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Kirill Smelkov
cpython
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08659ef1
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08659ef1
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Oct 17, 2014
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@@ -10,6 +10,24 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.9?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex
number by (nan+0j).
- Issue #22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace" and
"xmlcharrefreplace" error handlers.
- Issue #22526: Fix iterating through files with lines longer than 2^31 bytes.
- Issue #22519: Fix overflow checking in PyString_Repr.
- Issue #22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.
- Issue #22379: Fix empty exception message in a TypeError raised in
``str.join``.
- Issue #22221: Now the source encoding declaration on the second line isn'
t
effective
if
the
first
line
contains
anything
except
a
comment
.
-
Issue
#
22023
:
Fix
``%
S
``,
``%
R
``
and
``%
V
``
formats
of
:
c
:
func
:`
PyUnicode_FromFormat
`.
...
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@@ -21,6 +39,130 @@ Library
-
Issue
#
22435
:
Fix
a
file
descriptor
leak
when
SocketServer
bind
fails
.
-
Issue
#
13664
:
GzipFile
now
supports
non
-
ascii
Unicode
filenames
.
-
Issue
#
13096
:
Fixed
segfault
in
CTypes
POINTER
handling
of
large
values
.
-
Issue
#
11694
:
Raise
ConversionError
in
xdrlib
as
documented
.
Patch
by
Filip
Gruszczy
ń
ski
and
Claudiu
Popa
.
-
Issue
#
1686
:
Fix
string
.
Template
when
overriding
the
pattern
attribute
.
-
Issue
#
11866
:
Eliminated
race
condition
in
the
computation
of
names
for
new
threads
.
-
Issue
#
22219
:
The
zipfile
module
CLI
now
adds
entries
for
directories
(
including
empty
directories
)
in
ZIP
file
.
-
Issue
#
22449
:
In
the
ssl
.
SSLContext
.
load_default_certs
,
consult
the
enviromental
variables
SSL_CERT_DIR
and
SSL_CERT_FILE
on
Windows
.
-
Issue
#
8473
:
doctest
.
testfile
now
uses
universal
newline
mode
to
read
the
test
file
.
-
Issue
#
20076
:
Added
non
derived
UTF
-
8
aliases
to
locale
aliases
table
.
-
Issue
#
20079
:
Added
locales
supported
in
glibc
2.18
to
locale
alias
table
.
-
Issue
#
22530
:
Allow
the
``
group
()``
method
of
regular
expression
match
objects
to
take
a
``
long
``
as
an
index
.
-
Issue
#
22517
:
When
a
io
.
BufferedRWPair
object
is
deallocated
,
clear
its
weakrefs
.
-
Issue
#
10510
:
distutils
register
and
upload
methods
now
use
HTML
standards
compliant
CRLF
line
endings
.
-
Issue
#
9850
:
Fixed
macpath
.
join
()
for
empty
first
component
.
Patch
by
Oleg
Oshmyan
.
-
Issue
#
20912
:
Now
directories
added
to
ZIP
file
have
correct
Unix
and
MS
-
DOS
directory
attributes
.
-
Issue
#
21866
:
ZipFile
.
close
()
no
longer
writes
ZIP64
central
directory
records
if
allowZip64
is
false
.
-
Issue
#
22415
:
Fixed
debugging
output
of
the
GROUPREF_EXISTS
opcode
in
the
re
module
.
-
Issue
#
22423
:
Unhandled
exception
in
thread
no
longer
causes
unhandled
AttributeError
when
sys
.
stderr
is
None
.
-
Issue
#
22419
:
Limit
the
length
of
incoming
HTTP
request
in
wsgiref
server
to
65536
bytes
and
send
a
414
error
code
for
higher
lengths
.
Patch
contributed
by
Devin
Cook
.
-
Lax
cookie
parsing
in
http
.
cookies
could
be
a
security
issue
when
combined
with
non
-
standard
cookie
handling
in
some
Web
browsers
.
Reported
by
Sergey
Bobrov
.
-
Issue
#
21147
:
sqlite3
now
raises
an
exception
if
the
request
contains
a
null
character
instead
of
truncate
it
.
Based
on
patch
by
Victor
Stinner
.
-
Issue
#
21951
:
Fixed
a
crash
in
Tkinter
on
AIX
when
called
Tcl
command
with
empty
string
or
tuple
argument
.
-
Issue
#
21951
:
Tkinter
now
most
likely
raises
MemoryError
instead
of
crash
if
the
memory
allocation
fails
.
-
Issue
#
22226
:
First
letter
no
longer
is
stripped
from
the
"status"
key
in
the
result
of
Treeview
.
heading
().
-
Issue
#
22051
:
turtledemo
no
longer
reloads
examples
to
re
-
run
them
.
Initialization
of
variables
and
gui
setup
should
be
done
in
main
(),
which
is
called
each
time
a
demo
is
run
,
but
not
on
import
.
-
Issue
#
21597
:
The
separator
between
the
turtledemo
text
pane
and
the
drawing
canvas
can
now
be
grabbed
and
dragged
with
a
mouse
.
The
code
text
pane
can
be
widened
to
easily
view
or
copy
the
full
width
of
the
text
.
The
canvas
can
be
widened
on
small
screens
.
Original
patches
by
Jan
Kanis
and
Lita
Cho
.
-
Issue
#
18132
:
Turtledemo
buttons
no
longer
disappear
when
the
window
is
shrunk
.
Original
patches
by
Jan
Kanis
and
Lita
Cho
.
-
Issue
#
22312
:
Fix
ntpath
.
splitdrive
IndexError
.
-
Issue
#
22216
:
smtplib
now
resets
its
state
more
completely
after
a
quit
.
The
most
obvious
consequence
of
the
previous
behavior
was
a
STARTTLS
failure
during
a
connect
/
starttls
/
quit
/
connect
/
starttls
sequence
.
-
Issue
#
21305
:
os
.
urandom
now
caches
a
fd
to
/
dev
/
urandom
.
This
is
a
PEP
466
backport
from
Python
3.
-
Issue
#
21307
:
As
part
of
PEP
466
,
backport
hashlib
.
algorithms_guaranteed
and
hashlib
.
algorithms_available
.
-
Issue
#
22259
:
Fix
segfault
when
attempting
to
fopen
a
file
descriptor
corresponding
to
a
directory
.
-
Issue
#
22236
:
Fixed
Tkinter
images
copying
operations
in
NoDefaultRoot
mode
.
-
Issue
#
22191
:
Fixed
warnings
.
__all__
.
-
Issue
#
21308
:
Backport
numerous
features
from
Python
's ssl module. This is
part of PEP 466.
- Issue #15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.
- Issue #8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately.
Initial patch by Sam Bull.
- Issue #22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter.
- Issue #21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when
parsing long line. Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.
- Issue #17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on
AIX. Based on patch by Delhallt.
- Issue #21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular
when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the
__new__() method.
- Issue #16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more
than 100 headers are read. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen and Daniel Eriksson.
- Issue #21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles binary "data" and "maskdata"
configure options of tkinter.PhotoImage.
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@@ -66,21 +208,83 @@ Library
- Issue #21323: Fix CGIHTTPServer to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories,
broken by the fix for security issue #19435. Patch by Zach Byrne.
- Issue #22199: Make get_makefile_filename() available in Lib/sysconfig.py
for 2.7 to match other versions of sysconfig.
IDLE
----
- Issue #22221: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second
line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
- Issue #17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python',
move version to end.
- Issue #14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear
when inseting or deleting lines.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #22381: Update zlib to 1.2.8.
- Issue #22176: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1. This release
adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian
architectures.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #10712: 2to3 has a new "
asserts
" fixer that replaces deprecated names
of unittest methods (e.g. failUnlessEqual -> assertEqual).
- Issue #22221: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now ignore the source
encoding declaration on the second line if the first line contains anything
except a comment.
- Issue #22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly
extracts ZIP files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson.
Tests
-----
- Issue #22236: Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window. New root
window is created for every test class.
- Issue #18004: test_overflow in test_list by mistake consumed 40 GiB of memory
on 64-bit systems.
- Issue #21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks
to William Orr.
Build
-----
- Issue #16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by
Jonathan Hosmer.
- The documentation Makefile no longer automatically downloads Sphinx. Users are
now required to have Sphinx already installed to build the documentation.
- Issue #21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and
above. Patch by Zachary Turner.
- Issue #15759: "
make
suspicious
", "
make
linkcheck
" and "
make
doctest
" in Doc/
now display special message when and only when there are failures.
- Issue #21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of
python --generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
- Issue #18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.
- Issue #17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.
Windows
-------
- Issue #22160: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1i.
version in use.
What's New in Python 2.7.8?
===========================
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@@ -94,7 +298,7 @@ Core and Builtins
overwrite the error set in PyObject_GetAttr.
- Issue #21831: Avoid integer overflow when large sizes and offsets are given to
the buffer type.
the buffer type.
CVE-2014-7185.
- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
...
...
@@ -5012,7 +5216,7 @@ Library
-
Issue
#
7494
:
Fix
a
crash
in
``
_lsprof
``
(
cProfile
)
after
clearing
the
profiler
,
reset
also
the
pointer
to
the
current
pointer
context
.
-
Issue
#
7232
:
Add
support
for
the
context
manage
r
protocol
to
the
-
Issue
#
7232
:
Add
support
for
the
context
manage
ment
protocol
to
the
``
tarfile
.
TarFile
``
class
.
-
Issue
#
7250
:
Fix
info
leak
of
os
.
environ
across
multi
-
run
uses
of
...
...
@@ -6762,7 +6966,7 @@ Library
- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manage
r
protocol.
- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manage
ment
protocol.
- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
...
...
@@ -9931,7 +10135,7 @@ Extension Modules
parameter.
- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
support the context manage
r
protocol. The _winreg module also
support the context manage
ment
protocol. The _winreg module also
gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
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