diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 17d2e9e440d..e7d87cf3c72 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1416,6 +1416,10 @@ Other Build and C API Changes * New shell version of ``python-config``; can be used even when a python interpreter is not available (for example, in cross compilation scenarios). +* :c:func:`PyUnicode_FromFormat` now supports width and precision + specifications for ``%s``, ``%A``, ``%U``, ``%V``, ``%S``, and ``%R``. + (Contributed by Ysj Ray and Victor Stinner in :issue:`7330`.) + Other Improvements @@ -1671,7 +1675,7 @@ Changes in the Python API * The module type now initializes the :attr:`__package__` and :attr:`__loader__` attributes to ``None`` by default. To determine if these attributes were set in a backwards-compatible fashion, use e.g. - ``getattr(module, '__loader__', None) is not None``. + ``getattr(module, '__loader__', None) is not None``. (:issue:`17115`.) * :meth:`importlib.util.module_for_loader` now sets ``__loader__`` and ``__package__`` unconditionally to properly support reloading. If this is not @@ -1772,6 +1776,11 @@ Changes in the Python API regular keyword arguments, instead of before. Hopefully no one wrote any code that depends on the previous buggy behavior (:issue:`16967`). +* Stale thread states are now cleared after :func:`~os.fork`. This may cause + some system resources to be released that previously were incorrectly kept + perpetually alive (for example, database connections kept in thread-local + storage). (:issue:`17094`.) + Changes in the C API --------------------