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@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.2? Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors + besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated. + +- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c, + clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d. + - Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes). @@ -77,6 +83,36 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore + to be able to unload the module. + +- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX + with Tk 8.5. + +- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead + of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD. + +- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is + set in shell. + +- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail + attribute when called without a max_length argument. + +- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain + type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, + seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but + still within buffered data, and writing again). + +- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in + order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers. + +- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional. + +- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test. + +- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch + by Kasun Herath. + - Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the previous value of the mtime. @@ -358,6 +394,18 @@ Library Extension Modules ----------------- +- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre + module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__`` + attributes. (See #12099) + +- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking. + +- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested + objects using the C accelerations. + +- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested + objects using the C accelerations. + - Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set to an instance of the class. @@ -413,6 +461,10 @@ IDLE Tests ----- +- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations. + +- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing. + - Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing. - Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows |