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@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ Core and Builtins
- 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 @@ Core and Builtins
- 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 @@ Library
- 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 @@ Library
- 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 @@ Library
- 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 @@ Library
- 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 @@ Library
- 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 @@ Library
- 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 @@ Extension Modules
- 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 @@ C-API
-----
- 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 @@ C-API
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 @@ Build
- 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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