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NEWS
Log Message:
News for 2.2.2b1. I'm exhausted -- this was a multi-hour job of
poring over the logs. Quite likely I've forgotten some things,
introduced typos, and organized things less than ideally.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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diff -C2 -d -r1.337.2.4.2.40 -r1.337.2.4.2.41
*** NEWS 7 Oct 2002 18:08:26 -0000 1.337.2.4.2.40
--- NEWS 7 Oct 2002 21:38:58 -0000 1.337.2.4.2.41
***************
*** 3,6 ****
--- 3,17 ----
=============================
+ Almost everything in this release is a pure bugfix and is backported
+ from a corresponding bugfix alrady applied to Python 2.3. While at
+ the time of writing, Python 2.3 is still in pre-alpha form, only
+ accessible via CVS, it receives continuous and extensive testing by
+ its developers. The list below is not a complete list of fixed bugs;
+ it only lists fixed bugs that someone might be interested in hearing
+ about. Documentation fixes are not listed.
+
+ Tip: to quickly find SourceForge bug or patch NNNNNN, use an URL of
+ the form www.python.org/sf/NNNNNN.
+
Core and builtins
***************
*** 12,18 ****
--- 23,64 ----
release of 2.2.2 beta 1, we may revert this change.)
+ - Fix a core dump in type_new() when looking for the tp_init() slot.
+ This could call a garbage pointer when e.g. an ExtensionClass was
+ given.
+
+ - A variety of very obscure end-case bugs in new-style classes were
+ fixed, some of which could be made to trigger core dumps with absurd
+ input.
+
- u'%c' will now raise a ValueError in case the argument is an
integer outside the valid range of Unicode code point ordinals.
+ - Several small patches were applied that aren't bugfixes (and aren't
+ even backported from 2.3!) but make life easier for tools like Armin
+ Rigo's Psyco. [SF patches 617309, 617311, 617312]
+
+ - Made conversion failure error message consistent between types.
+
+ - The complex() built-in now finds __complex__() in new-style
+ classes. [SF bug 563740]
+
+ - Fixed a problem in the UTF-8 decoder where a Unicode literal
+ containing a "lone surrogate" would cause a .pyc file to be written
+ that could not be read. [SF bug 610783]
+
+ - Fixed a problem with code objects whose stacksize is >= 2**15.
+ These cannot be marshalled correctly. As a work-around, don't write
+ a .pyc file in this case. [SF bug 561858]
+
+ - Fixed several bugs that could cause issubclass() and isinstance() to
+ leave an exception lingering behind while returning a non-error
+ value.
+
+ - The Unicode replace() method would do the wrong thing for a unicode
+ subclass when there were zero string replacements. [SF bug 599128]
+
+ - Fixed some endcase bugs in Unicode rfind()/rindex() and endswith().
+ [SF bug 595350]
+
- When x is an object whose class implements __mul__ and __rmul__,
1.0*x would correctly invoke __rmul__, but 1*x would erroneously
***************
*** 20,25 ****
type. This has been fixed now.
! - If a dying instance of a new-style class got resurrected by its class's
! __del__ method, Python aborted with a fatal error.
- Source that creates parse nodes with an extremely large number of
--- 66,73 ----
type. This has been fixed now.
! - The __delete__ method wrapper wasn't supported. [SF patch 588728]
!
! - If a dying instance of a new-style class got resurrected by its
! class's __del__ method, Python aborted with a fatal error.
- Source that creates parse nodes with an extremely large number of
***************
*** 38,44 ****
[SF bug 519621]
- Repaired a slow memory leak possible only in programs creating a
! great many cyclic structures involving frames. Reported on
! SourceForge as bug 543148.
- A method zfill() was added to str and unicode, that fills a numeric
--- 86,96 ----
[SF bug 519621]
+ - Fixed an inefficiency in clearing the stack frame of new frame
+ objects.
+
- Repaired a slow memory leak possible only in programs creating a
! great many cyclic structures involving frames [SF bug 543148].
!
! - Fixed an esoteric performance glitch in GC. [SF bug 574132]
- A method zfill() was added to str and unicode, that fills a numeric
***************
*** 50,63 ****
deprecated now.
! - String methods lstrip(), rstrip() and strip() now take an optional
! argument that specifies the characters to strip. For example,
! "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo". In addition, "200L".strip("L")
! will return "200". This is useful for replacing code that assumed
! longs will always be printed with a trailing "L".
Extension modules
! - If the size passed to mmap.mmap() is larger than the length of the
! file on non-Windows platforms, a ValueError is raised. [SF bug 585792]
Library
--- 102,137 ----
deprecated now.
! - String and Unicode methods lstrip(), rstrip() and strip() now take
! an optional argument that specifies the characters to strip. For
! example, "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo". In addition,
! "200L".strip("L") will return "200". This is useful for replacing
! code that assumed longs will always be printed with a trailing "L".
!
! - A change to how new-style classes deal with __doc__: you can now
! supply a __doc__ descriptor that returns something different for a
! class than for instances of that class.
Extension modules
! - In readline.c: change completion to avoid appending a space
! character; this is usually more useful when editing Python code.
!
! - Fixed a crash in debug builds for marshal.dumps([128] * 1000). [SF
! bug 588452]
!
! - In cPickle.c: more robust test of whether global objects are
! accessible. Added recursion limit to pickling [SF bug 576084]. Try
! the persistent id code *before* calling save_global().
!
! - In mmapmpdule.c: if the size passed to mmap() is larger than the
! length of the file on non-Windows platforms, a ValueError is
! raised. [SF bug 585792]
!
! - In socketmodule.c: improve robustness of IPv6 code.
!
! - In _hotshot.c: fix broken logic in the logreader object.
!
! - In zlibmodule.c: fix for crash on second flush() call. [SF bug
! 544995]
Library
***************
*** 70,90 ****
changes since email v1.
! - random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else,
! and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it. In other
! words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the sequence of
! results produced by random.gauss(). It does now. Programs repeatedly
! mixing calls to a seed method with calls to gauss() may see different
! results now.
! - Some fixes in the copy module: when an object is copied through its
! __reduce__ method, there was no check for a __setstate__ method on
! the result [SF patch 565085]; deepcopy should treat instances of
! custom metaclasses the same way it treats instances of type 'type'
! [SF patch 560794].
Build
- The fpectl module is not built by default; it's dangerous or useless
! except in the hands of experts.
- A bug was fixed that could cause COUNT_ALLOCS builds to segfault, or
--- 144,295 ----
changes since email v1.
! - In pydoc.py: Extend stripid() to handle strings ending in more than
! one '>'; add resolve() to handle looking up objects and names (fix
! SF bug 586931); add a nicer error message when given a filename that
! doesn't exist. Pretend that the docstring for non-callable objects
! is always None; this makes for less confusing output and fixes the
! problem reported in SF patch 550290. Change the way 'less' is
! invoked as a browser (on Unix) to make it more robust.
! - In pickle.py: Whichmodule() now skips dummy (None) package entries
! in sys.modules. Try the persistent id code *before* calling
! save_global().
!
! - A variety of fixes were applied to the compiler package.
!
! - In distutils/: Fix distutils.sysconfig to understand that the
! running Python is part of the build tree and needs to use the
! appropriate "shape" of the tree [SF patch 547734]. Prefer rpmbuild
! over rpm if available [SF patch 619493]. util.convert_path()
! failed with empty pathname. [SF bug 574235]
!
! - In posixpath.py and user.py: fixed SF bug 555779, "import user
! doesn't work with CGIs."
!
! - In site.py: fixed a problem which triggered when sys.path was empty.
!
! - In smtpd.py: print the refused list to the DEBUGSTREAM [SF 515021];
! removed an embarrassing debug line from smtp_RCPT().
!
! - In smtplib.py: fix multiline string in sendmail example [SF patch
! 586999]; handle empty addresses [SF bug 602029].
!
! - In urllib.py: treat file://localhost/ as local too (same as file:/
! and file:///). [SF bug 607789]
!
! - In warnings.py: ignore IOError when writing the message.
!
! - In ConfigParser.py: allow internal whitespace in keys [SF bug
! 583248]; use option name transform consistently in has_option() [SF
! bug 561822]; misc other patches.
!
! - In sre_compile.py (the compile() function for the re module):
! Disable big charsets in UCS-4 builds. [SF bug 599377]
!
! - In pre.py (the deprecated, *old* implementation of the re module):
! fix broken sub() and subn(). [SF bug 570057]
!
! - In weakref.py: The WeakKeyDictionary constructor didn't work when a
! dict arg was given. [SF patch 564549]
!
! - In xml/: various fixes tracking PyXML.
!
! - In urllib2.py: fix proxy config with user+pass authentication. [SF
! patch 527518]
!
! - In pdb.py: Increase the maxstring value of _saferepr. Add exit as
! an alias for quit [SF bug 543674]. Fix crash on input line
! consisting of one or more spaces [SF bug 579701].
!
! - In test/regrtest.py: added some sys.stdout.flush() calls.
!
! - In random.py:
!
! - Deprecate (in comment) cunifvariate(). [SF bug 506647]
!
! - Loosened the acceptable 'start' and 'stop' arguments to
! randrange() so that any Python (bounded) ints can be used. So,
! e.g., randrange(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint) no longer blows up.
! [SF bug 594996]
!
! - The gauss() method uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing
! else, and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it.
! In other words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the
! sequence of results produced by random.gauss(). It does now.
! Programs repeatedly mixing calls to a seed method with calls to
! gauss() may see different results now.
!
! - The randint() method is rehabilitated (i.e. no longer deprecated).
!
! - In copy.py: when an object is copied through its __reduce__ method,
! there was no check for a __setstate__ method on the result [SF
! patch 565085]; deepcopy should treat instances of custom
! metaclasses the same way it treats instances of type 'type' [SF
! patch 560794].
!
! - In turtle.py: update canvas before computing width; draw turtle when
! done drawing circle. [SF bug 612595]
!
! - In Tkinter.py: Canvas.select_item() now returns the selected item,
! if any. [SF patch 581396]
!
! - In multifile.py: *backed out* the change that stripped a trailing
! \r\n. This caused more problems than it fixed. [SF bug 514676]
!
! - In rexec.py: fixed several security problems. *This does not mean
! that rexec is now considered safe!*
!
! - In os.py: security fixes for _execvpe().
!
! - In gzip.py: open files in binary mode.
!
! - In CGIHTTPServer.py: update os.environ regardless of hos it tries to
! handle calls (fork, popen*, etc.). Also fixed a flush() of a
! read-only file (can't do that on MacOS X).
!
! - In urllib.py: in splituser(), allow @ in the userinfo field. This
! is not allowed by RFC 2396; however, other tools support unescaped
! @'s so we should also. [SF patch 596581, bug 581529]
!
! - In base64.py: decodestring('') should return '' instead of raising
! an exception. [SF bug 595671]
!
! - atexit.py: keep working if sys.exitfunc is already set when this is
! first imported.
!
! - In copy.py: Make sure that *any* object whose id() is used as a memo
! key is kept alive in the memo. [SF bug 592567]
!
! - In httplib.py: fixed a variety of bugs. The httplib.py in Python
! 2.2.2 is identical to that in the CVS head (at the time of the
! release of 2.2.2).
!
! - In rfc822.py: change the default for Message.get() back to None.
!
! - In bdb.py: fix an old bug that made it impossible to continue after
! hitting a breakpoint while in the bottom frame.
!
! - In Queue.py: use try/finally to ensure that all locks are properly
! released. [SF bug 544473]
!
! - In SocketServer.py: the correct initialization of self.wfile is
! StringIO.StringIO(), not StringIO.StringIO(self.packet). [SF bug
! 543318]
Build
+ - Various platform-specific problems were fixed, including most open
+ 64-bit platform specific issues.
+
+ - Updated Misc/RPM for Python 2.2.2b1; added Makefile.pre.in to -devel.
+
- The fpectl module is not built by default; it's dangerous or useless
! except in the hands of experts. (At the same time, a fix for DEC
! Alpha under Linux was applied.)
!
! - Better check for C++ linkage. [SF bug 559429]
!
! - The errno module needs to be statically linked, since it is now
! needed during the extension building phase.
- A bug was fixed that could cause COUNT_ALLOCS builds to segfault, or
***************
*** 94,98 ****
COUNT_ALLOCS is not enabled by default, in either release or debug
builds, and that new-style classes are immortal only in COUNT_ALLOCS
! builds. SourceForge bug 578752.
C API
--- 299,306 ----
COUNT_ALLOCS is not enabled by default, in either release or debug
builds, and that new-style classes are immortal only in COUNT_ALLOCS
! builds. [SF bug 578752]
!
! - In order to avoid problems with binutils 2.12 and later, test for
! --export-dynamic in its help output.
C API
***************
*** 103,106 ****
--- 311,328 ----
Windows
+ - Improve handling of ^C on Windows. [SF bug 439992]
+
+ - Provide a fallback version of ntpath.abspath() when the nt module
+ can't be imported.
+
+ - Fixed asyncore on Windows to avoid calling select() with three empty
+ lists. Use time.sleep() instead, to match what happens on
+ Unix/Linux in that case. [SF item 611464]
+
+ - Fixed selectmodule.c to call WSAGetLastError() to retrieve the error
+ number.
+
+ - Fixed the test for mmap so that it passes on Windows too.
+
- SF bug 595919: popenN return only text mode pipes
popen2() and popen3() created text-mode pipes even when binary mode
***************
*** 110,113 ****
--- 332,339 ----
of that has been fixed in the installer (disabled Wise's "delete in-
use files" uninstall option).
+
+ Other
+
+ - Most changes to IDLE were backported, including some featurettes.
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv16554
Modified Files:
Tag: release22-maint
NEWS
Log Message:
News for 2.2.2b1. I'm exhausted -- this was a multi-hour job of
poring over the logs. Quite likely I've forgotten some things,
introduced typos, and organized things less than ideally.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.337.2.4.2.40
retrieving revision 1.337.2.4.2.41
diff -C2 -d -r1.337.2.4.2.40 -r1.337.2.4.2.41
*** NEWS 7 Oct 2002 18:08:26 -0000 1.337.2.4.2.40
--- NEWS 7 Oct 2002 21:38:58 -0000 1.337.2.4.2.41
***************
*** 3,6 ****
--- 3,17 ----
=============================
+ Almost everything in this release is a pure bugfix and is backported
+ from a corresponding bugfix alrady applied to Python 2.3. While at
+ the time of writing, Python 2.3 is still in pre-alpha form, only
+ accessible via CVS, it receives continuous and extensive testing by
+ its developers. The list below is not a complete list of fixed bugs;
+ it only lists fixed bugs that someone might be interested in hearing
+ about. Documentation fixes are not listed.
+
+ Tip: to quickly find SourceForge bug or patch NNNNNN, use an URL of
+ the form www.python.org/sf/NNNNNN.
+
Core and builtins
***************
*** 12,18 ****
--- 23,64 ----
release of 2.2.2 beta 1, we may revert this change.)
+ - Fix a core dump in type_new() when looking for the tp_init() slot.
+ This could call a garbage pointer when e.g. an ExtensionClass was
+ given.
+
+ - A variety of very obscure end-case bugs in new-style classes were
+ fixed, some of which could be made to trigger core dumps with absurd
+ input.
+
- u'%c' will now raise a ValueError in case the argument is an
integer outside the valid range of Unicode code point ordinals.
+ - Several small patches were applied that aren't bugfixes (and aren't
+ even backported from 2.3!) but make life easier for tools like Armin
+ Rigo's Psyco. [SF patches 617309, 617311, 617312]
+
+ - Made conversion failure error message consistent between types.
+
+ - The complex() built-in now finds __complex__() in new-style
+ classes. [SF bug 563740]
+
+ - Fixed a problem in the UTF-8 decoder where a Unicode literal
+ containing a "lone surrogate" would cause a .pyc file to be written
+ that could not be read. [SF bug 610783]
+
+ - Fixed a problem with code objects whose stacksize is >= 2**15.
+ These cannot be marshalled correctly. As a work-around, don't write
+ a .pyc file in this case. [SF bug 561858]
+
+ - Fixed several bugs that could cause issubclass() and isinstance() to
+ leave an exception lingering behind while returning a non-error
+ value.
+
+ - The Unicode replace() method would do the wrong thing for a unicode
+ subclass when there were zero string replacements. [SF bug 599128]
+
+ - Fixed some endcase bugs in Unicode rfind()/rindex() and endswith().
+ [SF bug 595350]
+
- When x is an object whose class implements __mul__ and __rmul__,
1.0*x would correctly invoke __rmul__, but 1*x would erroneously
***************
*** 20,25 ****
type. This has been fixed now.
! - If a dying instance of a new-style class got resurrected by its class's
! __del__ method, Python aborted with a fatal error.
- Source that creates parse nodes with an extremely large number of
--- 66,73 ----
type. This has been fixed now.
! - The __delete__ method wrapper wasn't supported. [SF patch 588728]
!
! - If a dying instance of a new-style class got resurrected by its
! class's __del__ method, Python aborted with a fatal error.
- Source that creates parse nodes with an extremely large number of
***************
*** 38,44 ****
[SF bug 519621]
- Repaired a slow memory leak possible only in programs creating a
! great many cyclic structures involving frames. Reported on
! SourceForge as bug 543148.
- A method zfill() was added to str and unicode, that fills a numeric
--- 86,96 ----
[SF bug 519621]
+ - Fixed an inefficiency in clearing the stack frame of new frame
+ objects.
+
- Repaired a slow memory leak possible only in programs creating a
! great many cyclic structures involving frames [SF bug 543148].
!
! - Fixed an esoteric performance glitch in GC. [SF bug 574132]
- A method zfill() was added to str and unicode, that fills a numeric
***************
*** 50,63 ****
deprecated now.
! - String methods lstrip(), rstrip() and strip() now take an optional
! argument that specifies the characters to strip. For example,
! "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo". In addition, "200L".strip("L")
! will return "200". This is useful for replacing code that assumed
! longs will always be printed with a trailing "L".
Extension modules
! - If the size passed to mmap.mmap() is larger than the length of the
! file on non-Windows platforms, a ValueError is raised. [SF bug 585792]
Library
--- 102,137 ----
deprecated now.
! - String and Unicode methods lstrip(), rstrip() and strip() now take
! an optional argument that specifies the characters to strip. For
! example, "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo". In addition,
! "200L".strip("L") will return "200". This is useful for replacing
! code that assumed longs will always be printed with a trailing "L".
!
! - A change to how new-style classes deal with __doc__: you can now
! supply a __doc__ descriptor that returns something different for a
! class than for instances of that class.
Extension modules
! - In readline.c: change completion to avoid appending a space
! character; this is usually more useful when editing Python code.
!
! - Fixed a crash in debug builds for marshal.dumps([128] * 1000). [SF
! bug 588452]
!
! - In cPickle.c: more robust test of whether global objects are
! accessible. Added recursion limit to pickling [SF bug 576084]. Try
! the persistent id code *before* calling save_global().
!
! - In mmapmpdule.c: if the size passed to mmap() is larger than the
! length of the file on non-Windows platforms, a ValueError is
! raised. [SF bug 585792]
!
! - In socketmodule.c: improve robustness of IPv6 code.
!
! - In _hotshot.c: fix broken logic in the logreader object.
!
! - In zlibmodule.c: fix for crash on second flush() call. [SF bug
! 544995]
Library
***************
*** 70,90 ****
changes since email v1.
! - random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else,
! and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it. In other
! words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the sequence of
! results produced by random.gauss(). It does now. Programs repeatedly
! mixing calls to a seed method with calls to gauss() may see different
! results now.
! - Some fixes in the copy module: when an object is copied through its
! __reduce__ method, there was no check for a __setstate__ method on
! the result [SF patch 565085]; deepcopy should treat instances of
! custom metaclasses the same way it treats instances of type 'type'
! [SF patch 560794].
Build
- The fpectl module is not built by default; it's dangerous or useless
! except in the hands of experts.
- A bug was fixed that could cause COUNT_ALLOCS builds to segfault, or
--- 144,295 ----
changes since email v1.
! - In pydoc.py: Extend stripid() to handle strings ending in more than
! one '>'; add resolve() to handle looking up objects and names (fix
! SF bug 586931); add a nicer error message when given a filename that
! doesn't exist. Pretend that the docstring for non-callable objects
! is always None; this makes for less confusing output and fixes the
! problem reported in SF patch 550290. Change the way 'less' is
! invoked as a browser (on Unix) to make it more robust.
! - In pickle.py: Whichmodule() now skips dummy (None) package entries
! in sys.modules. Try the persistent id code *before* calling
! save_global().
!
! - A variety of fixes were applied to the compiler package.
!
! - In distutils/: Fix distutils.sysconfig to understand that the
! running Python is part of the build tree and needs to use the
! appropriate "shape" of the tree [SF patch 547734]. Prefer rpmbuild
! over rpm if available [SF patch 619493]. util.convert_path()
! failed with empty pathname. [SF bug 574235]
!
! - In posixpath.py and user.py: fixed SF bug 555779, "import user
! doesn't work with CGIs."
!
! - In site.py: fixed a problem which triggered when sys.path was empty.
!
! - In smtpd.py: print the refused list to the DEBUGSTREAM [SF 515021];
! removed an embarrassing debug line from smtp_RCPT().
!
! - In smtplib.py: fix multiline string in sendmail example [SF patch
! 586999]; handle empty addresses [SF bug 602029].
!
! - In urllib.py: treat file://localhost/ as local too (same as file:/
! and file:///). [SF bug 607789]
!
! - In warnings.py: ignore IOError when writing the message.
!
! - In ConfigParser.py: allow internal whitespace in keys [SF bug
! 583248]; use option name transform consistently in has_option() [SF
! bug 561822]; misc other patches.
!
! - In sre_compile.py (the compile() function for the re module):
! Disable big charsets in UCS-4 builds. [SF bug 599377]
!
! - In pre.py (the deprecated, *old* implementation of the re module):
! fix broken sub() and subn(). [SF bug 570057]
!
! - In weakref.py: The WeakKeyDictionary constructor didn't work when a
! dict arg was given. [SF patch 564549]
!
! - In xml/: various fixes tracking PyXML.
!
! - In urllib2.py: fix proxy config with user+pass authentication. [SF
! patch 527518]
!
! - In pdb.py: Increase the maxstring value of _saferepr. Add exit as
! an alias for quit [SF bug 543674]. Fix crash on input line
! consisting of one or more spaces [SF bug 579701].
!
! - In test/regrtest.py: added some sys.stdout.flush() calls.
!
! - In random.py:
!
! - Deprecate (in comment) cunifvariate(). [SF bug 506647]
!
! - Loosened the acceptable 'start' and 'stop' arguments to
! randrange() so that any Python (bounded) ints can be used. So,
! e.g., randrange(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint) no longer blows up.
! [SF bug 594996]
!
! - The gauss() method uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing
! else, and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it.
! In other words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the
! sequence of results produced by random.gauss(). It does now.
! Programs repeatedly mixing calls to a seed method with calls to
! gauss() may see different results now.
!
! - The randint() method is rehabilitated (i.e. no longer deprecated).
!
! - In copy.py: when an object is copied through its __reduce__ method,
! there was no check for a __setstate__ method on the result [SF
! patch 565085]; deepcopy should treat instances of custom
! metaclasses the same way it treats instances of type 'type' [SF
! patch 560794].
!
! - In turtle.py: update canvas before computing width; draw turtle when
! done drawing circle. [SF bug 612595]
!
! - In Tkinter.py: Canvas.select_item() now returns the selected item,
! if any. [SF patch 581396]
!
! - In multifile.py: *backed out* the change that stripped a trailing
! \r\n. This caused more problems than it fixed. [SF bug 514676]
!
! - In rexec.py: fixed several security problems. *This does not mean
! that rexec is now considered safe!*
!
! - In os.py: security fixes for _execvpe().
!
! - In gzip.py: open files in binary mode.
!
! - In CGIHTTPServer.py: update os.environ regardless of hos it tries to
! handle calls (fork, popen*, etc.). Also fixed a flush() of a
! read-only file (can't do that on MacOS X).
!
! - In urllib.py: in splituser(), allow @ in the userinfo field. This
! is not allowed by RFC 2396; however, other tools support unescaped
! @'s so we should also. [SF patch 596581, bug 581529]
!
! - In base64.py: decodestring('') should return '' instead of raising
! an exception. [SF bug 595671]
!
! - atexit.py: keep working if sys.exitfunc is already set when this is
! first imported.
!
! - In copy.py: Make sure that *any* object whose id() is used as a memo
! key is kept alive in the memo. [SF bug 592567]
!
! - In httplib.py: fixed a variety of bugs. The httplib.py in Python
! 2.2.2 is identical to that in the CVS head (at the time of the
! release of 2.2.2).
!
! - In rfc822.py: change the default for Message.get() back to None.
!
! - In bdb.py: fix an old bug that made it impossible to continue after
! hitting a breakpoint while in the bottom frame.
!
! - In Queue.py: use try/finally to ensure that all locks are properly
! released. [SF bug 544473]
!
! - In SocketServer.py: the correct initialization of self.wfile is
! StringIO.StringIO(), not StringIO.StringIO(self.packet). [SF bug
! 543318]
Build
+ - Various platform-specific problems were fixed, including most open
+ 64-bit platform specific issues.
+
+ - Updated Misc/RPM for Python 2.2.2b1; added Makefile.pre.in to -devel.
+
- The fpectl module is not built by default; it's dangerous or useless
! except in the hands of experts. (At the same time, a fix for DEC
! Alpha under Linux was applied.)
!
! - Better check for C++ linkage. [SF bug 559429]
!
! - The errno module needs to be statically linked, since it is now
! needed during the extension building phase.
- A bug was fixed that could cause COUNT_ALLOCS builds to segfault, or
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*** 94,98 ****
COUNT_ALLOCS is not enabled by default, in either release or debug
builds, and that new-style classes are immortal only in COUNT_ALLOCS
! builds. SourceForge bug 578752.
C API
--- 299,306 ----
COUNT_ALLOCS is not enabled by default, in either release or debug
builds, and that new-style classes are immortal only in COUNT_ALLOCS
! builds. [SF bug 578752]
!
! - In order to avoid problems with binutils 2.12 and later, test for
! --export-dynamic in its help output.
C API
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*** 103,106 ****
--- 311,328 ----
Windows
+ - Improve handling of ^C on Windows. [SF bug 439992]
+
+ - Provide a fallback version of ntpath.abspath() when the nt module
+ can't be imported.
+
+ - Fixed asyncore on Windows to avoid calling select() with three empty
+ lists. Use time.sleep() instead, to match what happens on
+ Unix/Linux in that case. [SF item 611464]
+
+ - Fixed selectmodule.c to call WSAGetLastError() to retrieve the error
+ number.
+
+ - Fixed the test for mmap so that it passes on Windows too.
+
- SF bug 595919: popenN return only text mode pipes
popen2() and popen3() created text-mode pipes even when binary mode
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*** 110,113 ****
--- 332,339 ----
of that has been fixed in the installer (disabled Wise's "delete in-
use files" uninstall option).
+
+ Other
+
+ - Most changes to IDLE were backported, including some featurettes.