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.. bpo: 28183
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9707
.. nonce: MJZeNd
.. release date: 2016-10-10
.. section: Core and Builtins
Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
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.. bpo: 26081
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9706
.. nonce: _x5vjl
.. section: Core and Builtins
Added C implementation of asyncio.Future. Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
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.. bpo: 28379
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9705
.. nonce: DuXlco
.. section: Core and Builtins
Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang
Zhang.
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.. bpo: 28376
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9704
.. nonce: oPD-5D
.. section: Core and Builtins
The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren
Milman.
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.. bpo: 28376
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9703
.. nonce: YEy-uG
.. section: Core and Builtins
Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator type now is
deprecated. Patch by Oren Milman.
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.. bpo: 28376
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9702
.. nonce: fLeHM2
.. section: Core and Builtins
The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0. Patch by
Oren Milman.
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.. bpo: 26906
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9701
.. nonce: YBjcwI
.. section: Core and Builtins
Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit
initialization of the type instead of a fail.
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.. bpo: 18287
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9700
.. nonce: k6jffS
.. section: Core and Builtins
PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas
Koep.
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.. bpo: 24098
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9699
.. nonce: XqlP_1
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
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.. bpo: 28201
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9698
.. nonce: GWUxAy
.. section: Core and Builtins
Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when hashes have same
lower bits.
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.. bpo: 28350
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9697
.. nonce: 8M5Eg9
.. section: Core and Builtins
String constants with null character no longer interned.
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.. bpo: 26617
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9696
.. nonce: Gh5LvN
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
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.. bpo: 27942
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9695
.. nonce: ZGuhns
.. section: Core and Builtins
String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
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.. bpo: 21578
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9694
.. nonce: GI1bhj
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword
args.
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.. bpo: 28203
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9693
.. nonce: LRn5vp
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message. Patch by Soumya
Sharma.
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.. bpo: 28086
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9692
.. nonce: JsQPMQ
.. section: Core and Builtins
Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed unscathed to the
C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact tuple.
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.. bpo: 28214
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9691
.. nonce: zQF8Em
.. section: Core and Builtins
Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the instance.
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.. bpo: 27955
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9690
.. nonce: HC4pZ4
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails
with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
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.. bpo: 28192
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9689
.. nonce: eR6stU
.. section: Core and Builtins
Don't import readline in isolated mode.
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.. bpo: 0
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9688
.. nonce: 9EbOiD
.. section: Core and Builtins
Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.
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.. bpo: 28131
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9687
.. nonce: owq0wW
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source(). zipimport should use the
same optimization level as the interpreter.
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.. bpo: 28126
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9686
.. nonce: Qf6-uQ
.. section: Core and Builtins
Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly optimize
memcpy().
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.. bpo: 28120
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9685
.. nonce: e5xc1i
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a "pending key"
(Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
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.. bpo: 26182
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9684
.. nonce: jYlqTO
.. section: Core and Builtins
Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are used as
variable/attribute/class/function name.
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.. bpo: 27998
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9683
.. nonce: CPhy4H
.. section: Library
Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows. Patch by Eryk Sun.
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.. bpo: 28317
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9682
.. nonce: LgHleA
.. section: Library
The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.
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.. bpo: 26293
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9681
.. nonce: 2mjvwX
.. section: Library
Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start of the file. Offsets
in ZIP file now are relative to the start of the archive in conforming to
the specification.
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.. bpo: 28380
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9680
.. nonce: jKPMzH
.. section: Library
unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support assert_called,
assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.
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.. bpo: 27181
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9679
.. nonce: SQyDpC
.. section: Library
remove statistics.geometric_mean and defer until 3.7.
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.. bpo: 28229
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9678
.. nonce: BKAxcS
.. section: Library
lzma module now supports pathlib.
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.. bpo: 28321
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9677
.. nonce: bQ-IIX
.. section: Library
Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
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.. bpo: 28225
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9676
.. nonce: 6N28nu
.. section: Library
bz2 module now supports pathlib. Initial patch by Ethan Furman.
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.. bpo: 28227
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9675
.. nonce: 7lUz8i
.. section: Library
gzip now supports pathlib. Patch by Ethan Furman.
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.. bpo: 27358
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9674
.. nonce: t288Iv
.. section: Library
Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error message when
passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.
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.. bpo: 28257
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9673
.. nonce: SVD_IH
.. section: Library
Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as a var-positional
argument. Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.
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.. bpo: 28322
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9672
.. nonce: l9hzap
.. section: Library
Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle
data. Based on patch by John Leitch.
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.. bpo: 28228
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9671
.. nonce: 1qBwdM
.. section: Library
imghdr now supports pathlib.
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.. bpo: 28226
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9670
.. nonce: nMXiwU
.. section: Library
compileall now supports pathlib.
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.. bpo: 28314
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9669
.. nonce: N7YrkN
.. section: Library
Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method of
xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
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.. bpo: 28148
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9668
.. nonce: Flzndx
.. section: Library
Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time module.
Introduced platform independent _PyTime_localtime API that is similar to
POSIX localtime_r, but available on all platforms. Patch by Ed Schouten.
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.. bpo: 28253
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9667
.. nonce: aLfmhe
.. section: Library
Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and 9999-12.
Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that they
don't call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date under/overflow.
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.. bpo: 28275
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9666
.. nonce: EhWIsz
.. section: Library
Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() methods of the
LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. Original patch by John Leitch.
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.. bpo: 27897
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9665
.. nonce: I0Ppmx
.. section: Library
Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass
invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
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.. bpo: 18844
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9664
.. nonce: fQsEdn
.. section: Library
random.choices() now has k as a keyword-only argument to improve the
readability of common cases and come into line with the signature used in
other languages.
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.. bpo: 18893
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9663
.. nonce: osiX5c
.. section: Library
Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by
Madison May.
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.. bpo: 27611
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9662
.. nonce: A_ArH_
.. section: Library
Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module. Added the
master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.
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.. bpo: 27348
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9661
.. nonce: tDx7Vw
.. section: Library
In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception messages like
"Exception: None". This fixes a regression introduced in 3.5a2.
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.. bpo: 25651
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9660
.. nonce: 3UhyPo
.. section: Library
Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
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.. bpo: 27778
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9659
.. nonce: Yyo1aP
.. section: Library
Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is interrupted by a
signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.
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.. bpo: 28200
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9658
.. nonce: 4IEbr7
.. section: Library
Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix path_converter() function).
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.. bpo: 25400
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9657
.. nonce: d9Qn0E
.. section: Library
RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for crawl_delay and
request_rate. Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.
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.. bpo: 27932
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9656
.. nonce: mtgl-6
.. section: Library
Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
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.. bpo: 0
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9655
.. nonce: iPpjqX
.. section: Library
Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
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.. bpo: 28075
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9654
.. nonce: aLiUs9
.. section: Library
Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of os.stat(). Patch
by Eryk Sun.
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.. bpo: 22493
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9653
.. nonce: Mv_hZf
.. section: Library
Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of regular
expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern. Patch by Tim Graham.
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.. bpo: 25270
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9652
.. nonce: jrZruM
.. section: Library
Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when an empty
bytestring is passed.
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.. bpo: 28181
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9651
.. nonce: NGc4Yv
.. section: Library
Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.
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.. bpo: 25895
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9650
.. nonce: j92qoQ
.. section: Library
Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. Patch by Gergely Imreh
and Markus Holtermann.
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.. bpo: 28114
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9649
.. nonce: gmFXsA
.. section: Library
Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings. Patch by Eryk
Sun.
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.. bpo: 27599
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9648
.. nonce: itvm8T
.. section: Library
Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
..
.. bpo: 27906
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9647
.. nonce: TBBXrv
.. section: Library
Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. Patch by Kevin Conway.
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.. bpo: 28174
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9646
.. nonce: CV1UdI
.. section: Library
Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported. Patch by Seth Michael
Larson.
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.. bpo: 26654
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9645
.. nonce: XtzTE9
.. section: Library
Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. Patch by iceboy.
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.. bpo: 26909
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9644
.. nonce: ASiakT
.. section: Library
Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.
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.. bpo: 28176
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9643
.. nonce: sU8R6L
.. section: Library
Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
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.. bpo: 27759
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9642
.. nonce: qpMDGq
.. section: Library
Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. Patch by Mark
Williams.
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.. bpo: 28368
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9641
.. nonce: fGl9y4
.. section: Library
Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no loop attached. Patch
by Vincent Michel.
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.. bpo: 28369
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9640
.. nonce: 8DTANe
.. section: Library
Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with add_reader, add_writer,
etc.
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.. bpo: 28370
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9639
.. nonce: 18jBuZ
.. section: Library
Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
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.. bpo: 28371
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9638
.. nonce: U9Zqdk
.. section: Library
Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
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.. bpo: 28372
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9637
.. nonce: njcIPk
.. section: Library
Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
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.. bpo: 28399
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9636
.. nonce: QKIqRX
.. section: Library
Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
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.. bpo: 27972
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9635
.. nonce: ZK-GFm
.. section: Library
Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
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.. bpo: 28402
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9634
.. nonce: v9zETJ
.. section: Windows
Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 28333
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9633
.. nonce: KnpeO4
.. section: Windows
Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by Eryk Sun)
..
.. bpo: 28251
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9632
.. nonce: tR_AFs
.. section: Windows
Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 28110
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9631
.. nonce: cnkP5F
.. section: Windows
launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
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.. bpo: 28161
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9630
.. nonce: hF91LI
.. section: Windows
Opening CON for write access fails
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.. bpo: 28162
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9629
.. nonce: 3FHPVD
.. section: Windows
WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with Ctrl+Z
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.. bpo: 28163
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9628
.. nonce: -DUgJw
.. section: Windows
WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to _open_osfhandle
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.. bpo: 28164
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9627
.. nonce: 5MfN0J
.. section: Windows
_PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths
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.. bpo: 28137
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9626
.. nonce: C1uvzY
.. section: Windows
Renames Windows path file to ._pth
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.. bpo: 28138
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9625
.. nonce: pNdv64
.. section: Windows
Windows ._pth file should allow import site
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.. bpo: 28426
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9624
.. nonce: zPwvbI
.. section: C API
Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(),
PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and
PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
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.. bpo: 28258
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9623
.. nonce: iKtAHd
.. section: Build
Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean targets in
Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
..
.. bpo: 26661
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9622
.. nonce: Z_HNbs
.. section: Build
setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
..
.. bpo: 15819
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9621
.. nonce: QVDr3E
.. section: Build
Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the
source tree.
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.. bpo: 28217
2018-06-27 19:45:50 -03:00
.. date: 9620
.. nonce: Y37OKV
.. section: Tests
Adds _testconsole module to test console input.