.. bpo: 28532
.. date: 9778
.. nonce: KEYJny
.. release date: 2016-11-21
.. section: Core and Builtins

Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.

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.. bpo: 27100
.. date: 9777
.. nonce: poVjXq
.. section: Core and Builtins

The with-statement now checks for __enter__ before it checks for __exit__.
This gives less confusing error messages when both methods are missing.
Patch by Jonathan Ellington.

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.. bpo: 28746
.. date: 9776
.. nonce: r5MXdB
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on platforms that do not
have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.

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.. bpo: 26920
.. date: 9775
.. nonce: 1URwGb
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix not getting the locale's charset upon initializing the interpreter, on
platforms that do not have langinfo.

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.. bpo: 28648
.. date: 9774
.. nonce: z7B52W
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X when decode
astral characters.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

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.. bpo: 19398
.. date: 9773
.. nonce: RYbEGH
.. section: Core and Builtins

Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-
time PYTHONPATH components.

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.. bpo: 28665
.. date: 9772
.. nonce: v4nx86
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.

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.. bpo: 28583
.. date: 9771
.. nonce: F-QAx1
.. section: Core and Builtins

PyDict_SetDefault didn't combine split table when needed. Patch by Xiang
Zhang.

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.. bpo: 27243
.. date: 9770
.. nonce: 61E6K5
.. section: Core and Builtins

Change PendingDeprecationWarning -> DeprecationWarning. As it was agreed in
the issue, __aiter__ returning an awaitable should result in
PendingDeprecationWarning in 3.5 and in DeprecationWarning in 3.6.

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.. bpo: 26182
.. date: 9769
.. nonce: a8JXK2
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.

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.. bpo: 28721
.. date: 9768
.. nonce: BO9BUF
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to handle
StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.

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.. bpo: 28752
.. date: 9767
.. nonce: Q-4oRE
.. section: Library

Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.

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.. bpo: 28727
.. date: 9766
.. nonce: ubZP_b
.. section: Library

Regular expression patterns, _sre.SRE_Pattern objects created by
re.compile(), become comparable (only x==y and x!=y operators). This change
should fix the issue #18383: don't duplicate warning filters when the
warnings module is reloaded (thing usually only done in unit tests).

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.. bpo: 20572
.. date: 9765
.. nonce: lGXaH9
.. section: Library

The subprocess.Popen.wait method's undocumented endtime parameter now raises
a DeprecationWarning.

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.. bpo: 25659
.. date: 9764
.. nonce: lE2IlT
.. section: Library

In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy()
methods on abstract classes like Array.

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.. bpo: 19717
.. date: 9763
.. nonce: HXCAIz
.. section: Library

Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist. Patch by Vajrasky
Kok

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.. bpo: 28563
.. date: 9762
.. nonce: iweEiw
.. section: Library

Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when handle plural form
selections in the gettext module.  The expression parser now supports exact
syntax supported by GNU gettext.

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.. bpo: 28387
.. date: 9761
.. nonce: 1clJu7
.. section: Library

Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when the garbage
collector is invoked in other thread.  Based on patch by Sebastian Cufre.

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.. bpo: 28600
.. date: 9760
.. nonce: wMVrjN
.. section: Library

Optimize loop.call_soon.

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.. bpo: 28613
.. date: 9759
.. nonce: sqUPrv
.. section: Library

Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if called from
coroutines/callbacks.

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.. bpo: 28634
.. date: 9758
.. nonce: YlRydz
.. section: Library

Fix asyncio.isfuture() to support unittest.Mock.

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.. bpo: 26081
.. date: 9757
.. nonce: 2Y8-a9
.. section: Library

Fix refleak in _asyncio.Future.__iter__().throw.

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.. bpo: 28639
.. date: 9756
.. nonce: WUPo1o
.. section: Library

Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool Patch by Justin Mayfield.

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.. bpo: 28652
.. date: 9755
.. nonce: f5M8FG
.. section: Library

Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not support.

..

.. bpo: 28653
.. date: 9754
.. nonce: S5bA9i
.. section: Library

Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.

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.. bpo: 28703
.. date: 9753
.. nonce: CRLTJc
.. section: Library

Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.

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.. bpo: 28704
.. date: 9752
.. nonce: EFWBII
.. section: Library

Fix create_unix_server to support Path-like objects (PEP 519).

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.. bpo: 28720
.. date: 9751
.. nonce: Fsz-Lf
.. section: Library

Add collections.abc.AsyncGenerator.

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.. bpo: 28513
.. date: 9750
.. nonce: L3joAz
.. section: Documentation

Documented command-line interface of zipfile.

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.. bpo: 28666
.. date: 9749
.. nonce: RtTk-4
.. section: Tests

Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or unreadable
directories.

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.. bpo: 23839
.. date: 9748
.. nonce: zsT_L9
.. section: Tests

Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.

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.. bpo: 10656
.. date: 9747
.. nonce: pR8FFU
.. section: Build

Fix out-of-tree building on AIX.  Patch by Tristan Carel and Michael
Haubenwallner.

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.. bpo: 26359
.. date: 9746
.. nonce: CLz6qy
.. section: Build

Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.

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.. bpo: 28676
.. date: 9745
.. nonce: Wxf6Ds
.. section: Build

Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS. Patch by Gareth
Rees.