cpython/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b4.rst

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.. bpo: 33363
.. date: 2018-04-26-22-48-28
.. nonce: 8RCnN2
.. release date: 2018-05-02
.. section: Core and Builtins
Raise a SyntaxError for ``async with`` and ``async for`` statements outside
of async functions.
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.. bpo: 33128
.. date: 2018-04-24-22-31-04
.. nonce: g2yLuf
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix a bug that causes PathFinder to appear twice on sys.meta_path. Patch by
Pablo Galindo Salgado.
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.. bpo: 33312
.. date: 2018-04-19-08-30-07
.. nonce: mDe2iL
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fixed clang ubsan (undefined behavior sanitizer) warnings in dictobject.c by
adjusting how the internal struct _dictkeysobject shared keys structure is
declared.
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.. bpo: 33231
.. date: 2018-04-05-22-20-44
.. nonce: 3Jmo0q
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix potential memory leak in ``normalizestring()``.
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.. bpo: 33205
.. date: 2018-04-03-00-58-41
.. nonce: lk2F3r
.. section: Core and Builtins
Change dict growth function from
``round_up_to_power_2(used*2+hashtable_size/2)`` to
``round_up_to_power_2(used*3)``. Previously, dict is shrinked only when
``used == 0``. Now dict has more chance to be shrinked.
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.. bpo: 29922
.. date: 2018-04-03-00-30-25
.. nonce: CdLuMl
.. section: Core and Builtins
Improved error messages in 'async with' when ``__aenter__()`` or
``__aexit__()`` return non-awaitable object.
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.. bpo: 33199
.. date: 2018-04-02-09-32-40
.. nonce: TPnxQu
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix ``ma_version_tag`` in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying
from key-sharing dict.
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.. bpo: 33281
.. date: 2018-05-01-22-35-50
.. nonce: d4jOt4
.. section: Library
Fix ctypes.util.find_library regression on macOS.
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.. bpo: 33383
.. date: 2018-04-29-11-15-38
.. nonce: g32YWn
.. section: Library
Fixed crash in the get() method of the :mod:`dbm.ndbm` database object when
it is called with a single argument.
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.. bpo: 33329
.. date: 2018-04-23-13-21-39
.. nonce: lQ-Eod
.. section: Library
Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs
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.. bpo: 991266
.. date: 2018-04-21-00-24-08
.. nonce: h93TP_
.. section: Library
Fix quoting of the ``Comment`` attribute of
:class:`http.cookies.SimpleCookie`.
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.. bpo: 33131
.. date: 2018-04-20-10-43-17
.. nonce: L2E977
.. section: Library
Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.
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.. bpo: 33308
.. date: 2018-04-18-19-12-25
.. nonce: fW75xi
.. section: Library
Fixed a crash in the :mod:`parser` module when converting an ST object to a
tree of tuples or lists with ``line_info=False`` and ``col_info=True``.
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.. bpo: 33266
.. date: 2018-04-16-15-59-21
.. nonce: w2PAm-
.. section: Library
lib2to3 now recognizes ``rf'...'`` strings.
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.. bpo: 11594
.. date: 2018-04-16-08-42-03
.. nonce: QLo4vv
.. section: Library
Ensure line-endings are respected when using lib2to3.
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.. bpo: 33254
.. date: 2018-04-13-15-14-47
.. nonce: DS4KFK
.. section: Library
Have :func:`importlib.resources.contents` and
:meth:`importlib.abc.ResourceReader.contents` return an :term:`iterable`
instead of an :term:`iterator`.
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.. bpo: 33256
.. date: 2018-04-10-20-57-14
.. nonce: ndHkqu
.. section: Library
Fix display of ``<module>`` call in the html produced by ``cgitb.html()``.
Patch by Stéphane Blondon.
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.. bpo: 33185
.. date: 2018-04-08-22-54-07
.. nonce: Id-Ba9
.. section: Library
Fixed regression when running pydoc with the :option:`-m` switch. (The
regression was introduced in 3.7.0b3 by the resolution of :issue:`33053`)
This fix also changed pydoc to add ``os.getcwd()`` to :data:`sys.path` when
necessary, rather than adding ``"."``.
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.. bpo: 33169
.. date: 2018-04-06-14-56-26
.. nonce: ByhDqb
.. section: Library
Delete entries of ``None`` in :data:`sys.path_importer_cache` when
:meth:`importlib.machinery.invalidate_caches` is called.
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.. bpo: 33217
.. date: 2018-04-05-13-36-09
.. nonce: FfOKDI
.. section: Library
Deprecate looking up non-Enum objects in Enum classes and Enum members (will
raise :exc:`TypeError` in 3.8+).
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.. bpo: 33203
.. date: 2018-04-05-11-09-45
.. nonce: Hje9Py
.. section: Library
``random.Random.choice()`` now raises ``IndexError`` for empty sequences
consistently even when called from subclasses without a ``getrandbits()``
implementation.
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.. bpo: 33224
.. date: 2018-04-04-23-41-30
.. nonce: pyR0jB
.. section: Library
Update difflib.mdiff() for :pep:`479`. Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a
generator into a return-statement.
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.. bpo: 33209
.. date: 2018-04-03-10-37-13
.. nonce: 9sGWE_
.. section: Library
End framing at the end of C implementation of :func:`pickle.Pickler.dump`.
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.. bpo: 20104
.. date: 2018-04-01-19-21-04
.. nonce: -AKcGa
.. section: Library
Improved error handling and fixed a reference leak in
:func:`os.posix_spawn()`.
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.. bpo: 33175
.. date: 2018-03-29-04-32-25
.. nonce: _zs1yM
.. section: Library
In dataclasses, Field.__set_name__ now looks up the __set_name__ special
method on the class, not the instance, of the default value.
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.. bpo: 33097
.. date: 2018-03-18-16-48-23
.. nonce: Yl4gI2
.. section: Library
Raise RuntimeError when ``executor.submit`` is called during interpreter
shutdown.
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.. bpo: 31908
.. date: 2017-10-31
.. nonce: g4xh8x
.. section: Library
Fix output of cover files for ``trace`` module command-line tool. Previously
emitted cover files only when ``--missing`` option was used. Patch by
Michael Selik.
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.. bpo: 33378
.. date: 2018-04-29-04-02-18
.. nonce: -anAHN
.. section: Documentation
Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/
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.. bpo: 33276
.. date: 2018-04-20-14-09-36
.. nonce: rA1z_3
.. section: Documentation
Clarify that the ``__path__`` attribute on modules cannot be just any value.
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.. bpo: 33201
.. date: 2018-04-01-21-03-41
.. nonce: aa8Lkl
.. section: Documentation
Modernize documentation for writing C extension types.
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.. bpo: 33195
.. date: 2018-04-01-14-30-36
.. nonce: dRS-XX
.. section: Documentation
Deprecate ``Py_UNICODE`` usage in ``c-api/arg`` document. ``Py_UNICODE``
related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the
document.
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.. bpo: 8243
.. date: 2018-01-13-20-30-53
.. nonce: s98r28
.. section: Documentation
Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when
writing outside a window, or pad.
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.. bpo: 32337
.. date: 2017-12-22-17-29-37
.. nonce: eZe-ID
.. section: Documentation
Update documentation related with ``dict`` order.
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.. bpo: 33358
.. date: 2018-04-27-11-46-35
.. nonce: _OcR59
.. section: Tests
Fix ``test_embed.test_pre_initialization_sys_options()`` when the
interpreter is built with ``--enable-shared``.
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.. bpo: 33394
.. date: 2018-04-30-17-36-46
.. nonce: _Vdi4t
.. section: Build
Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed
macros on the command line.
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.. bpo: 33393
.. date: 2018-04-30-17-19-37
.. nonce: HkVCqI
.. section: Build
Update config.guess and config.sub files.
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.. bpo: 33377
.. date: 2018-04-30-16-53-00
.. nonce: QBh6vP
.. section: Build
Add new triplets for mips r6 and riscv variants (used in extension
suffixes).
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.. bpo: 32232
.. date: 2018-04-17-00-38-19
.. nonce: o7G_UO
.. section: Build
By default, modules configured in ``Modules/Setup`` are no longer built with
``-DPy_BUILD_CORE``. Instead, modules that specifically need that preprocessor
definition include it in their individual entries.
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.. bpo: 33182
.. date: 2018-03-30-14-55-48
.. nonce: CePczb
.. section: Build
The embedding tests can once again be built with clang 6.0
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.. bpo: 33184
.. date: 2018-04-13-11-28-55
.. nonce: 7YhqQE
.. section: Windows
Update Windows installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
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.. bpo: 33184
.. date: 2018-04-07-00-51-34
.. nonce: 3j208P
.. section: macOS
Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
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.. bpo: 21474
.. date: 2018-04-29-16-13-02
.. nonce: bglg-F
.. section: IDLE
Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry
boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by
control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL.
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.. bpo: 33204
.. date: 2018-04-02-00-28-13
.. nonce: NBsuIv
.. section: IDLE
IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A 'u' string prefix cannot
be paired with either 'r' or 'f'. Consistently color as much of the prefix,
starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test.
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.. bpo: 33189
.. date: 2018-04-03-18-10-00
.. nonce: QrXR00
.. section: Tools/Demos
:program:`pygettext.py` now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings
and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string
expressions.
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.. bpo: 31920
.. date: 2018-03-26-18-54-24
.. nonce: u_WKsT
.. section: Tools/Demos
Fixed handling directories as arguments in the ``pygettext`` script. Based
on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.
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.. bpo: 29673
.. date: 2018-03-16-17-25-05
.. nonce: m8QtaW
.. section: Tools/Demos
Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros.
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.. bpo: 31583
.. date: 2017-09-26-10-11-21
.. nonce: TM90_H
.. section: Tools/Demos
Fix 2to3 for using with --add-suffix option but without --output-dir option
for relative path to files in current directory.