python2.7 2.7.9-1ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

python2.7 (2.7.9-1ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20150226, taken from the 2.7 release branch.
    - Issue #23055: Fixed a buffer overflow in PyUnicode_FromFormatV.
    - Issue #23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
    - Issue #23458: On POSIX, the file descriptor kept open by os.urandom() is
      now set to non inheritable.
    - Issue #22113: struct.pack_into() now supports new buffer protocol (in
      particular accepts writable memoryview).
    - Issues #814253, #9179: Warnings now are raised when group references and
      conditional group references are used in lookbehind assertions in regular
      expressions.
    - Issue #23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores
      errors consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError.
    - Issue #5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file.
      flush() was not called in close() if closefd=False.
    - Issue #21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with
      empty docstrings.
    - Issue #22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dumbdbm
      module.
    - Issue #23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module's default cipher list.
    - Issue #21849: Fixed xmlrpclib serialization of non-ASCII unicode strings
      in the multiprocessing module.
    - Issue #21840: Fixed expanding unicode variables of form $var in
      posixpath.expandvars().  Fixed all os.path implementations on
      unicode-disabled builds.
    - Issue #23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.
    - Issue #23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.
    - Issue #23365: Fixed possible integer overflow in
      itertools.combinations_with_replacement.
    - Issue #23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations.
    - Issue #23191: fnmatch functions that use caching are now threadsafe.
    - Issue #18518: timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled
      outside a function or a loop (e.g. "return" or "break").
    - Issue #19996: Make :mod:`httplib` ignore headers with no name rather than
      assuming the body has started.
    - Issue #20188: Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the
      ssl module.
    - Issue #23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.
    - Issue #23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.
    - Issue #23063: In the disutils' check command, fix parsing of reST with
      code or code-block directives.
    - Issue #21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The
      availability of the function is checked during the compilation.
    - Backport the context argument to ftplib.FTP_TLS.
    - Issue #23111: Maximize compatibility in protocol versions of
      ftplib.FTP_TLS.
    - Issue #23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string
      and fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash.
    - Issue #22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls
      getentropy(), instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
    - Issue #23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached
      streams.
    - Issue #23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__.
    - Issue #23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when
      sys.stderr is None.
    - Issue #21032. Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails.
      Original patch by Martin Panter.
    - Issue #22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the
      collections module now accept the self keyword argument.
    - Issue #23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__.
      Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section.
      Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section.
      Backport the code example from 3.4.
    - Issue #21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new
      JSON RFC 7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.
    - Issue #6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after
      closing the window.
    - Issue #22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.
    - Issue #18905: "pydoc -p 0" now outputs actually used port.
    - Issue #23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level
      values (like 0.9.8zc).
    - Issue #23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.
    - Issue #18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.
    - Issue #19949: The test_xpickle test now tests compatibility with installed
      Python 2.7 and reports skipped tests.
    - Issue #11578: Backported test for the timeit module.
    - Issue #22943: bsddb tests are locale independend now.
    - Issue #20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph
      extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences
      dialog to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog.
    - Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new
      information.
    - Issue #23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window".
    - Issue #15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the
      configure script.
    - Issue #22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has
      no dynamically allocated bases.
  * Remove LTO sections from the static libraries. Closes: #698395.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>   Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:59:24 +0100