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+++++++++++
Python News
+++++++++++
What's New in Python 3.3.1?
===========================
*Not yet released, see sections below for changes released in 3.3.0*
.. *Release date: XX-XXX-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as integer
values, by using `Py_uintptr_t` instead of `size_t`. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast `AT_FDCWD` as (int). Required on Solaris 10
(which defines `AT_FDCWD` as ``0xffd19553``), harmless on other platforms.
- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in `super()` to RuntimeErrors.
- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using `ast.parse()` in an
exception handler on code with syntax errors.
- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
subscriptable.
Library
-------
- Issue #16089: Allow ElementTree.TreeBuilder to work again with a non-Element
element_factory (fixes a regression in SimpleTAL).
- Issue #16034: Fix performance regressions in the new `bz2.BZ2File`
implementation. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
/usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
- Issue #15756: `subprocess.poll()` now properly handles `errno.ECHILD` to
return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot be waited
on.
- Issue #15323: Improve failure message of `Mock.assert_called_once_with()`.
- Issue #16064: ``unittest -m`` claims executable is "python", not "python3".
- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in `TextTestResult.__init__()` super call.
- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes.
- Issue #16013: Fix `csv.Reader` parsing issue with ending quote characters.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in `Calendar.itermonthdates()` after
`datetime.MAXYEAR`. Patch by Cédric Krier.
- Issue #15970: `xml.etree.ElementTree` now serializes correctly the empty HTML
elements 'meta' and 'param'.
- Issue #15842: The `SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable}` methods now raise
ValueError when the file-like object is closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the `curses` module: window.encoding.
- Issue #15881: Fix `atexit` hook in `multiprocessing`. Original patch by Chris
McDonough.
- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
`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.
- Issue #15509: `webbrowser.UnixBrowser` no longer passes empty arguments to
Popen when ``%action`` substitutions produce empty strings.
- Issue #12776, issue #11839: Call `argparse` type function (specified by
add_argument) only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the
case where the default was specified and the argument was given as well. This
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,
when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``.
Tests
-----
- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside
`test.support.temp_cwd()`. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in `TestMaildir.test_create_tmp()`. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15557: Add a test suite for the `webbrowser` module, thanks to Anton
Barkovsky.
Build
-----
- Issue #15923: Fix a mistake in ``asdl_c.py`` that resulted in a TypeError
after 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly source
directory. (Somewhat related to issue #9860.)
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for `subprocess.Popen()`'s cwd
argument.
- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in `int()`'s signature and
arguments.
- Issue #15935: Clarification of `argparse` docs, re: add_argument() type and
default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
parameter of json encoding operations.
Tools/Demos
-----------
What's New in Python 3.3.0?
===========================
*Release date: 29-Sep-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.
- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
`__int__()` gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
method doesn't require an argument again.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 3?
===============================================
*Release date: 23-Sep-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.
- Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.
- Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
`PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
false an and set_main_loader() fails.
- Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.
Library
-------
- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
with the specification).
- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
`parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
not be parsed.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #15973: Fix a segmentation fault when comparing datetime timezone
objects.
- Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
_set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.
- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
cancel_dump_traceback_later().
- _decimal module: use only C 89 style comments.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 2?
===============================================
*Release date: 09-Sep-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator chains
ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container types.
- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
error numbers and Windows error numbers.
- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
Library
-------
- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
argument lists anymore.
- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.
- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
method.
- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
keypad keys.
- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
calling the C function wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch() if the Python curses is linked
to libncursesw.
Build
-----
- Issue #15822: Really ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed
(replaces fixes for Issue #15645).
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
correctly enforced in 3.3.1.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
===============================================
*Release date: 25-Aug-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
support for any valid struct module format definition.
- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
let that propagate.
- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
msg isn't a str.
- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
this patch)
- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.
- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule. Patch by
Robin Schreiber.
- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.
Library
-------
- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
using the clang compiler.
- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
removed in Python 4.0.
- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.
- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.
- Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.
- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.
- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
displaying exceptions. Patch by Aaron Iles.
- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
use of fromlist leads to a failed import.
- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.
- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
regression).
C API
-----
Extension Modules
-----------------
Tools/Demos
-----------
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
Patch by Chris Rebert.
- 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
``: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
the many language enhancements since they were original written.
- The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
import system reference docs.
- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.
- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
Daniel Ellis.
Tests
-----
- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
test_posix.py to account for this.
- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.
- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
Jeff Knupp.
- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
data. Patch by Kushal Das.
Build
-----
- Output lib files for PGO build into PGO directory.
- Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.
- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
build step.
- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
configuration.
- Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.
- Issue #15645: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 2?
==================================
*Release date: 12-Aug-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
raised by a custom iterator.
- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
Windows, as Python 2.
- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
supported.
- Issue #15425: Eliminated traceback noise from more situations involving
importlib.
- Issue #14578: Support modules registered in the Windows registry again.
- Issue #15466: Stop using TYPE_INT64 in marshal, to make importlib.h (and other
byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
`BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.
- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.
- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
leaked on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
has been fixed.
- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
in os and shutil functions.
- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
startup.
- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
inside itself, don't mask that fact behind a generic ImportError for the
module itself.
- Issue #15293: Add GC support to the AST base node type.
- Issue #15291: Fix a memory leak where AST nodes where not properly
deallocated.
- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
importlib stack frames.
- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
"python3" under Unix, not "python".
- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
Patch by Felipe Cruz.
- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
calling str() on them.
- Issue 15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
Library
-------
- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects. Patch by
Ludwig Hähne.
- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
`importlib.__import__()`.
- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
(they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
- 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.
- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
`socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
- 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
return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed. Initial
patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
epilogue.
- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
the first one.
- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.
- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.
- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
- Issue #15343: pkgutil now includes an iter_importer_modules implementation for
importlib.machinery.FileFinder (similar to the way it already handled
zipimport.zipimporter).
- Issue #15314: runpy now sets __main__.__loader__ correctly.
- Issue #15357: The import emulation in pkgutil is now deprecated. pkgutil uses
importlib internally rather than the emulation.
- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
module will be called in a deterministic order.
- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
the documentation.
- Issue #15315: Support VS 2010 in distutils cygwincompiler.
- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
namespace packages.
- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
ipaddress objects.
- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
provisional API status).
- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
pointing to a directory.
- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
_frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
header field in .pyc files.
- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
flush().
- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command. Patch by
Jakub Wilk.
- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer created and
renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
mailbox.
- Issue 10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
cryptographic purpose.
- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific customizations from
sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util, and distutils.unixccompiler
into a new module _osx_support.
C API
-----
- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
`imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the $LIBPL
value.
- Move importlib.test.benchmark to Tools/importbench.
- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have been
enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within the
"py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
* C frames that are waiting on the GIL
* C frames that are garbage-collecting
* C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy module and
nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
- Issue #15053: Copy Python 3.3 import lock change notice to all relevant
functions in imp instead of just at the top of the relevant section.
- Issue #15288: Link to the term "loader" in notes in pkgutil about how things
won't work as expected in Python 3.3 and mark the requisite functions as
"changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
import itself.
- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
`execfile()`.
- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
Tests
-----
- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support. Patch
by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15284: Skip {send,recv}msg tests in test_socket when IPv6 is not
enabled. Patch by Brian Brazil.
- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled. Patch
by Brian Brazil.
Build
-----
- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development tools
(dpkg-dev) installed.
- Issue #15037: Build OS X installers with local copy of ncurses 5.9 libraries
to avoid curses.unget_wch bug present in older versions of ncurses such as
those shipped with OS X.
- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK. Also, for
OS X installers, ensure consistent sqlite3 behavior and feature availability
by building a local copy of libsqlite3 rather than depending on the wide range
of versions supplied with various OS X releases.
- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared library
are created with the proper ABI suffix.
- Issue #14330: For cross builds, don't use host python, use host search paths
for host compiler.
- Issue #15235: Allow Berkley DB versions up to 5.3 to build the dbm module.
- Issue #15268: Search curses.h in /usr/include/ncursesw.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 1?
==================================
*Release date: 27-Jun-2012*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Fix a (most likely) very rare memory leak when calling main() and not being
able to decode a command-line argument.
- Issue #14815: Use Py_ssize_t instead of long for the object hash, to
preserve all 64 bits of hash on Win64.
- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() or readall() methods
no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted.
IOError is no longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR
from within these methods.
- 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.
- Issue #15096: Removed support for ur'' as the raw notation isn't
compatible with Python 2.x's raw unicode strings.
- Issue #13783: Generator objects now use the identifier APIs internally
- Issue #14874: Restore charmap decoding speed to pre-PEP 393 levels.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15026: utf-16 encoding is now significantly faster (up to 10x).
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #11022: open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling
locale.getpreferredencoding(False) instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
in text mode if the encoding is not specified. Don't change temporary the
locale encoding using locale.setlocale(), use the current locale encoding
instead of the user preferred encoding.
- Issue #14673: Add Eric Snow's sys.implementation implementation.
- Issue #15038: Optimize python Locks on Windows.
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.
- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- 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.
- Issue #15164: Change return value of platform.uname() from a
plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.
- Support Mageia Linux in the platform module.
- Issue #11678: Support Arch linux in the platform module.
- Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
(structseq objects).
- Speed up _decimal by another 10-15% by caching the thread local context
that was last accessed. In the pi benchmark (64-bit platform, prec=9),
_decimal is now only 1.5x slower than float.
- Remove the packaging module, which is not ready for prime time.
- Issue #15154: Add "dir_fd" parameter to os.rmdir, remove "rmdir"
parameter from os.remove / os.unlink.
- Issue #4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't susceptible to symlink attacks.
It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat()
and os.unlinkat() functions. Main code by Martin von Löwis.
- Issue #15156: HTMLParser now uses the new "html.entities.html5" dictionary.
- Issue #11113: add a new "html5" dictionary containing the named character
references defined by the HTML5 standard and the equivalent Unicode
character(s) to the html.entities module.
- Issue #15114: the strict mode of HTMLParser and the HTMLParseError exception
are deprecated now that the parser is able to parse invalid markup.
- Issue #3665: \u and \U escapes are now supported in unicode regular
expressions. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15153: Added inspect.getgeneratorlocals to simplify white box
testing of generator state updates
- Issue #13062: Added inspect.getclosurevars to simplify testing stateful
closures
- Issue #11024: Fixes and additional tests for Time2Internaldate.
- Issue #14626: Large refactoring of functions / parameters in the os module.
Many functions now support "dir_fd" and "follow_symlinks" parameters;
some also support accepting an open file descriptor in place of of a path
string. Added os.support_* collections as LBYL helpers. Removed many
functions only previously seen in 3.3 alpha releases (often starting with
"f" or "l", or ending with "at"). Originally suggested by Serhiy Storchaka;
implemented by Larry Hastings.
- Issue #15008: Implement PEP 362 "Signature Objects".
Patch by Yury Selivanov.
- Issue: #15138: base64.urlsafe_{en,de}code() are now 3-4x faster.
- Issue #444582: Add shutil.which, for finding programs on the system path.
Original patch by Erik Demaine, with later iterations by Jan Killian
and Brian Curtin.
- Issue #14837: SSL errors now have ``library`` and ``reason`` attributes
describing precisely what happened and in which OpenSSL submodule. The
str() of a SSLError is also enhanced accordingly.
- Issue #9527: datetime.astimezone() method will now supply a class
timezone instance corresponding to the system local timezone when
called with no arguments.
- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
- Issue #14684: zlib.compressobj() and zlib.decompressobj() now support the use
of predefined compression dictionaries. Original patch by Sam Rushing.
- Fix GzipFile's handling of filenames given as bytes objects.
- Issue #14772: Return destination values from some shutil functions.
- Issue #15064: Implement context manager protocol for multiprocessing types
- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
- Issue #14657: The frozen instance of importlib used for bootstrap is now
also the module imported as importlib._bootstrap.
- Issue #14055: Add __sizeof__ support to _elementtree.
- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
with 'b' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- 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.
- Issue #14059: Implement multiprocessing.Barrier.
- Issue #15061: The inappropriately named hmac.secure_compare has been
renamed to hmac.compare_digest, restricted to operating on bytes inputs
only and had its documentation updated to more accurately reflect both its
intent and its limitations
- Issue #13841: Make child processes exit using sys.exit() on Windows.
- Issue #14936: curses_panel was converted to PEP 3121 and PEP 384 API.
Patch by Robin Schreiber.
- Issue #1667546: On platforms supporting tm_zone and tm_gmtoff fields
in struct tm, time.struct_time objects returned by time.gmtime(),
time.localtime() and time.strptime() functions now have tm_zone and
tm_gmtoff attributes. Original patch by Paul Boddie.
- Rename adjusted attribute to adjustable in time.get_clock_info() result.
- Issue #3518: Remove references to non-existent BaseManager.from_address()
method.
- Issue #13857: Added textwrap.indent() function (initial patch by Ezra
Berch)
- Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method.
- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
non-string argument to SystemExit.
- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
patch by mouad.
- Issue #11823: disassembly now shows argument counts on calls with keyword args.
- Issue #14711: os.stat_float_times() has been deprecated.
- LZMAFile now accepts the modes "rb"/"wb"/"ab" as synonyms of "r"/"w"/"a".