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.. bpo: 23285
.. date: 8948
.. nonce: bJJA8B
.. release date: 2015-02-08
.. section: Core and Builtins
PEP 475 - EINTR handling.
..
.. bpo: 22735
.. date: 8947
.. nonce: mFEX9n
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving custom mro()
implementations.
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.. bpo: 22896
.. date: 8946
.. nonce: xSDAHK
.. section: Core and Builtins
Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(), PyObject_AsReadBuffer() and
PyObject_AsWriteBuffer().
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.. bpo: 21295
.. date: 8945
.. nonce: LYq9nF
.. section: Core and Builtins
Revert some changes (issue #16795) to AST line numbers and column offsets
that constituted a regression.
..
.. bpo: 22986
.. date: 8944
.. nonce: yay2Lv
.. section: Core and Builtins
Allow changing an object's __class__ between a dynamic type and static type
in some cases.
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.. bpo: 15859
.. date: 8943
.. nonce: Fs5mE2
.. section: Core and Builtins
PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS() and
PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is not a
Unicode object. For PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), it was already the case on
platforms other than Windows. Patch written by Campbell Barton.
..
.. bpo: 21408
.. date: 8942
.. nonce: Lz6P3P
.. section: Core and Builtins
The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if __eq__() returned
NotImplemented. Original patch by Martin Panter.
..
.. bpo: 23321
.. date: 8941
.. nonce: HQelge
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned replacement string
longer than malformed input data.
..
.. bpo: 22286
.. date: 8940
.. nonce: l6Qyy1
.. section: Core and Builtins
The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with decoding and
translating.
..
.. bpo: 23253
.. date: 8939
.. nonce: p4B1H-
.. section: Core and Builtins
Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced startup overhead on
Windows.
..
.. bpo: 22038
.. date: 8938
.. nonce: BMZUHx
.. section: Core and Builtins
pyatomic.h now uses stdatomic.h or GCC built-in functions for atomic memory
access if available. Patch written by Vitor de Lima and Gustavo Temple.
..
.. bpo: 20284
.. date: 8937
.. nonce: CH8wpD
.. section: Core and Builtins
%-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes and bytearray.
..
.. bpo: 23048
.. date: 8936
.. nonce: X5BUd3
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
..
.. bpo: 20335
.. date: 8935
.. nonce: YcAPOs
.. section: Core and Builtins
bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors is specified
with non-string argument. Based on patch by Renaud Blanch.
..
.. bpo: 22834
.. date: 8934
.. nonce: N1kAXN
.. section: Core and Builtins
If the current working directory ends up being set to a non-existent
directory then import will no longer raise FileNotFoundError.
..
.. bpo: 22869
.. date: 8933
.. nonce: rAWg-V
.. section: Core and Builtins
Move the interpreter startup & shutdown code to a new dedicated
pylifecycle.c module
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.. bpo: 22847
.. date: 8932
.. nonce: 6baj9f
.. section: Core and Builtins
Improve method cache efficiency.
..
.. bpo: 22335
.. date: 8931
.. nonce: DWsXiy
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff bytes on a 32-bit
platform.
..
.. bpo: 22653
.. date: 8930
.. nonce: pCNlpv
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant dict insertion
in debug mode.
..
.. bpo: 22643
.. date: 8929
.. nonce: xv8xev
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower, title,
swapcase, casefold).
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.. bpo: 17636
.. date: 8928
.. nonce: wiqnhw
.. section: Core and Builtins
Circular imports involving relative imports are now supported.
..
.. bpo: 22604
.. date: 8927
.. nonce: yii-It
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex number by
(nan+0j).
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.. bpo: 21052
.. date: 8926
.. nonce: -sf3tp
.. section: Core and Builtins
Do not raise ImportWarning when sys.path_hooks or sys.meta_path are set to
None.
..
.. bpo: 16518
.. date: 8925
.. nonce: UADwcN
.. section: Core and Builtins
Use 'bytes-like object required' in error messages that previously used the
far more cryptic "'x' does not support the buffer protocol.
..
.. bpo: 22470
.. date: 8924
.. nonce: igrgN2
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace", "xmlcharrefreplace",
and "surrogatepass" error handlers.
..
.. bpo: 22540
.. date: 8923
.. nonce: FM72m-
.. section: Core and Builtins
speed up `PyObject_IsInstance` and `PyObject_IsSubclass` in the common case
that the second argument has metaclass `type`.
..
.. bpo: 18711
.. date: 8922
.. nonce: ds5wQa
.. section: Core and Builtins
Add a new `PyErr_FormatV` function, similar to `PyErr_Format` but accepting
a `va_list` argument.
..
.. bpo: 22520
.. date: 8921
.. nonce: ZPJXSq
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode object.
..
.. bpo: 22519
.. date: 8920
.. nonce: xvJVg0
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr.
..
.. bpo: 22518
.. date: 8919
.. nonce: C9T6ed
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.
..
.. bpo: 16324
.. date: 8918
.. nonce: YfrBNz
.. section: Core and Builtins
_charset parameter of MIMEText now also accepts email.charset.Charset
instances. Initial patch by Claude Paroz.
..
.. bpo: 1764286
.. date: 8917
.. nonce: L4seL2
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix inspect.getsource() to support decorated functions. Patch by Claudiu
Popa.
..
.. bpo: 18554
.. date: 8916
.. nonce: hxnaui
.. section: Core and Builtins
os.__all__ includes posix functions.
..
.. bpo: 21391
.. date: 8915
.. nonce: 3jntPd
.. section: Core and Builtins
Use os.path.abspath in the shutil module.
..
.. bpo: 11471
.. date: 8914
.. nonce: Uu752F
.. section: Core and Builtins
avoid generating a JUMP_FORWARD instruction at the end of an if-block if
there is no else-clause. Original patch by Eugene Toder.
..
.. bpo: 22215
.. date: 8913
.. nonce: IBFi6H
.. section: Core and Builtins
Now ValueError is raised instead of TypeError when str or bytes argument
contains not permitted null character or byte.
..
.. bpo: 22258
.. date: 8912
.. nonce: 4FszMt
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos. This platform
exposes the function ``ioctl(FIOCLEX)``, but calling it fails with errno is
ENOTTY: "Inappropriate ioctl for device". set_inheritable() now falls back
to the slower ``fcntl()`` (``F_GETFD`` and then ``F_SETFD``).
..
.. bpo: 21389
.. date: 8911
.. nonce: dnWZBn
.. section: Core and Builtins
Displaying the __qualname__ of the underlying function in the repr of a
bound method.
..
.. bpo: 22206
.. date: 8910
.. nonce: 0i_ihB
.. section: Core and Builtins
Using pthread, PyThread_create_key() now sets errno to ENOMEM and returns -1
(error) on integer overflow.
..
.. bpo: 20184
.. date: 8909
.. nonce: bb3uHY
.. section: Core and Builtins
Argument Clinic based signature introspection added for 30 of the builtin
functions.
..
.. bpo: 22116
.. date: 8908
.. nonce: auVmIt
.. section: Core and Builtins
C functions and methods (of the 'builtin_function_or_method' type) can now
be weakref'ed. Patch by Wei Wu.
..
.. bpo: 22077
.. date: 8907
.. nonce: KZUDR-
.. section: Core and Builtins
Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes, lists, and tuples by
adding 'or slices'. Added ', not <typename>' for bytearrays. Original patch
by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 20179
.. date: 8906
.. nonce: Nvhffc
.. section: Core and Builtins
Apply Argument Clinic to bytes and bytearray. Patch by Tal Einat.
..
.. bpo: 22082
.. date: 8905
.. nonce: 6X8Qmg
.. section: Core and Builtins
Clear interned strings in slotdefs.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8904
.. nonce: tuMnCc
.. section: Core and Builtins
Upgrade Unicode database to Unicode 7.0.0.
..
.. bpo: 21897
.. date: 8903
.. nonce: kiOGHe
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure variables when
frame.clear() has been called.
..
.. bpo: 21205
.. date: 8902
.. nonce: wZsx1K
.. section: Core and Builtins
Add a new ``__qualname__`` attribute to generator, the qualified 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.
..
.. bpo: 21669
.. date: 8901
.. nonce: DFDrBA
.. section: Core and Builtins
With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the parser now attempts
to generate more meaningful (or at least more search engine friendly) error
messages when "exec" and "print" are used as statements.
..
.. bpo: 21642
.. date: 8900
.. nonce: -lWoKz
.. section: Core and Builtins
In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written with no
space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else
False``) to be valid syntax.
..
.. bpo: 21523
.. date: 8899
.. nonce: f_PPYO
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of some opcodes in the
compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation time issue noticeable
when compiling code with a large number of "and" and "or" operators.
..
.. bpo: 21418
.. date: 8898
.. nonce: z9jp1_
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without argument and
without current frame (ex: embedded Python).
..
.. bpo: 21425
.. date: 8897
.. nonce: i3Teb8
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive interpreter.
..
.. bpo: 21435
.. date: 8896
.. nonce: ZojVOT
.. section: Core and Builtins
In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic trash a bad
pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in internal iteration
logic.
..
.. bpo: 21377
.. date: 8895
.. nonce: OawYfl
.. section: Core and Builtins
PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when the first argument
has a reference count of 1. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
..
.. bpo: 20355
.. date: 8894
.. nonce: OrCNkZ
.. section: Core and Builtins
-W command line options now have higher priority than the PYTHONWARNINGS
environment variable. Patch by Arfrever.
..
.. bpo: 21274
.. date: 8893
.. nonce: fVGfwq
.. section: Core and Builtins
Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c.
..
.. bpo: 20904
.. date: 8892
.. nonce: fAGdj2
.. section: Core and Builtins
Support setting FPU precision on m68k.
..
.. bpo: 21209
.. date: 8891
.. nonce: nMljFr
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield from syntax.
..
.. bpo: 21193
.. date: 8890
.. nonce: Dg98Oo
.. section: Core and Builtins
pow(a, b, c) now raises ValueError rather than TypeError when b is negative.
Patch by Josh Rosenberg.
..
.. bpo: 21176
.. date: 8889
.. nonce: mitDhW
.. section: Core and Builtins
PEP 465: Add the '@' operator for matrix multiplication.
..
.. bpo: 21134
.. date: 8888
.. nonce: ZL4SKo
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized UnicodeEncodeError,
UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
..
.. bpo: 19537
.. date: 8887
.. nonce: AkuC_J
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k. Patch by Andreas Schwab.
..
.. bpo: 20929
.. date: 8886
.. nonce: 9NlUR7
.. section: Core and Builtins
Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number.
..
.. bpo: 20731
.. date: 8885
.. nonce: _03SZg
.. section: Core and Builtins
Properly position in source code files even if they are opened in text mode.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
..
.. bpo: 20637
.. date: 8884
.. nonce: ppYU0o
.. section: Core and Builtins
Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of subclasses. Patch
by Peter Ingebretson.
..
.. bpo: 8297
.. date: 8883
.. nonce: _XdGON
.. section: Core and Builtins
Attributes missing from modules now include the module name in the error
text. Original patch by ysj.ray.
..
.. bpo: 19995
.. date: 8882
.. nonce: mnHEzX
.. section: Core and Builtins
%c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer input.
..
.. bpo: 19655
.. date: 8881
.. nonce: JgVdes
.. section: Core and Builtins
The ASDL parser - used by the build process to generate code for managing
the Python AST in C - was rewritten. The new parser is self contained and
does not require to carry long the spark.py parser-generator library;
spark.py was removed from the source base.
..
.. bpo: 12546
.. date: 8880
.. nonce: 09naZ9
.. section: Core and Builtins
Allow ``\x00`` to be used as a fill character when using str, int, float,
and complex __format__ methods.
..
.. bpo: 20480
.. date: 8879
.. nonce: TIYPLo
.. section: Core and Builtins
Add ipaddress.reverse_pointer. Patch by Leon Weber.
..
.. bpo: 13598
.. date: 8878
.. nonce: GJelrw
.. section: Core and Builtins
Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of replacement fields. It
now matches the behavior of str.format() in this regard. Patches by Phil
Elson and Ramchandra Apte.
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.. bpo: 8931
.. date: 8877
.. nonce: M05x4f
.. section: Core and Builtins
Make alternate formatting ('#') for type 'c' raise an exception. In versions
prior to 3.5, '#' with 'c' had no effect. Now specifying it is an error.
Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
..
.. bpo: 23165
.. date: 8876
.. nonce: lk8uCE
.. section: Core and Builtins
Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the _Py_char2wchar
function.
..
.. bpo: 23399
.. date: 8875
.. nonce: hXMYgA
.. section: Library
pyvenv creates relative symlinks where possible.
..
.. bpo: 20289
.. date: 8874
.. nonce: nio1N-
.. section: Library
cgi.FieldStorage() now supports the context management protocol.
..
.. bpo: 13128
.. date: 8873
.. nonce: vqEcsy
.. section: Library
Print response headers for CONNECT requests when debuglevel > 0. Patch by
Demian Brecht.
..
.. bpo: 15381
.. date: 8872
.. nonce: Xv-wu8
.. section: Library
Optimized io.BytesIO to make less allocations and copyings.
..
.. bpo: 22818
.. date: 8871
.. nonce: NYdAc9
.. section: Library
Splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string now raises a
warning. Patterns that can only match empty strings are now rejected.
..
.. bpo: 23099
.. date: 8870
.. nonce: ZASrUo
.. section: Library
Closing io.BytesIO with exported buffer is rejected now to prevent
corrupting exported buffer.
..
.. bpo: 23326
.. date: 8869
.. nonce: 8VzlZD
.. section: Library
Removed __ne__ implementations. Since fixing default __ne__ implementation
in issue #21408 they are redundant.
..
.. bpo: 23363
.. date: 8868
.. nonce: -koaol
.. section: Library
Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.
..
.. bpo: 23364
.. date: 8867
.. nonce: 3yBV-6
.. section: Library
Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.
..
.. bpo: 23366
.. date: 8866
.. nonce: tyAfm8
.. section: Library
Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations.
..
.. bpo: 23369
.. date: 8865
.. nonce: nqChyE
.. section: Library
Fixed possible integer overflow in _json.encode_basestring_ascii.
..
.. bpo: 23353
.. date: 8864
.. nonce: Iytkpc
.. section: Library
Fix the exception handling of generators in PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). At entry,
save or swap the exception state even if PyEval_EvalFrameEx() is called with
throwflag=0. At exit, the exception state is now always restored or swapped,
not only if why is WHY_YIELD or WHY_RETURN. Patch co-written with Antoine
Pitrou.
..
.. bpo: 14099
.. date: 8863
.. nonce: t9-HVE
.. section: Library
Restored support of writing ZIP files to tellable but non-seekable streams.
..
.. bpo: 14099
.. date: 8862
.. nonce: Myxxww
.. section: Library
Writing to ZipFile and reading multiple ZipExtFiles is threadsafe now.
..
.. bpo: 19361
.. date: 8861
.. nonce: 2mvrV3
.. section: Library
JSON decoder now raises JSONDecodeError instead of ValueError.
..
.. bpo: 18518
.. date: 8860
.. nonce: JXgicC
.. section: Library
timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled outside a function or
a loop (e.g. "return" or "break").
..
.. bpo: 23094
.. date: 8859
.. nonce: -8AXSi
.. section: Library
Fixed readline with frames in Python implementation of pickle.
..
.. bpo: 23268
.. date: 8858
.. nonce: ATtRa5
.. section: Library
Fixed bugs in the comparison of ipaddress classes.
..
.. bpo: 21408
.. date: 8857
.. nonce: 0rI6tx
.. section: Library
Removed incorrect implementations of __ne__() which didn't returned
NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. The default __ne__()
now works correctly.
..
.. bpo: 19996
.. date: 8856
.. nonce: 2-SiMf
.. section: Library
:class:`email.feedparser.FeedParser` now handles (malformed) headers with no
key rather than assuming the body has started.
..
.. bpo: 20188
.. date: 8855
.. nonce: xocY-2
.. section: Library
Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the ssl module.
..
.. bpo: 23133
.. date: 8854
.. nonce: 8p2Wnl
.. section: Library
Pickling of ipaddress objects now produces more compact and portable
representation.
..
.. bpo: 23248
.. date: 8853
.. nonce: FjcyCP
.. section: Library
Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.
..
.. bpo: 23266
.. date: 8852
.. nonce: Mo7alR
.. section: Library
Much faster implementation of ipaddress.collapse_addresses() when there are
many non-consecutive addresses.
..
.. bpo: 23098
.. date: 8851
.. nonce: 7VwF3K
.. section: Library
64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.
..
.. bpo: 21817
.. date: 8850
.. nonce: xYUW-9
.. section: Library
When an exception is raised in a task submitted to a ProcessPoolExecutor,
the remote traceback is now displayed in the parent process. Patch by
Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 15955
.. date: 8849
.. nonce: uvpBL4
.. section: Library
Add an option to limit output size when decompressing LZMA data. Patch by
Nikolaus Rath and Martin Panter.
..
.. bpo: 23250
.. date: 8848
.. nonce: qNGAUf
.. section: Library
In the http.cookies module, capitalize "HttpOnly" and "Secure" as they are
written in the standard.
..
.. bpo: 23063
.. date: 8847
.. nonce: 9-UJRs
.. section: Library
In the distutils' check command, fix parsing of reST with code or code-block
directives.
..
.. bpo: 23209
.. date: 8846
.. nonce: I0bCCH
.. section: Library
selectors.BaseSelector.get_key() now raises a RuntimeError if the selector
is closed. And selectors.BaseSelector.close() now clears its internal
reference to the selector mapping to break a reference cycle. Initial patch
written by Martin Richard. (See also: bpo-23225)
..
.. bpo: 17911
.. date: 8845
.. nonce: yg65Iu
.. section: Library
Provide a way to seed the linecache for a PEP-302 module without actually
loading the code.
..
.. bpo: 17911
.. date: 8844
.. nonce: qeTePa
.. section: Library
Provide a new object API for traceback, including the ability to not lookup
lines at all until the traceback is actually rendered, without any trace of
the original objects being kept alive.
..
.. bpo: 19777
.. date: 8843
.. nonce: H_NDIA
.. section: Library
Provide a home() classmethod on Path objects. Contributed by Victor Salgado
and Mayank Tripathi.
..
.. bpo: 23206
.. date: 8842
.. nonce: xSiYwq
.. section: Library
Make ``json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)`` as fast as the default case of
``ensure_ascii=True``. Patch by Naoki Inada.
..
.. bpo: 23185
.. date: 8841
.. nonce: KHyoSO
.. section: Library
Add math.inf and math.nan constants.
..
.. bpo: 23186
.. date: 8840
.. nonce: KzWLP2
.. section: Library
Add ssl.SSLObject.shared_ciphers() and ssl.SSLSocket.shared_ciphers() to
fetch the client's list ciphers sent at handshake.
..
.. bpo: 23143
.. date: 8839
.. nonce: AWxJXV
.. section: Library
Remove compatibility with OpenSSLs older than 0.9.8.
..
.. bpo: 23132
.. date: 8838
.. nonce: pbQcut
.. section: Library
Improve performance and introspection support of comparison methods created
by functool.total_ordering.
..
.. bpo: 19776
.. date: 8837
.. nonce: BxNgxd
.. section: Library
Add an expanduser() method on Path objects.
..
.. bpo: 23112
.. date: 8836
.. nonce: dZGf82
.. section: Library
Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string and fragment when
it redirects to add a trailing slash.
..
.. bpo: 21793
.. date: 8835
.. nonce: T1kQBL
.. section: Library
Added http.HTTPStatus enums (i.e. HTTPStatus.OK, HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND).
Patch by Demian Brecht.
..
.. bpo: 23093
.. date: 8834
.. nonce: cP7OqD
.. section: Library
In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached streams.
..
.. bpo: 23111
.. date: 8833
.. nonce: A34IA4
.. section: Library
In the ftplib, make ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 the default protocol version.
..
.. bpo: 22585
.. date: 8832
.. nonce: F4BkNo
.. section: Library
On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(), instead of
reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
..
.. bpo: 19104
.. date: 8831
.. nonce: _eIThy
.. section: Library
pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped strings.
..
.. bpo: 23071
.. date: 8830
.. nonce: 3BSqF7
.. section: Library
Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.
..
.. bpo: 22783
.. date: 8829
.. nonce: OfYxBd
.. section: Library
Pickling now uses the NEWOBJ opcode instead of the NEWOBJ_EX opcode if
possible.
..
.. bpo: 15513
.. date: 8828
.. nonce: 7yVnRE
.. section: Library
Added a __sizeof__ implementation for pickle classes.
..
.. bpo: 19858
.. date: 8827
.. nonce: cqOlIt
.. section: Library
pickletools.optimize() now aware of the MEMOIZE opcode, can produce more
compact result and no longer produces invalid output if input data contains
MEMOIZE opcodes together with PUT or BINPUT opcodes.
..
.. bpo: 22095
.. date: 8826
.. nonce: iISzxM
.. section: Library
Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port. The port value in the
host header was set to "None". Patch by Demian Brecht.
..
.. bpo: 23016
.. date: 8825
.. nonce: LyrPd_
.. section: Library
A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when the program is run with
pythonw.exe.
..
.. bpo: 21775
.. date: 8824
.. nonce: ELR_Al
.. section: Library
shutil.copytree(): fix crash when copying to VFAT. An exception handler
assumed that OSError objects always have a 'winerror' attribute. That is not
the case, so the exception handler itself raised AttributeError when run on
Linux (and, presumably, any other non-Windows OS). Patch by Greg Ward.
..
.. bpo: 1218234
.. date: 8823
.. nonce: 4GcoQK
.. section: Library
Fix inspect.getsource() to load updated source of reloaded module. Initial
patch by Berker Peksag.
..
.. bpo: 21740
.. date: 8822
.. nonce: TtAApO
.. section: Library
Support wrapped callables in doctest. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 23009
.. date: 8821
.. nonce: -sW7gk
.. section: Library
Make sure selectors.EpollSelecrtor.select() works when no FD is registered.
..
.. bpo: 22959
.. date: 8820
.. nonce: Vxt3EP
.. section: Library
In the constructor of http.client.HTTPSConnection, prefer the context's
check_hostname attribute over the *check_hostname* parameter.
..
.. bpo: 22696
.. date: 8819
.. nonce: pvdcxs
.. section: Library
Add function :func:`sys.is_finalizing` to know about interpreter shutdown.
..
.. bpo: 16043
.. date: 8818
.. nonce: TGIC7t
.. section: Library
Add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode will
return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753.
..
.. bpo: 14099
.. date: 8817
.. nonce: GJ5meQ
.. section: Library
ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file. Objects returned by
ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of the ZipFile even if the
ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first argument
to the constructor.
..
.. bpo: 22966
.. date: 8816
.. nonce: zIxDrT
.. section: Library
Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile is asked to compile a
source file containing multiple dots in the source file name.
..
.. bpo: 21971
.. date: 8815
.. nonce: XlTc22
.. section: Library
Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index.
..
.. bpo: 21032
.. date: 8814
.. nonce: wxT_41
.. section: Library
Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails. Original patch by
Martin Panter.
..
.. bpo: 22407
.. date: 8813
.. nonce: CWi1wX
.. section: Library
Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns or re.ASCII. It was
newer worked.
..
.. bpo: 22902
.. date: 8812
.. nonce: ZqXriA
.. section: Library
The "ip" command is now used on Linux to determine MAC address in
uuid.getnode(). Pach by Bruno Cauet.
..
.. bpo: 22960
.. date: 8811
.. nonce: 2VDILT
.. section: Library
Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy constructor.
..
.. bpo: 22389
.. date: 8810
.. nonce: 82DuwD
.. section: Library
Add contextlib.redirect_stderr().
..
.. bpo: 21356
.. date: 8809
.. nonce: 8NY75J
.. section: Library
Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The availability of the
function is checked during the compilation. Patch written by Bernard Spil.
..
.. bpo: 22915
.. date: 8808
.. nonce: 709UAo
.. section: Library
SAX parser now supports files opened with file descriptor or bytes path.
..
.. bpo: 22609
.. date: 8807
.. nonce: mmLoeb
.. section: Library
Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the collections module
now accept the self keyword argument.
..
.. bpo: 22940
.. date: 8806
.. nonce: SP99Nf
.. section: Library
Add readline.append_history_file.
..
.. bpo: 19676
.. date: 8805
.. nonce: Wijwr8
.. section: Library
Added the "namereplace" error handler.
..
.. bpo: 22788
.. date: 8804
.. nonce: vofL9e
.. section: Library
Add *context* parameter to logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.
..
.. bpo: 22921
.. date: 8803
.. nonce: a4wx1C
.. section: Library
Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even if OpenSSL doesn't
support SNI.
..
.. bpo: 22894
.. date: 8802
.. nonce: 4AkwPA
.. section: Library
TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be stopped when in failfast
mode, even in the absence of failures.
..
.. bpo: 22796
.. date: 8801
.. nonce: _pFPFA
.. section: Library
HTTP cookie parsing is now stricter, in order to protect against potential
injection attacks.
..
.. bpo: 22370
.. date: 8800
.. nonce: j4y21u
.. section: Library
Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust.
..
.. bpo: 22841
.. date: 8799
.. nonce: 8wpk7T
.. section: Library
Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler(). Patch by Ludovic.Gasc.
..
.. bpo: 19494
.. date: 8798
.. nonce: 7O5O8k
.. section: Library
Added urllib.request.HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler. Patch by Matej Cepl.
..
.. bpo: 22578
.. date: 8797
.. nonce: 6XZ0Jf
.. section: Library
Added attributes to the re.error class.
..
.. bpo: 22849
.. date: 8796
.. nonce: AqBPyj
.. section: Library
Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper constructor.
..
.. bpo: 12728
.. date: 8795
.. nonce: rHZmXO
.. section: Library
Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but different
lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions.
..
.. bpo: 22821
.. date: 8794
.. nonce: 30cQ-U
.. section: Library
Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
..
.. bpo: 21650
.. date: 8793
.. nonce: 62MLqr
.. section: Library
Add an `--sort-keys` option to json.tool CLI.
..
.. bpo: 22824
.. date: 8792
.. nonce: d5Txvr
.. section: Library
Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set literals. Patch
contributed by Berker Peksag.
..
.. bpo: 22824
.. date: 8791
.. nonce: H_r9uH
.. section: Library
Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display empty arrays without an
unnecessary empty list. Suggested by Serhiy Storchaka.
..
.. bpo: 22406
.. date: 8790
.. nonce: sPlVbI
.. section: Library
Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x. Based on patch by Martin
Panter.
..
.. bpo: 17293
.. date: 8789
.. nonce: Hk06bO
.. section: Library
uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat. Based on
patch by Aivars Kalvāns.
..
.. bpo: 22769
.. date: 8788
.. nonce: PunnvQ
.. section: Library
Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.
..
.. bpo: 22417
.. date: 8787
.. nonce: To4b7U
.. section: Library
Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476).
..
.. bpo: 22775
.. date: 8786
.. nonce: V5aCUz
.. section: Library
Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with protocol 2 and above.
Patch by Tim Graham.
..
.. bpo: 22776
.. date: 8785
.. nonce: xNcRse
.. section: Library
Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in SysLogHandler.emit().
..
.. bpo: 22665
.. date: 8784
.. nonce: j6Jlp8
.. section: Library
Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to shutil.__all__.
..
.. bpo: 6623
.. date: 8783
.. nonce: 6LOidS
.. section: Library
Remove deprecated Netrc class in the ftplib module. Patch by Matt Chaput.
..
.. bpo: 17381
.. date: 8782
.. nonce: 4J5yv7
.. section: Library
Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular expressions.
..
.. bpo: 22410
.. date: 8781
.. nonce: 99YFdd
.. section: Library
Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled locale-dependent
regular expressions taking into account the locale.
..
.. bpo: 22759
.. date: 8780
.. nonce: BJPdiL
.. section: Library
Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(), etc.) now return False
when the underlying stat call raises NotADirectoryError.
..
.. bpo: 8876
.. date: 8779
.. nonce: A83Av4
.. section: Library
distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking doesn't work.
This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox shared folders.
..
.. bpo: 22217
.. date: 8778
.. nonce: nXzGur
.. section: Library
Implemented reprs of classes in the zipfile module.
..
.. bpo: 22457
.. date: 8777
.. nonce: Xd2Mk-
.. section: Library
Honour load_tests in the start_dir of discovery.
..
.. bpo: 18216
.. date: 8776
.. nonce: trTZw4
.. section: Library
gettext now raises an error when a .mo file has an unsupported major version
number. Patch by Aaron Hill.
..
.. bpo: 13918
.. date: 8775
.. nonce: -OnUhD
.. section: Library
Provide a locale.delocalize() function which can remove locale-specific
number formatting from a string representing a number, without then
converting it to a specific type. Patch by Cédric Krier.
..
.. bpo: 22676
.. date: 8774
.. nonce: d2v8QM
.. section: Library
Make the pickling of global objects which don't have a __module__ attribute
less slow.
..
.. bpo: 18853
.. date: 8773
.. nonce: 76DrPD
.. section: Library
Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__.
..
.. bpo: 9351
.. date: 8772
.. nonce: u5UI-6
.. section: Library
Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser are no longer
ignored when also set on the parent parser.
..
.. bpo: 7559
.. date: 8771
.. nonce: QG35ZP
.. section: Library
unittest test loading ImportErrors are reported as import errors with their
import exception rather than as attribute errors after the import has
already failed.
..
.. bpo: 19746
.. date: 8770
.. nonce: S1dg1K
.. section: Library
Make it possible to examine the errors from unittest discovery without
executing the test suite. The new `errors` attribute on TestLoader exposes
these non-fatal errors encountered during discovery.
..
.. bpo: 21991
.. date: 8769
.. nonce: Mkm0IN
.. section: Library
Make email.headerregistry's header 'params' attributes be read-only
(MappingProxyType). Previously the dictionary was modifiable but a new one
was created on each access of the attribute.
..
.. bpo: 22638
.. date: 8768
.. nonce: Ur73gJ
.. section: Library
SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library. It can still be
enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.
..
.. bpo: 22641
.. date: 8767
.. nonce: m0ldtl
.. section: Library
In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections is now created
using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security.
..
.. bpo: 17401
.. date: 8766
.. nonce: SZd19P
.. section: Library
Include closefd in io.FileIO repr.
..
.. bpo: 21338
.. date: 8765
.. nonce: evDyHD
.. section: Library
Add silent mode for compileall. quiet parameters of compile_{dir, file,
path} functions now have a multilevel value. Also, -q option of the CLI now
have a multilevel value. Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
..
.. bpo: 20152
.. date: 8764
.. nonce: 9_o92A
.. section: Library
Convert the array and cmath modules to Argument Clinic.
..
.. bpo: 18643
.. date: 8763
.. nonce: 6Qdc0J
.. section: Library
Add socket.socketpair() on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 22435
.. date: 8762
.. nonce: s2U7Zm
.. section: Library
Fix a file descriptor leak when socketserver bind fails.
..
.. bpo: 13096
.. date: 8761
.. nonce: rsailB
.. section: Library
Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large values.
..
.. bpo: 11694
.. date: 8760
.. nonce: JuDrch
.. section: Library
Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński
and Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 19380
.. date: 8759
.. nonce: nqgoRQ
.. section: Library
Optimized parsing of regular expressions.
..
.. bpo: 1519638
.. date: 8758
.. nonce: 2pbuog
.. section: Library
Now unmatched groups are replaced with empty strings in re.sub() and
re.subn().
..
.. bpo: 18615
.. date: 8757
.. nonce: 65TxnY
.. section: Library
sndhdr.what/whathdr now return a namedtuple.
..
.. bpo: 22462
.. date: 8756
.. nonce: 1h4Kpr
.. section: Library
Fix pyexpat's creation of a dummy frame to make it appear in exception
tracebacks.
..
.. bpo: 21965
.. date: 8755
.. nonce: n_jnXs
.. section: Library
Add support for in-memory SSL to the ssl module. Patch by Geert Jansen.
..
.. bpo: 21173
.. date: 8754
.. nonce: egkbEx
.. section: Library
Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was called with an iterator
alive.
..
.. bpo: 11866
.. date: 8753
.. nonce: xrvbIC
.. section: Library
Eliminated race condition in the computation of names for new threads.
..
.. bpo: 21905
.. date: 8752
.. nonce: coKyRo
.. section: Library
Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when sys.modules is mutated while
iterating. Patch by Olivier Grisel.
..
.. bpo: 11271
.. date: 8751
.. nonce: ZYiJru
.. section: Library
concurrent.futures.Executor.map() now takes a *chunksize* argument to allow
batching of tasks in child processes and improve performance of
ProcessPoolExecutor. Patch by Dan O'Reilly.
..
.. bpo: 21883
.. date: 8750
.. nonce: qpuQu6
.. section: Library
os.path.join() and os.path.relpath() now raise a TypeError with more helpful
error message for unsupported or mismatched types of arguments.
..
.. bpo: 22219
.. date: 8749
.. nonce: l9Enh9
.. section: Library
The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories (including empty
directories) in ZIP file.
..
.. bpo: 22449
.. date: 8748
.. nonce: nFW_Fl
.. section: Library
In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the environmental
variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 22508
.. date: 8747
.. nonce: 2LbnGQ
.. section: Library
The email.__version__ variable has been removed; the email code is no longer
shipped separately from the stdlib, and __version__ hasn't been updated in
several releases.
..
.. bpo: 20076
.. date: 8746
.. nonce: -7OIVB
.. section: Library
Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table.
..
.. bpo: 20079
.. date: 8745
.. nonce: qM949O
.. section: Library
Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table.
..
.. bpo: 20218
.. date: 8744
.. nonce: CMgOyE
.. section: Library
Added convenience methods read_text/write_text and read_bytes/ write_bytes
to pathlib.Path objects.
..
.. bpo: 22396
.. date: 8743
.. nonce: cQSizA
.. section: Library
On 32-bit AIX platform, don't expose os.posix_fadvise() nor
os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong.
..
.. bpo: 22517
.. date: 8742
.. nonce: qT6-aB
.. section: Library
When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its weakrefs.
..
.. bpo: 22437
.. date: 8741
.. nonce: MRVnmQ
.. section: Library
Number of capturing groups in regular expression is no longer limited by
100.
..
.. bpo: 17442
.. date: 8740
.. nonce: rnc87D
.. section: Library
InteractiveInterpreter now displays the full chained traceback in its
showtraceback method, to match the built in interactive interpreter.
..
.. bpo: 23392
.. date: 8739
.. nonce: Pe7_WK
.. section: Library
Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.
..
.. bpo: 10510
.. date: 8738
.. nonce: N-ntcD
.. section: Library
distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards compliant CRLF
line endings.
..
.. bpo: 9850
.. date: 8737
.. nonce: D-UnVi
.. section: Library
Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component. Patch by Oleg Oshmyan.
..
.. bpo: 5309
.. date: 8736
.. nonce: pVMmQ8
.. section: Library
distutils' build and build_ext commands now accept a ``-j`` option to enable
parallel building of extension modules.
..
.. bpo: 22448
.. date: 8735
.. nonce: fAapvE
.. section: Library
Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent unbound memory usage.
Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva.
..
.. bpo: 22427
.. date: 8734
.. nonce: TZ5S_u
.. section: Library
TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice when used in the
with statement in generator.
..
.. bpo: 22362
.. date: 8733
.. nonce: xIBThN
.. section: Library
Forbidden ambiguous octal escapes out of range 0-0o377 in regular
expressions.
..
.. bpo: 20912
.. date: 8732
.. nonce: cAq3mZ
.. section: Library
Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS directory
attributes.
..
.. bpo: 21866
.. date: 8731
.. nonce: hSc4wM
.. section: Library
ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory records if
allowZip64 is false.
..
.. bpo: 22278
.. date: 8730
.. nonce: abqBXZ
.. section: Library
Fix urljoin problem with relative urls, a regression observed after changes
to issue22118 were submitted.
..
.. bpo: 22415
.. date: 8729
.. nonce: xJLAvI
.. section: Library
Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re module.
Removed trailing spaces in debugging output.
..
.. bpo: 22423
.. date: 8728
.. nonce: Rtb4oT
.. section: Library
Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled AttributeError when
sys.stderr is None.
..
.. bpo: 21332
.. date: 8727
.. nonce: Gwxwlr
.. section: Library
Ensure that ``bufsize=1`` in subprocess.Popen() selects line buffering,
rather than block buffering. Patch by Akira Li.
..
.. bpo: 21091
.. date: 8726
.. nonce: M5hAtT
.. section: Library
Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment is now a method.
..
.. bpo: 21079
.. date: 8725
.. nonce: czVcL8
.. section: Library
Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return the correct result
when the header has parameters as well as a value.
..
.. bpo: 22247
.. date: 8724
.. nonce: sGIpR3
.. section: Library
Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__.
..
.. bpo: 22366
.. date: 8723
.. nonce: Dd1eFj
.. section: Library
urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object (SSLContext) as an
argument which will then be used for HTTPS connection. Patch by Alex Gaynor.
..
.. bpo: 4180
.. date: 8722
.. nonce: QBx0JK
.. section: Library
The warnings registries are now reset when the filters are modified.
..
.. bpo: 22419
.. date: 8721
.. nonce: FqH4aC
.. section: Library
Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to 65536 bytes
and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed by Devin
Cook.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8720
.. nonce: y7r3O2
.. section: Library
Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined
with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by Sergey
Bobrov.
..
.. bpo: 20537
.. date: 8719
.. nonce: E0CE54
.. section: Library
logging methods now accept an exception instance as well as a Boolean value
or exception tuple. Thanks to Yury Selivanov for the patch.
..
.. bpo: 22384
.. date: 8718
.. nonce: -Nl4He
.. section: Library
An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program when it is
run with pythonw.exe.
..
.. bpo: 22168
.. date: 8717
.. nonce: vLeKWC
.. section: Library
Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X.
..
.. bpo: 21147
.. date: 8716
.. nonce: w9DE17
.. section: Library
sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null character
instead of truncating it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
..
.. bpo: 13968
.. date: 8715
.. nonce: 1okGqm
.. section: Library
The glob module now supports recursive search in subdirectories using the
``**`` pattern.
..
.. bpo: 21951
.. date: 8714
.. nonce: 3vS4LK
.. section: Library
Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with empty string or
tuple argument.
..
.. bpo: 21951
.. date: 8713
.. nonce: _CCC4v
.. section: Library
Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash if the memory
allocation fails.
..
.. bpo: 22338
.. date: 8712
.. nonce: rKlCMz
.. section: Library
Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure.
..
.. bpo: 12410
.. date: 8711
.. nonce: oFf-cB
.. section: Library
imaplib.IMAP4 now supports the context management protocol. Original patch
by Tarek Ziadé.
..
.. bpo: 21270
.. date: 8710
.. nonce: qMBaY-
.. section: Library
We now override tuple methods in mock.call objects so that they can be used
as normal call attributes.
..
.. bpo: 16662
.. date: 8709
.. nonce: Nghn-Y
.. section: Library
load_tests() is now unconditionally run when it is present in a package's
__init__.py. TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule() still accepts use_load_tests,
but it is deprecated and ignored. A new keyword-only attribute `pattern` is
added and documented. Patch given by Robert Collins, tweaked by Barry
Warsaw.
..
.. bpo: 22226
.. date: 8708
.. nonce: T1ZMPY
.. section: Library
First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in the result of
Treeview.heading().
..
.. bpo: 19524
.. date: 8707
.. nonce: EQJjlF
.. section: Library
Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an invalid response is
received. Patch by Martin Panter.
..
.. bpo: 20421
.. date: 8706
.. nonce: iR0S1s
.. section: Library
Add a .version() method to SSL sockets exposing the actual protocol version
in use.
..
.. bpo: 19546
.. date: 8705
.. nonce: 8VdYBK
.. section: Library
configparser exceptions no longer expose implementation details. Chained
KeyErrors are removed, which leads to cleaner tracebacks. Patch by Claudiu
Popa.
..
.. bpo: 22051
.. date: 8704
.. nonce: cUjFqL
.. section: Library
turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them. Initialization of
variables and gui setup should be done in main(), which is called each time
a demo is run, but not on import.
..
.. bpo: 21933
.. date: 8703
.. nonce: IhMjN1
.. section: Library
Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a menu selection or
control(command) '-' or '+' or control-mousewheel. Original patch by Lita
Cho.
..
.. bpo: 21597
.. date: 8702
.. nonce: aPTCWJ
.. section: Library
The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing canvas can
now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse. The code text pane can be widened
to easily view or copy the full width of the text. The canvas can be
widened on small screens. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
..
.. bpo: 18132
.. date: 8701
.. nonce: 2R2nwM
.. section: Library
Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is shrunk. Original
patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
..
.. bpo: 22043
.. date: 8700
.. nonce: Q6RvGL
.. section: Library
time.monotonic() is now always available. ``threading.Lock.acquire()``,
``threading.RLock.acquire()`` and socket operations now use a monotonic
clock, instead of the system clock, when a timeout is used.
..
.. bpo: 21527
.. date: 8699
.. nonce: N5WPxr
.. section: Library
Add a default number of workers to ThreadPoolExecutor equal to 5 times the
number of CPUs. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 22216
.. date: 8698
.. nonce: Cmalu6
.. section: Library
smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit. The most obvious
consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure during a
connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence.
..
.. bpo: 22098
.. date: 8697
.. nonce: 5JYiQN
.. section: Library
ctypes' BigEndianStructure and LittleEndianStructure now define an empty
__slots__ so that subclasses don't always get an instance dict. Patch by
Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 22185
.. date: 8696
.. nonce: 1SCCIK
.. section: Library
Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait() caused by
mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock. Patch by Doug
Zongker.
..
.. bpo: 22287
.. date: 8695
.. nonce: awH2AI
.. section: Library
On UNIX, _PyTime_gettimeofday() now uses clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) if
available. As a side effect, Python now depends on the librt library on
Solaris and on Linux (only with glibc older than 2.17).
..
.. bpo: 22182
.. date: 8694
.. nonce: 5EG1Bc
.. section: Library
Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in distutils.file_util.move_file.
Patch by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8693
.. nonce: zBfe8J
.. section: Library
The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather
than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.
..
.. bpo: 22042
.. date: 8692
.. nonce: WZvb8s
.. section: Library
signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) now raises an exception if the file descriptor is
in blocking mode.
..
.. bpo: 16808
.. date: 8691
.. nonce: kPy_5U
.. section: Library
inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a tuple. Patch by
Daniel Shahaf.
..
.. bpo: 22236
.. date: 8690
.. nonce: 1utXkg
.. section: Library
Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode.
..
.. bpo: 2527
.. date: 8689
.. nonce: fR2GS6
.. section: Library
Add a *globals* argument to timeit functions, in order to override the
globals namespace in which the timed code is executed. Patch by Ben Roberts.
..
.. bpo: 22118
.. date: 8688
.. nonce: 3gdkOF
.. section: Library
Switch urllib.parse to use RFC 3986 semantics for the resolution of relative
URLs, rather than RFCs 1808 and 2396. Patch by Demian Brecht.
..
.. bpo: 21549
.. date: 8687
.. nonce: i1LVvg
.. section: Library
Added the "members" parameter to TarFile.list().
..
.. bpo: 19628
.. date: 8686
.. nonce: ssQVP8
.. section: Library
Allow compileall recursion depth to be specified with a -r option.
..
.. bpo: 15696
.. date: 8685
.. nonce: PTwXYJ
.. section: Library
Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 22068
.. date: 8684
.. nonce: wCdaW0
.. section: Library
Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter.
..
.. bpo: 22165
.. date: 8683
.. nonce: J1np4o
.. section: Library
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file names.
..
.. bpo: 15381
.. date: 8682
.. nonce: Ia8pf6
.. section: Library
Optimized line reading in io.BytesIO.
..
.. bpo: 8797
.. date: 8681
.. nonce: aJcIPu
.. section: Library
Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately. Initial patch by
Sam Bull.
..
.. bpo: 20729
.. date: 8680
.. nonce: I-1Lap
.. section: Library
Restored the use of lazy iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems() in the mailbox
module.
..
.. bpo: 21448
.. date: 8679
.. nonce: THJSYB
.. section: Library
Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when parsing long line.
Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.
..
.. bpo: 22184
.. date: 8678
.. nonce: UCbSOt
.. section: Library
The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier and clearer
error message when the user forgets the required parameters.
..
.. bpo: 17923
.. date: 8677
.. nonce: YI_QjG
.. section: Library
glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on AIX. Based
on patch by Delhallt.
..
.. bpo: 21725
.. date: 8676
.. nonce: eIu-2N
.. section: Library
Added support for RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8) in smtpd.
..
.. bpo: 22176
.. date: 8675
.. nonce: rgbRyg
.. section: Library
Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1. This release adds support for
the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian architectures.
..
.. bpo: 5411
.. date: 8674
.. nonce: 5Utapn
.. section: Library
Added support for the "xztar" format in the shutil module.
..
.. bpo: 21121
.. date: 8673
.. nonce: ZLsRil
.. section: Library
Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with
-Werror=declaration-after-statement.
..
.. bpo: 21975
.. date: 8672
.. nonce: MI8ntO
.. section: Library
Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular when
unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the
__new__() method.
..
.. bpo: 20170
.. date: 8671
.. nonce: 8QfhN7
.. section: Library
Convert posixmodule to use Argument Clinic.
..
.. bpo: 21539
.. date: 8670
.. nonce: YccmZF
.. section: Library
Add an *exists_ok* argument to `Pathlib.mkdir()` to mimic `mkdir -p` and
`os.makedirs()` functionality. When true, ignore FileExistsErrors. Patch
by Berker Peksag.
..
.. bpo: 22127
.. date: 8669
.. nonce: 0l2OO5
.. section: Library
Bypass IDNA for pure-ASCII host names in the socket module (in particular
for numeric IPs).
..
.. bpo: 21047
.. date: 8668
.. nonce: XfUQG3
.. section: Library
set the default value for the *convert_charrefs* argument of HTMLParser to
True. Patch by Berker Peksag.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8667
.. nonce: 56bAnQ
.. section: Library
Add an __all__ to html.entities.
..
.. bpo: 15114
.. date: 8666
.. nonce: jXwseC
.. section: Library
the strict mode and argument of HTMLParser, HTMLParser.error, and the
HTMLParserError exception have been removed.
..
.. bpo: 22085
.. date: 8665
.. nonce: 3JM_Aw
.. section: Library
Dropped support of Tk 8.3 in Tkinter.
..
.. bpo: 21580
.. date: 8664
.. nonce: 3ssycS
.. section: Library
Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk. In particular
this allows initializing images from binary data.
..
.. bpo: 22003
.. date: 8663
.. nonce: 4ZIDS1
.. section: Library
When initialized from a bytes object, io.BytesIO() now defers making a copy
until it is mutated, improving performance and memory use on some use cases.
Patch by David Wilson.
..
.. bpo: 22018
.. date: 8662
.. nonce: 6ApxSH
.. section: Library
On Windows, signal.set_wakeup_fd() now also supports sockets. A side effect
is that Python depends to the WinSock library.
..
.. bpo: 22054
.. date: 8661
.. nonce: zp6Svw
.. section: Library
Add os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions to get and set the
blocking mode of a file descriptor (False if the O_NONBLOCK flag is set,
True otherwise). These functions are not available on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 17172
.. date: 8660
.. nonce: R_LI_2
.. section: Library
Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run with subprocess.
Patch by Lita Cho.
..
.. bpo: 21704
.. date: 8659
.. nonce: gL3ikj
.. section: Library
Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores are not available.
Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
..
.. bpo: 20173
.. date: 8658
.. nonce: FAL-4L
.. section: Library
Convert sha1, sha256, sha512 and md5 to ArgumentClinic. Patch by Vajrasky
Kok.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8657
.. nonce: G25tq3
.. section: Library
Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don't fail with OverflowError on
closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works fine.
..
.. bpo: 22033
.. date: 8656
.. nonce: nkBNci
.. section: Library
Reprs of most Python implemented classes now contain actual class name
instead of hardcoded one.
..
.. bpo: 21947
.. date: 8655
.. nonce: mlisu-
.. section: Library
The dis module can now disassemble generator-iterator objects based on their
gi_code attribute. Patch by Clement Rouault.
..
.. bpo: 16133
.. date: 8654
.. nonce: tYuYQF
.. section: Library
The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores BlockingIOError
exceptions.
..
.. bpo: 22044
.. date: 8653
.. nonce: t09GRU
.. section: Library
Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method. Patch by Tom Flanagan.
..
.. bpo: 19884
.. date: 8652
.. nonce: v73gSn
.. section: Library
readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not a terminal to not
write the ANSI sequence ``"\033[1034h"`` into stdout. This sequence is used
on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable support of 8 bit
characters.
..
.. bpo: 4350
.. date: 8651
.. nonce: nrTzJn
.. section: Library
Removed a number of out-of-dated and non-working for a long time Tkinter
methods.
..
.. bpo: 6167
.. date: 8650
.. nonce: n9dV_D
.. section: Library
Scrollbar.activate() now returns the name of active element if the argument
is not specified. Scrollbar.set() now always accepts only 2 arguments.
..
.. bpo: 15275
.. date: 8649
.. nonce: jk0tTI
.. section: Library
Clean up and speed up the ntpath module.
..
.. bpo: 21888
.. date: 8648
.. nonce: danlpz
.. section: Library
plistlib's load() and loads() now work if the fmt parameter is specified.
..
.. bpo: 22032
.. date: 8647
.. nonce: UklzQW
.. section: Library
__qualname__ instead of __name__ is now always used to format fully
qualified class names of Python implemented classes.
..
.. bpo: 22031
.. date: 8646
.. nonce: 9aazp1
.. section: Library
Reprs now always use hexadecimal format with the "0x" prefix when contain an
id in form " at 0x...".
..
.. bpo: 22018
.. date: 8645
.. nonce: b_JTHH
.. section: Library
signal.set_wakeup_fd() now raises an OSError instead of a ValueError on
``fstat()`` failure.
..
.. bpo: 21044
.. date: 8644
.. nonce: 16xo9u
.. section: Library
tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer 'name' attribute. Based
on patch by Antoine Pietri.
..
.. bpo: 21966
.. date: 8643
.. nonce: hHD9MK
.. section: Library
Respect -q command-line option when code module is ran.
..
.. bpo: 19076
.. date: 8642
.. nonce: xCoIai
.. section: Library
Don't pass the redundant 'file' argument to self.error().
..
.. bpo: 16382
.. date: 8641
.. nonce: -XBK7z
.. section: Library
Improve exception message of warnings.warn() for bad category. Initial patch
by Phil Elson.
..
.. bpo: 21932
.. date: 8640
.. nonce: LK_5S1
.. section: Library
os.read() now uses a :c:func:`Py_ssize_t` type instead of :c:type:`int` for
the size to support reading more than 2 GB at once. On Windows, the size is
truncated to INT_MAX. As any call to os.read(), the OS may read less bytes
than the number of requested bytes.
..
.. bpo: 21942
.. date: 8639
.. nonce: TLOS41
.. section: Library
Fixed source file viewing in pydoc's server mode on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 11259
.. date: 8638
.. nonce: GxfYnE
.. section: Library
asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError if the number
of received bytes is negative.
..
.. bpo: 12523
.. date: 8637
.. nonce: XBdAky
.. section: Library
asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn't get a bytes
string
..
.. bpo: 21707
.. date: 8636
.. nonce: rrY_wd
.. section: Library
Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code().
..
.. bpo: 20639
.. date: 8635
.. nonce: YdvOpp
.. section: Library
calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix again. Patch by
July Tikhonov.
..
.. bpo: 21714
.. date: 8634
.. nonce: HhkGXW
.. section: Library
Disallow the construction of invalid paths using Path.with_name(). Original
patch by Antony Lee.
..
.. bpo: 15014
.. date: 8633
.. nonce: dB50zb
.. section: Library
Added 'auth' method to smtplib to make implementing auth mechanisms simpler,
and used it internally in the login method.
..
.. bpo: 21151
.. date: 8632
.. nonce: o7IuiD
.. section: Library
Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when ``None`` is passed as a
``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman.
..
.. bpo: 21090
.. date: 8631
.. nonce: 20Ooif
.. section: Library
io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before, it ignored
I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.
..
.. bpo: 5800
.. date: 8630
.. nonce: ZJiLZP
.. section: Library
headers parameter of wsgiref.headers.Headers is now optional. Initial patch
by Pablo Torres Navarrete and SilentGhost.
..
.. bpo: 21781
.. date: 8629
.. nonce: u_oiv9
.. section: Library
ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB.
..
.. bpo: 21679
.. date: 8628
.. nonce: CTVT9A
.. section: Library
Prevent extraneous fstat() calls during open(). Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
..
.. bpo: 21863
.. date: 8627
.. nonce: BzbwSL
.. section: Library
cProfile now displays the module name of C extension functions, in addition
to their own name.
..
.. bpo: 11453
.. date: 8626
.. nonce: 53Gr_R
.. section: Library
asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper object is
destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The close() method
can now be called twice: the second call does nothing.
..
.. bpo: 21858
.. date: 8625
.. nonce: 0hbFBG
.. section: Library
Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module.
..
.. bpo: 21476
.. date: 8624
.. nonce: VN-5pW
.. section: Library
Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is discarded after
parsing, so the input file isn't unexpectedly closed.
..
.. bpo: 20295
.. date: 8623
.. nonce: U1MPhw
.. section: Library
imghdr now recognizes OpenEXR format images.
..
.. bpo: 21729
.. date: 8622
.. nonce: dk7o_U
.. section: Library
Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure files closing.
Patch by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 21491
.. date: 8621
.. nonce: Zxmut-
.. section: Library
socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.
..
.. bpo: 21719
.. date: 8620
.. nonce: DhQz3I
.. section: Library
Added the ``st_file_attributes`` field to os.stat_result on Windows.
..
.. bpo: 21832
.. date: 8619
.. nonce: PBA0Uu
.. section: Library
Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
..
.. bpo: 21722
.. date: 8618
.. nonce: WTHuRy
.. section: Library
The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero return code when
uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler.
..
.. bpo: 21723
.. date: 8617
.. nonce: r86fwb
.. section: Library
asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the maximum size.
Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.
..
.. bpo: 21711
.. date: 8616
.. nonce: JWPFQZ
.. section: Library
support for "site-python" directories has now been removed from the site
module (it was deprecated in 3.4).
..
.. bpo: 17552
.. date: 8615
.. nonce: NunErD
.. section: Library
new socket.sendfile() method allowing a file to be sent over a socket by
using high-performance os.sendfile() on UNIX. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
..
.. bpo: 18039
.. date: 8614
.. nonce: vC9hNy
.. section: Library
dbm.dump.open() now always creates a new database when the flag has the
value 'n'. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 21326
.. date: 8613
.. nonce: Y6iW3s
.. section: Library
Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop. run_forever() and
run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now raise an exception
if the event loop was closed.
..
.. bpo: 21766
.. date: 8612
.. nonce: 0xk_xC
.. section: Library
Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths before
checking for a CGI script at that path.
..
.. bpo: 21310
.. date: 8611
.. nonce: 2mjByJ
.. section: Library
Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
..
.. bpo: 21256
.. date: 8610
.. nonce: dGq6cw
.. section: Library
Printout of keyword args should be in deterministic order in a mock function
call. This will help to write better doctests.
..
.. bpo: 21677
.. date: 8609
.. nonce: 58CDDD
.. section: Library
Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods.
..
.. bpo: 11709
.. date: 8608
.. nonce: JdObvL
.. section: Library
Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a valid file.
..
.. bpo: 21515
.. date: 8607
.. nonce: D9TLJF
.. section: Library
tempfile.TemporaryFile now uses os.O_TMPFILE flag is available.
..
.. bpo: 13223
.. date: 8606
.. nonce: 9AzEbN
.. section: Library
Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods that use
'self' in the example code is generated correctly.
..
.. bpo: 21463
.. date: 8605
.. nonce: 09PsgH
.. section: Library
In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache.
..
.. bpo: 21618
.. date: 8604
.. nonce: 3Z7WS3
.. section: Library
The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were inherited by
the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource limits would
otherwise allow. On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd or /dev/fd
interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed.
..
.. bpo: 20383
.. date: 8603
.. nonce: pSPFpW
.. section: Library
Introduce importlib.util.module_from_spec() as the preferred way to create a
new module.
..
.. bpo: 21552
.. date: 8602
.. nonce: uVy4tM
.. section: Library
Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in the tkinter
module on 64-bit platforms.
..
.. bpo: 14315
.. date: 8601
.. nonce: YzZzS8
.. section: Library
The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central directory that
are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack error bubble
up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in the wild and
is ignored by other zip tools.
..
.. bpo: 13742
.. date: 8600
.. nonce: QJiVSC
.. section: Library
Added "key" and "reverse" parameters to heapq.merge(). (First draft of patch
contributed by Simon Sapin.)
..
.. bpo: 21402
.. date: 8599
.. nonce: 51vDXt
.. section: Library
tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
..
.. bpo: 3015
.. date: 8598
.. nonce: FE_PII
.. section: Library
_tkinter.create() now creates tkapp object with wantobject=1 by default.
..
.. bpo: 10203
.. date: 8597
.. nonce: zgr0hh
.. section: Library
sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particular it supports
reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 18807
.. date: 8596
.. nonce: XP7p8B
.. section: Library
If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python interpreter
aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than symlinking.
..
.. bpo: 20197
.. date: 8595
.. nonce: nYR9fq
.. section: Library
Added support for the WebP image type in the imghdr module. Patch by Fabrice
Aneche and Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 21513
.. date: 8594
.. nonce: ro4AOe
.. section: Library
Speedup some properties of IP addresses (IPv4Address, IPv6Address) such as
.is_private or .is_multicast.
..
.. bpo: 21137
.. date: 8593
.. nonce: wgHb_F
.. section: Library
Improve the repr for threading.Lock() and its variants by showing the
"locked" or "unlocked" status. Patch by Berker Peksag.
..
.. bpo: 21538
.. date: 8592
.. nonce: Q60FWA
.. section: Library
The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files when
reference or offset size is not a power of two.
..
.. bpo: 21455
.. date: 8591
.. nonce: 6-Uvv4
.. section: Library
Add a default backlog to socket.listen().
..
.. bpo: 21525
.. date: 8590
.. nonce: hAKOve
.. section: Library
Most Tkinter methods which accepted tuples now accept lists too.
..
.. bpo: 22166
.. date: 8589
.. nonce: sZYhmv
.. section: Library
With the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec helping
function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the appearance
of a reference leak
..
.. bpo: 22236
.. date: 8588
.. nonce: ginJSI
.. section: Library
Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window. New root window is
created for every test class.
..
.. bpo: 10744
.. date: 8587
.. nonce: kfV0wm
.. section: Library
Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial shape.
..
.. bpo: 20826
.. date: 8586
.. nonce: 3rXqMC
.. section: Library
Optimize ipaddress.collapse_addresses().
..
.. bpo: 21487
.. date: 8585
.. nonce: sX8YmK
.. section: Library
Optimize ipaddress.summarize_address_range() and
ipaddress.{IPv4Network,IPv6Network}.subnets().
..
.. bpo: 21486
.. date: 8584
.. nonce: CeFKRP
.. section: Library
Optimize parsing of netmasks in ipaddress.IPv4Network and
ipaddress.IPv6Network.
..
.. bpo: 13916
.. date: 8583
.. nonce: D77YVH
.. section: Library
Disallowed the surrogatepass error handler for non UTF-\* encodings.
..
.. bpo: 20998
.. date: 8582
.. nonce: fkxpXI
.. section: Library
Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern with ignore case.
Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
..
.. bpo: 21075
.. date: 8581
.. nonce: f_hmEh
.. section: Library
fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if binary mode is
specified. Patch by Sam Kimbrel.
..
.. bpo: 19775
.. date: 8580
.. nonce: yxxD_R
.. section: Library
Add a samefile() method to pathlib Path objects. Initial patch by Vajrasky
Kok.
..
.. bpo: 21226
.. date: 8579
.. nonce: pzGmG1
.. section: Library
Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject (and friends).
..
.. bpo: 21398
.. date: 8578
.. nonce: guSBXt
.. section: Library
Fix a unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation contains
characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.
..
.. bpo: 16531
.. date: 8577
.. nonce: AhrY_v
.. section: Library
ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network now accept an (address,
netmask) tuple argument, so as to easily construct network objects from
existing addresses.
..
.. bpo: 21156
.. date: 8576
.. nonce: 3dmBEp
.. section: Library
importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() is now a staticmethod.
..
.. bpo: 21424
.. date: 8575
.. nonce: 8CJBqW
.. section: Library
Simplified and optimized heaqp.nlargest() and nmsmallest() to make fewer
tuple comparisons.
..
.. bpo: 21396
.. date: 8574
.. nonce: cqO6DN
.. section: Library
Fix TextIOWrapper(..., write_through=True) to not force a flush() on the
underlying binary stream. Patch by akira.
..
.. bpo: 18314
.. date: 8573
.. nonce: NCd_KF
.. section: Library
Unlink now removes junctions on Windows. Patch by Kim Gräsman
..
.. bpo: 21088
.. date: 8572
.. nonce: WOg7Xy
.. section: Library
Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0. In porting to Argument
Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed.
..
.. bpo: 21407
.. date: 8571
.. nonce: cZjFde
.. section: Library
_decimal: The module now supports function signatures.
..
.. bpo: 10650
.. date: 8570
.. nonce: HYT4Oe
.. section: Library
Remove the non-standard 'watchexp' parameter from the Decimal.quantize()
method in the Python version. It had never been present in the C version.
..
.. bpo: 21469
.. date: 8569
.. nonce: _fFGuq
.. section: Library
Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by checking to make sure
that robots.txt has been read or does not exist prior to returning True in
can_fetch().
..
.. bpo: 19414
.. date: 8568
.. nonce: bAAw4D
.. section: Library
Have the OrderedDict mark deleted links as unusable. This gives an early
failure if the link is deleted during iteration.
..
.. bpo: 21421
.. date: 8567
.. nonce: 5AKAat
.. section: Library
Add __slots__ to the MappingViews ABC. Patch by Josh Rosenberg.
..
.. bpo: 21101
.. date: 8566
.. nonce: Lj-_P4
.. section: Library
Eliminate double hashing in the C speed-up code for collections.Counter().
..
.. bpo: 21321
.. date: 8565
.. nonce: wUkTON
.. section: Library
itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source iterator when
the slice is exhausted. Patch by Anton Afanasyev.
..
.. bpo: 21057
.. date: 8564
.. nonce: 0TC4Xl
.. section: Library
TextIOWrapper now allows the underlying binary stream's read() or read1()
method to return an arbitrary bytes-like object (such as a memoryview).
Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
..
.. bpo: 20951
.. date: 8563
.. nonce: tF0dJi
.. section: Library
SSLSocket.send() now raises either SSLWantReadError or SSLWantWriteError on
a non-blocking socket if the operation would block. Previously, it would
return 0. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
..
.. bpo: 13248
.. date: 8562
.. nonce: 7vtGj0
.. section: Library
removed previously deprecated asyncore.dispatcher __getattr__ cheap
inheritance hack.
..
.. bpo: 9815
.. date: 8561
.. nonce: 52FPlI
.. section: Library
assertRaises now tries to clear references to local variables in the
exception's traceback.
..
.. bpo: 19940
.. date: 8560
.. nonce: 2qtBQ8
.. section: Library
ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() now interprets the given time string in the UTC
timezone (as specified in RFC 5280), not the local timezone.
..
.. bpo: 13204
.. date: 8559
.. nonce: ZPKA5g
.. section: Library
Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter, now it raises a
TypeError.
..
.. bpo: 19385
.. date: 8558
.. nonce: PexO_g
.. section: Library
Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always raise the same
exception.
..
.. bpo: 21207
.. date: 8557
.. nonce: Hr72AB
.. section: Library
Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or replaced, and open
it anew.
..
.. bpo: 21291
.. date: 8556
.. nonce: 5sSLWN
.. section: Library
subprocess's Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that multiple threads may be
calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance at the same time without losing
the Popen.returncode value.
..
.. bpo: 21127
.. date: 8555
.. nonce: A1aBjG
.. section: Library
Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass instances (such as
``numpy.str_``).
..
.. bpo: 15002
.. date: 8554
.. nonce: qorYDe
.. section: Library
urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and
_TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file
descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune.
..
.. bpo: 12220
.. date: 8553
.. nonce: U25uE9
.. section: Library
mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it doesn't support spaces
in URIs instead of letting a 'split' ValueError bubble up.
..
.. bpo: 21068
.. date: 8552
.. nonce: 9k6N9m
.. section: Library
The ssl.PROTOCOL* constants are now enum members.
..
.. bpo: 21276
.. date: 8551
.. nonce: JkfhvQ
.. section: Library
posixmodule: Don't define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and the Hurd.
..
.. bpo: 21262
.. date: 8550
.. nonce: 1J5ylk
.. section: Library
New method assert_not_called for Mock. It raises AssertionError if the mock
has been called.
..
.. bpo: 21238
.. date: 8549
.. nonce: 5CDoox
.. section: Library
New keyword argument `unsafe` to Mock. It raises `AttributeError` incase of
an attribute startswith assert or assret.
..
.. bpo: 20896
.. date: 8548
.. nonce: oWwAb1
.. section: Library
ssl.get_server_certificate() now uses PROTOCOL_SSLv23, not PROTOCOL_SSLv3,
for maximum compatibility.
..
.. bpo: 21239
.. date: 8547
.. nonce: EalCNt
.. section: Library
patch.stopall() didn't work deterministically when the same name was patched
more than once.
..
.. bpo: 21203
.. date: 8546
.. nonce: 1IMs-Z
.. section: Library
Updated fileConfig and dictConfig to remove inconsistencies. Thanks to Jure
Koren for the patch.
..
.. bpo: 21222
.. date: 8545
.. nonce: G6MQBP
.. section: Library
Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now works.
..
.. bpo: 21197
.. date: 8544
.. nonce: Gzfqdl
.. section: Library
Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X POSIX.
..
.. bpo: 17498
.. date: 8543
.. nonce: LR9xyb
.. section: Library
Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors, violating strict RFC
conformance. Instead of losing the error code when we issue the subsequent
RSET, smtplib now returns the error code and defers raising the
SMTPServerDisconnected error until the next command is issued.
..
.. bpo: 17826
.. date: 8542
.. nonce: z0zMRV
.. section: Library
setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function created by
create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das.
..
.. bpo: 7776
.. date: 8541
.. nonce: K5S2Pe
.. section: Library
Fix ``Host:`` header and reconnection when using
http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
..
.. bpo: 20968
.. date: 8540
.. nonce: 53Aagz
.. section: Library
unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division. Patch by Johannes Baiter.
..
.. bpo: 21529
.. date: 8539
.. nonce: 57R_Fc
.. section: Library
Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second
parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken. (See also: CVE-2014-4616)
..
.. bpo: 21169
.. date: 8538
.. nonce: KE7B0M
.. section: Library
getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the input stream encoding
cannot encode by re-encoding using the replace error handler.
..
.. bpo: 21171
.. date: 8537
.. nonce: iUbV9S
.. section: Library
Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec. Patch by Berker Peksag.
..
.. bpo: 20539
.. date: 8536
.. nonce: 62nbEb
.. section: Library
Improved math.factorial error message for large positive inputs and changed
exception type (OverflowError -> ValueError) for large negative inputs.
..
.. bpo: 21172
.. date: 8535
.. nonce: dQ7yY7
.. section: Library
isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping.
..
.. bpo: 21155
.. date: 8534
.. nonce: JSKEE7
.. section: Library
asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a ValueError if path and
sock are specified at the same time.
..
.. bpo: 21136
.. date: 8533
.. nonce: JZAKv3
.. section: Library
Avoid unnecessary normalization of Fractions resulting from power and other
operations. Patch by Raymond Hettinger.
..
.. bpo: 17621
.. date: 8532
.. nonce: 1x0mvJ
.. section: Library
Introduce importlib.util.LazyLoader.
..
.. bpo: 21076
.. date: 8531
.. nonce: upxQc6
.. section: Library
signal module constants were turned into enums. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
..
.. bpo: 20636
.. date: 8530
.. nonce: KGh-BD
.. section: Library
Improved the repr of Tkinter widgets.
..
.. bpo: 19505
.. date: 8529
.. nonce: VEtIE6
.. section: Library
The items, keys, and values views of OrderedDict now support reverse
iteration using reversed().
..
.. bpo: 21149
.. date: 8528
.. nonce: cnjwMR
.. section: Library
Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter shutdown.
Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.
..
.. bpo: 21058
.. date: 8527
.. nonce: IhluPP
.. section: Library
Fix a leak of file descriptor in :func:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile`, close
the file descriptor if :func:`io.open` fails
..
.. bpo: 21200
.. date: 8526
.. nonce: Kht8yD
.. section: Library
Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is missing.
..
.. bpo: 21013
.. date: 8525
.. nonce: 3s8Ic0
.. section: Library
Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for server side sockets to
provide better security by default.
..
.. bpo: 20145
.. date: 8524
.. nonce: FP5FY0
.. section: Library
`assertRaisesRegex` and `assertWarnsRegex` now raise a TypeError if the
second argument is not a string or compiled regex.
..
.. bpo: 20633
.. date: 8523
.. nonce: 6kaPjT
.. section: Library
Replace relative import by absolute import.
..
.. bpo: 20980
.. date: 8522
.. nonce: cYszHY
.. section: Library
Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool.
..
.. bpo: 21082
.. date: 8521
.. nonce: GLzGlV
.. section: Library
In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this changes
behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.
..
.. bpo: 20990
.. date: 8520
.. nonce: PBfjW3
.. section: Library
Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing.
..
.. bpo: 21015
.. date: 8519
.. nonce: xnwWAH
.. section: Library
SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic curve for ECDH key
exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and otherwise default to "prime256v1".
..
.. bpo: 21000
.. date: 8518
.. nonce: JUyyVV
.. section: Library
Improve the command-line interface of json.tool.
..
.. bpo: 20995
.. date: 8517
.. nonce: KSORJT
.. section: Library
Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to enable better security and
prioritize perfect forward secrecy.
..
.. bpo: 20884
.. date: 8516
.. nonce: qNmub_
.. section: Library
Don't assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__.
..
.. bpo: 21499
.. date: 8515
.. nonce: wU4OBi
.. section: Library
Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests.
..
.. bpo: 20627
.. date: 8514
.. nonce: fgfQ1x
.. section: Library
xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy is now a context manager.
..
.. bpo: 19165
.. date: 8513
.. nonce: sAkUjU
.. section: Library
The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning instead of
PendingDeprecationWarning.
..
.. bpo: 13936
.. date: 8512
.. nonce: _Q0Yog
.. section: Library
Remove the ability of datetime.time instances to be considered false in
boolean contexts.
..
.. bpo: 18931
.. date: 8511
.. nonce: mq4Mud
.. section: Library
selectors module now supports /dev/poll on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo
Rodola'.
..
.. bpo: 19977
.. date: 8510
.. nonce: A-sQ_V
.. section: Library
When the ``LC_TYPE`` locale is the POSIX locale (``C`` locale),
:py:data:`sys.stdin` and :py:data:`sys.stdout` are now using the
``surrogateescape`` error handler, instead of the ``strict`` error handler.
..
.. bpo: 20574
.. date: 8509
.. nonce: KaKqSs
.. section: Library
Implement incremental decoder for cp65001 code (Windows code page 65001,
Microsoft UTF-8).
..
.. bpo: 20879
.. date: 8508
.. nonce: myeYdq
.. section: Library
Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for base32, ascii85
and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the initialization of the
unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to not waste memory if
these modules are not used.
..
.. bpo: 19157
.. date: 8507
.. nonce: V1-XhC
.. section: Library
Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6 in ipaddress.
..
.. bpo: 11599
.. date: 8506
.. nonce: 9QOXf4
.. section: Library
When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now prints out the
whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the environment
variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.
..
.. bpo: 4931
.. date: 8505
.. nonce: uF10hr
.. section: Library
distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages anymore.
distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.
..
.. bpo: 20875
.. date: 8504
.. nonce: IjfI5V
.. section: Library
Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError. Patch by Claudiu
Popa.
..
.. bpo: 11558
.. date: 8503
.. nonce: pxrsmq
.. section: Library
``email.message.Message.attach`` now returns a more useful error message if
``attach`` is called on a message for which ``is_multipart`` is False.
..
.. bpo: 20283
.. date: 8502
.. nonce: v0Vs9V
.. section: Library
RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters as documented.
The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as deprecated aliases.
..
.. bpo: 20778
.. date: 8501
.. nonce: g_fAGI
.. section: Library
Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules.
..
.. bpo: 20791
.. date: 8500
.. nonce: n_zrkc
.. section: Library
copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is a bytes object.
Initial patch by Peter Otten.
..
.. bpo: 19748
.. date: 8499
.. nonce: kiA171
.. section: Library
On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year outsize range
[1902; 2037].
..
.. bpo: 19573
.. date: 8498
.. nonce: QJvX_V
.. section: Library
inspect.signature: Use enum for parameter kind constants.
..
.. bpo: 20726
.. date: 8497
.. nonce: 0yfRDI
.. section: Library
inspect.signature: Make Signature and Parameter picklable.
..
.. bpo: 17373
.. date: 8496
.. nonce: ECwuJO
.. section: Library
Add inspect.Signature.from_callable method.
..
.. bpo: 20378
.. date: 8495
.. nonce: l9M3H-
.. section: Library
Improve repr of inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter.
..
.. bpo: 20816
.. date: 8494
.. nonce: DFMEgN
.. section: Library
Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing
keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
..
.. bpo: 20817
.. date: 8493
.. nonce: O5XyZB
.. section: Library
Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more than 3 arguments are
missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
..
.. bpo: 6676
.. date: 8492
.. nonce: CJu5On
.. section: Library
Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting to parse more than
one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance. (Original patches by
Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with suggested wording by David
Gutteridge)
..
.. bpo: 21117
.. date: 8491
.. nonce: hyH7EK
.. section: Library
Fix inspect.signature to better support functools.partial. Due to the
specifics of functools.partial implementation, positional-or-keyword
arguments passed as keyword arguments become keyword-only.
..
.. bpo: 20334
.. date: 8490
.. nonce: 0yFmfQ
.. section: Library
inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter are now hashable. Thanks to Antony
Lee for bug reports and suggestions.
..
.. bpo: 15916
.. date: 8489
.. nonce: _vhKPn
.. section: Library
doctest.DocTestSuite returns an empty unittest.TestSuite instead of raising
ValueError if it finds no tests
..
.. bpo: 21209
.. date: 8488
.. nonce: wRE7Dn
.. section: Library
Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug in yield-from
implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8487
.. nonce: Q1I78Z
.. section: Library
asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper (upstream
issue #163).
..
.. bpo: 21311
.. date: 8486
.. nonce: JsDF8H
.. section: Library
Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler configurations.
Patch by John Szakmeister.
..
.. bpo: 11571
.. date: 8485
.. nonce: RPeGNo
.. section: Library
Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost window when launched on OS
X.
..
.. bpo: 21801
.. date: 8484
.. nonce: rzfhYl
.. section: Library
Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature.
..
.. bpo: 21923
.. date: 8483
.. nonce: hXnoZa
.. section: Library
Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler due to
possible uninitialized _config_vars.
..
.. bpo: 21323
.. date: 8482
.. nonce: quiWfl
.. section: Library
Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories, broken by the
fix for security issue #19435. Patch by Zach Byrne.
..
.. bpo: 22733
.. date: 8481
.. nonce: 21gJBp
.. section: Library
Fix ffi_prep_args not zero-extending argument values correctly on 64-bit
Windows.
..
.. bpo: 23302
.. date: 8480
.. nonce: X2dabK
.. section: Library
Default to TCP_NODELAY=1 upon establishing an HTTPConnection. Removed use of
hard-coded MSS as it's an optimization that's no longer needed with Nagle
disabled.
..
.. bpo: 20577
.. date: 8479
.. nonce: Y71IMj
.. section: IDLE
Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph extension has
been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog to the
FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog. Patch by Tal Einat.
..
.. bpo: 16893
.. date: 8478
.. nonce: JfHAA4
.. section: IDLE
Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new information.
..
.. bpo: 3068
.. date: 8477
.. nonce: TYjXTA
.. section: IDLE
Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu. Changes are written
to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. Original patch by Tal Einat.
..
.. bpo: 16233
.. date: 8476
.. nonce: sOadNo
.. section: IDLE
A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an editor window
with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise, from a shell,
output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays an error box.
It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name is entered and a
module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.
..
.. bpo: 4832
.. date: 8475
.. nonce: GRKi9M
.. section: IDLE
Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the name you enter
(even if your system does not display it). Some systems automatically add
.txt when type is Text files.
..
.. bpo: 21986
.. date: 8474
.. nonce: 04GUv2
.. section: IDLE
Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module. To match this,
they are no longer pickled when running under Idle.
..
.. bpo: 17390
.. date: 8473
.. nonce: I4vHFh
.. section: IDLE
Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python', move version to end.
..
.. bpo: 14105
.. date: 8472
.. nonce: -FZwYH
.. section: IDLE
Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear when inserting or deleting
lines.
..
.. bpo: 17172
.. date: 8471
.. nonce: R8jkU1
.. section: IDLE
Turtledemo can now be run from Idle. Currently, the entry is on the Help
menu, but it may move to Run. Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho.
..
.. bpo: 21765
.. date: 8470
.. nonce: JyiDbd
.. section: IDLE
Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser.
..
.. bpo: 21940
.. date: 8469
.. nonce: VlIRz7
.. section: IDLE
Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
..
.. bpo: 18592
.. date: 8468
.. nonce: sMG-SZ
.. section: IDLE
Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.
..
.. bpo: 21694
.. date: 8467
.. nonce: 1oLmRo
.. section: IDLE
Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
..
.. bpo: 21686
.. date: 8466
.. nonce: TAkFB0
.. section: IDLE
add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
..
.. bpo: 12387
.. date: 8465
.. nonce: XO7Ozk
.. section: IDLE
Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key bindings for
Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.
..
.. bpo: 21695
.. date: 8464
.. nonce: g-t0Tm
.. section: IDLE
Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is still in progress
no longer closes Idle.
..
.. bpo: 18910
.. date: 8463
.. nonce: ke8lMK
.. section: IDLE
Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.
..
.. bpo: 18292
.. date: 8462
.. nonce: ks_3wm
.. section: IDLE
Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.
..
.. bpo: 18409
.. date: 8461
.. nonce: 7fe-aK
.. section: IDLE
Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.
..
.. bpo: 21477
.. date: 8460
.. nonce: 33NOe0
.. section: IDLE
htest.py - Improve framework, complete set of tests. Patches by Saimadhav
Heblikar
..
.. bpo: 18104
.. date: 8459
.. nonce: 8Fj9Pf
.. section: IDLE
Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin
consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other
files as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all
tests.
..
.. bpo: 21139
.. date: 8458
.. nonce: kqetng
.. section: IDLE
Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.
..
.. bpo: 21284
.. date: 8457
.. nonce: KKJfmv
.. section: IDLE
Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width.
..
.. bpo: 17654
.. date: 8456
.. nonce: NbzhNS
.. section: IDLE
Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for non-framework builds
and for all variants of Tk.
..
.. bpo: 23180
.. date: 8455
.. nonce: cE_89F
.. section: IDLE
Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window". Patch by Al Sweigart.
..
.. bpo: 15506
.. date: 8454
.. nonce: nh8KlR
.. section: Build
Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the configure script.
..
.. bpo: 22935
.. date: 8453
.. nonce: -vY3lc
.. section: Build
Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn't support SSL 3.
..
.. bpo: 22592
.. date: 8452
.. nonce: O_IE9W
.. section: Build
Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python. The distutils module
still supports it to build extensions.
..
.. bpo: 22591
.. date: 8451
.. nonce: wwBlG8
.. section: Build
Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port of
GCC).
..
.. bpo: 16537
.. date: 8450
.. nonce: llFo71
.. section: Build
Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by Jonathan
Hosmer.
..
.. bpo: 22359
.. date: 8449
.. nonce: YYFOFG
.. section: Build
Remove incorrect uses of recursive make. Patch by Jonas Wagner.
..
.. bpo: 21958
.. date: 8448
.. nonce: 3rq4qR
.. section: Build
Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and above. Patch by
Zachary Turner.
..
.. bpo: 18093
.. date: 8447
.. nonce: gnZieo
.. section: Build
the programs that embed the CPython runtime are now in a separate "Programs"
directory, rather than being kept in the Modules directory.
..
.. bpo: 15759
.. date: 8446
.. nonce: iGLR6O
.. section: Build
"make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest" in Doc/ now display
special message when and only when there are failures.
..
.. bpo: 21141
.. date: 8445
.. nonce: 669LzK
.. section: Build
The Windows build process no longer attempts to find Perl, instead relying
on OpenSSL source being configured and ready to build. The
``PCbuild\build_ssl.py`` script has been re-written and re-named to
``PCbuild\prepare_ssl.py``, and takes care of configuring OpenSSL source for
both 32 and 64 bit platforms. OpenSSL sources obtained from svn.python.org
will always be pre-configured and ready to build.
..
.. bpo: 21037
.. date: 8444
.. nonce: v1rZzo
.. section: Build
Add a build option to enable AddressSanitizer support.
..
.. bpo: 19962
.. date: 8443
.. nonce: HDlwsE
.. section: Build
The Windows build process now creates "python.bat" in the root of the source
tree, which passes all arguments through to the most recently built
interpreter.
..
.. bpo: 21285
.. date: 8442
.. nonce: cU9p2E
.. section: Build
Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search in a ncursesw
directory.
..
.. bpo: 15234
.. date: 8441
.. nonce: vlM720
.. section: Build
For BerkelyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library and include directories
if they aren't already being searched. This avoids an explicit runtime
library dependency.
..
.. bpo: 17861
.. date: 8440
.. nonce: jCi44U
.. section: Build
Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically regenerates
Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets any change.
..
.. bpo: 20644
.. date: 8439
.. nonce: aV0zq7
.. section: Build
OS X installer build support for documentation build changes in 3.4.1:
assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin.
..
.. bpo: 20022
.. date: 8438
.. nonce: EqSCTW
.. section: Build
Eliminate use of deprecated bundlebuilder in OS X builds.
..
.. bpo: 15968
.. date: 8437
.. nonce: vxUxHK
.. section: Build
Incorporated Tcl, Tk, and Tix builds into the Windows build solution.
..
.. bpo: 17095
.. date: 8436
.. nonce: -XEBIU
.. section: Build
Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support.
..
.. bpo: 21811
.. date: 8435
.. nonce: 3_Xyr-
.. section: Build
Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
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.. bpo: 21166
.. date: 8434
.. nonce: KAl7aO
.. section: Build
Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python
--generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
..
.. bpo: 18096
.. date: 8433
.. nonce: ELyAUJ
.. section: Build
Fix library order returned by python-config.
..
.. bpo: 17219
.. date: 8432
.. nonce: q8ueQ0
.. section: Build
Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.
..
.. bpo: 22919
.. date: 8431
.. nonce: 1XThL9
.. section: Build
Windows build updated to support VC 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015), which will be
used for the official release.
..
.. bpo: 21236
.. date: 8430
.. nonce: 84LXxj
.. section: Build
Build _msi.pyd with cabinet.lib instead of fci.lib
..
.. bpo: 17128
.. date: 8429
.. nonce: U2biLA
.. section: Build
Use private version of OpenSSL for OS X 10.5+ installer.
..
.. bpo: 14203
.. date: 8428
.. nonce: 3hv0TX
.. section: C API
Remove obsolete support for view==NULL in PyBuffer_FillInfo(),
bytearray_getbuffer(), bytesiobuf_getbuffer() and array_buffer_getbuf(). All
functions now raise BufferError in that case.
..
.. bpo: 22445
.. date: 8427
.. nonce: s0AOAS
.. section: C API
PyBuffer_IsContiguous() now implements precise contiguity tests, compatible
with NumPy's NPY_RELAXED_STRIDES_CHECKING compilation flag. Previously the
function reported false negatives for corner cases.
..
.. bpo: 22079
.. date: 8426
.. nonce: zhs2qM
.. section: C API
PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has no dynamically
allocated bases.
..
.. bpo: 22453
.. date: 8425
.. nonce: XoO4ns
.. section: C API
Removed non-documented macro PyObject_REPR().
..
.. bpo: 18395
.. date: 8424
.. nonce: YC9B06
.. section: C API
Rename ``_Py_char2wchar()`` to :c:func:`Py_DecodeLocale`, rename
``_Py_wchar2char()`` to :c:func:`Py_EncodeLocale`, and document these
functions.
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.. bpo: 21233
.. date: 8423
.. nonce: 98hZAt
.. section: C API
Add new C functions: PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_Calloc(), PyObject_Calloc(),
_PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) is now using ``calloc()`` instead of
``malloc()`` for large objects which is faster and use less memory.
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.. bpo: 20942
.. date: 8422
.. nonce: qHLJ5-
.. section: C API
PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets __file__ to match what
importlib does; this affects _frozen_importlib as well as any module loaded
using imp.init_frozen().
..
.. bpo: 19548
.. date: 8421
.. nonce: yOX8sS
.. section: Documentation
Update the codecs module documentation to better cover the distinction
between text encodings and other codecs, together with other clarifications.
Patch by Martin Panter.
..
.. bpo: 22394
.. date: 8420
.. nonce: 6bJywY
.. section: Documentation
Doc/Makefile now supports ``make venv PYTHON=../python`` to create a venv
for generating the documentation, e.g., ``make html
PYTHON=venv/bin/python3``.
..
.. bpo: 21514
.. date: 8419
.. nonce: 1H16T6
.. section: Documentation
The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC 7159 instead
of obsoleted RFC 4627.
..
.. bpo: 21777
.. date: 8418
.. nonce: dtQCWV
.. section: Documentation
The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are now documented
explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able to derive the expected
behaviour from the behaviour of the corresponding str methods.
..
.. bpo: 6916
.. date: 8417
.. nonce: 4sm3nE
.. section: Documentation
undocument deprecated asynchat.fifo class.
..
.. bpo: 17386
.. date: 8416
.. nonce: ivaGLb
.. section: Documentation
Expanded functionality of the ``Doc/make.bat`` script to make it much more
comparable to ``Doc/Makefile``.
..
.. bpo: 21312
.. date: 8415
.. nonce: 6IqcV4
.. section: Documentation
Update the thread_foobar.h template file to include newer threading APIs.
Patch by Jack McCracken.
..
.. bpo: 21043
.. date: 8414
.. nonce: oEOC8O
.. section: Documentation
Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to mention the
ability to load the OS certificates.
..
.. bpo: 20765
.. date: 8413
.. nonce: Rv3GgV
.. section: Documentation
Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and
PurePath.with_suffix().
..
.. bpo: 19407
.. date: 8412
.. nonce: mRyNnG
.. section: Documentation
New package installation and distribution guides based on the Python
Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been retained as legacy
links from the distutils docs, as they still contain some required reference
material for tool developers that isn't recorded anywhere else.
..
.. bpo: 19697
.. date: 8411
.. nonce: 2jMQBP
.. section: Documentation
Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None.
..
.. bpo: 18982
.. date: 8410
.. nonce: TynSM6
.. section: Tests
Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.
..
.. bpo: 19548
.. date: 8409
.. nonce: 25Kxq_
.. section: Tests
Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure that statements in the
updated documentation remain accurate. Patch by Martin Panter.
..
.. bpo: 22838
.. date: 8408
.. nonce: VZBtZg
.. section: Tests
All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery.
..
.. bpo: 22173
.. date: 8407
.. nonce: dxIIVx
.. section: Tests
Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery.
..
.. bpo: 16000
.. date: 8406
.. nonce: Y7O6TP
.. section: Tests
Convert test_curses to use unittest.
..
.. bpo: 21456
.. date: 8405
.. nonce: Axsw43
.. section: Tests
Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not present. Patch by
Remi Pointel.
..
.. bpo: 20746
.. date: 8404
.. nonce: N2pzAY
.. section: Tests
Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R). Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
..
.. bpo: 22060
.. date: 8403
.. nonce: TduJNO
.. section: Tests
test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and simplified; it now uses
unittest test discovery to find its tests.
..
.. bpo: 22104
.. date: 8402
.. nonce: -YYDup
.. section: Tests
regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of tests loaded from
test modules that don't define test_main().
..
.. bpo: 22111
.. date: 8401
.. nonce: 0XlFAU
.. section: Tests
Assorted cleanups in test_imaplib. Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
..
.. bpo: 22002
.. date: 8400
.. nonce: jpiaA2
.. section: Tests
Added ``load_package_tests`` function to test.support and used it to
implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio, test_email,
test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools.
..
.. bpo: 21976
.. date: 8399
.. nonce: Slq6se
.. section: Tests
Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks to William Orr.
..
.. bpo: 21918
.. date: 8398
.. nonce: QTFFSj
.. section: Tests
Converted test_tools from a module to a package containing separate test
files for each tested script.
..
.. bpo: 9554
.. date: 8397
.. nonce: VsP0Ve
.. section: Tests
Use modern unittest features in test_argparse. Initial patch by Denver
Coneybeare and Radu Voicilas.
..
.. bpo: 20155
.. date: 8396
.. nonce: nphzS3
.. section: Tests
Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers so that
packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine) does
not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.
..
.. bpo: 19493
.. date: 8395
.. nonce: SwbzLQ
.. section: Tests
Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly rather than
silently.
..
.. bpo: 18492
.. date: 8394
.. nonce: ylPRU7
.. section: Tests
All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by regrtest.py.
..
.. bpo: 21634
.. date: 8393
.. nonce: Eng06F
.. section: Tests
Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true division to
benchmark integers instead of floating point numbers. Set pystone version to
1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro.
..
.. bpo: 21605
.. date: 8392
.. nonce: qsLV8d
.. section: Tests
Added tests for Tkinter images.
..
.. bpo: 21493
.. date: 8391
.. nonce: NqhRsy
.. section: Tests
Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
..
.. bpo: 19925
.. date: 8390
.. nonce: dhMx08
.. section: Tests
Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
..
.. bpo: 21522
.. date: 8389
.. nonce: b-VwFW
.. section: Tests
Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().
..
.. bpo: 17756
.. date: 8388
.. nonce: LLfbfU
.. section: Tests
Fix test_code test when run from the installed location.
..
.. bpo: 17752
.. date: 8387
.. nonce: P8iG44
.. section: Tests
Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.
..
.. bpo: 18604
.. date: 8386
.. nonce: Q00Xrj
.. section: Tests
Consolidated checks for GUI availability. All platforms now at least check
whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is requested.
..
.. bpo: 21275
.. date: 8385
.. nonce: lI5FkX
.. section: Tests
Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD.
..
.. bpo: 21223
.. date: 8384
.. nonce: lMY6ka
.. section: Tests
Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the extensions are built as
builtins.
..
.. bpo: 20635
.. date: 8383
.. nonce: mzWmoS
.. section: Tests
Added tests for Tk geometry managers.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8382
.. nonce: E5XNqr
.. section: Tests
Add test case for freeze.
..
.. bpo: 20743
.. date: 8381
.. nonce: hxZQUf
.. section: Tests
Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.
..
.. bpo: 21097
.. date: 8380
.. nonce: gsUesm
.. section: Tests
Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib.
..
.. bpo: 21503
.. date: 8379
.. nonce: H9TPCg
.. section: Tests
Use test_both() consistently in test_importlib.
..
.. bpo: 20939
.. date: 8378
.. nonce: x3KQ35
.. section: Tests
Avoid various network test failures due to new redirect of
http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org: use http://www.example.com
instead.
..
.. bpo: 20668
.. date: 8377
.. nonce: IWjOSC
.. section: Tests
asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file. (Patch by Vajrasky Kok)
..
.. bpo: 21093
.. date: 8376
.. nonce: CcpRim
.. section: Tests
Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a copy of libz exists in
$HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.
..
.. bpo: 22770
.. date: 8375
.. nonce: FxAh91
.. section: Tests
Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.
..
.. bpo: 23211
.. date: 8374
.. nonce: Bc-QfJ
.. section: Tests
Workaround test_logging failure on some OS X 10.6 systems.
..
.. bpo: 23345
.. date: 8373
.. nonce: HIGBKx
.. section: Tests
Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level values (like
0.9.8zc).
..
.. bpo: 22314
.. date: 8372
.. nonce: ws6xsH
.. section: Tools/Demos
pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.
..
.. bpo: 22615
.. date: 8371
.. nonce: My3DWN
.. section: Tools/Demos
Argument Clinic now supports the "type" argument for the int converter.
This permits using the int converter with enums and typedefs.
..
.. bpo: 20076
.. date: 8370
.. nonce: ZNuBrC
.. section: Tools/Demos
The makelocalealias.py script no longer ignores UTF-8 mapping.
..
.. bpo: 20079
.. date: 8369
.. nonce: ogPXcK
.. section: Tools/Demos
The makelocalealias.py script now can parse the SUPPORTED file from glibc
sources and supports command line options for source paths.
..
.. bpo: 22201
.. date: 8368
.. nonce: k1Awbh
.. section: Tools/Demos
Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly extracts ZIP
files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson.
..
.. bpo: 22120
.. date: 8367
.. nonce: KmBUj-
.. section: Tools/Demos
For functions using an unsigned integer return converter, Argument Clinic
now generates a cast to that type for the comparison to -1 in the generated
code. (This suppresses a compilation warning.)
..
.. bpo: 18974
.. date: 8366
.. nonce: I3DdAo
.. section: Tools/Demos
Tools/scripts/diff.py now uses argparse instead of optparse.
..
.. bpo: 21906
.. date: 8365
.. nonce: ZsKy9v
.. section: Tools/Demos
Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3. Patch by Zachary Ware.
..
.. bpo: 21629
.. date: 8364
.. nonce: 9kZmQl
.. section: Tools/Demos
Fix Argument Clinic's "--converters" feature.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8363
.. nonce: _-ge-g
.. section: Tools/Demos
Add support for ``yield from`` to 2to3.
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8362
.. nonce: dpFbyZ
.. section: Tools/Demos
Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3.
..
.. bpo: 16047
.. date: 8361
.. nonce: IsgTzm
.. section: Tools/Demos
Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in freeze. Patch by Meador
Inge.
..
.. bpo: 11824
.. date: 8360
.. nonce: OBWc3T
.. section: Tools/Demos
Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.
..
.. bpo: 20535
.. date: 8359
.. nonce: 0qkvZZ
.. section: Tools/Demos
PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script. Patch by Arfrever
Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
..
.. bpo: 23260
.. date: 8358
.. nonce: aZ5VLH
.. section: Windows
Update Windows installer
..
.. bpo: 0
.. date: 8357
.. nonce: _aEUNt
.. section: Windows
The bundled version of Tcl/Tk has been updated to 8.6.3. The most visible
result of this change is the addition of new native file dialogs when
running on Windows Vista or newer. See Tcl/Tk's TIP 432 for more
information. Also, this version of Tcl/Tk includes support for Windows 10.
..
.. bpo: 17896
.. date: 8356
.. nonce: o79rHM
.. section: Windows
The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources to be in
``PCbuild\..\externals`` rather than ``PCbuild\..\..``.
..
.. bpo: 17717
.. date: 8355
.. nonce: y1zoye
.. section: Windows
The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from svn.python.org
to build OpenSSL.
..
.. bpo: 21907
.. date: 8354
.. nonce: jm1smN
.. section: Windows
Improved the batch scripts provided for building Python.
..
.. bpo: 22644
.. date: 8353
.. nonce: gosBki
.. section: Windows
The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j.
..
.. bpo: 10747
.. date: 8352
.. nonce: LTWhLn
.. section: Windows
Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu. Patch by Olive Kilburn.
..
.. bpo: 22980
.. date: 8351
.. nonce: -UypE5
.. section: Windows
.pyd files with a version and platform tag (for example, ".cp35-win32.pyd")
will now be loaded in preference to those without tags.