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whatsnew: PyUnicode_FromFormat width/precision, thread cleanup after fork.

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R David Murray 2014-02-12 13:39:11 -05:00
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* 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
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