Merge: Add some missing stuff to whatsnew.
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@ -797,7 +797,9 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
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(Contributed by Petri Lehtinen in :issue:`12170`)
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* New methods have been added to :class:`list` and :class:`bytearray`:
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``copy()`` and ``clear()``. (:issue:`10516`)
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``copy()`` and ``clear()`` (:issue:`10516`). Consequently,
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:class:`~collections.abc.MutableSequence` now also defines a
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:meth:`~collections.abc.MutableSequence.clear` method (:issue:`11388`).
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* Raw bytes literals can now be written ``rb"..."`` as well as ``br"..."``.
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@ -918,6 +920,10 @@ property. The built-in descriptors have been updated accordingly.
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(Contributed by Darren Dale in :issue:`11610`)
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:meth:`abc.ABCMeta.register` now returns the registered subclass, which means
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it can now be used as a class decorator (:issue:`10868`).
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array
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-----
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@ -1057,7 +1063,8 @@ datetime
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--------
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* Equality comparisons between naive and aware :class:`~datetime.datetime`
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instances now return :const:`False` instead of raising :exc:`TypeError`.
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instances now return :const:`False` instead of raising :exc:`TypeError`
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(:issue:`15006`).
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* New :meth:`datetime.datetime.timestamp` method: Return POSIX timestamp
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corresponding to the :class:`~datetime.datetime` instance.
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* The :meth:`datetime.datetime.strftime` method supports formatting years
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@ -1322,18 +1329,20 @@ standard Content Transfer Encodings.
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ftplib
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------
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* :class:`ftplib.FTP` now accepts a ``source_address`` keyword argument to
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specify the ``(host, port)`` to use as the source address in the bind call
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when creating the outgoing socket. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà
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in :issue:`8594`.)
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* The :class:`~ftplib.FTP_TLS` class now provides a new
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:func:`~ftplib.FTP_TLS.ccc` function to revert control channel back to
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plaintext. This can be useful to take advantage of firewalls that know how to
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handle NAT with non-secure FTP without opening fixed ports.
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(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`12139`)
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plaintext. This can be useful to take advantage of firewalls that know how
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to handle NAT with non-secure FTP without opening fixed ports. (Contributed
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by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`12139`)
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* Added :meth:`ftplib.FTP.mlsd` method which provides a parsable directory
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listing format and deprecates :meth:`ftplib.FTP.nlst` and
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:meth:`ftplib.FTP.dir`.
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(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`11072`)
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:meth:`ftplib.FTP.dir`. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`11072`)
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gc
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--
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@ -1438,6 +1447,10 @@ multiple objects (such as connections, sockets and pipes) with a timeout.
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multiprocessing connections.
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(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`4892`.)
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:class:`multiprocessing.Process` now accepts a ``daemon`` keyword argument
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to override the default behavior of inheriting the ``daemon`` flag from
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the parent process (:issue:`6064`).
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nntplib
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-------
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@ -1640,23 +1653,22 @@ that might be otherwise given special meaning by the shell.
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shutil
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* The :mod:`shutil` module has these new fuctions:
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* New functions:
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* :func:`~shutil.disk_usage`: provides total, used and free disk space
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statistics. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`12442`)
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* :func:`~shutil.chown`: allows one to change user and/or group of the given
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path also specifying the user/group names and not only their numeric
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ids. (Contributed by Sandro Tosi in :issue:`12191`)
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* :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size`: returns the size of the terminal window
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to which the interpreter is attached. (Contributed by Zbigniew
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Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.)
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* :func:`~shutil.copy2` and :func:`~shutil.copystat` now preserve file
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timestamps with nanosecond precision on platforms that support it.
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They also preserve file "extended attributes" on Linux. (Contributed
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by Larry Hastings in :issue:`14127` and :issue:`15238`.)
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* The new :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size` function returns the size of the
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terminal window the interpreter is attached to.
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(Contributed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.)
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* Several functions now take an optional ``symlinks`` argument: when that
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parameter is true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead
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acts on the symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).
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@ -1736,6 +1748,10 @@ socket
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Datagram_Sockets and
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http://oss.oracle.com/projects/rds/).
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* New function :func:`~socket.sethostname` allows the hostname to be set
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on unix systems if the calling process has sufficient privileges.
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(Contributed by Ross Lagerwall in :issue:`10866`.)
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ssl
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@ -1811,6 +1827,15 @@ of text.
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(:issue:`13857`)
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threading
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---------
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The :class:`threading.Thread` constructor now accepts a ``daemon`` keyword
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argument to override the default behavior of inheriting the ``deamon`` flag
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value from the parent thread (:issue:`6064`).
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time
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@ -1956,6 +1981,8 @@ OS/2 and VMS are no longer supported due to the lack of a maintainer.
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Windows 2000 and Windows platforms which set ``COMSPEC`` to ``command.com``
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are no longer supported due to maintenance burden.
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OSF support, which was deprecated in 3.2, has been completely removed.
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Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods
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@ -2153,7 +2180,12 @@ Porting Python code
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* :func:`email.utils.formataddr` now does the correct content transfer
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encoding when passed non-``ASCII`` display names. Any code that depended on
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the previous buggy behavior that preserved the non-``ASCII`` unicode in the
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formatted output string will need to be changed.
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formatted output string will need to be changed (:issue:`1690608`).
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* :meth:`poplib.POP3.quit` may now raise protocol errors like all other
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``poplib`` methods. Code that assumes ``quit`` does not raise
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:exc:`poplib.error_proto` errors may need to be changed if errors on ``quit``
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are encountered by a particular application (:issue:`11291`).
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Porting C code
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@ -3869,7 +3869,7 @@ Build
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functions (BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
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(UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
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- Issue #10645: Installing Python does no longer create a
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- Issue #10645: Installing Python no longer creates a
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Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
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- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
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