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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Hello
IronPython Community,<br>
<br>
</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>We have just released IronPython 2.0
Alpha 5. Over the past month our team has been busy fixing bugs which
were typically chosen by the number of votes on CodePlex. A little over
forty CodePlex Work Items and around twenty bugs reported internally were
closed since the release of IP 2.0A4. There </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>were no major new features added unless you count the
fact that we ported the standard ‘array’ module from IronPython
v1.1 to v2.0. This now means that all of the standard modules in v1.1 are
available in the latest 2.0 tree</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>.</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Specifically the following
CodePlex Work Items were resolved and I’d like to extend our team’s
thanks to everyone who reported, commented, and voted on these:</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
9453
ayarrow
+= works differently on lists <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
3727
bashmohandes
Problem when creating new Workflow in Windows
Workflow <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
1608
brucec
str.__dict__['__dict__'] should not exist
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5445
IPTeam
socket.getaddrinfo(...) does not throw on nonsense
parameters <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5682
IPTeam
System.Single boolean ops w/ integer types broken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
3289
IPTeam
Threads should not block the main thread from
exiting <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
10778
sanixyn
-S command-line option omits "Lib" from sys.path <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
12283
IPTeam
sys.argv always empty regardless of params passed to
ipyw.exe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
12851
IPTeam
Expressions starting with a backslash in interactive sessions broken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
10518 Benjamin
West urllib
is failing to work due to socket disposed exception <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
11759
sanixyn
Zero-length regex
split <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5641 Christian Muirhead co_name in
code objects is None <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5712 Jörgen
Stenarson iterating over
__main__.__dict__ throws <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
2599 Kurt
Blackwell __import__
from list is incorrect <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
12708 David
Lawler
Method dispatch fails with SharpDevelop
APIs <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
12908 Michael
Foord
Support 0x200 (PyCF_DONT_IMPLY_DEDENT) for compile built-in
function <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
2728
sanixyn
Slicing on old style classes is
different <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
6735
sanixyn
help incorrectly displays arguments for params
functions <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
7426 Sylvain Hellegouarch in operator doesn't check for
overloaded __contains__ on
dictionary <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
7532
sanixyn
func_defaults is empty tuple when there are no
defaults <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
7594
sanixyn
type.__call__ always passes type(type) as 1st
parameter <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
6014 Davy
Mitchell
Calling super on overridden property causes stack overflow <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
9066 Michael
Foord
IronPython won't look into arbitrary objects when doing import
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5602
Eloff
(Py2.5) Cannot import random
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
12455
eshaish
Importing PYD files <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5204
gbraad
PowerShell hosting IronPython
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
11684
googen
PythonEngine has no constructors defined <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
9262
grizlupo
not override __eq__ at derived float <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
7279
haypo
It's not possible to check is a string is 'str' or
'unicode' <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
7918
jackeyoo
CPython has the functions below while IronPython does not implement
them <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
10058
johnplatt
cPickle module doesn't work for
xrange <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
6489
IPTeam
Backslash on the interactive console causes syntax
error <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5690
Oceanborn
Different parsers, compiler pipeline? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
6332
pobrien
DataGridView doesn't support a list of Python class instances as its
DataSource <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
5799
pobrien
Unpickler.persistent_load needs to be
supported <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
3078 psykotic
Bug when dealing with importing of .NET assemblies with class named identically
to its containing namespace
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
3410
sanxiyn
yield in nested try blocks <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
11812 tscottw
dir(bool), dir(True), dir(False) raise SystemError on startup <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
10904
tscottw
[Affecting Tutorial on 2.0] Missed feature (optional arguments) in exercise 2.1
in Tutorial 3 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>·
7982 whit537
^L yields SyntaxError <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>IMPORTANT NOTE</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Internally we have migrated
our Visual Studio project and solution files over to a Visual Studio 2008 beta
release. While we’ve modified these files in the source
distribution of IronPython to be compatible with Visual Studio 2005 and the
msbuild tool, it’s possible we may have missed something. If you
experience any problems building IronPython from VS tools please let us know.</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
You can download IronPython 2.0 Alpha 5 at: https://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython&ReleaseId=7014</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Dynamic Language Runtime
Team</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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