This auth handler adds the Authorization header to the first
HTTP request rather than waiting for a HTTP 401 Unauthorized
response from the server as the default HTTPBasicAuthHandler
does.
This allows working with websites like https://api.github.com which do
not follow the strict interpretation of RFC, but more the dicta in the
end of section 2 of RFC 2617:
> A client MAY preemptively send the corresponding Authorization
> header with requests for resources in that space without receipt
> of another challenge from the server. Similarly, when a client
> sends a request to a proxy, it may reuse a userid and password in
> the Proxy-Authorization header field without receiving another
> challenge from the proxy server. See section 4 for security
> considerations associated with Basic authentication.
Patch by Matej Cepl.
Some time ago we changed the docs to consistently use the term 'bytes-like
object' in all the contexts where bytes, bytearray, memoryview, etc are used.
This patch (by Ezio Melotti) completes that work by changing the error
messages that previously reported that certain types did "not support the
buffer interface" to instead say that a bytes-like object is required. (The
glossary entry for bytes-like object references the discussion of the buffer
protocol in the docs.)
A debian code search (by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe) turned up only one package
checking email.__version__...and it was the 2.7-only mailman package. Since
Barry approves this change, it seems safe enough to make it...
Both compileall.compile_dir() and the CLI for compileall now allow for
specifying how many workers to use (or 0 to use all CPUs).
Thanks to Claudiu Popa for the patch.
threading.Lock.acquire(), threading.RLock.acquire() and socket operations now
use a monotonic clock, instead of the system clock, when a timeout is used.
Patch by Milan Oberkirch, developed as part of his 2014 GSOC project.
Note that this also fixes a bug in mock_socket ('getpeername' was returning a
simple string instead of the tuple required for IPvX protocols), a bug in
DebugServer with respect to handling binary data (should have been fixed when
decode_data was introduced, but wasn't found until this patch was written),
and a long-standing bug in DebugServer (it was printing an extra blank line at
the end of the displayed message text).
name, and use it in the representation of a generator (``repr(gen)``). The
default name of the generator (``__name__`` attribute) is now get from the
function instead of the code. Use ``gen.gi_code.co_name`` to get the name of
the code.
Otherwise smtpd is restricted to 7bit clean data, since even if the
incoming data is actually utf-8, it will often break things to decode
it before parsing the message.
Patch by Maciej Szulik, with some adjustments (mostly the warning
support).
Along the way, dismantle importlib._bootstrap._SpecMethods as it was
no longer relevant and constructing the new function required
partially dismantling the class anyway.
PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) and bytearray(int) are now
using ``calloc()`` instead of ``malloc()`` for large objects which is faster
and use less memory (until the bytearray buffer is filled with data).
This makes doctest work like unittest: if the test case is empty, that
just means there are zero tests run, it's not an error. The existing
behavior was broken, since it only gave an error if there were *no*
docstrings, and zero tests run if there were docstrings but none of them
contained tests. So this makes it self-consistent as well.
Patch by Glenn Jones.
Brett Cannon
Serhiy Storchaka
Nick Coghlan
Berker Peksag
R David Murray
Victor Stinner
Ezio Melotti
Zachary Ware
Giampaolo Rodola'
Antoine Pitrou
Yury Selivanov
Benjamin Peterson