diff -r 61993bb9ab0e Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS Mon Feb 18 13:03:07 2013 +0200 +++ b/Misc/NEWS Mon Feb 18 13:11:48 2013 +0200 @@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ - 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. @@ -84,9 +82,6 @@ - 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 @@ -130,8 +125,6 @@ - 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. @@ -183,11 +176,6 @@ - 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. @@ -200,21 +188,12 @@ - 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. @@ -319,8 +298,6 @@ - Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module. -- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser. - - Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection is automatically closed. @@ -382,9 +359,6 @@ - Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is set to a callable object. -- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase - interface and support all mandatory methods and properties. - - Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee() if all other iterators were very advanced before. @@ -413,16 +387,11 @@ - Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than 4 GiB. -- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito. - - Issue #16955: Fix the poll() method for multiprocessing's socket connections on Windows. - SSLContext.load_dh_params() now properly closes the input file. -- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other - special characters in the file path. - - Issue #15031: Refactor some .pyc management code to cut down on code duplication. Thanks to Ronan Lamy for the report and taking an initial stab at the problem. @@ -439,8 +408,6 @@ failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750). -- Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks. - - fcntl: add F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC constant, available on Linux 2.6.24+. - Issue #15972: Fix error messages when os functions expecting a file name or @@ -477,8 +444,6 @@ clears previous values stored in the default section. Same goes for ``parser.update({'DEFAULT': {}})``. -- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals. - - Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy. - Issue #16787: Increase asyncore and asynchat default output buffers size, to @@ -502,20 +467,11 @@ - Issue #16641: Default values of sched.scheduler.enter() are no longer modifiable. -- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by - Roger Serwy. - - Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes regarding leading dots. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - Issue #16788: Add samestat to Lib/ntpath.py -- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for - localhost tests. - -- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid. - Patch Serhiy Storchaka. - - Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from path. @@ -593,9 +549,6 @@ 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. @@ -678,9 +631,6 @@ - Issue #16284: Prevent keeping unnecessary references to worker functions in concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor. -- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu - Patch by Todd Rovito. - - Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. @@ -757,9 +707,6 @@ - Issue #15417: Add support for csh and fish in venv activation scripts. -- Issue #16123: IDLE - deprecate running without a subprocess. - Patch by Roger Serwy. - - Issue #14377: ElementTree.write and some of the module-level functions have a new parameter - *short_empty_elements*. It controls how elements with no contents are emitted. @@ -811,9 +758,6 @@ `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. @@ -845,6 +789,12 @@ Tests ----- +- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for + localhost tests. + +- Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c. + Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. + - Issue #17107: Test client-side SNI support in urllib.request thanks to the new server-side SNI support in the ssl module. Initial patch by Daniel Black. @@ -984,9 +934,33 @@ - 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 ------------- +- 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 #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values all return the same result?" programming FAQ. @@ -1047,10 +1021,42 @@ - Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being supported. +IDLE +---- + +- 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. + Tools/Demos ----------- -- Issue #17028: Allowed Python arguments to be supplied to the Windows +- Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests. + Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #17028: Allowed Python arguments to be supplied to the Windows launcher. - Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now @@ -1283,18 +1289,12 @@ - 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 ------------- @@ -1459,9 +1459,6 @@ - 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. @@ -1486,8 +1483,6 @@ - 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 @@ -1614,6 +1609,12 @@ - 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 ----------- @@ -1633,6 +1634,8 @@ Documentation ------------- +- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation. + - Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. @@ -1741,14 +1744,9 @@ - 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. @@ -1776,9 +1774,6 @@ 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. @@ -1797,14 +1792,8 @@ - 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. @@ -1904,10 +1893,6 @@ - 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. @@ -1975,32 +1960,50 @@ - 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. @@ -2009,6 +2012,9 @@ 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". @@ -2097,34 +2103,18 @@ - 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. @@ -2158,9 +2148,6 @@ - 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. @@ -2305,9 +2292,19 @@ - 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. @@ -2356,9 +2353,6 @@ - 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 @@ -2508,12 +2502,6 @@ - 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 @@ -2549,6 +2537,27 @@ - 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 #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. + +- 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 ------------- @@ -2558,6 +2567,12 @@ - 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? =================================== @@ -2609,16 +2624,9 @@ - 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 . -- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib - - Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock - Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking @@ -2644,9 +2652,6 @@ 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. @@ -2678,8 +2683,6 @@ 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. @@ -2695,8 +2698,6 @@ - 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. @@ -2925,10 +2926,6 @@ 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 @@ -3019,10 +3016,6 @@ - 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 @@ -3268,17 +3261,11 @@ 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. @@ -3288,9 +3275,6 @@ - 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 @@ -3332,15 +3316,9 @@ 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. @@ -3396,9 +3374,6 @@ 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 @@ -3415,10 +3390,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3440,11 +3411,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3454,16 +3420,8 @@ - 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. @@ -3484,12 +3442,6 @@ 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). @@ -3516,9 +3468,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3601,10 +3550,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3624,9 +3569,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3738,9 +3680,6 @@ - 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". @@ -3843,10 +3782,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3875,8 +3810,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3946,9 +3879,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3994,15 +3924,9 @@ - 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. @@ -4301,9 +4225,6 @@ 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. @@ -4323,10 +4244,6 @@ - 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. @@ -4563,9 +4480,6 @@ - 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. @@ -4618,8 +4532,6 @@ - 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. @@ -4652,9 +4564,6 @@ - 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. @@ -4777,11 +4686,6 @@ - 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. @@ -4834,10 +4738,61 @@ - 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. @@ -4933,6 +4888,33 @@ 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. @@ -5135,6 +5117,23 @@ 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. @@ -5160,6 +5159,21 @@ 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.