Branches for Squeeze

Author: Matthias Klose
Revision Date: 2010-11-28 10:22:35 UTC

* Python 3.1.3 release.
  - Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages
    in the ast module.
  - Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.1.
  - Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
  - Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
  - Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when
    an empty XML namespace attribute is encountered.
  - Issue #1710703: 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.
  - Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which
    does not start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other
    clients.
  - Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version
    rather than the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
  - Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
  - Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when
    writeframes() is called without data.
  - Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after
    the end of the file.
  - Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
  - Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
  - Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 4.8, 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm
    extension.
  - Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.