What's New in Python 2.1.4?

Release date: XX-XXX-2003

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- Some documentation fixes.

- SF #577530, #533625: security fixes for rexec.py. I still wouldn't

trust it as the only line of defense between a machine and the

Internet!

- SF #590294, #601077: os._execvpe security fix (plus fix for the fix).

- Link errno extension statically.

- Backported various httplib.py fixes.

- Backported various SSL fixes.

- Fix posixpath.py so that when stat() fails with EOVERFLOW (meaning a

file larger than 2 GB in a build that doesn't support LFS), this is

correctly taken as an indication of the file's existence.

- SF #523473: raise exceptions on error conditions.

- SF #561858: avoid assertion when writing code objects with stacksize

>= 2**16.

- SF #210682: fixed an old bug that caused bdb to be unable to

continue in the bottom frame, after a breakpoint was set

- Fix rfc822.py to support dots in the "real name" part of email

addresses, per RFC 2822.

- Repaired widespread misuse of _PyString_Resize.

- SF #544473: use try/finally to ensire all Queue locks remain stable.

- Fixed two obscure bugs in nested scopes.

- Changes to the configure script to avoid problems with binutils 2.12.

- SF #543318: fix bogus initialization in DatagramRequestHandler.setup().

- SF #541730: provisional fix to IDLE for losing data when attempting

to save a file containing non-ASCII characters. The fix consists of

raising an exception *before* overwriting the file rather than

after. You still can't save files with non-ASCII characters (this

is fixed in Python 2.2).

- Sometimes the uninstall executable (UNWISE.EXE) vanishes. One cause

of that has been fixed in the installer (disabled Wise's "delete in-

use files" uninstall option).