Misc/NEWS.d/2.6a2.rst

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.. release date: 02-Apr-2008
.. section: Core and Builtins

The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the tracing function set by
sys.settrace is still active and happens to call threading.currentThread().

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.. section: Core and Builtins

properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file cannot be executed.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
reference on the outer class name.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by ``compile(...,
PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping of databases.
Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Added backport of bytearray type.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

add Py3k warning for buffer().

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.. section: Core and Builtins

With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence \Uxxxxxxxx did not
accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.  This affected raw
unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec.  Now UTF-16 surrogates
are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals and the
'unicode-escape' codec.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

add Py3k warning for file.softspace.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__. (See also: bpo-2347)

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Allow relative imports to "import *".

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Backport print function with ``from __future__ import print_function``.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

add new attribute names for instance method objects. The two changes are:
im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on exception instances.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that doesn't derive from
BaseException.

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.. date: 6848
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.. section: Core and Builtins

Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that doesn't derive from
BaseException.

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.. date: 6847
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.. section: Core and Builtins

use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce memory usage in some
circumstances.

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.. date: 6846
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.. section: Core and Builtins

PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals are
still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".  This also
affects int(x, 0).

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the flags -Wno-long-double,
-no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no longer passed.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method on the stack
instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin)

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give bogus error
messages.

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.. date: 6840
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.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.

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.. section: Library

Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.

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.. section: Library

logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for daylight savings
time in calculating the next rollover.

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.. section: Library

logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates rollovers
correctly even when nothing is logged for a while.

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.. section: Library

logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved logic for
removing old files.

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.. section: Library

tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive string
literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is incorrect
python code.

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.. section: Library

return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit().

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.. section: Library

Backport of Python 3.0's io module.

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.. section: Library

Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always stored as a str
instance, not as a unicode instance.  This ensures that str(Decimal) is
always an instance of str.

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.. section: Library

fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()

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.. section: Library

give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes advertised in the docs.

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.. section: Library

Make Ellipsis object copyable.

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.. date: 6828
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.. section: Library

Add triangular distribution to the random module

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.. section: Library

urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the
WWW-Authenticate header.

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.. date: 6826
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.. section: Library

Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python installation which do
not have the win32all package installed.

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.. date: 6825
.. nonce: Mua_8k
.. section: Library

Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and processor
information on Windows XP and later. As a result, platform.machine() and
platform.processor() will report this information as well.

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.. section: Library

The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to the
standard distribution.

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.. section: Library

Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit platforms.

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.. date: 6822
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.. section: Library

zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different values on 32-bit vs.
64-bit python interpreters.  Both were correct, but they now both return a
signed integer object for consistency.

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.. date: 6821
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.. section: Library

add %f format (fractions of a second represented as microseconds) to
datetime objects.  Understood by both strptime and strftime.

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.. date: 6820
.. nonce: g5peII
.. section: Library

struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all platforms when x is too
large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; previously it only raised OverflowError
on non IEEE 754 platforms.

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.. nonce: WF2f5f
.. section: Library

now distutils deals with HOME correctly under win32 (See also: bpo-1741,
bpo-1531505)

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.. date: 6818
.. nonce: jGCMLw
.. section: Library

distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc

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.. section: Library

pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now optional: it defaults to
the traceback of the exception that is currently being handled (is mandatory
to be in the middle of an exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).

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.. section: Library

A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers which terminates the
.serve_forever() loop.

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.. section: Library

handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.

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.. date: 6814
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.. section: Library

py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non- zero status code
if not all files could be compiled successfully.

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.. date: 6813
.. nonce: nvfK6A
.. section: Library

In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the root directory, and
also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.

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.. section: Library

The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed from 't' to '?'.

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.. date: 6811
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.. section: Library

The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.  On OS X, preconfigured libffi files
are used.  On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option
defaults to "yes".

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.. section: Library

shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination is a directory
instead of copying-then-remove-source.

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.. date: 6809
.. nonce: K5ZD7T
.. section: Tests

test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and NIS is
not set up on the testing machine.

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.. section: Tests

Output comparison tests are no longer supported.

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.. section: Tests

Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.

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.. section: Tests

GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.

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.. section: Tests

GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.

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.. section: Tests

GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to unittest.

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.. section: Tests

Convert test_fcntl to unittest.

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.. section: Tests

Convert test_gdbm to unittest.

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.. section: Tests

GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest.

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.. section: Tests

GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.

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.. section: Tests

GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.

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.. section: Tests

os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no permission to create
files in the root directory.

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.. section: Build

A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.

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.. section: Build

Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both functions are
in the C89 standard library.

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.. section: Build

Add -x64 option to rt.bat.

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.. section: C API

Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().