cpython/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.5rc1.rst

.. bpo: 33001
.. date: 2018-03-05-10-09-51
.. nonce: elj4Aa
.. release date: 2018-03-13
.. section: Security

Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows

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.. bpo: 32981
.. date: 2018-03-02-10-24-52
.. nonce: O_qDyj
.. section: Security

Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking.
These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been
refactored. This resolves :cve:`2018-1060` and :cve:`2018-1061`. Patch by Jamie
Davis.

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.. bpo: 33026
.. date: 2018-03-08-09-48-38
.. nonce: QZA3Ba
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed jumping out of "with" block by setting f_lineno.

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.. bpo: 17288
.. date: 2018-02-27-13-36-21
.. nonce: Gdj24S
.. section: Core and Builtins

Prevent jumps from 'return' and 'exception' trace events.

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.. bpo: 32889
.. date: 2018-02-20-21-53-48
.. nonce: J6eWy5
.. section: Core and Builtins

Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
``Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG`` to ``address_in_range``.

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.. bpo: 32650
.. date: 2018-01-28-23-01-39
.. nonce: Bbi7ek
.. section: Core and Builtins

Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next
command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 32685
.. date: 2018-01-28-12-25-06
.. nonce: nGctze
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve suggestion when the Python 2 form of print statement is either
present on the same line as the header of a compound statement or else
terminated by a semi-colon instead of a newline. Patch by Nitish Chandra.

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.. bpo: 32583
.. date: 2018-01-26-21-20-21
.. nonce: Fh3fau
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write
out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.

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.. bpo: 26163
.. date: 2018-01-14-20-32-47
.. nonce: xv9Iuv
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced
with datasets containing many similar values.

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.. bpo: 27169
.. date: 2017-12-15-11-50-06
.. nonce: VO84fQ
.. section: Core and Builtins

The ``__debug__`` constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes
also bpo-22091.

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.. bpo: 32329
.. date: 2017-12-15-00-55-35
.. nonce: XL1O99
.. section: Core and Builtins

``sys.flags.hash_randomization`` is now properly set to 0 when hash
randomization is turned off by ``PYTHONHASHSEED=0``.

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.. bpo: 30416
.. date: 2017-12-14-11-48-19
.. nonce: hlHo_9
.. section: Core and Builtins

The optimizer is now protected from spending much time doing complex
calculations and consuming much memory for creating large constants in
constant folding.

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.. bpo: 18533
.. date: 2017-12-13-16-46-23
.. nonce: Dlk8d7
.. section: Core and Builtins

``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``values()`` or ``items()`` no
longer raises ``RecursionError``; OrderedDict similarly.  Instead, use
``...``, as for other recursive structures.  Patch by Ben North.

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.. bpo: 32028
.. date: 2017-12-03-22-29-13
.. nonce: KC2w4Q
.. section: Core and Builtins

Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions for
converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls. Patch
by Sanyam Khurana.

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.. bpo: 32137
.. date: 2017-11-26-14-36-30
.. nonce: Stj5nL
.. section: Core and Builtins

The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of
crashing due to a stack overflow.

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.. bpo: 33064
.. date: 2018-03-12-19-58-25
.. nonce: LO2KIY
.. section: Library

lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after ``*args`` and
``**kwargs`` in function signatures.

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.. bpo: 31804
.. date: 2018-03-11-19-03-52
.. nonce: i8KUMp
.. section: Library

Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed
or None at exit.

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.. bpo: 33037
.. date: 2018-03-09-23-07-07
.. nonce: nAJ3at
.. section: Library

Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.

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.. bpo: 30353
.. date: 2018-03-08-09-54-01
.. nonce: XdE5aM
.. section: Library

Fix ctypes pass-by-value for structs on 64-bit Cygwin/MinGW.

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.. bpo: 33009
.. date: 2018-03-06-11-54-59
.. nonce: -Ekysb
.. section: Library

Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.

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.. bpo: 32969
.. date: 2018-03-06-00-19-41
.. nonce: rGTKa0
.. section: Library

Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding
documentation.

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.. bpo: 32713
.. date: 2018-02-26-13-16-36
.. nonce: 55yegW
.. section: Library

Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey
Fuhrer.

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.. bpo: 30622
.. date: 2018-02-24-21-40-42
.. nonce: dQjxSe
.. section: Library

The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.

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.. bpo: 32922
.. date: 2018-02-23-19-12-04
.. nonce: u-xe0B
.. section: Library

dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than
default encoding.

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.. bpo: 32859
.. date: 2018-02-19-17-46-31
.. nonce: kAT-Xp
.. section: Library

In ``os.dup2``, don't check every call whether the ``dup3`` syscall exists
or not.

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.. bpo: 21060
.. date: 2018-02-17-19-20-19
.. nonce: S1Z-x6
.. section: Library

Rewrite confusing message from setup.py upload from "No dist file created in
earlier command" to the more helpful "Must create and upload files in one
command".

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.. bpo: 32857
.. date: 2018-02-16-14-37-14
.. nonce: -XljAx
.. section: Library

In :mod:`tkinter`, ``after_cancel(None)`` now raises a :exc:`ValueError`
instead of canceling the first scheduled function.  Patch by Cheryl Sabella.

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.. bpo: 32852
.. date: 2018-02-15-12-04-29
.. nonce: HDqIxM
.. section: Library

Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.

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.. bpo: 32841
.. date: 2018-02-14-00-21-24
.. nonce: bvHDOc
.. section: Library

Fixed ``asyncio.Condition`` issue which silently ignored cancellation after
notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.

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.. bpo: 31787
.. date: 2018-02-09-21-41-56
.. nonce: owSZ2t
.. section: Library

Fixed refleaks of ``__init__()`` methods in various modules. (Contributed by
Oren Milman)

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.. bpo: 30157
.. date: 2018-02-09-14-44-43
.. nonce: lEiiAK
.. section: Library

Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last
field is quoted.  Patch by Jake Davis.

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.. bpo: 32394
.. date: 2018-02-08-08-18-26
.. nonce: 6E_7X7
.. section: Library

socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN, TCP_KEEPCNT flags on older version Windows
during run-time.

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.. bpo: 32777
.. date: 2018-02-05-21-28-28
.. nonce: C-wIXF
.. section: Library

Fix a rare but potential pre-exec child process deadlock in subprocess on
POSIX systems when marking file descriptors inheritable on exec in the child
process.  This bug appears to have been introduced in 3.4.

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.. bpo: 32647
.. date: 2018-02-05-13-31-42
.. nonce: ktmfR_
.. section: Library

The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared
extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.

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.. bpo: 32734
.. date: 2018-02-01-01-34-47
.. nonce: gCV9AD
.. section: Library

Fixed ``asyncio.Lock()`` safety issue which allowed acquiring and locking
the same lock multiple times, without it being free. Patch by Bar Harel.

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.. bpo: 32727
.. date: 2018-01-30-17-46-18
.. nonce: aHVsRC
.. section: Library

Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane
Wirtel

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.. bpo: 27931
.. date: 2018-01-25-21-04-11
.. nonce: e4r52t
.. section: Library

Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted
string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

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.. bpo: 32304
.. date: 2018-01-21-16-33-53
.. nonce: TItrNv
.. section: Library

distutils' upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending with a CR
byte, and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the upload text
fields.

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.. bpo: 32502
.. date: 2018-01-20-17-15-34
.. nonce: OXJfn7
.. section: Library

uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is
encountered.

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.. bpo: 31848
.. date: 2018-01-18-23-34-17
.. nonce: M2cldy
.. section: Library

Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not
found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.

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.. bpo: 32555
.. date: 2018-01-15-17-52-47
.. nonce: CMq2zF
.. section: Library

On FreeBSD and Solaris, os.strerror() now always decode the byte string from
the current locale encoding, rather than using ASCII/surrogateescape in some
cases.

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.. bpo: 32521
.. date: 2018-01-15-12-53-13
.. nonce: IxX4Ba
.. section: Library

The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.

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.. bpo: 32473
.. date: 2018-01-10-20-37-59
.. nonce: mP_yJG
.. section: Library

Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability

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.. bpo: 32521
.. date: 2018-01-08-18-02-33
.. nonce: Kh-KoN
.. section: Library

glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in
nis module.

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.. bpo: 32228
.. date: 2017-12-22-16-47-41
.. nonce: waPx3q
.. section: Library

Ensure that ``truncate()`` preserves the file position (as reported by
``tell()``) after writes longer than the buffer size.

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.. bpo: 26133
.. date: 2017-12-21-11-08-42
.. nonce: mt81QV
.. section: Library

Don't unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter
shutdown.

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.. bpo: 32185
.. date: 2017-12-20-09-25-10
.. nonce: IL0cMt
.. section: Library

The SSL module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS extension on
platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.2+ or inet_pton.

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.. bpo: 32323
.. date: 2017-12-14-10-10-10
.. nonce: ideco
.. section: Library

:func:`urllib.parse.urlsplit()` does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower
case for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.

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.. bpo: 32302
.. date: 2017-12-13-22-38-08
.. nonce: othtTr
.. section: Library

Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT
v140.

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.. bpo: 32255
.. date: 2017-12-12-07-29-06
.. nonce: 2bfNmM
.. section: Library

A single empty field is now always quoted when written into a CSV file. This
allows to distinguish an empty row from a row consisting of a single empty
field. Patch by Licht Takeuchi.

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.. bpo: 32277
.. date: 2017-12-11-09-53-14
.. nonce: jkKiVC
.. section: Library

Raise ``NotImplementedError`` instead of ``SystemError`` on platforms where
``chmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)`` is not supported.  Patch by Anthony
Sottile.

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.. bpo: 32199
.. date: 2017-12-04-12-23-26
.. nonce: nGof4v
.. section: Library

The getnode() ip getter now uses 'ip link' instead of 'ip link list'.

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.. bpo: 27456
.. date: 2017-11-02-11-57-41
.. nonce: snzyTC
.. section: Library

Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 31900
.. date: 2017-10-30-15-55-32
.. nonce: -S9xc4
.. section: Library

The :func:`locale.localeconv` function now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE``
locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and
``thousands_sep`` byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte,
and the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale.
This temporary change affects other threads.
Same change for the :meth:`str.format` method when formatting a number
(:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`float` and subclasses) with the ``n``
type (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``).

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.. bpo: 31802
.. date: 2017-10-17-14-52-14
.. nonce: sYj2Zv
.. section: Library

Importing native path module (``posixpath``, ``ntpath``) now works even if
the ``os`` module still is not imported.

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.. bpo: 17232
.. date: 2018-02-23-12-48-03
.. nonce: tmuTKL
.. section: Documentation

Clarify docs for -O and -OO.  Patch by Terry Reedy.

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.. bpo: 32800
.. date: 2018-02-10-15-16-04
.. nonce: FyrqCk
.. section: Documentation

Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.

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.. bpo: 8722
.. date: 2018-02-03-06-11-37
.. nonce: MPyVyj
.. section: Documentation

Document :meth:`__getattr__` behavior when property :meth:`get` method
raises :exc:`AttributeError`.

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.. bpo: 32614
.. date: 2018-02-02-07-41-57
.. nonce: LSqzGw
.. section: Documentation

Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
:exc:`DeprecationWarning` and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the
deprecation.

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.. bpo: 31972
.. date: 2018-01-25-14-23-12
.. nonce: w1m_8r
.. section: Documentation

Improve docstrings for ``pathlib.PurePath`` subclasses.

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.. bpo: 17799
.. date: 2018-01-22-21-13-46
.. nonce: rdZ-Vk
.. section: Documentation

Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API
counterparts regarding which type of events are received in each function.
Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.

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.. bpo: 32517
.. date: 2018-03-09-07-05-12
.. nonce: ugc1iW
.. section: Tests

Fix failing ``test_asyncio`` on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport of
``KqueueSelector`` loop was not being closed.

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.. bpo: 32721
.. date: 2018-01-29-21-30-44
.. nonce: 2Bebm1
.. section: Tests

Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.

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.. bpo: 32252
.. date: 2017-12-11-13-31-33
.. nonce: YnFw7J
.. section: Tests

Fix faulthandler_suppress_crash_report() used to prevent core dump files
when testing crashes. getrlimit() returns zero on success.

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.. bpo: 31518
.. date: 2017-09-19-20-48-50
.. nonce: KwTMMz
.. section: Tests

Debian Unstable has disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for SSLv23_METHOD(). Change
TLS/SSL protocol of some tests to PROTOCOL_TLS or PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2 to make
them pass on Debian.

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.. bpo: 32635
.. date: 2018-01-23-15-33-40
.. nonce: qHwIZy
.. section: Build

Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of
libcrypt at the system.

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.. bpo: 33016
.. date: 2018-03-07-01-33-33
.. nonce: Z_Med0
.. section: Windows

Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname

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.. bpo: 32903
.. date: 2018-02-28-11-03-24
.. nonce: 1SXY4t
.. section: Windows

Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set
to a UNC path.

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.. bpo: 31966
.. date: 2018-02-19-13-54-42
.. nonce: _Q3HPb
.. section: Windows

Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.

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.. bpo: 32409
.. date: 2018-02-19-10-00-57
.. nonce: nocuDg
.. section: Windows

Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.

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.. bpo: 32457
.. date: 2018-02-19-08-54-06
.. nonce: vVP0Iz
.. section: Windows

Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.

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.. bpo: 32370
.. date: 2018-02-10-15-38-19
.. nonce: kcKuct
.. section: Windows

Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by
Segev Finer.

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.. bpo: 29248
.. date: 2018-02-07-17-50-48
.. nonce: Xzwj-6
.. section: Windows

Fix :func:`os.readlink` on Windows, which was mistakenly treating the
``PrintNameOffset`` field of the reparse data buffer as a number of
characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.

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.. bpo: 32588
.. date: 2018-01-18-14-56-45
.. nonce: vHww6F
.. section: Windows

Create standalone _distutils_findvs module.

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.. bpo: 32726
.. date: 2018-03-13-21-00-20
.. nonce: Mticyn
.. section: macOS

Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that supports
macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only. Upgrade the supplied third-party
libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.2n, XZ 5.2.3, and SQLite 3.22.0. The 10.9+
installer now links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.

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.. bpo: 32984
.. date: 2018-03-05-01-29-05
.. nonce: NGjgT4
.. section: IDLE

Set ``__file__`` while running a startup file.  Like Python, IDLE optionally
runs one startup file in the Shell window before presenting the first
interactive input prompt.  For IDLE, ``-s`` runs a file named in
environmental variable  :envvar:`IDLESTARTUP` or  :envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP`;
``-r file`` runs ``file``.  Python sets ``__file__`` to the startup file
name before running the file and unsets it before the first prompt.  IDLE
now does the same when run normally, without the ``-n`` option.

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.. bpo: 32940
.. date: 2018-02-24-18-20-50
.. nonce: ZaJ1Rf
.. section: IDLE

Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.

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.. bpo: 32916
.. date: 2018-02-23-07-32-36
.. nonce: 4MsQ5F
.. section: IDLE

Change ``str`` to ``code`` in pyparse.

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.. bpo: 32905
.. date: 2018-02-22-00-09-27
.. nonce: VlXj0x
.. section: IDLE

Remove unused code in pyparse module.

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.. bpo: 32874
.. date: 2018-02-19-10-56-41
.. nonce: 6pZ9Gv
.. section: IDLE

Add tests for pyparse.

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.. bpo: 32837
.. date: 2018-02-12-17-22-48
.. nonce: -33QPl
.. section: IDLE

Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad
idea for IDLE's system and location-independent files.

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.. bpo: 32826
.. date: 2018-02-12-11-05-22
.. nonce: IxNZrk
.. section: IDLE

Add "encoding=utf-8" to open() in IDLE's test_help_about. GUI test
test_file_buttons() only looks at initial ascii-only lines, but failed on
systems where open() defaults to 'ascii' because readline() internally reads
and decodes far enough ahead to encounter a non-ascii character in
CREDITS.txt.

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.. bpo: 32765
.. date: 2018-02-04-17-52-54
.. nonce: qm0eCu
.. section: IDLE

Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget
list.

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.. bpo: 24960
.. date: 2017-12-22-09-25-51
.. nonce: TGdAgO
.. section: Tools/Demos

2to3 and lib2to3 can now read pickled grammar files using pkgutil.get_data()
rather than probing the filesystem. This lets 2to3 and lib2to3 work when run
from a zipfile.

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.. bpo: 32222
.. date: 2017-12-07-20-51-20
.. nonce: hPBcGT
.. section: Tools/Demos

Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated
arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.

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.. bpo: 29084
.. date: 2017-12-16-09-59-35
.. nonce: ZGJ-LJ
.. section: C API

Undocumented C API for OrderedDict has been excluded from the limited C API.
It was added by mistake and actually never worked in the limited C API.