From: Serhiy Storchaka Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:57:24 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Issue #17221: Resort Misc/NEWS. X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a1~924^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4e762ee802d1121db0834d9c9c25cc6d7483fb81;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue #17221: Resort Misc/NEWS. --- 4e762ee802d1121db0834d9c9c25cc6d7483fb81 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index af2d056e8caf,5ab616e7bc90..429df086adeb --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -24,25 -20,12 +24,21 @@@ Core and Builtin - Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from. +- Issue #14439: Python now prints the traceback on runpy failure at startup. + +- Issue #17469: Fix _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() and sys.getallocatedblocks() + when running on valgrind. + - Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows. +- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity messages for -v/-vv that were lost during + the importlib transition. + - Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function. -- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity output when using -v/-vv. +- 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 ------- @@@ -73,43 -48,52 +69,41 @@@ - Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary. -- Issue #17678: Fix DeprecationWarning in the http/cookiejar.py by changing the - usage of get_origin_req_host() to origin_req_host. - -- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field. - -- Issue #17502: Process DEFAULT values in mock side_effect that returns iterator. - Patch by Michael Foord. - -- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions while passing bad directives to - time.strptime(). Initial patch by Claudiu Popa. +- Issue #17487: The wave getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than + a plain tuple. -- Issue #17435: threading.Timer's __init__ method no longer uses mutable - default values for the args and kwargs parameters. +- Issue #17675: socket repr() provides local and remote addresses (if any). + Patch by Giampaolo Rodola' -- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to - inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle. - -- Issue #16550: Update the opcode descriptions of pickletools to use unsigned - integers where appropriate. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka. +- Issue #17093: Make the ABCs in importlib.abc provide default values or raise + reasonable exceptions for their methods to make them more amenable to super() + calls. -IDLE ----- +- Issue #17566: Make importlib.abc.Loader.module_repr() optional instead of an + abstractmethod and raising NotImplementedError so as to be ignored by default. -- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit(). - -- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog. - Patch by Todd Rovito. - -- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE. - -- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE. +- Issue #17678: Remove the use of deprecated method in http/cookiejar.py. + Changing the usage of get_origin_req_host() to origin_req_host. -- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box. +- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field. -- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used. +- Issue #16475: Support object instancing, recursion and interned strings + in marshal -- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts. +- 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 #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file. +- 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. -- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so. +- Issue #17434: Properly raise a SyntaxError when a string occurs between future + imports. -- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer - raises an exception. +- Issue #17117: Import and @importlib.util.set_loader now set __loader__ when + it has a value of None or the attribute doesn't exist. -- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo. +- Issue #17032: The "global" in the "NameError: global name 'x' is not defined" + error message has been removed. Patch by Ram Rachum. Tests ----- @@@ -126,6 -110,27 +120,13 @@@ - Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney. - -What's New in Python 3.3.1? -=========================== - -*Release date: 07-Apr-2013* - -Build ++C-API + ----- + -- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch. - -IDLE -------- ++- Issue #17522: Add the PyGILState_Check() API. + -- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used. ++- Issue #17327: Add PyDict_SetDefault. + What's New in Python 3.3.1 release candidate 1? =============================================== @@@ -137,10 -142,12 +138,6 @@@ Core and Builtin - 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 #17223: Fix PyUnicode_FromUnicode() for string of 1 character outside - the range U+0000-U+10ffff. - -- Issue #1692335: Move initial args assignment to - BaseException.__new__ to help pickling of naive subclasses. -- - Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom. @@@ -214,21 -216,6 +209,18 @@@ - Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes OverflowError in winreg.SetValueEx. +- Issue #11939: Set the st_dev attribute of stat_result to allow Windows to + take advantage of the os.path.samefile/sameopenfile/samestat implementations + used by other platforms. + +- 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 + in object.__format__. Patch by Florent Xicluna. + - Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream if invoking flush() fails. @@@ -311,20 -269,6 +301,15 @@@ - Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now raises an error. +- Issue #7317: Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously. + Patch by Alon Horev with update by Alexey Kachayev. + +- Issue #16309: Make PYTHONPATH="" behavior the same as if PYTHONPATH + not set at all. + +- 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. @@@ -337,24 -278,9 +322,15 @@@ - 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 Å uppa. - +- 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. + - Issue #14783: Improve int() docstring and switch docstrings for str(), range(), and slice() to use multi-line signatures. @@@ -461,17 -348,6 +437,19 @@@ Librar - Issue #17476: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in undocumented pydoc 'allmethods'; it was missing unbound methods on the class. +- Issue #17474: Remove the deprecated methods of Request class. + +- 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. + +- Issue #17460: Remove the strict argument of HTTPConnection and removing the + DeprecationWarning being issued from 3.2 onwards. + - Issue #16880: Do not assume _imp.load_dynamic() is defined in the imp module. - Issue #16389: Fixed a performance regression relative to Python 3.1 in the @@@ -498,12 -362,6 +476,12 @@@ 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 + to ignore specified exceptions, replacing the "except Exc: pass" idiom. + - Issue #14645: The email generator classes now produce output using the specified linesep throughout. Previously if the prolog, epilog, or body were stored with a different linesep, that linesep was used. This @@@ -515,14 -373,12 +493,18 @@@ - Issue #16962: Use getdents64 instead of the obsolete getdents syscall in the subprocess module on Linux. +- Issue #16935: unittest now counts the module as skipped if it raises SkipTest, + instead of counting it as an error. Patch by Zachary Ware. + - 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. + - Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly. Patch by Lowe Thiderman. @@@ -562,6 -406,6 +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. @@@ -579,12 -423,6 +563,9 @@@ - Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested symlinks on POSIX platforms. +- 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. @@@ -772,11 -572,6 +756,8 @@@ - 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 #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from path. @@@ -1081,89 -777,33 +1056,72 @@@ was especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line. -- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in `argparse` caused by the preceding change, +- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change, when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``. +- Issue #16113: Added sha3 module based on the Keccak reference implementation + 3.2. The `hashlib` module has four additional hash algorithms: `sha3_224`, + `sha3_256`, `sha3_384` and `sha3_512`. As part of the patch some common + code was moved from _hashopenssl.c to hashlib.h. + +- ctypes.call_commethod was removed, since its only usage was in the defunct + samples directory. + +- 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 ---- +- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit(). + +- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog. + Patch by Todd Rovito. + +- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE. + +- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE. + +- 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. + +- 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. + - - Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used. - - - 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 #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser. - - Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals. + - Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase + interface and support all mandatory methods and properties. - - Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks. ++- 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 #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 #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks. - - Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file. + - Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals. - - Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so. + - Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by + Roger Serwy. - - Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer - raises an exception. + - Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid. + Patch Serhiy Storchaka. - - Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo. + - 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. + Tests ----- @@@ -1368,6 -986,11 +1332,24 @@@ Buil - 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 ------------- @@@ -1458,30 -1082,21 +1446,33 @@@ 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 "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line. -- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. +- Issue #11797: Add a 2to3 fixer that maps reload() to imp.reload(). + +- Issue #10966: Remove the concept of unexpected skipped tests. + +- Issue #9893: Removed the Misc/Vim directory. + +- Removed the Misc/TextMate directory. -- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace. +- Issue #16245: Add the Tools/scripts/parse_html5_entities.py script to parse + the list of HTML5 entities and update the html.entities.html5 dictionary. + +- 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. @@@ -2191,9 -1789,9 +2174,6 @@@ Core and Builtin Library ------- - - Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open. - Patch by Roger Serwy. -- Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting - math.factorial. -- - Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue for tkinter SimpleDialog. @@@ -3928,12 -3486,9 +3868,9 @@@ Librar - Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk. -- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding ``user:password`` during Basic +- 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. @@@ -4409,15 -3945,9 +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 obfuscate) - a ``Connection: close`` header. +- 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.