python2.7 2.7.8-12 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

python2.7 (2.7.8-12) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Update to 20141118, taken from the 2.7 branch.
    - Issue #12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase
      but different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular
      expressions.
    - Issue #22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian
      platforms.
    - Issues #814253, #9179: Group references and conditional group references
      now work in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions.
    - Issue #22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.
    - Issue #22787: Allow the keyfile argument of SSLContext.load_cert_chain
      to be None.
    - Issue #22775: Fixed unpickling of Cookie.SimpleCookie with protocol 2.
    - Issue #22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in
      SysLogHandler.emit().
    - Issue #17381: Fixed ranges handling in case-insensitive regular
      expressions.
    - Issue #19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions.
    - Issue #22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled
      locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale.
    - Issue #8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking
      doesn't work.  This allows use with special filesystems such as
      VirtualBox shared folders.
    - Issue #22193: Fixed integer overflow error in sys.getsizeof().
  * Backport the ensurepip patch from 3.4.
  * Disable ensurepip in Debian, at least for the upcoming release.
  * Fix maintainer scripts for byte-code removal. Closes: #769078.
  * Allow building and testing without SSLv3 support (Kurt Roeckx).
    Closes: #768611.
  * Let distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() honor the "prefix" argument.
    Closes: #769720.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:37:13 +0100