Blurbify 2.7. (#3286)

Misc/NEWS.d/2.6.rst

+.. bpo: 3967
+.. date: 7179
+.. nonce: q7G-yg
+.. release date: 01-Oct-2008
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like objects, when
+the "start" parameter is a huge value.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3965
+.. date: 7178
+.. nonce: oD6PeM
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid filename or mode,
+and the filename is a unicode string.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3951
+.. date: 7177
+.. nonce: WMRS35
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3965
+.. date: 7176
+.. nonce: 67WKTr
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a true singleton object.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3895
+.. date: 7175
+.. nonce: 7zAG5K
+.. section: Library
+
+It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer was used
+with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted into a
+float.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3950
+.. date: 7174
+.. nonce: zZXLaL
+.. section: Library
+
+Made turtle respect scale factors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3547
+.. date: 7173
+.. nonce: MEAOsx
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer sizes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3879
+.. date: 7172
+.. nonce: F8u7Is
+.. section: Library
+
+A regression in urllib.getproxies_environment was fixed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3863
+.. date: 7171
+.. nonce: 5nuS5x
+.. section: Library
+
+Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread when running on
+platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3989
+.. date: 7170
+.. nonce: RW3kS6
+.. section: Build
+
+Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows installer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3887
+.. date: 7169
+.. nonce: qYeYwa
+.. section: Build
+
+Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.6a3.rst

+.. bpo: 2719
+.. date: 6897
+.. nonce: 4NH_Xn
+.. release date: 08-May-2008
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2681
+.. date: 6896
+.. nonce: 8UXx90
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now it properly raises a
+SyntaxError.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2617
+.. date: 6895
+.. nonce: 1gTS6r
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and other
+implementations of Python.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6894
+.. nonce: aRO9gE
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2670
+.. date: 6893
+.. nonce: VM2Luj
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed two handlers that
+derive the same default base class.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6892
+.. nonce: 7fblHZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6891
+.. nonce: 88WSiY
+.. section: Library
+
+Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to the cmath
+module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6890
+.. nonce: 6dejMd
+.. section: Library
+
+Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh, asinh,
+atanh and log1p.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6889
+.. nonce: v-VAd8
+.. section: Library
+
+zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter when
+passed a value less than or equal to zero.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1631171
+.. date: 6888
+.. nonce: 8Bc0Zl
+.. section: Library
+
+Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the original Python code has been
+kept as backup). This will allow for using the 'warning's machinery in such
+places as the parser where use of pure Python code is not possible.  Both
+the ``showarning()`` and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line'
+argument which is not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons.
+Setting ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
+for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6887
+.. nonce: CNqdrb
+.. section: Library
+
+The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2750
+.. date: 6886
+.. nonce: nv-hkg
+.. section: Library
+
+Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed by Bob
+Ippolito.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1734346
+.. date: 6885
+.. nonce: lfR8ca
+.. section: Library
+
+Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2581
+.. date: 6884
+.. nonce: fOkdCT
+.. section: Library
+
+distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2635
+.. date: 6883
+.. nonce: F8Y92w
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option, where an extra space
+was added after a word containing (but not ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6882
+.. nonce: lYk3LA
+.. section: Library
+
+Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes data types.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2682
+.. date: 6881
+.. nonce: NLrJe2
+.. section: Library
+
+ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic reference to
+themselves.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6880
+.. nonce: TTWJof
+.. section: Library
+
+The getpass module has been improved on Unix.  It now uses /dev/tty by
+default and uses stderr instead of stdout.  A GetPassWarning is issued when
+input echo cannot be controlled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2014
+.. date: 6879
+.. nonce: CKvu6Y
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before 1900-01-01.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2439
+.. date: 6878
+.. nonce: Kwwv4U
+.. section: Library
+
+Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a convenience wrapper for
+the PEP 302 get_data() API.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2616
+.. date: 6877
+.. nonce: UHPY7r
+.. section: Library
+
+The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are now implemented in C
+for better performance.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2408
+.. date: 6876
+.. nonce: GhLvZ5
+.. section: Library
+
+The ``_types`` module, which was used as in implementation detail of the
+public ``types`` module, has been removed and replaced by pure python code.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2513
+.. date: 6875
+.. nonce: x3Kj5E
+.. section: Library
+
+distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling extension modules
+between 32 and 64 bit platforms.  See the distutls build documentation for
+more information.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 815646
+.. date: 6874
+.. nonce: GhCmJD
+.. section: Library
+
+Individual file objects may now be used from multiple threads at once
+without fear of crashing the Python interpreter.  If file.close() is called
+while an object is in use by another thread an IOError exception will be
+raised and the file will not be closed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6873
+.. nonce: NdBuEp
+.. section: Library
+
+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.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2385
+.. date: 6872
+.. nonce: qIBVVF
+.. section: Library
+
+distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, so the controlled
+environment will more closely mirror the typical script environment.  This
+supports setup.py scripts that refer to data files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2550
+.. date: 6871
+.. nonce: wbV22J
+.. section: Tests
+
+The approach used by client/server code for obtaining ports to listen on in
+network-oriented tests has been refined in an effort to facilitate running
+multiple instances of the entire regression test suite in parallel without
+issue. test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
+return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the previous
+implementation, especially if socket options had been set that affected
+address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT).  The new implementation of
+bind_port() will actually raise an exception if it is passed an
+AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT
+socket option set.  Furthermore, if available, bind_port() will set the
+SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on the socket it's been passed.  This currently
+only applies to Windows.  This option prevents any other sockets from
+binding to the host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of
+the 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs when a
+second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port that's already
+been bound by another socket.  The optional preferred port parameter to
+bind_port() has been removed.  Under no circumstances should tests be hard
+coding ports!
+
+test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will pass a
+temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an unused port.
+The temporary socket object is then closed and deleted, and the port is
+returned.  This method should only be used for obtaining an unused port in
+order to pass to an external program (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to
+openssl's s_server mode) or as a parameter to a server-oriented class that
+doesn't give you direct access to the underlying socket used.
+
+Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used for the
+host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and connect).
+
+The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
+test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
+test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,   test_asynchat
+and test_socket_ssl.
+
+It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test suite to
+run in parallel without issue.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1496032
+.. date: 6870
+.. nonce: DcJtNu
+.. section: Build
+
+On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2544
+.. date: 6869
+.. nonce: -H_NZm
+.. section: Build
+
+On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when gcc is used as
+compiler.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2573
+.. date: 6868
+.. nonce: 4wDeJ7
+.. section: Build
+
+On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework with a different name
+using --with-framework-name=NAME.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6867
+.. nonce: yznsKq
+.. section: C API
+
+Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to the new
+files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms which provide the
+functions through their libm. The files also contains several helpers and
+constants for math.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 6866
+.. nonce: Kr65an
+.. section: C API
+
+Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.6b2.rst

+.. bpo: 3156
+.. date: 7059
+.. nonce: hdm5KM
+.. release date: 17-Jul-2008
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all its methods now allow
+for items objects that can be converted to an integer using
+operator.index().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3360
+.. date: 7058
+.. nonce: IrjlMc
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which produced a ValueError
+instead of giving the correct float.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3083
+.. date: 7057
+.. nonce: -lGbUY
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output for str.format().
+This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3008
+.. date: 7056
+.. nonce: YsZO12
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2235
+.. date: 7055
+.. nonce: 8Brs_N
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+__hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow collections.Hashable
+to remain meaningful in the presence of the default hash implementation
+(object.__hash__), it is now possible to explicit block inheritance of hash
+by setting __hash__=None at the Python level, or
+tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C level.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3221
+.. date: 7054
+.. nonce: -0HAEB
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if the parent module
+cannot be found while performing an absolute import. This means that an
+incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will now only prevent relative
+imports in that module rather than causing all imports from that module to
+fail.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2517
+.. date: 7053
+.. nonce: YHwfKp
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly bypassing the
+instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on new-style classes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3242
+.. date: 7052
+.. nonce: uFneM1
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is set to a custom
+object whose write() method happens to install another file in sys.stdout.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3088
+.. date: 7051
+.. nonce: bSHlNi
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Corrected a race condition in classes derived from threading.local: the
+first member set by a thread could be saved in another thread's dictionary.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3004
+.. date: 7050
+.. nonce: P4g_vU
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop arguments are now
+treated identically, making the behaviour easier to describe and understand.
+For example, slice(None, -10, 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of
+(0, -1, 1), and slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead
+of (9, 10, -1).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3219
+.. date: 7049
+.. nonce: 6awi9c
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments, f(a=2, a=23), would not
+cause a syntax error.  This was a regression from 2.4 caused by the switch
+to the new compiler.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2862
+.. date: 7048
+.. nonce: R-Avyy
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make int and float freelist management consistent with other freelists.
+Changes their CompactFreeList apis into ClearFreeList apis and calls them
+via gc.collect().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3554
+.. date: 7047
+.. nonce: _5DO8B
+.. section: Library
+
+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.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 799428
+.. date: 7046
+.. nonce: kA7sJS
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3395
+.. date: 7045
+.. nonce: j6q9M6
+.. section: Library
+
+fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3312
+.. date: 7044
+.. nonce: pGNZVY
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1608818
+.. date: 7043
+.. nonce: FtvGGk
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3125
+.. date: 7042
+.. nonce: fEAPxY
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
+ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3090
+.. date: 7041
+.. nonce: Dl5Ar4
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3313
+.. date: 7040
+.. nonce: wvm6HP
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set a valid dlerror()
+message.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3258
+.. date: 7039
+.. nonce: JBBmgi
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an incomplete structure was
+created.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3339
+.. date: 7038
+.. nonce: L4Fn9f
+.. section: Library
+
+dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3285
+.. date: 7037
+.. nonce: 9B3FF_
+.. section: Library
+
+Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3301
+.. date: 7036
+.. nonce: 063oaQ
+.. section: Library
+
+Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 839496
+.. date: 7035
+.. nonce: pl02h-
+.. section: Library
+
+SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is both
+unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and wrong
+because the actual transmitted size could differ from the content-length.
+The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never merged into
+trunk.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2663
+.. date: 7034
+.. nonce: j037TB
+.. section: Library
+
+add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1622
+.. date: 7033
+.. nonce: Yi7nBf
+.. section: Library
+
+Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1526
+.. date: 7032
+.. nonce: GTmFzB
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1746
+.. date: 7031
+.. nonce: 9HT8Dq
+.. section: Library
+
+Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously archives with
+comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing Zip files with
+archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 449227
+.. date: 7030
+.. nonce: 5LsZeI
+.. section: Library
+
+The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects when completed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3190
+.. date: 7029
+.. nonce: VtDnou
+.. section: Library
+
+Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the handling is
+now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2885
+.. date: 7028
+.. nonce: uiHEVr
+.. section: Library
+
+The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0
+in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2113
+.. date: 7027
+.. nonce: bYWyrt
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is interrupted by a
+signal.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3309
+.. date: 7026
+.. nonce: Y7DVRF
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock properly when raising
+an exception due to the bz2file being closed. Prevents a deadlock.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3094
+.. date: 7025
+.. nonce: DuUvkr
+.. section: Library
+
+httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the redundant ":443"
+port number designation when the connection is using the default https port
+(443).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 874900
+.. date: 7024
+.. nonce: O4a6qo
+.. section: Library
+
+after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned up in the
+child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts if the new
+process uses the threading module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7023
+.. nonce: qnkMJb
+.. section: Tests
+
+test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees and
+is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager have
+been added to test_warnings.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3215
+.. date: 7022
+.. nonce: JA6IUI
+.. section: Build
+
+Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7021
+.. nonce: A25wbC
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in Python
+3.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7020
+.. nonce: k24KZW
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7019
+.. nonce: wtGKB7
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in Python
+3.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7018
+.. nonce: kWfaYS
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in Python
+3.0.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.6rc1.rst

+.. bpo: 3642
+.. date: 7164
+.. nonce: TraQw9
+.. release date: 12-Sep-2008
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3743
+.. date: 7163
+.. nonce: _AUYYI
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
+PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
+PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
+``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
+implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values. This makes
+a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display 64bit values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3634
+.. date: 7162
+.. nonce: q1zzTV
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+_weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on error.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3777
+.. date: 7161
+.. nonce: NkvE9K
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+long() applied to a float object now always return a long object; previously
+an int would be returned for small values. the __long__ method is allowed to
+return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of float objects should
+not change to respect backward compatibility.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3751
+.. date: 7160
+.. nonce: afWsF3
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with a unicode
+argument.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3683
+.. date: 7159
+.. nonce: CbyWTH
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3668
+.. date: 7158
+.. nonce: y5pFso
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2534
+.. date: 7157
+.. nonce: ZzJgOR
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7156
+.. nonce: IOhEYG
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7155
+.. nonce: 7fUtnU
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7154
+.. nonce: C2iKX_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7153
+.. nonce: F8qIAG
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7152
+.. nonce: 9G7-79
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined function
+'stringlib_contains_obj'.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7151
+.. nonce: cL5FNH
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
+``__delslice__``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3678
+.. date: 7150
+.. nonce: tSSebH
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared library targets in
+the Makefile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1204
+.. date: 7149
+.. nonce: 9IuIp4
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7148
+.. nonce: Amo-aR
+.. section: C API
+
+Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3640
+.. date: 7147
+.. nonce: wZzbae
+.. section: Library
+
+Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce stack usage
+in the case of deeply nested objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3629
+.. date: 7146
+.. nonce: 2q6K2c
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3811
+.. date: 7145
+.. nonce: 1qgQ9c
+.. section: Library
+
+The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3781
+.. date: 7144
+.. nonce: HYW5OU
+.. section: Library
+
+Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent silent misbehaviour
+when a single instance is nested in multiple with statements, or when the
+methods are invoked in the wrong order.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3809
+.. date: 7143
+.. nonce: 2A-aqP
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3781
+.. date: 7142
+.. nonce: jpkn0I
+.. section: Library
+
+Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it return a list or
+None rather than a custom object.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1638033
+.. date: 7141
+.. nonce: kT2UVI
+.. section: Library
+
+Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3535
+.. date: 7140
+.. nonce: dxRVxE
+.. section: Library
+
+zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3776
+.. date: 7139
+.. nonce: Ct7r55
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3762
+.. date: 7138
+.. nonce: R3t7Yb
+.. section: Library
+
+platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via its symbolic link.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3772
+.. date: 7137
+.. nonce: 9RUdoE
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 600362
+.. date: 7136
+.. nonce: bb-Gpk
+.. section: Library
+
+Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module to the urlparse
+one.  Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old module, it will be
+deprecated in the future.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2562
+.. date: 7135
+.. nonce: gvBsX4
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having non-ascii characters
+and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3726
+.. date: 7134
+.. nonce: oNy3vR
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3719
+.. date: 7133
+.. nonce: vt_7GX
+.. section: Library
+
+platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the path to the Python
+binary.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3602
+.. date: 7132
+.. nonce: SFNmF7
+.. section: Library
+
+Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to warnings.catch_warnings() along
+with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests for catch_warnings() also led to
+an improvement in the raising of a DeprecationWarning related to
+warnings.warn_explicit().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7131
+.. nonce: Fxi-Xv
+.. section: Library
+
+The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7130
+.. nonce: _Wmj88
+.. section: Library
+
+logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7129
+.. nonce: yON-CX
+.. section: Library
+
+Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7128
+.. nonce: UdFFop
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3703
+.. date: 7127
+.. nonce: JVWmi4
+.. section: Library
+
+_fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a directory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3708
+.. date: 7126
+.. nonce: dbhr5L
+.. section: Library
+
+os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a non-integer
+floating point number.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3110
+.. date: 7125
+.. nonce: TXNjN7
+.. section: Library
+
+multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing SEM_VALUE_MAX.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 4301
+.. date: 7124
+.. nonce: To_Er1
+.. section: Library
+
+Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
+_check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2975
+.. date: 7123
+.. nonce: 3nTVpN
+.. section: Library
+
+When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008 from the
+same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow without
+limit.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3643
+.. date: 7122
+.. nonce: r2JHSh
+.. section: Library
+
+Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by exploitation of
+poor argument checking.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7121
+.. nonce: WeFjzv
+.. section: Library
+
+sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3103
+.. date: 7120
+.. nonce: WO-2NA
+.. section: Library
+
+Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all remaining
+ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3846
+.. date: 7119
+.. nonce: IF6rMt
+.. section: Library
+
+Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves concurrent
+access to the same SQLite database from multiple threads/processes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3781
+.. date: 7118
+.. nonce: c8hFsy
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience wrapper for
+warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check that expected
+warning messages are being reported.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3796
+.. date: 7117
+.. nonce: 04E6Gg
+.. section: Tests
+
+Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3768
+.. date: 7116
+.. nonce: wK7GYq
+.. section: Tests
+
+Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3833
+.. date: 7115
+.. nonce: 8gZDgB
+.. section: Build
+
+Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 2271
+.. date: 7114
+.. nonce: 8MXC-o
+.. section: Build
+
+Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly use the
+TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7113
+.. nonce: 4XBUzg
+.. section: Build
+
+Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3758
+.. date: 7112
+.. nonce: xZ4Rlj
+.. section: Build
+
+Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash with GNU build
+target guidelines.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.6rc2.rst

+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 7168
+.. nonce: 0ihWh2
+.. release date: 17-Sep-2008
+.. section: Library
+
+Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
+segfault as a result.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3886
+.. date: 7167
+.. nonce: l6kzFl
+.. section: Library
+
+Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were closed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3850
+.. date: 7166
+.. nonce: AJBbYw
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
+AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
+exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
+are caught and silenced.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3617
+.. date: 7165
+.. nonce: aR1Dim
+.. section: Build
+
+Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft C runtime in the
+Windows installer.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.1.rst

+.. bpo: 2236
+.. date: 8293
+.. nonce: 1Mj4VJ
+.. release date: 2010-11-27
+.. section: Library
+
+distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 8292
+.. nonce: NFeWRc
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10323
+.. date: 8291
+.. nonce: rFKI3X
+.. section: Library
+
+itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs before
+stopping.  Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
+undefined.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10565
+.. date: 8290
+.. nonce: g3L9da
+.. section: Library
+
+The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10092
+.. date: 8289
+.. nonce: -B7ynY
+.. section: Library
+
+Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10459
+.. date: 8288
+.. nonce: G0RFoD
+.. section: Library
+
+Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 6098
+.. date: 8287
+.. nonce: CKisab
+.. section: Library
+
+Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10561
+.. date: 8286
+.. nonce: gxs6bQ
+.. section: Library
+
+In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 5762
+.. date: 8285
+.. nonce: ADvGzb
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty XML namespace
+attribute is encountered.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1710703
+.. date: 8284
+.. nonce: NAAh-d
+.. section: Library
+
+Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is created in modes
+'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise BadZipfile
+(rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 4493
+.. date: 8283
+.. nonce: idMjMG
+.. section: Library
+
+urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not start with '/.
+Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10407
+.. date: 8282
+.. nonce: f8LrF_
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix one NameError in distutils.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10198
+.. date: 8281
+.. nonce: 7ruhdY
+.. section: Library
+
+fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is called
+without data.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10467
+.. date: 8280
+.. nonce: uNWGiY
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the end of the
+file.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 5111
+.. date: 8279
+.. nonce: XegYFR
+.. section: Library
+
+IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 6378
+.. date: 8278
+.. nonce: ovcYOt
+.. section: IDLE
+
+idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than the system
+default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 0
+.. date: 8277
+.. nonce: 64ssfS
+.. section: Build
+
+Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1303434
+.. date: 8276
+.. nonce: AVO6EG
+.. section: Build
+
+Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 9424
+.. date: 8275
+.. nonce: BO5Jfa
+.. section: Tests
+
+Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10299
+.. date: 8274
+.. nonce: ERtbPa
+.. section: Documentation
+
+List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.10.rst

+.. bpo: 22931
+.. date: 9589
+.. nonce: 4CuWYD
+.. release date: 2015-05-23
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow '[' and ']' in cookie values.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.11.rst

+.. bpo: 25624
+.. date: 9702
+.. nonce: ed-fM0
+.. release date: 2015-12-05
+.. section: Library
+
+ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory entries.  Patch
+by Dingyuan Wang.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.12.rst

+.. bpo: 27641
+.. date: 9821
+.. nonce: Fhtvhi
+.. release date: 2016-06-25
+.. section: Build
+
+The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile to prevent the
+pgen executable from being cross-compiled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26930
+.. date: 9820
+.. nonce: 9JUeSD
+.. section: Build
+
+Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27365
+.. date: 9819
+.. nonce: y8CVsn
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fix about dialog.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.13.rst

+.. bpo: 5322
+.. date: 9926
+.. nonce: _CaEiN
+.. release date: 2016-12-17
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Revert a37cc3d926ec.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.2.rst

+.. bpo: 12009
+.. date: 8463
+.. nonce: nQPg8Y
+.. release date: 2011-06-11
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1221
+.. date: 8462
+.. nonce: vFJB6t
+.. section: Library
+
+Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.3rc2.rst

+.. bpo: 14234
+.. date: 8657
+.. nonce: 3-5k8_
+.. release date: 2012-03-17
+.. section: Library
+
+CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash table internal
+to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a denial of
+service due to hash collisions.  Patch by David Malcolm with some
+modifications by the expat project.

Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.7.rst

+.. bpo: 21462
+.. date: 9328
+.. nonce: Ee4oKH
+.. release date: 2014-05-31
+.. section: Build
+
+Build the Windows installers with OpenSSL 1.0.1g.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 19866
+.. date: 9327
+.. nonce: 15D08i
+.. section: Build
+
+Include some test data in the Windows installers, so tests don't fail.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/008.bpo-28768.b9_a6E.rst

+Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/009.bpo-29572.iZ1XKK.rst

+Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/010.bpo-29643.4DrjEB.rst

+Fix ``--enable-optimization`` configure option didn't work.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/012.bpo-23404.PdYVWg.rst

+Don't regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore:
+the action is now explicit. Replace ``make touch`` with ``make regen-all``.