http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/97527f3f9829 changeset: 71555:97527f3f9829 branch: 3.2 user: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> date: Tue Jul 26 17:32:50 2011 +0200 summary: Fix sorting or wording of some NEWS entries. I would have put io and ctypes fixes into Extension Modules, but I respected the choice of Antoine or Victor and left them in Library. files: Misc/NEWS | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by + Andreas Stührk. + +- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when + embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk. + - Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before compiling them. @@ -26,8 +32,6 @@ deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo. -- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows. - - When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the generator. @@ -37,11 +41,6 @@ Library ------- -- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used - with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso. - -- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling. - - Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales. - Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess @@ -51,12 +50,10 @@ a read1() method), and add an undocumented *write_through* parameter to mandate unbuffered writes. +- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows. + - Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP. -- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases). - -- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them. - - Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on Linux 3.0. @@ -67,16 +64,10 @@ - Close the call queue in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor when shutdown() is called, without waiting for the garbage collector to kick in. -- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by - Andreas Stührk. - -- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when - embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk. - - Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets. -- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than - the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia. +- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures with an endianness + different than that of the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia. - Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError. @@ -85,15 +76,15 @@ if the process has only one pipe. - Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support - Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie - of the script). - -- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode, + Python modules using a encoding different than UTF-8 (reading the coding + cookie of the module). + +- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python module in binary mode, instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues. -- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode, +- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python module in binary mode, instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings - than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie). + than UTF-8 (modules using the coding cookie). - Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues. @@ -108,6 +99,16 @@ C-API ----- +Build +----- + +- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling. + +- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases). + +- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them. + + Tests ----- @@ -227,9 +228,6 @@ greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter was built. -- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira - Kitada. - - Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment variables, start with an empty environment. @@ -296,6 +294,9 @@ Extension Modules ----------------- +- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira + Kitada. + - Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version. Build -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython