[Python-checkins] cpython (merge default -> default): merge
brett.cannon
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Apr 14 18:51:56 CEST 2013
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c4e3237b2c0d
changeset: 83377:c4e3237b2c0d
parent: 83376:04aaeae6ee7b
parent: 83375:6fdcea9e89a3
user: Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>
date: Sun Apr 14 12:50:51 2013 -0400
summary:
merge
files:
Misc/NEWS | 564 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 281 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -39,10 +39,6 @@
- Issue #17323: The "[X refs, Y blocks]" printed by debug builds has been
disabled by default. It can be re-enabled with the `-X showrefcount` option.
-- Issue #17522: Add the PyGILState_Check() API.
-
-- Issue #17327: Add PyDict_SetDefault.
-
Library
-------
@@ -96,8 +92,6 @@
- Issue #17502: Process DEFAULT values in mock side_effect that returns iterator.
-- Use the HTTPS PyPI url for upload, overriding any plain HTTP URL in pypirc.
-
- Issue #16795: On the ast.arguments object, unify vararg with varargannotation
and kwarg and kwargannotation. Change the column offset of ast.Attribute to be
at the attribute name.
@@ -126,6 +120,13 @@
- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #17522: Add the PyGILState_Check() API.
+
+- Issue #17327: Add PyDict_SetDefault.
+
What's New in Python 3.3.1 release candidate 1?
===============================================
@@ -137,10 +138,6 @@
- Issue #17328: Fix possible refleak in dict.setdefault.
-- Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing
- invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode:
- repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob.
-
- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
@@ -198,8 +195,6 @@
- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
-- Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1.
-
- Issue #16856: Fix a segmentation fault from calling repr() on a dict with
a key whose repr raise an exception.
@@ -221,9 +216,6 @@
- Issue #16772: The int() constructor's second argument (base) no longer
accepts non integer values. Consistent with the behavior in Python 2.
-- Issue #15422: Get rid of PyCFunction_New macro. Use PyCFunction_NewEx
- function (PyCFunction_New func is still present for backward compatibility).
-
- Issue #14470: Remove w9xpopen support per PEP 11.
- Issue #9856: Replace deprecation warning with raising TypeError
@@ -267,8 +259,6 @@
- Issue #16514: Fix regression causing a traceback when sys.path[0] is None
(actually, any non-string or non-bytes type).
-- Issue #16505: Remove unused Py_TPFLAGS_INT_SUBCLASS.
-
- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
@@ -320,11 +310,6 @@
- Issue #10189: Improve the error reporting of SyntaxErrors related to global
and nonlocal statements.
-- Issue #16086: PyTypeObject.tp_flags and PyType_Spec.flags are now unsigned
- (unsigned long and unsigned int) to avoid an undefined behaviour with
- Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS ((1 << 31). PyType_GetFlags() result type is
- now unsigned too (unsigned long, instead of long).
-
- Fix segfaults on setting __qualname__ on builtin types and attempting to
delete it on any type.
@@ -337,21 +322,12 @@
- Issue #16271: Fix strange bugs that resulted from __qualname__ appearing in a
class's __dict__ and on type.
-- Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code.
- Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option.
- Patch by Marek Šuppa.
-
- Issue #12805: Make bytes.join and bytearray.join faster when the separator
is empty. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
-- Issue #16166: Add PY_LITTLE_ENDIAN and PY_BIG_ENDIAN macros and unified
- endianness detection and handling.
-
- Issue #15958: bytes.join and bytearray.join now accept arbitrary buffer
objects.
@@ -466,6 +442,8 @@
- Issue #16709: unittest discover order is no-longer filesystem specific. Patch
by Jeff Ramnani.
+- Use the HTTPS PyPI url for upload, overriding any plain HTTP URL in pypirc.
+
- Issue #5024: sndhdr.whichhdr now returns the frame count for WAV files
rather than -1.
@@ -498,7 +476,7 @@
a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
specified.
-_ Issue #17385: Fix quadratic behavior in threading.Condition. The FIFO
+- Issue #17385: Fix quadratic behavior in threading.Condition. The FIFO
queue now uses a deque instead of a list.
- Issue #15806: Add contextlib.ignored(). This creates a context manager
@@ -520,6 +498,10 @@
- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
+- Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing
+ invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode:
+ repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob.
+
- Issue #17197: profile/cProfile modules refactored so that code of run() and
runctx() utility functions is not duplicated in both modules.
@@ -562,6 +544,8 @@
- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
+- Issue #17192: Import libffi-3.0.12.
+
- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
email.encoders.encode_7or8bit when used with binary data.
@@ -582,9 +566,6 @@
- Issue #13773: sqlite3.connect() gets a new `uri` parameter to pass the
filename as a URI, allowing to pass custom options.
-- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now uses an encoding of source file and correctly
- writes and escapes non-ascii characters.
-
- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
email.encoders.encode_noop when used with binary data.
@@ -637,6 +618,9 @@
- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
+- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
+ when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
+
- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
@@ -774,9 +758,6 @@
- Issue #16788: Add samestat to Lib/ntpath.py
-- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
- localhost tests.
-
- Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from
path.
@@ -854,9 +835,6 @@
list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
passed enumerate().
-- Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests.
- Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka.
-
- Issue #12848: The pure Python pickle implementation now treats object
lengths as unsigned 32-bit integers, like the C implementation does.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
@@ -1066,9 +1044,6 @@
`io.BytesIO` and `io.StringIO` objects now raise ValueError when the object
has been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
-- Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
- Issue #15447: Use `subprocess.DEVNULL` in webbrowser, instead of opening
`os.devnull` explicitly and leaving it open.
@@ -1094,11 +1069,6 @@
- Issue #16692: Added TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support for the ssl modules.
-- Issue #17192: Import libffi-3.0.12.
-
-- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
- when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
-
IDLE
----
@@ -1113,6 +1083,8 @@
- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
+- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
+
- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
@@ -1124,46 +1096,32 @@
- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
-- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
+- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
+
+- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
+ interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
+
+- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito.
+
+- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
+ special characters in the file path.
+
+- Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks.
+
+- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
+
+- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
+ Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid.
+ Patch Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
+ Patch by Todd Rovito.
- Issue #16123: IDLE - deprecate running without a subprocess.
Patch by Roger Serwy.
-- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
- Patch by Todd Rovito.
-
-- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid.
- Patch Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
- Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
-
-- Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks.
-
-- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
- special characters in the file path.
-
-- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito.
-
-- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
- interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
-
-- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
-
-- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
-
-- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
-
-- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
-
-- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
- raises an exception.
-
-- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
-
-
Tests
-----
@@ -1269,6 +1227,9 @@
- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile, --match, and --randomize
options.
+- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
+ localhost tests.
+
- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
@@ -1284,6 +1245,9 @@
- Issue #16115: Add some tests for the executable argument to
subprocess.Popen(). Initial patch by Kushal Das.
+- Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c.
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside
`test.support.temp_cwd()`. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
@@ -1368,6 +1332,24 @@
- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python3 man page.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1.
+
+- Issue #15422: Get rid of PyCFunction_New macro. Use PyCFunction_NewEx
+ function (PyCFunction_New func is still present for backward compatibility).
+
+- Issue #16505: Remove unused Py_TPFLAGS_INT_SUBCLASS.
+
+- Issue #16086: PyTypeObject.tp_flags and PyType_Spec.flags are now unsigned
+ (unsigned long and unsigned int) to avoid an undefined behaviour with
+ Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS ((1 << 31). PyType_GetFlags() result type is
+ now unsigned too (unsigned long, instead of long).
+
+- Issue #16166: Add PY_LITTLE_ENDIAN and PY_BIG_ENDIAN macros and unified
+ endianness detection and handling.
+
Documentation
-------------
@@ -1426,9 +1408,15 @@
- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
+- Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
Yury Selivanov.
+- Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option.
+ Patch by Marek Šuppa.
+
- Additional comments and some style changes in the concurrent.futures URL
retrieval example
@@ -1455,15 +1443,15 @@
- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
supported.
-- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
- supported.
-
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #17028: Allowed Python arguments to be supplied to the Windows
launcher.
+- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now uses an encoding of source file and correctly
+ writes and escapes non-ascii characters.
+
- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
@@ -1482,6 +1470,9 @@
- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests.
+ Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka.
+
- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
@@ -1696,18 +1687,12 @@
- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
+IDLE
+----
+
- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
regression).
-C API
------
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
Documentation
-------------
@@ -1719,7 +1704,7 @@
- Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
- processing). Operating system limitatons can be reflected with the Sphinx
+ processing). Operating system limitations can be reflected with the Sphinx
``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.
- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
@@ -1874,9 +1859,6 @@
- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
-- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
- ended with ``\``. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
`os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
CPUs a process is restricted to.
@@ -1901,8 +1883,6 @@
- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
-- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
-
- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
@@ -2029,6 +2009,12 @@
- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
+ ended with ``\``. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
Tools/Demos
-----------
@@ -2048,6 +2034,8 @@
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+
- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka.
@@ -2156,14 +2144,9 @@
- Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
-- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
created using PyType_FromSpec().
-- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
- guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
@@ -2191,9 +2174,6 @@
Library
-------
-- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
- Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
for tkinter SimpleDialog.
@@ -2212,14 +2192,8 @@
- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
- behind.
-
- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
-- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
- of os.listdir().
-
- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
ASCII only str instances safely.
@@ -2319,10 +2293,6 @@
- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
time or datetime objects.
-- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
- non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
- the importlib importers do not define).
-
- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
@@ -2390,32 +2360,50 @@
- Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
+- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
+ algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
+
+- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
+ allocation issues
+
+- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
+ executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
+
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
+ guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
+ implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
+
+Extension Modules
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
+ Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
- algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
-
-- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
- allocation issues
-
-- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
- executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
- implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
-
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
+ of os.listdir().
+
+- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
+ non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
+ the importlib importers do not define).
+
- Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
Patch by Robin Schreiber.
@@ -2424,6 +2412,9 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
+ behind.
+
- Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
@@ -2512,34 +2503,18 @@
- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
in old-style string formatting.
-- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
- unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
- value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
-
Library
-------
- Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
subprocess and trace modules.
-- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
- byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
-
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
-
- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-- Issue #14929: Stop Idle 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
- grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
- Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
- has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
for any such problems.
@@ -2573,9 +2548,6 @@
- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
-- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
- fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
-
- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
not go in illegal range and returns None.
@@ -2702,6 +2674,21 @@
- Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
+ byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
+
+- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
+
+- Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
+ grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
+ Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
+ has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
+
Tools/Demos
-----------
@@ -2720,9 +2707,19 @@
- Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
+ unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
+ value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
+
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
+ fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
+
- Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.
@@ -2771,9 +2768,6 @@
- Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
- Patch by Stefan Behnel.
-
- Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
@@ -2923,12 +2917,6 @@
- Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
-- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
- Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
-
-- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
- Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
- Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
@@ -2964,6 +2952,15 @@
- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
+ Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
+
+- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
+ Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+
Tools / Demos
-------------
@@ -2973,6 +2970,12 @@
- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
It used to live in its own SVN project.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
+ Patch by Stefan Behnel.
+
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
===================================
@@ -3024,16 +3027,9 @@
- Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
- when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
- has to use the built-in default key bindings.
- There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
-
- Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
if they are defined in <syslog.h>.
-- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
-
- Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
- Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
@@ -3059,9 +3055,6 @@
up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
- (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
-
- Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.
@@ -3093,8 +3086,6 @@
denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
modifications by the expat project.
-- Issue #14200: Idle shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
-
- Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
the name ends up being quoted.
@@ -3110,8 +3101,6 @@
- Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
-
- Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.
- Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.
@@ -3340,10 +3329,6 @@
on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by
Charles-François Natali.
-- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
- different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
- size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
-
- PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
@@ -3434,10 +3419,6 @@
- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
-- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
- and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
- the current locale encoding.
-
- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
@@ -3683,17 +3664,11 @@
PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
NULL).
-- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
-
- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
-- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
- UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
- Patch written by Ray Allen.
-
- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
@@ -3703,9 +3678,6 @@
- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
Patch by Torsten Becker.
-- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
- narrow build.
-
- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
@@ -3747,15 +3719,9 @@
are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
O(n).
-- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
- Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
-
- Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
- scripts found in the Tools directory.
-
- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
on Windows. Also fixed in packaging.
@@ -3811,9 +3777,6 @@
authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
- more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
-
- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
@@ -3830,10 +3793,6 @@
- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
strict=False.
-- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
- which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
- backwards compatibility.
-
- When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
working directory instead of '' in importlib.
@@ -3855,11 +3814,6 @@
- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
raise a ProgrammingError now.
-- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
-
-- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
- Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
descriptors.
@@ -3869,16 +3823,8 @@
- Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.
-- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
- module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
-
- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
-- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
- Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
with overwriting.
@@ -3899,12 +3845,6 @@
OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
-- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
- minor versions not matching.
-
-- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
- on a system without internet access.
-
- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
@@ -3931,9 +3871,6 @@
- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
-- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
- tests.
-
- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
the executor had been shut down.
@@ -4016,10 +3953,6 @@
- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
to load a module twice.
-- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
- display a message popup and continue rather than crash. Original patch by
- Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
soonest (if any) and then return. Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
@@ -4039,9 +3972,6 @@
- Issue #5905, #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
-- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
- Patch by Tal Einat.
-
- Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse. Patch
by Jon Kuhn.
@@ -4153,9 +4083,6 @@
- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
- (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
@@ -4258,10 +4185,6 @@
- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
extension could be unreported.
-- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
- with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
- (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
-
- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
@@ -4290,8 +4213,6 @@
- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
-- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
-
- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
@@ -4361,9 +4282,6 @@
- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
-- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
- in os.kill().
-
- Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.
- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.
@@ -4409,15 +4327,9 @@
- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
-- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
- when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
-
- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
Connection:close header.
-- 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.
@@ -4716,9 +4628,6 @@
passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
Patch by Kasun Herath.
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
- with Tk 8.5.
-
- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
is set in shell.
@@ -4738,10 +4647,6 @@
- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
Patch by John O'Connor.
-- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
- With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
- IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
-
- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
by Yuval Greenfield.
@@ -4978,9 +4883,6 @@
- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
-- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
- Patch by Ben Hayden.
-
- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
concurrent.futures.
@@ -5033,8 +4935,6 @@
- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
setup and teardown.
-- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
-
- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
@@ -5067,9 +4967,6 @@
- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
-- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
- Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
-
- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
@@ -5192,11 +5089,6 @@
- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
-- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-
-- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
- their children.
-
- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
@@ -5249,10 +5141,61 @@
- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
-
IDLE
----
+- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
+ when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
+ has to use the built-in default key bindings.
+ There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
+
+- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
+
+- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
+ (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
+
+- Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
+
+- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
+
+- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
+ Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
+ module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
+ Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
+ display a message popup and continue rather than crash. Original patch by
+ Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
+ Patch by Tal Einat.
+
+- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
+ (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
+ with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
+ (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
+
+- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
+
+- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
+ in os.kill().
+
+- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
+ when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
+
+- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
+ with Tk 8.5.
+
+- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
+ With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
+ IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
+
- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
file in a package.
@@ -5348,6 +5291,33 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
+ Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
+
+- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
+ scripts found in the Tools directory.
+
+- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
+
+- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
+
+- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
+ minor versions not matching.
+
+- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
+ on a system without internet access.
+
+- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
+ tests.
+
+- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
+ Patch by Ben Hayden.
+
+- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
+
+- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
+ Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
+
- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test
- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
@@ -5550,6 +5520,23 @@
C-API
-----
+- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
+ different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
+ size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
+
+- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
+ and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
+ the current locale encoding.
+
+- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
+
+- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
+ UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
+ Patch written by Ray Allen.
+
+- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
+ narrow build.
+
- Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
types.
@@ -5575,6 +5562,21 @@
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
+ more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
+
+- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
+ which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
+ backwards compatibility.
+
+- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
+ with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
+
+- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
+
+- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
+ their children.
+
- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with
great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
--
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