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@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 2? Core and Builtins ----------------- -- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, - with other data interleaved between marshalled objects. +- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, with + other data interleaved between marshalled objects. - Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic links when called from any directory. @@ -20,30 +20,29 @@ Core and Builtins the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file), raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c. -- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on - Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a - "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception. - (patch by Ronald Oussoren) +- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS X + and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum recursion + depth" RuntimeError exception (patch by Ronald Oussoren). Library ------- - Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better - conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers. + conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent headers. - Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held. - Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now - also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode - to avoid encoding issues. + also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to + avoid encoding issues. -- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file - anymore to avoid encoding issues. +- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file anymore + to avoid encoding issues. -- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, - to read the Python script from the right encoding. +- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, to + read the Python script from the right encoding. - Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8. @@ -65,9 +64,9 @@ Library - Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment variables, start with an empty environment. -- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header - passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail - if given binary unknown-8bit input. +- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header passed + to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail if given + binary unknown-8bit input. - Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple times without error. @@ -99,8 +98,8 @@ Library constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch written by Oleg Oshmyan. -- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. - Patch by Mher Movsisyan. +- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. Patch by + Mher Movsisyan. - Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None. @@ -134,13 +133,13 @@ Build ----- - Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and - os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these - functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X - (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED). + os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions + (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and + UF_COMPRESSED). -- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, - ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" - files in the framework bin directory like the installer does. +- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure + "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the + framework bin directory like the installer does. Tests ----- @@ -151,15 +150,15 @@ Tests the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the error twice anymore if there is only one error. -- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that - test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when - run outside of a build directory. +- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext + of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a build + directory. -- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). - Patch by Garrett Cooper. +- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch + by Garrett Cooper. -- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 - on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren) +- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac + OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren) - Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2, iso2022_kr). |