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Python History
--------------
This file contains the release messages for previous Python releases.
As you read on you go back to the dark ages of Python's history.
(Note: news about 2.5c2 and later 2.5 releases is in the Misc/NEWS
file of the release25-maint branch.)
======================================================================
What's New in Python 3.0 final
==============================
*Release date: 03-Dec-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
instead of throwing a MemoryError.
- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
- Fix build failure of _cursesmodule.c building with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
Library
-------
- Issue #4387: binascii now refuses to accept str as binary input.
- Issue #4073: Add 2to3 support to build_scripts, refactor that support
in build_py.
- IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal
debugging is enabled.
- Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have
the same title.
- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
exception.
- Issue #4433: Fixed an access violation when garbage collecting
_ctypes.COMError instances.
- Issue #4429: Fixed UnicodeDecodeError in ctypes.
- Issue #4373: Corrected a potential reference leak in the pickle module and
silenced a false positive ref leak in distutils.tests.test_build_ext.
- Issue #4382: dbm.dumb did not specify the expected file encoding for opened
files.
- Issue #4383: When IDLE cannot make the connection to its subprocess, it would
fail to properly display the error message.
Build
-----
- Issue #4407: Fix source file that caused the compileall step in Windows installer
to fail.
Docs
----
- Issue #4449: Fixed multiprocessing examples
- Issue #3799: Document that dbm.gnu and dbm.ndbm will accept string arguments
for keys and values which will be converted to bytes before committal.
What's New in Python 3.0 release candidate 3?
=============================================
*Release date: 20-Nov-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #4349: sys.path included a non-existent platform directory because of a
faulty Makefile.
- Issue #3327: Don't overallocate in the modules_by_index list.
- Issue #1721812: Binary set operations and copy() returned the input type
instead of the appropriate base type. This was incorrect because set
subclasses would be created without their __init__() method being called.
The corrected behavior brings sets into line with lists and dicts.
- Issue #4296: Fix PyObject_RichCompareBool so that "x in [x]" evaluates to
True, even when x doesn't compare equal to itself. This was a regression
from 2.6.
- Issue #3705: Command-line arguments were not correctly decoded when the
terminal does not use UTF8.
Library
-------
- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
the ctypes module is not present.
- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
- Issue #3799: Fix dbm.dumb to accept strings as well as bytes for keys. String
keys are now written out in UTF-8.
- Issue #4338: Fix distutils upload command.
- Issue #4354: Fix distutils register command.
- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
- Issue #4307: The named tuple that ``inspect.getfullargspec()`` returns now
uses ``kwonlydefaults`` instead of ``kwdefaults``.
- Issue #4298: Fix a segfault when pickle.loads is passed a ill-formed input.
- Issue #4283: Fix a left-over "iteritems" call in distutils.
Build
-----
- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Demos of the socketserver module now work with Python 3.
What's New in Python 3.0 release candidate 2
============================================
*Release date: 05-Nov-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #4211: The __path__ attribute of frozen packages is now a list instead
of a string as required by PEP 302.
- Issue #3727: Fixed poplib.
- Issue #3714: Fixed nntplib by using bytes where appropriate.
- Issue #1210: Fixed imaplib and its documentation.
- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
- Issue #3626: On cygwin, starting python with a non-existent script name
would not display anything if the file name is only 1 character long.
- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
- Issue #3723: Fixed initialization of subinterpreters.
- Issue #4213: The file system encoding is now normalized by the
codec subsystem, for example UTF-8 is turned into utf-8.
- Issue #4200: Changed the atexit module to store its state in its
PyModuleDef atexitmodule. This fixes a bug with multiple subinterpeters.
- Issue #4237: io.FileIO() was raising invalid warnings caused by
insufficient initialization of PyFileIOObject struct members.
- Issue #4170: Pickling a collections.defaultdict object would crash the
interpreter.
- Issue #4146: Compilation on OpenBSD has been restored.
- Issue #3574: compile() incorrectly handled source code encoded as Latin-1.
- Issues #2384 and #3975: Tracebacks were not correctly printed when the
source file contains a ``coding:`` header: the wrong line was displayed, and
the encoding was not respected.
- Issue #3740: Null-initialize module state.
- Issue #3946: PyObject_CheckReadBuffer crashed on a memoryview object.
- Issue #1688: On Windows, the input() prompt was not correctly displayed if it
contains non-ascii characters.
- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
Library
-------
- Issue #3664: The pickle module could segfault if a subclass of Pickler fails
to call the base __init__ method.
- Issue #3725: telnetlib now works completely in bytes.
- Issue #4072: Restore build_py_2to3.
- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
to claiming it is Mature.
- Issue #3187: Add sys.setfilesystemencoding.
- Issue #3187: Better support for "undecodable" filenames. Code by Victor
Stinner, with small tweaks by GvR.
- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
true singleton object.
- Issue #3911: ftplib.FTP.makeport() could give invalid port numbers.
- Issue #3929: When the database cannot be opened, dbm.open() would incorrectly
raise a TypeError: "'tuple' object is not callable" instead of the expected
dbm.error.
- Bug #3884: Make the turtle module toplevel again.
- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
sizes.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #3659: Subclasses of str didn't work as SQL parameters.
Build
-----
- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #3717: Fix Demo/embed/demo.c.
- Issue #4072: Add a distutils demo for build_py_2to3.
What's New in Python 3.0 release candidate 1
============================================
*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #3827: memoryview lost its size attribute in favor of using len(view).
- Issue #3813: could not lanch python.exe via symbolic link on cygwin.
- Issue #3705: fix crash when given a non-ascii value on the command line for
the "-c" and "-m" parameters. Now the behaviour is as expected under Linux,
although under Windows it fails at a later point.
- Issue #3279: Importing site at interpreter was failing silently because the
site module uses the open builtin which was not initialized at the time.
- Issue #3660: Corrected a reference leak in str.encode() when the encoder
does not return a bytes object.
- Issue #3774: Added a few more checks in PyTokenizer_FindEncoding to handle
error conditions.
- Issue #3594: Fix Parser/tokenizer.c:fp_setreadl() to open the file being
tokenized by either a file path or file pointer for the benefit of
PyTokenizer_FindEncoding().
- Issue #3696: Error parsing arguments on OpenBSD <= 4.4 and Cygwin. On
these systems, the mbstowcs() function is slightly buggy and must be
replaced with strlen() for the purpose of counting of number of wide
characters needed to represent the multi-byte character string.
- Issue #3697: "Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow"
could be easily encountered under Windows in debug mode when exercising
the recursion limit checking code, due to bogus handling of recursion
limit when USE_STACKCHEK was enabled.
- Issue 3639: The _warnings module could segfault the interpreter when
unexpected types were passed in as arguments.
- Issue #3712: The memoryview object had a reference leak and didn't support
cyclic garbage collection.
- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
- Issue #3611: An exception __context__ could be cleared in a complex pattern
involving a __del__ method re-raising an exception.
- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
__instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
type object.
- Issue #3663: Py_None was decref'd when printing SyntaxErrors.
- Issue #3651: Fix various memory leaks when using the buffer
interface, or when the "s#" code of PyArg_ParseTuple is given a
bytes object.
- Issue #3657: Fix uninitialized memory read when pickling longs.
Found by valgrind.
- Apply security patches from Apple.
- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
- Issue #3650: Fixed a reference leak in bytes.split('x').
- bytes(o) now tries to use o.__bytes__() before using fallbacks.
- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
C API
-----
- PyObject_Bytes and PyBytes_FromObject were added.
Library
-------
- Issue #3756: make re.escape() handle bytes as well as str.
- Issue #3800: fix filter() related bug in formatter.py.
- Issue #874900: fix behaviour of threading module after a fork.
- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
its symbolic link.
- Issue #3660: fix a memory leak in the C accelerator of the pickle module.
- Issue #3160: the "bdist_wininst" distutils command didn't work.
- Issue #1658: tkinter changes dict size during iteration in both
tkinter.BaseWidget and tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText.
- The bsddb module (and therefore the dbm.bsd module) has been removed.
It is now maintained outside of the standard library at
http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm.
- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
to the urlparse one. Added a DeprecationWarning in the old module, it
will be deprecated in the future.
- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
path to the Python binary.
- Issue 3602: As part of the merge of r66135, make the parameters on
warnings.catch_warnings() keyword-only. Also remove a DeprecationWarning.
- The deprecation warnings for the camelCase threading API names were removed.
- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
SEM_VALUE_MAX.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #3782: os.write() must not accept unicode strings.
- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
without limit.
- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
exploitation of poor argument checking.
- bsddb code updated to version 4.7.3pre2. This code is the same than
Python 2.6 one, since the intention is to keep an unified 2.x/3.x codebase.
The Python code is automatically translated using "2to3". Please, do not
update this code in Python 3.0 by hand. Update the 2.6 one and then
do "2to3".
- The _bytesio and _stringio modules are now compiled into the python binary.
- Issue #3492 and #3790: Fixed the zlib module and zipimport module uses of
mutable bytearray objects where they should have been using immutable bytes.
- Issue #3797: Fixed the dbm, marshal, mmap, ossaudiodev, & winreg modules to
return bytes objects instead of bytearray objects.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Fix Misc/gdbinit so it works.
Build
-----
- Issue #3812: Failed to build python if configure --without-threads.
- Issue #3791: Remove the bsddb module from the Windows installer, and the
core bsddb library from the Windows build files.
What's new in Python 3.0b3?
===========================
*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #3653: Fix a segfault when sys.excepthook was called with invalid
arguments.
- Issue #2394: implement more of the memoryview API, with the caveat that
only one-dimensional contiguous buffers are supported and exercised right
now. Slicing, slice assignment and comparison (equality and inequality)
have been added. Also, the tolist() method has been implemented, but only
for byte buffers. Finally, the API has been updated to return bytes objects
wherever it used to return bytearrays.
- Issue #3560: clean up the new C PyMemoryView API so that naming is
internally consistent; add macros PyMemoryView_GET_BASE() and
PyMemoryView_GET_BUFFER() to access useful properties of a memory views
without relying on a particular implementation; remove the ill-named
PyMemoryView() function (PyMemoryView_GET_BUFFER() can be used instead).
- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
value again.
- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
- The undocumented C APIs PyUnicode_AsString() and
PyUnicode_AsStringAndSize() were made private to the interpreter, in
order to be able to refine their interfaces for Python 3.1.
If you need to access the UTF-8 representation of a Unicode object
as bytes string, please use PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() instead.
- Issue #3460: PyUnicode_Join() implementation is 10% to 80% faster thanks
to Python 3.0's stricter semantics which allow to avoid successive
reallocations of the result string (this also affects str.join()).
Library
-------
- Issue #1276: Added temporary aliases for CJK Mac encodings to resolve
a build problem on MacOS with CJK locales. It adds four temporary
mappings to existing legacy codecs that are virtually compatible
with Mac encodings. They will be replaced by codecs correctly
implemented in 3.1.
- Issue #3614: Corrected a typo in xmlrpc.client, leading to a NameError
"global name 'header' is not defined".
- Issue #2834: update the regular expression library to match the unicode
standards of py3k. In other words, mixing bytes and unicode strings
(be it as pattern, search string or replacement string) raises a TypeError.
Moreover, the re.UNICODE flag is enabled automatically for unicode patterns,
and can be disabled by specifying a new re.ASCII flag; as for bytes
patterns, ASCII matching is the only option and trying to specify re.UNICODE
for such patterns raises a ValueError.
- Issue #3300: make urllib.parse.[un]quote() default to UTF-8.
Code contributed by Matt Giuca. quote() now encodes the input
before quoting, unquote() decodes after unquoting. There are
new arguments to change the encoding and errors settings.
There are also new APIs to skip the encode/decode steps.
[un]quote_plus() are also affected.
- Issue #2235: numbers.Number now blocks inheritance of the default id()
based hash because that hash mechanism is not correct for numeric types.
All concrete numeric types that inherit from Number (rather than just
registering with it) must explicitly provide a hash implementation in
order for their instances to be hashable.
- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
regular expression.
- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
thread-safe.
- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
menu entries were not deleted.
- Remove the TarFileCompat class from tarfile.py.
- Issue #2491: os.fdopen is now almost an alias for the built-in open(), and
accepts the same parameters. It just checks that its first argument is an
integer.
- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
asking for a specific length.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Bug #3542: Support Unicode strings in _msi module.
What's new in Python 3.0b2?
===========================
*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
- Issue #3280: like chr(), the "%c" format now accepts unicode code points
beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane (above 0xffff) on all configurations. On
"narrow Unicode" builds, the result is a string of 2 code units, forming a
UTF-16 surrogate pair.
- Issue #3282: str.isprintable() should return False for undefined
Unicode characters.
- Issue #3236: Return small longs from PyLong_FromString.
- Exception tracebacks now support exception chaining.
Library
-------
- Removed the sunaudio module. Use sunau instead.
- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
error when they failed.
- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
- Removed "ast" function aliases from the parser module.
- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
a valid dlerror() message.
- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
incomplete structure was created.
- Issue #2683: Fix inconsistency in subprocess.Popen.communicate(): the
argument now must be a bytes object in any case.
- Issue #3145: help("modules whatever") failed when trying to load the source
code of every single module of the standard library, including invalid files
used in the test suite.
- The gettext library now consistently uses Unicode strings for message ids
and message strings, and ``ugettext()`` and the like don't exist anymore.
- The traceback module has been expanded to handle chained exceptions.
C API
-----
- Issue #3247: the function Py_FindMethod was removed. Modern types should
use the tp_methods slot instead.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- The Mac/Demos directory has been removed.
- All of the Mac scripts have been removed (including BuildApplet.py).
What's new in Python 3.0b1?
===========================
*Release date: 18-Jun-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
bus error.
- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
- Issue #2630: implement PEP 3138. repr() now returns printable
Unicode characters unescaped, to get an ASCII-only representation
of an object use ascii().
- Issue #1342: On windows, Python could not start when installed in a
directory with non-ascii characters.
- Implement PEP 3121: new module initialization and finalization API.
- Removed the already-defunct ``-t`` option.
- Issue #2957: Corrected a ValueError "recursion limit exceeded", when
unmarshalling many code objects, which happens when importing a
large .pyc file (~1000 functions).
- Issue #2963: fix merging oversight that disabled method cache for
all types.
- Issue #2964: fix a missing INCREF in instancemethod_descr_get.
- Issue #2895: Don't crash when given bytes objects as keyword names.
- Issue #2798: When parsing arguments with PyArg_ParseTuple, the "s"
code now allows any unicode string and returns a utf-8 encoded
buffer, just like the "s#" code already does. The "z" code was
corrected as well.
- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
contains this name.
- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
- The ``--with-toolbox-glue`` option (and the associated
pymactoolbox.h) have been removed.
- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
ignoring them.
- #3021 Exception reraising sematics have been significantly improved. However,
f_exc_type, f_exc_value, and f_exc_traceback cannot be accessed from Python
code anymore.
- Three of PyNumberMethods' members, nb_coerce, nb_hex, and nb_oct, have been
removed.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Renamed ``_winreg`` module to ``winreg``.
- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
platform.
- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Library
-------
- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
symtable.Symbol have been removed.
- Patch #3133: http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler did not work on windows.
- a new ``urllib`` package was created. It consists of code from
``urllib``, ``urllib2``, ``urlparse``, and ``robotparser``. The old
modules have all been removed. The new package has five submodules:
``urllib.parse``, ``urllib.request``, ``urllib.response``,
``urllib.error``, and ``urllib.robotparser``. The
``urllib.request.urlopen()`` function uses the url opener from
``urllib2``. (Note that the unittests have not been renamed for the
beta, but they will be renamed in the future.)
- rfc822 has been removed in favor of the email package.
- mimetools has been removed in favor of the email package.
- Patch #2849: Remove use of rfc822 module from standard library.
- Added C optimized implementation of io.StringIO.
- The ``pickle`` module is now automatically use an optimized C
implementation of Pickler and Unpickler when available. The
``cPickle`` module is no longer needed.
- Removed the ``htmllib`` and ``sgmllib`` modules.
- The deprecated ``SmartCookie`` and ``SimpleCookie`` classes have
been removed from ``http.cookies``.
- The ``commands`` module has been removed. Its getoutput() and
getstatusoutput() functions have been moved to the ``subprocess`` module.
- The ``http`` package was created; it contains the old ``httplib``
as ``http.client``, ``Cookie`` as ``http.cookies``, ``cookielib``
as ``http.cookiejar``, and the content of the three ``HTTPServer``
modules as ``http.server``.
- The ``xmlrpc`` package was created; it contains the old
``xmlrpclib`` module as ``xmlrpc.client`` and the content of
the old ``SimpleXMLRPCServer`` and ``DocXMLRPCServer`` modules
as ``xmlrpc.server``.
- The ``dbm`` package was created, containing the old modules
``anydbm`` and ``whichdb`` in its ``__init__.py``, and having
``dbm.gnu`` (was ``gdbm``), ``dbm.bsd`` (was ``dbhash``),
``dbm.ndbm`` (was ``dbm``) and ``dbm.dumb`` (was ``dumbdbm``)
as submodules.
- The ``repr`` module has been renamed to ``reprlib``.
- The ``statvfs`` module has been removed.
- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
ignored.
- Patch #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap's
``TextWrapper`` class.
- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
OverflowError.
- The ``ConfigParser`` module has been renamed to ``configparser``.
- Issue #2865: webbrowser.open() works again in a KDE environment.
- The ``multifile`` module has been removed.
- The ``SocketServer`` module has been renamed to ``socketserver``.
- Fixed the ``__all__`` setting on ``collections`` to include
``UserList`` and ``UserString``.
- The sre module has been removed.
- The Queue module has been renamed to queue.
- The copy_reg module has been renamed to copyreg.
- The mhlib module has been removed.
- The ihooks module has been removed.
- The fpformat module has been removed.
- The dircache module has been removed.
- The Canvas module has been removed.
- The Decimal module gained the magic methods __round__, __ceil__,
__floor__ and __trunc__, to give support for round, math.ceil,
math.floor and math.trunc.
- The user module has been removed.
- The mutex module has been removed.
- The imputil module has been removed.
- os.path.walk has been removed in favor of os.walk.
- pdb gained the "until" command.
- The test.test_support module has been renamed to test.support.
- The threading module API was renamed to be PEP 8 compliant. The
old names are still present, but will be removed in the near future.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- The bgen tool has been removed.
Build
-----
What's New in Python 3.0a5?
===========================
*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Fixed misbehaviour of PyLong_FromSsize_t on systems where
sizeof(size_t) > sizeof(long).
- Issue #2221: Corrected a SystemError "error return without exception
set", when the code executed by exec() raises an exception, and
sys.stdout.flush() also raises an error.
- Bug #2565: The repr() of type objects now calls them 'class', not
'type' - whether they are builtin types or not.
- The command line processing was converted to pass Unicode strings
through as unmodified as possible; as a consequence, the C API
related to command line arguments was changed to use wchar_t.
- All backslashes in raw strings are interpreted literally. This
means that '\u' and '\U' escapes are not treated specially.
Extension Modules
-----------------
Library
-------
- ctypes objects now support the PEP3118 buffer interface.
- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions now longer contain a cyclic
reference to themselves.
- Issue #2058: Remove the buf attribute and add __slots__ to the
TarInfo class in order to reduce tarfile's memory usage.
- Bug #2606: Avoid calling .sort() on a dict_keys object.
- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
Build
-----
- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
- "make install" is now an alias for "make altinstall", to prevent
accidentally overwriting a Python 2.x installation. Use "make
fullinstall" to force Python 3.0 to be installed as "python".
- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
gcc is used as compiler.
What's New in Python 3.0a4?
===========================
*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Bug #2301: Don't try decoding the source code into the original
encoding for syntax errors.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- The dl module was removed, use the ctypes module instead.
- Use wchar_t functions in _locale module.
Library
-------
- The class distutils.commands.build_py.build_py_2to3 can be used as a
build_py replacement to automatically run 2to3 on modules that are
going to be installed.
- A new pickle protocol (protocol 3) is added with explicit support
for bytes. This is the default protocol. It intentionally cannot
be unpickled by Python 2.x.
- When a pickle written by Python 2.x contains an (8-bit) str
instance, this is now decoded to a (Unicode) str instance. The
encoding used to do this defaults to ASCII, but can be overridden
via two new keyword arguments to the Unpickler class. Previously
this would create bytes instances, which is usually wrong: str
instances are often used to pickle attribute names etc., and text is
more common than binary data anyway.
- Default to ASCII as the locale.getpreferredencoding, if the POSIX
system doesn't support CODESET and LANG isn't set or doesn't allow
deduction of an encoding.
- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 now return an unsigned
value.
- Issue #719888: Updated tokenize to use a bytes API. generate_tokens
has been renamed tokenize and now works with bytes rather than
strings. A new detect_encoding function has been added for
determining source file encoding according to PEP-0263. Token
sequences returned by tokenize always start with an ENCODING token
which specifies the encoding used to decode the file. This token is
used to encode the output of untokenize back to bytes.
What's New in Python 3.0a3?
===========================
*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #2282: io.TextIOWrapper was not overriding seekable() from
io.IOBase.
- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
real or imaginary part.
- Clear all free list during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
memory to the OS earlier.
- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
to a bound method.
- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
entries each.
- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns
pi_t.
- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
appear in the same code unit.
- Issue #2025: Added tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
with the collections.Sequence API.
- Fixed multiple reinitialization of the Python interpreter. The small
int list in longobject.c has caused a seg fault during the third
finalization.
- Issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raised SystemError.
- Issue #1771: remove cmp parameter from sorted() and list.sort().
- Issue #1969: split and rsplit in bytearray are inconsistent.
- map() no longer accepts None for the first argument. Use zip()
instead.
- Issue #1769: Now int("- 1") is not allowed any more.
- Object/longobject.c: long(float('nan')) raises an OverflowError
instead of returning 0.
- Issue #1762972: __file__ points to the source file instead of the
pyc/pyo file if the py file exists.
- Issue #1393: object_richcompare() returns NotImplemented instead of
False if the objects aren't equal, to give the other side a chance.
- Issue #1692: Interpreter was not displaying location of SyntaxError.
- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
application' instead of 'error code 193'. Also use Unicode strings
to deal with non-English locales.