SP .. section: Library Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name. .. .. bpo: 1517891 .. date: 6481 .. nonce: AvYw8j .. section: Library Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it doesn't exist. .. .. bpo: 698833 .. date: 6480 .. nonce: UagENp .. section: Library Support file decryption in zipfile. .. .. bpo: 685268 .. date: 6479 .. nonce: j7gRo3 .. section: Library Consider a package's __path__ in imputil. .. .. bpo: 1463026 .. date: 6478 .. nonce: _0rmmb .. section: Library Support default namespace in XMLGenerator. .. .. bpo: 1571379 .. date: 6477 .. nonce: TLNfnP .. section: Library Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of relative directory names. .. .. bpo: 1600860 .. date: 6476 .. nonce: gY3F66 .. section: Library Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems. .. .. bpo: 1652681 .. date: 6475 .. nonce: ZiYQdm .. section: Library tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and allow appending to empty files. .. .. bpo: 1124861 .. date: 6474 .. nonce: aulyJj .. section: Library Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in subprocess. .. .. bpo: 1634778 .. date: 6473 .. nonce: pScHLI .. section: Library add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and iso8859_16. .. .. bpo: 1638243 .. date: 6472 .. nonce: SAVlQC .. section: Library the compiler package is now able to correctly compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter. .. .. bpo: 1643943 .. date: 6471 .. nonce: a4nxv3 .. section: Library Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive. .. .. bpo: 1507247 .. date: 6470 .. nonce: AYqRTm .. section: Library tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate directories. .. .. bpo: 1627441 .. date: 6469 .. nonce: nTrbqY .. section: Library close sockets properly in urllib2. .. .. bpo: 494589 .. date: 6468 .. nonce: 2kCbNY .. section: Library make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6467 .. nonce: ezpU0D .. section: Library Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually return a tuple (it used to return a list). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6466 .. nonce: 2-kVtg .. section: Library Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(), python_implementation() and linux_distribution(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6465 .. nonce: qzrIXP .. section: Library Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6464 .. nonce: MS8C3z .. section: Library The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types instead. .. .. bpo: 1610795 .. date: 6463 .. nonce: FEIux6 .. section: Library make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6462 .. nonce: rfv0pM .. section: Library Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make parameterless foreign function calls work. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6461 .. nonce: iCu2EB .. section: Library The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0". .. .. bpo: 1627575 .. date: 6460 .. nonce: ekqcHu .. section: Library logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding". .. .. bpo: 411881 .. date: 6459 .. nonce: SdPBJS .. section: Library logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped. .. .. bpo: 411881 .. date: 6458 .. nonce: Hui5Li .. section: Library logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped. .. .. bpo: 411881 .. date: 6457 .. nonce: EB2bof .. section: Library logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped. .. .. bpo: 1504073 .. date: 6456 .. nonce: i48FvZ .. section: Library Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument. .. .. bpo: 1182394 .. date: 6455 .. nonce: oDRBxu .. section: Library Speed up ``HMAC.hexdigest``. (Patch by Shane Holloway.) .. .. bpo: 1262036 .. date: 6454 .. nonce: 1Y1xgB .. section: Library Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under certain conditions. .. .. bpo: 1230446 .. date: 6453 .. nonce: OwOxzM .. section: Library tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell() work correctly together with readline(). .. .. bpo: 1484695 .. date: 6452 .. nonce: kbpUdY .. section: Library The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid. .. .. bpo: 1503765 .. date: 6451 .. nonce: N5UCHi .. section: Library Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma- separated lists read from logging config files. .. .. bpo: 1604907 .. date: 6450 .. nonce: AXQii8 .. section: Library Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems. .. .. bpo: 1608267 .. date: 6449 .. nonce: ldcDih .. section: Library fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory to be created is already there. .. .. bpo: 1610437 .. date: 6448 .. nonce: pXPK4x .. section: Library fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers. .. .. bpo: 1371075 .. date: 6447 .. nonce: NE7BY3 .. section: Library Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for ordering, sorting, etc. .. .. bpo: 1563807 .. date: 6446 .. nonce: r5ah8b .. section: Library _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error. .. .. bpo: 1598620 .. date: 6445 .. nonce: jHuKUn .. section: Library A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself. .. .. bpo: 1070046 .. date: 6444 .. nonce: E13xc_ .. section: Library Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in xmlrpclib. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6443 .. nonce: P-fEXH .. section: Library cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and regular files. .. .. bpo: 1472877 .. date: 6442 .. nonce: qL083L .. section: Library Fix Tix subwidget name resolution. .. .. bpo: 1594554 .. date: 6441 .. nonce: SqL3iT .. section: Library Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an exception occurs. .. .. bpo: 1538878 .. date: 6440 .. nonce: m2hjNu .. section: Library Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the parent window is withdrawn. .. .. bpo: 1597824 .. date: 6439 .. nonce: ORR2oo .. section: Library return the registered function from atexit.register() to facilitate usage as a decorator. .. .. bpo: 1360200 .. date: 6438 .. nonce: 2ymI3x .. section: Library Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with file name mangling. .. .. bpo: 1359217 .. date: 6437 .. nonce: RlkDVQ .. section: Library Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that precedes an 1xx response. .. .. bpo: 1355023 .. date: 6436 .. nonce: gz3jFH .. section: Library support whence argument for GzipFile.seek. .. .. bpo: 1065257 .. date: 6435 .. nonce: dzuo9U .. section: Library Support passing open files as body in HTTPConnection.request(). .. .. bpo: 1569790 .. date: 6434 .. nonce: XNZtnX .. section: Library mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder() weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH objects. .. .. bpo: 1514543 .. date: 6433 .. nonce: JxSqun .. section: Library mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David Watson.) .. .. bpo: 1514544 .. date: 6432 .. nonce: nfmx-- .. section: Library Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David Watson.) .. .. bpo: 1592250 .. date: 6431 .. nonce: cErfyc .. section: Library Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search. .. .. bpo: 838546 .. date: 6430 .. nonce: yBohhh .. section: Library Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork(). .. .. bpo: 1351744 .. date: 6429 .. nonce: a4x3Q4 .. section: Library Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox. .. .. bpo: 1060577 .. date: 6428 .. nonce: 7Hpowm .. section: Library Extract list of RPM files from spec file in bdist_rpm. .. .. bpo: 1586613 .. date: 6427 .. nonce: pIXli0 .. section: Library fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders. .. .. bpo: 1583880 .. date: 6426 .. nonce: nwiLAW .. section: Library fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/ GNU modes. .. .. bpo: 1586448 .. date: 6425 .. nonce: FmFoc_ .. section: Library the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND opcode. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6424 .. nonce: 2gBgWG .. section: Library Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with" statement (bug #1586513). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6423 .. nonce: zvhpow .. section: Library Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports correctly. .. .. bpo: 1567274 .. date: 6422 .. nonce: LA_DH5 .. section: Library Support SMTP over TLS. .. .. bpo: 1560695 .. date: 6421 .. nonce: kVpjpW .. section: Library Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6420 .. nonce: fKDGbU .. section: Library ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a partial fix for Bug #1574584. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6419 .. nonce: yLdVeX .. section: Library Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library. Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only when the module is run as a script. .. .. bpo: 1565150 .. date: 6418 .. nonce: DJh_i- .. section: Library Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6417 .. nonce: p_gre9 .. section: Library Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst. .. .. bpo: 1446043 .. date: 6416 .. nonce: yKz_Q4 .. section: Library correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot. .. .. bpo: 1560617 .. date: 6415 .. nonce: aAisSJ .. section: Library in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes, but also for functions. .. .. bpo: 1457823 .. date: 6414 .. nonce: CRxLz4 .. section: Library cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments. .. .. bpo: 1566602 .. date: 6413 .. nonce: bB3CAB .. section: Library correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends with a slash. .. .. bpo: 1565661 .. date: 6412 .. nonce: AP25Qm .. section: Library in webbrowser, split() the command for the default GNOME browser in case it is a command with args. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6411 .. nonce: DZkwqI .. section: Library Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and format do match be more clear. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6410 .. nonce: 7duvEn .. section: Library Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set. In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6409 .. nonce: 709mp_ .. section: Library Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported). .. .. bpo: 1504333 .. date: 6408 .. nonce: y46ekU .. section: Library Reverted change to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop. .. .. bpo: 1553314 .. date: 6407 .. nonce: RCumD0 .. section: Library Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule() .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6406 .. nonce: 6I6WXA .. section: Library Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config. .. .. bpo: 1550886 .. date: 6405 .. nonce: DuV8q5 .. section: Library Fix decimal module context management implementation to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343. .. .. bpo: 1545341 .. date: 6404 .. nonce: EaLhZZ .. section: Library The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists. .. .. bpo: 1541863 .. date: 6403 .. nonce: HUh40x .. section: Library uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on systems with low clock resolution. .. .. bpo: 1531862 .. date: 6402 .. nonce: yyYfx5 .. section: Library Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6401 .. nonce: lISaKl .. section: Library Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 bytes. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6400 .. nonce: RFXvgt .. section: Library The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members). .. .. bpo: 829951 .. date: 6399 .. nonce: v5y-W2 .. section: Library In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner. .. .. bpo: 1339 .. date: 6398 .. nonce: zNAkVN .. section: Library The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo() beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server does not claim to support starttls. Adds the SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner. .. .. bpo: 1089358 .. date: 6397 .. nonce: 91PLbW .. section: Library Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around siginterrupt(3). .. .. bpo: 1657 .. date: 6396 .. nonce: KEujtl .. section: Library added select.epoll and select.kqueue. .. .. bpo: 1506171 .. date: 6395 .. nonce: h2Yotv .. section: Library added operator.methodcaller(). .. .. bpo: 1826 .. date: 6394 .. nonce: P9qpop .. section: Library operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths. .. .. bpo: 1957 .. date: 6393 .. nonce: oQ_zDG .. section: Library syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3). .. .. bpo: 2112 .. date: 6392 .. nonce: CfSrtY .. section: Library mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a direct EnvironmentError. .. .. bpo: 2111 .. date: 6391 .. nonce: nUPHdZ .. section: Library mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ. .. .. bpo: 2063 .. date: 6390 .. nonce: -AQbR3 .. section: Library correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows. .. .. bpo: 1736 .. date: 6389 .. nonce: Ag5pGB .. section: Library Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6388 .. nonce: zNsGmS .. section: Library Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004. .. .. bpo: 1940 .. date: 6387 .. nonce: VTj9uW .. section: Library make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr() as the documentation says. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6386 .. nonce: J1VXc3 .. section: Library Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0. .. .. bpo: 1087741 .. date: 6385 .. nonce: pcDAZm .. section: Library mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also subclassable now. .. .. bpo: 1648 .. date: 6384 .. nonce: 1C5JXG .. section: Library added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``. .. .. bpo: 1663329 .. date: 6383 .. nonce: m0g8vu .. section: Library added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close a range of file descriptors without considering errors. .. .. bpo: 976880 .. date: 6382 .. nonce: R51uQk .. section: Library ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end`` parameter. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6381 .. nonce: wrGXou .. section: Library _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to support the context management protocol. The _winreg module also gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand REG_EXPAND_SZ keys. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6380 .. nonce: ke0PK4 .. section: Library itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it required the function inputs to be tuples. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6379 .. nonce: JNKKZ8 .. section: Library itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor, chain.from_iterable(). .. .. bpo: 1646 .. date: 6378 .. nonce: DqQiG7 .. section: Library Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more information. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6377 .. nonce: YrJhGa .. section: Library Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an example for a simple network sniffer. .. .. bpo: 1301 .. date: 6376 .. nonce: w3N8In .. section: Library Bad assert in _tkinter fixed. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6375 .. nonce: 1zmfDo .. section: Library Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008. .. .. bpo: 1604 .. date: 6374 .. nonce: d3HHRR .. section: Library collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings the behavior into line with that for list.__init__(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6373 .. nonce: hHIPo7 .. section: Library Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6372 .. nonce: OFK-oY .. section: Library os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6371 .. nonce: vDe3M3 .. section: Library Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6370 .. nonce: brR3xl .. section: Library Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float, complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a ValueError instead. .. .. bpo: 1388440 .. date: 6369 .. nonce: L0q4gk .. section: Library Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and get_completion_type to readline. .. .. bpo: 1649098 .. date: 6368 .. nonce: ahOvw- .. section: Library Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in structure. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6367 .. nonce: -gsoXT .. section: Library Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5. .. .. bpo: 1721309 .. date: 6366 .. nonce: Xm2Y60 .. section: Library prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory. .. .. bpo: 1233 .. date: 6365 .. nonce: 85-yC3 .. section: Library fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as intended for RECNO databases. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6364 .. nonce: P617AK .. section: Library pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will replace all values for a given key when the database allows duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6363 .. nonce: 5NHGNc .. section: Library Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method. .. .. bpo: 1686475 .. date: 6362 .. nonce: gwpzpq .. section: Library Support stat'ing open files on Windows again. .. .. bpo: 1185447 .. date: 6361 .. nonce: 4SdEiu .. section: Library binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any line. .. .. bpo: 1622896 .. date: 6360 .. nonce: 4WbmkO .. section: Library fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an error in spite of a succesful compression. .. .. bpo: 1654417 .. date: 6359 .. nonce: H1p2ET .. section: Library make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range of Py_ssize_t. .. .. bpo: 1646728 .. date: 6358 .. nonce: qkvzER .. section: Library datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative fractional times. With unittest. .. .. bpo: 1490190 .. date: 6357 .. nonce: n7enEK .. section: Library posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available. .. .. bpo: 1494140 .. date: 6356 .. nonce: --CKWP .. section: Library Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object. .. .. bpo: 1432399 .. date: 6355 .. nonce: uVk0JY .. section: Library Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets .. .. bpo: 1657276 .. date: 6354 .. nonce: fcUdLm .. section: Library Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional. .. .. bpo: 1653736 .. date: 6353 .. nonce: tNuUq7 .. section: Library Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat. .. .. bpo: 1486663 .. date: 6352 .. nonce: sR35oQ .. section: Library don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of built-in types. .. .. bpo: 1610575 .. date: 6351 .. nonce: xC0F2x .. section: Library The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99 _Bool. .. .. bpo: 1635058 .. date: 6350 .. nonce: 1H4WNl .. section: Library ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation. .. .. bpo: 1544279 .. date: 6349 .. nonce: oS9QmK .. section: Library Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object. .. .. bpo: 1019808 .. date: 6348 .. nonce: WZeJ5G .. section: Library fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt fails. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6347 .. nonce: yggQVa .. section: Library Speed up function calls into the math module. .. .. bpo: 1588217 .. date: 6346 .. nonce: CZ-jdO .. section: Library don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode() does. .. .. bpo: 1599782 .. date: 6345 .. nonce: nZV6k1 .. section: Library Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type(). .. .. bpo: 1567666 .. date: 6344 .. nonce: Yy8nbf .. section: Library Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95. .. .. bpo: 1576166 .. date: 6343 .. nonce: uPuEL3 .. section: Library Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+. .. .. bpo: 1572724 .. date: 6342 .. nonce: AS17ot .. section: Library fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c. .. .. bpo: 1572832 .. date: 6341 .. nonce: usqHny .. section: Library fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault when encoding non-BMP unicode characters. .. .. bpo: 1556784 .. date: 6340 .. nonce: 1CAZai .. section: Library allow format strings longer than 127 characters in datetime's strftime function. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6339 .. nonce: IX1su7 .. section: Library Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6338 .. nonce: E13nLX .. section: Library RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available. .. .. bpo: 1551427 .. date: 6337 .. nonce: FbxrjA .. section: Library fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of os.urandom(). .. .. bpo: 1548092 .. date: 6336 .. nonce: CQ3Zbs .. section: Library fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input. .. .. bpo: 1114 .. date: 6335 .. nonce: hs32Do .. section: Library fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.) .. .. bpo: 1550714 .. date: 6334 .. nonce: _3LprN .. section: Library fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6333 .. nonce: 44hgU5 .. section: Library Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs: - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT correctly. - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312 codepoints to conform the standard. - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2 codepoints now. .. .. bpo: 1552726 .. date: 6332 .. nonce: KRiUv4 .. section: Library in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6331 .. nonce: a94xwS .. section: Library fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments were transposed. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6330 .. nonce: m3uTkK .. section: Library Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x, 4.6.x and 4.7.x. .. .. bpo: 1633621 .. date: 6329 .. nonce: M5Ndcj .. section: Library if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and curses.COLS. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6328 .. nonce: HrtEA6 .. section: Library Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm(). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6327 .. nonce: ojYwDU .. section: Library Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6326 .. nonce: A1idYz .. section: Library Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*. .. .. bpo: 1372 .. date: 6325 .. nonce: VpXOJ9 .. section: Library zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6324 .. nonce: at5Xd_ .. section: Library bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on databases without a DBEnv. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6323 .. nonce: ilOhKQ .. section: Library The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1. .. .. bpo: 813342 .. date: 6322 .. nonce: s5yukE .. section: IDLE Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is started with that option. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6321 .. nonce: JiyCdF .. section: IDLE IDLE: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092). .. .. bpo: 30357 .. date: 6320 .. nonce: n4CPEa .. section: Tests test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6319 .. nonce: PVjNrU .. section: Tests Refactor test_logging to use unittest. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6318 .. nonce: 7j-hhA .. section: Tests Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6317 .. nonce: q9s3e7 .. section: Tests Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6316 .. nonce: 7jQnkY .. section: Tests Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied. .. .. bpo: 1559413 .. date: 6315 .. nonce: GoWQim .. section: Tests Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a space. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6314 .. nonce: vjtR_D .. section: Tests Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6313 .. nonce: 6z7bKB .. section: Tests Added a test for slicing of an exception. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6312 .. nonce: ieil_O .. section: Tests Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset environment variables. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6311 .. nonce: jmumH0 .. section: Tests Added some tests for modulefinder. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6310 .. nonce: 0Kz44H .. section: Tests Converted test_imp to use unittest. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6309 .. nonce: smrRfs .. section: Tests Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version number properly. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6308 .. nonce: Z4K3CJ .. section: Tests test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6307 .. nonce: lEqBYO .. section: Tools/Demos Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6306 .. nonce: JHrA97 .. section: Tools/Demos Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin and script directory. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6305 .. nonce: cj1Ip_ .. section: Tools/Demos Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6304 .. nonce: q6eo5q .. section: Tools/Demos Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was patch #1563844). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6303 .. nonce: xPqVA4 .. section: Tools/Demos Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see which Python version is running pybench. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6302 .. nonce: Ufn_76 .. section: Tools/Demos Added support for the new platform module feature platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the benchmark pickle. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6301 .. nonce: SJGror .. section: Documentation RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to include new optional delay argument. .. .. bpo: 932563 .. date: 6300 .. nonce: ujYdrI .. section: Documentation Added section on getting contextual information into logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class. .. .. bpo: 1295 .. date: 6299 .. nonce: WBH2ZB .. section: Documentation Added information about caching of formatted exception information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format(). .. .. bpo: 1637365 .. date: 6298 .. nonce: hHynKK .. section: Documentation add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the Python tutorial. .. .. bpo: 1698768 .. date: 6297 .. nonce: e4h7Jp .. section: Documentation updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro. .. .. bpo: 1569057 .. date: 6296 .. nonce: DqDgin .. section: Documentation Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for writing is undefined. .. .. bpo: 1489771 .. date: 6295 .. nonce: Ygchql .. section: Documentation the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were updated to reflect the current Python syntax. .. .. bpo: 1686451 .. date: 6294 .. nonce: ODrdFR .. section: Documentation Fix return type for PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}. .. .. bpo: 1679379 .. date: 6293 .. nonce: T_NdX4 .. section: Documentation add documentation for fnmatch.translate(). .. .. bpo: 1629566 .. date: 6292 .. nonce: IkETIS .. section: Documentation clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate() and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822. .. .. bpo: 1671450 .. date: 6291 .. nonce: nJrEYa .. section: Documentation add a section about subclassing built-in types to the "extending and embedding" tutorial. .. .. bpo: 1629125 .. date: 6290 .. nonce: 9JdHlD .. section: Documentation fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next docs. .. .. bpo: 1565919 .. date: 6289 .. nonce: hwpjHv .. section: Documentation document set types in the Language Reference. .. .. bpo: 1546052 .. date: 6288 .. nonce: 3_Kcqu .. section: Documentation clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the string pointed to by its parameter. .. .. bpo: 1566663 .. date: 6287 .. nonce: mAgcIO .. section: Documentation remove obsolete example from datetime docs. .. .. bpo: 1541682 .. date: 6286 .. nonce: 10BXyV .. section: Documentation Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs. Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea. .. .. bpo: 1552024 .. date: 6285 .. nonce: FQsYLY .. section: Tools/Demos add decorator support to unparse.py demo script. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6284 .. nonce: whjkV0 .. section: Tools/Demos Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if the file is stale or not. .. .. bpo: 1546372 .. date: 6283 .. nonce: MVtd4U .. section: Tools/Demos Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing file not to get reported properly. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6282 .. nonce: keNFft .. section: Build Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment variables. .. .. bpo: 1983 .. date: 6281 .. nonce: DMUUfR .. section: Build Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is smaller or equal sizeof(long). .. .. bpo: 1234 .. date: 6280 .. nonce: uVPtek .. section: Build Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2 .. .. bpo: 1726 .. date: 6279 .. nonce: VPW3gd .. section: Build Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6278 .. nonce: v3vkcE .. section: Build Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6277 .. nonce: PiHUNm .. section: Build Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/. .. .. bpo: 1699 .. date: 6276 .. nonce: p7AIXC .. section: Build Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD. .. .. bpo: 1608 .. date: 6275 .. nonce: H08Msy .. section: Build use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important, newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks without this option! .. .. bpo: 1418 .. date: 6274 .. nonce: DbqMV4 .. section: Build Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6273 .. nonce: voVF_6 .. section: Build Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged, performance critical applications. .. .. bpo: 786737 .. date: 6272 .. nonce: mJJr01 .. section: Build Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a readonly source. .. .. bpo: 1737210 .. date: 6271 .. nonce: hMxaQH .. section: Build Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF. .. .. bpo: 1746880 .. date: 6270 .. nonce: hrR2KM .. section: Build Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6269 .. nonce: xKHD52 .. section: Build Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6268 .. nonce: 3JXjJ7 .. section: Build Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform. .. .. bpo: 1655392 .. date: 6267 .. nonce: bwAdWN .. section: Build don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared because that prevented the shared library from being used. .. .. bpo: 1569798 .. date: 6266 .. nonce: 7Camzj .. section: Build fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a directory within sys.exec_prefix. .. .. bpo: 1675511 .. date: 6265 .. nonce: j8xiLT .. section: Build Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6264 .. nonce: D_HO5I .. section: Build Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6263 .. nonce: ipd_yd .. section: Build configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format attribute. .. .. bpo: 1578513 .. date: 6262 .. nonce: MkcqR2 .. section: Build Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure. Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3. .. .. bpo: 1576954 .. date: 6261 .. nonce: Rd2jyj .. section: Build Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files in VC7. .. .. bpo: 1568842 .. date: 6260 .. nonce: xBW1d2 .. section: Build Fix test for uintptr_t. .. .. bpo: 1540470 .. date: 6259 .. nonce: JS-AGw .. section: Build for OpenBSD 4.0. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6258 .. nonce: 7uKaSk .. section: Build Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6257 .. nonce: cPAQ_M .. section: Build Fix the build of the library reference in info format. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6256 .. nonce: vXo4QU .. section: Build Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6255 .. nonce: UHEp2F .. section: Build Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build environment. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6254 .. nonce: Wws2go .. section: C API Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6253 .. nonce: vwQmXR .. section: C API ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6252 .. nonce: b3Psyt .. section: C API Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6251 .. nonce: UrXjnD .. section: C API Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions. .. .. bpo: 1720595 .. date: 6250 .. nonce: FdLtKP .. section: C API add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types. .. .. bpo: 1534 .. date: 6249 .. nonce: k9vjbw .. section: C API Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API. .. .. bpo: 1521 .. date: 6248 .. nonce: eHI3IG .. section: C API On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect results with huge strings. .. .. bpo: 1629 .. date: 6247 .. nonce: YktpXQ .. section: C API Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6246 .. nonce: g8xMae .. section: C API PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6245 .. nonce: sGL89S .. section: C API Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined. .. .. bpo: 1733960 .. date: 6244 .. nonce: 8rUKMs .. section: C API Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6243 .. nonce: VY6LgN .. section: C API T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6242 .. nonce: ZkzATk .. section: C API Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``. .. .. bpo: 1637022 .. date: 6241 .. nonce: wBq1VS .. section: C API Prefix AST symbols with _Py_. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6240 .. nonce: YAicka .. section: C API Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items). .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6239 .. nonce: A7o-lD .. section: C API Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6238 .. nonce: ZpnpHT .. section: C API ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative imports under some conditions. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6237 .. nonce: 15u7sP .. section: C API Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``. .. .. bpo: 1542693 .. date: 6236 .. nonce: ZPZ9Df .. section: C API remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro so it can be used as an expression. .. .. bpo: 1706 .. date: 6235 .. nonce: D8C2K3 .. section: Windows Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6234 .. nonce: cKizM7 .. section: Windows Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE. .. .. bpo: 1216 .. date: 6233 .. nonce: DblJmV .. section: Windows Restore support for Visual Studio 2002. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6232 .. nonce: 2DB1Bg .. section: macOS cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6231 .. nonce: r4EkYd .. section: macOS buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 6230 .. nonce: Mdk5q1 .. section: macOS Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5. This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.