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Hookup asm compiler to antlr, solidify and add 2.5 features

PEP 289: Generator expressions

PEP 263: Defining Python Source Code Encodings

PEP 318: Function/method decorators

PEP 308: Conditional expressions

PEP 343: with statement

PEP 342: Coroutines via generators

PEP 341: Unified try/except/finally

PEP 352: Exceptions as new-style classes

UpgradeTo25CPythonLib

PEP 292: Simpler String Substitutions

PEP 327: decimal type

Ongoing parser fixes (universal newlines, line numbering, newline

handling, interactive interpreter bugs)

PEP 237: Unifying int/longPEP 357: Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing

PEP 309: Partial Function Application

PEP 305: csv module

PEP 338: Executing modules as scripts

unicodedata module

PEP 328: Multi-line and absolute/relative imports

elementtree module -> jython-elementtree

New Java integration (based on new style classes)ReplaceJythonc (Not yet complete)

The socket module now includes ipv6 support

The socket module now also includes Internationalized Domain Names

(RFC 3490) support on Java 6

Performance improvements around method invocation. 2.5.2 runs the

richards benchmark 3x faster and the pystone benchmark 20% faster than

2.5.1

The posix/nt module was rewritten in Java and the performance of its oftenperformance-critical stat function has significantly improved

Improved OSError errno messages on Windows

Slightly improved startup time (ongoing Issue #1380)

Better readline module emulation (required for IPython support)

Python functions can be directly passed to Java methods that take a single

method interface (such as Callable or Runnable)

Add google indexer (by Yin Wang and Steve Yegge)

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank those developers that made the Jython 2.5.2

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release possible. We also thank the community for helping to repair any issues

that are found.