[Python-checkins] r86451 - python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS
georg.brandl
python-checkins at python.org
Sat Nov 13 14:25:41 CET 2010
Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sat Nov 13 14:25:40 2010
New Revision: 86451
Log:
Minor edits.
Modified:
python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS (original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS Sat Nov 13 14:25:40 2010
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
-- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure,
- unused undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
+- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
+ undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map, similar to str.format(**mapping).
@@ -24,35 +24,35 @@
- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
-- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not hold traceback
+- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
of the offending line.
-- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command-line.
- They can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
+- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
+ can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
-- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead
- of the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
+- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
+ the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
- (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
+ (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
-- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (eg. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expects
- filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape error
+- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
+ filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
resolution.
-- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
- its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
+- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
+ the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
-- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, reuse instead the file
+- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
descriptor.
- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
@@ -65,47 +65,46 @@
- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
-- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See
- also issue #10356.)
+- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
+ #10356.)
-- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on
- standard IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
+- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
+ IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
-- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise
- an error if there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
+- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
+ there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
-- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing
- in tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through
- import *.
+- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
+ tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through import *.
-- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
- Lorenzo M. Catucci.
+- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
+ M. Catucci.
- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
- unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only
- the ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
+ unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
+ ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
-- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods
- of ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument.
- This can be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will
- be called if the target raises an exception.
+- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
+ ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
+ be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
+ the target raises an exception.
-- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method
- of SSL sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
+- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
+ sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
-- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as
- STARTTLS. Patch by Andrew Vant.
+- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
+ Patch by Andrew Vant.
- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
-- Issue #10321: Added support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail,
- and a new method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
+- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
+ method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
@@ -130,60 +129,59 @@
- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
-- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
- its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
+- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
+ low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
-- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS
- CGI environment better, and to correct unicode environment values
- for WSGI 1.0.1.
+- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
+ environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
response, instead of raising an exception.
- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
- incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant;
- if your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is
- likely the case that your app was not compliant.)
+ incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
+ your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
+ the case that your app was not compliant.)
-- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version
- advertised by the server.
+- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
+ by the server.
- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
-- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo
- scripts that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
+- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
+ that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
- as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
+- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
+ filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the
- maxsize parameter had been reduced.
+- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
+ parameter had been reduced.
- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
-- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t'
- for pretty-printing multilevel objects.
+- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
+ pretty-printing multilevel objects.
-- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
- for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
+- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
+ append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by
- mailbox ``get_file()`` methods.
+- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
+ ``get_file()`` methods.
- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
- is called without data.
+- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
+ called without data.
- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
@@ -193,20 +191,20 @@
- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
-- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module
- and its test suite.
+- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
+ its test suite.
- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
- deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by
- default, except in pydebug mode.
+ deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
+ except in pydebug mode.
-- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse
- extensions and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
+- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
+ and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
-- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name
- and deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
+- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
+ deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
@@ -218,21 +216,19 @@
- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
-- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used
- as a context manager.
+- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
+ context manager.
- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
-- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket``
- in order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and
- ``urlopen()`` also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now
- supported.
+- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
+ order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
+ also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
-- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
- initialization.
+- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
@@ -245,9 +241,9 @@
- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
-- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). And
- fixed root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes
- from ntpath)
+- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
+ root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
+ ntpath.)
- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
@@ -266,34 +262,33 @@
- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
debugging in doctests.
-- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now
- return the same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
+- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
+ same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
-- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module,
- where supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
+- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
+ supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
- not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried
- to access via file:// scheme.
+ not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
+ access via file:// scheme.
- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
-- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile()
- didn't match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded
- properly to TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
+- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
+ match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
+ TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
- urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for
- server certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
+ urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
+ certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
-- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects which have a peek()
- method.
+- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
@@ -314,12 +309,12 @@
- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
-- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
- with expat version 2.0.1.
+- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
+ version 2.0.1.
-- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string
- descriptions and backwards, in order to actually make it possible
- to analyze error codes provided by ExpatError.
+- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
+ and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
+ provided by ExpatError.
- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
@@ -327,8 +322,7 @@
-----
- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
- (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc
- instead.
+ (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
type has been introduced.
@@ -336,22 +330,22 @@
Tools/Demos
-----------
-- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files
- that use encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is
- preserved when reindented code is written to a file.
+- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
+ encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
+ reindented code is written to a file.
- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
Tests
-----
-- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings
- as well as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
+- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
+ as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
-- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a
- new test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
+- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
+ test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Build
-----
@@ -366,8 +360,8 @@
- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
-- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
- set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
+- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
+ of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
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