I decided to leave the (slightly expanded) Other Improvements
entry as well, since someone looking for command line behavior
changes isn't going to look in the 'sys' module section.
Also updated the base64 module title and introduction to adjust for
the fact that these new encodings are included.
Also adjusted the wording about the base64 alphabets (see
issue #20837).
Several of the introspection changes in Python 3.4 are indirect,
where inspect module changes affected pydoc, and those in turn
affected the help builtin. This update adds versionchanged
notes in the key locations, as well as more coverage in the
What's New document (in particular, a note in the porting
section regarding the expanded domain for inspect.getfullargspec).
This was perhaps on the border between a bug fix and a feature since
the Python3 docs did not originally say it was unix only. However, the
functions never worked anywhere but unix, and the docs were changed to
say it was unix only well before the windows support was added.
Unfortunately, windows support was added in 3.3.4 as well as 3.4.
That leaves us in the uncomfortable position of needing the tag to say
"version changed: 3.3.4" :(
This was perhaps on the border between a bug fix and a feature since
the Python3 docs did not originally say it was unix only. However, the
functions never worked anywhere but unix, and the docs were changed to
say it was unix only well before the windows support was added.
Unfortunately, windows support was added in 3.3.4 as well as 3.4.
That leaves us in the uncomfortable position of needing the tag to say
"version changed: 3.3.4" :(
I had missed that there was already an entry for the Frozen package change, so
I combined mine with the existing one. Also added the info about the reload
change to the entry for the other changes to reload, but I'm missing an issue
number for the rest of the attribute behavior changes so I left myself an
XXX as a reminder to find it.
Add issue number to tick_counter, PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer, marshal
optimizations (add Antoine's contribution to the entry under the marshal
module), and absolute paths in __file__.
I also added the docs that never got committed, editing the patch provided by
Claudiu.
I collapsed the now three versionchanged directives for discovery into one. I
tried several different styles for this. The most obvious is a bulleted list,
but currently the only way I could find to produce that is to have *something*
appear on the versionchanged line after the colon, which combined with the
blank space before the bulleted list just looks wrong. I also tried the
current single-line-three-sentences version with bullet characters before each
sentence, and I almost went with that as it made it clear that the three
sentences are independent. But I decided to just go with the sentences for
simplicity reasons.
R David Murray
Nick Coghlan
Brett Cannon
Ethan Furman
Victor Stinner