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What's New In Python 3.4
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.. :Author: Someone <email>
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(uncomment if there is a principal author)
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.. Rules for maintenance:
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* Anyone can add text to this document, but the maintainer reserves the
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right to rewrite any additions. In particular, for obscure or esoteric
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features, the maintainer may reduce any addition to a simple reference to
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the new documentation rather than explaining the feature inline.
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* While the maintainer will periodically go through Misc/NEWS
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and add changes, it's best not to rely on this. We know from experience
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that any changes that aren't in the What's New documentation around the
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time of the original release will remain largely unknown to the community
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for years, even if they're added later. We also know from experience that
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other priorities can arise, and the maintainer will run out of time to do
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updates -- in such cases, end users will be much better served by partial
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notifications that at least give a hint about new features to
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investigate.
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* This is not a complete list of every single change; completeness
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is the purpose of Misc/NEWS. The What's New should focus on changes that
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are visible to Python *users* and that *require* a feature release (i.e.
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most bug fixes should only be recorded in Misc/NEWS)
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* PEPs should not be marked Final until they have an entry in What's New.
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A placeholder entry that is just a section header and a link to the PEP
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(e.g ":pep:`397` has been implemented") is acceptable. If a PEP has been
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implemented and noted in What's New, don't forget to mark it as Final!
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* If you want to draw your new text to the attention of the
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maintainer, add 'XXX' to the beginning of the paragraph or
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section.
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* It's OK to add just a very brief note about a change. For
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example: "The :ref:`~socket.transmogrify()` function was added to the
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:mod:`socket` module." The maintainer will research the change and
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write the necessary text (if appropriate). The advantage of doing this
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is that even if no more descriptive text is ever added, readers will at
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least have a notification that the new feature exists and a link to the
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relevant documentation.
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* You can comment out your additions if you like, but it's not
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necessary (especially when a final release is some months away).
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* Credit the author of a patch or bugfix. Just the name is
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sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary.
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* It's helpful to add the bug/patch number as a comment:
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The :ref:`~socket.transmogrify()` function was added to the
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:mod:`socket` module. (Contributed by P.Y. Developer in :issue:`12345`.)
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This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the Mercurial log
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when researching a change.
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* Cross referencing tip: :ref:`mod.attr` will display as ``mod.attr``,
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while :ref:`~mod.attr` will display as ``attr``.
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This article explains the new features in Python 3.4, compared to 3.3.
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.. Python 3.4 was released on TBD.
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For full details, see the
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`changelog <http://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html>`_.
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.. note:: Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in
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draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.4 moves towards
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release, so it's worth checking back even after reading earlier versions.
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`429` -- Python 3.4 Release Schedule
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Summary -- Release Highlights
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=============================
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.. This section singles out the most important changes in Python 3.4.
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Brevity is key.
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New syntax features:
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* No new syntax features were added in Python 3.4.
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New expected features for Python implementations:
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* :ref:`pip should always be "available" <whatsnew-pep-453>` (:pep:`453`).
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* :ref:`Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable <whatsnew-pep-446>`
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(:pep:`446`).
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* command line option for :ref:`isolated mode <using-on-misc-options>`,
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(:issue:`16499`).
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* :ref:`improvements in the handling of codecs <codec-handling-improvements>`
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that are not text encodings (multiple issues).
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* :ref:`A ModuleSpec Type <whatsnew-pep-451>` for the Import System
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(:pep:`451`). (Affects importer authors.)
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New library modules:
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* :mod:`asyncio`: :ref:`New provisional API for asynchronous IO
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<whatsnew-asyncio>` (:pep:`3156`).
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* :mod:`ensurepip`: :ref:`Bootstrapping the pip installer <whatsnew-ensurepip>`
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(:pep:`453`).
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* :mod:`enum`: :ref:`Support for enumeration types <whatsnew-enum>`
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(:pep:`435`).
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* :mod:`pathlib`: :ref:`Object-oriented filesystem paths <whatsnew-pathlib>`
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(:pep:`428`).
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* :mod:`selectors`: :ref:`High-level and efficient I/O multiplexing
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<whatsnew-selectors>`, built upon the :mod:`select` module primitives (part
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of :pep:`3156`).
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* :mod:`statistics`: A basic :ref:`numerically stable statistics library
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<whatsnew-statistics>` (:pep:`450`).
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* :mod:`tracemalloc`: :ref:`Trace Python memory allocations
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<whatsnew-tracemalloc>` (:pep:`454`).
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Significantly Improved Library Modules:
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* :ref:`Single-dispatch generic functions <whatsnew-singledispatch>` in
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:mod:`functools` (:pep:`443`).
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* New :mod:`pickle` :ref:`protocol 4 <whatsnew-protocol-4>` (:pep:`3154`).
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* :ref:`TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support <whatsnew-tls-11-12>` for :mod:`ssl`
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(:issue:`16692`).
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* :mod:`multiprocessing` now has :ref:`an option to avoid using os.fork
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on Unix <whatsnew-multiprocessing-no-fork>` (:issue:`8713`).
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* :mod:`email` has a new submodule, :mod:`~email.contentmanager`, and
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a new :mod:`~email.message.Message` subclass
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(:class:`~email.contentmanager.EmailMessage`) that :ref:`simplify MIME
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handling <whatsnew_email_contentmanager>` (:issue:`18891`).
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* :mod:`plistlib` has a cleaned up interface and support for binary
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plist files (:issue:`14455`)
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CPython implementation improvements:
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* :ref:`Safe object finalization <whatsnew-pep-442>` (:pep:`442`).
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* Leveraging :pep:`442`, :ref:`module globals are no longer set to None
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during finalization <whatsnew-pep-442>`, in most cases (:issue:`18214`).
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* :ref:`Configurable memory allocators <whatsnew-pep-445>` (:pep:`445`).
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* :ref:`Secure and interchangeable hash algorithm <whatsnew-pep-456>`
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(:pep:`456`).
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* :ref:`Argument Clinic <whatsnew-pep-436>` (:pep:`436`).
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* The :mod:`marshal` format has been made :ref:`more compact and efficient
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<whatsnew-marshal-3>` (:issue:`16475`).
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Please read on for a comprehensive list of user-facing changes, including many
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other smaller improvements, CPython optimizations, deprecations, and potential
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porting issues.
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New Expected Features for Python Implementations
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.. _whatsnew-pep-453:
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PEP 453: Explicit Bootstrapping of PIP in Python Installations
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The new :mod:`ensurepip` module (defined in :pep:`453`) provides a standard
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cross-platform mechanism to boostrap the pip installer into Python
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installations and virtual environments.
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The :mod:`venv` module and the :command:`pyvenv` utility make use of this
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module to make ``pip`` readily available in virtual environments. When
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using the command line interface, ``pip`` is installed by default, while
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for the module API installation of ``pip`` must be requested explicitly.
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For CPython source builds on POSIX systems, the ``make install`` and
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``make altinstall`` commands bootstrap ``pip`` by default. This behaviour
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can be controlled through configure options, and overridden through
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Makefile options.
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On Windows and Mac OS X, the CPython installers now offer the option to
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install ``pip`` along with CPython itself.
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As `discussed in the PEP`__, platform packagers may choose not to install
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``pip`` by default, as long as the command ``pip``, when invoked, provides
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clear and simple directions on how to install ``pip`` on the platform.
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__ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/#recommendations-for-downstream-distributors
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.. note::
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The implementation of PEP 453 is still a work in progress. Refer to
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:issue:`19347` for the progress on additional steps:
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* Having the binary installers install ``pip`` by default
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* Recommending the use of ``pip`` in the "Installing Python Module"
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documentation.
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`453` -- Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
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PEP written by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan, implemented by
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Donald Stufft, Nick Coghlan, Martin von Löwis and Ned Deily.
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.. _whatsnew-pep-446:
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PEP 446: Make Newly Created File Descriptors Non-Inheritable
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:pep:`446` makes newly created file descriptors :ref:`non-inheritable
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<fd_inheritance>`. New functions and methods:
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* :func:`os.get_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_inheritable`
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* :func:`os.get_handle_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_handle_inheritable`
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* :meth:`socket.socket.get_inheritable`, :meth:`socket.socket.set_inheritable`
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`446` -- Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable
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PEP written and implemented by Victor Stinner.
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.. _codec-handling-improvements:
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Improvements to Codec Handling
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Since it was first introduced, the :mod:`codecs` module has always been
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intended to operate as a type-neutral dynamic encoding and decoding
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system. However, its close coupling with the Python text model, especially
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the type restricted convenience methods on the builtin :class:`str`,
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:class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray` types, has historically obscured that
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fact.
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As a key step in clarifying the situation, the :meth:`codecs.encode` and
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:meth:`codecs.decode` convenience functions are now properly documented in
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Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4. These functions have existed in the :mod:`codecs`
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module (and have been covered by the regression test suite) since Python 2.4,
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but were previously only discoverable through runtime introspection.
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Unlike the convenience methods on :class:`str`, :class:`bytes` and
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:class:`bytearray`, these convenience functions support arbitrary codecs
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in both Python 2 and Python 3, rather than being limited to Unicode text
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encodings (in Python 3) or ``basestring`` <-> ``basestring`` conversions
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(in Python 2).
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In Python 3.4, the interpreter is able to identify the known non-text
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encodings provided in the standard library and direct users towards these
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general purpose convenience functions when appropriate::
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>>> b"abcdef".decode("hex")
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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LookupError: 'hex' is not a text encoding; use codecs.decode() to handle arbitrary codecs
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>>> "hello".encode("rot13")
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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LookupError: 'rot13' is not a text encoding; use codecs.encode() to handle arbitrary codecs
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In a related change, whenever it is feasible without breaking backwards
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compatibility, exceptions raised during encoding and decoding operations
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will be wrapped in a chained exception of the same type that mentions the
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name of the codec responsible for producing the error::
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>>> import codecs
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>>> codecs.decode(b"abcdefgh", "hex")
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/usr/lib/python3.4/encodings/hex_codec.py", line 20, in hex_decode
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return (binascii.a2b_hex(input), len(input))
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binascii.Error: Non-hexadecimal digit found
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The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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binascii.Error: decoding with 'hex' codec failed (Error: Non-hexadecimal digit found)
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>>> codecs.encode("hello", "bz2")
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/usr/lib/python3.4/encodings/bz2_codec.py", line 17, in bz2_encode
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return (bz2.compress(input), len(input))
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File "/usr/lib/python3.4/bz2.py", line 498, in compress
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return comp.compress(data) + comp.flush()
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TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface
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The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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TypeError: encoding with 'bz2' codec failed (TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface)
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Finally, as the examples above show, these improvements have permitted
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the restoration of the convenience aliases for the non-Unicode codecs that
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were themselves restored in Python 3.2. This means that encoding binary data
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to and from its hexadecimal representation (for example) can now be written
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as::
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>>> from codecs import encode, decode
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>>> encode(b"hello", "hex")
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b'68656c6c6f'
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>>> decode(b"68656c6c6f", "hex")
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b'hello'
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The binary and text transforms provided in the standard library are detailed
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in :ref:`binary-transforms` and :ref:`text-transforms`.
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(Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`7475`, , :issue:`17827`,
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:issue:`17828` and :issue:`19619`)
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.. _whatsnew-pep-451:
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PEP 451: A ModuleSpec Type for the Import System
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------------------------------------------------
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:pep:`451` provides an encapsulation of the information about a module that the
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import machinery will use to load it (that is, a module specification). This
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helps simplify both the import implementation and several import-related APIs.
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The change is also a stepping stone for `several future import-related
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improvements`__.
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__ https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/130111.html
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The public-facing changes from the PEP are entirely backward-compatible.
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Furthermore, they should be transparent to everyone but importer authors. Key
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finder and loader methods have been deprecated, but they will continue working.
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New importers should use the new methods described in the PEP. Existing
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importers should be updated to implement the new methods.
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Other Language Changes
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----------------------
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Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
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* Unicode database updated to UCD version 6.3.
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* :func:`min` and :func:`max` now accept a *default* argument that can be used
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to specify the value they return if the iterable they are evaluating has no
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elements. Contributed by Julian Berman in :issue:`18111`.
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* Module objects are now :mod:`weakref`'able.
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* Module ``__file__`` attributes (and related values) should now always
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contain absolute paths by default, with the sole exception of
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``__main__.__file__`` when a script has been executed directly using
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a relative path (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`18416`).
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* Now all the UTF-\* codecs (except UTF-7) reject surrogates during both
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encoding and decoding unless the ``surrogatepass`` error handler is used,
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with the exception of the UTF-16 decoder that accepts valid surrogate pairs,
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and the UTF-16 encoder that produces them while encoding non-BMP characters.
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Contributed by Victor Stinner, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu and Serhiy Storchaka in
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:issue:`12892`.
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New Modules
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===========
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.. _whatsnew-asyncio:
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asyncio
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-------
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The new :mod:`asyncio` module (defined in :pep:`3156`) provides a standard
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pluggable event loop model for Python, providing solid asynchronous IO
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support in the standard library, and making it easier for other event loop
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implementations to interoperate with the standard library and each other.
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For Python 3.4, this module is considered a :term:`provisional API`.
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`3156` -- Asynchronous IO Support Rebooted: the "asyncio" Module
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PEP written and implementation led by Guido van Rossum.
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.. _whatsnew-ensurepip:
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ensurepip
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---------
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The new :mod:`ensurepip` module is the primary infrastructure for the
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:pep:`453` implementation. In the normal course of events end users will not
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need to interact with this module, but it can be used to manually bootstrap
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``pip`` if the automated bootstrapping into an installation or virtual
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environment was declined.
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:mod:`ensurepip` includes a bundled copy of ``pip``, up-to-date as of the first
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release candidate of the release of CPython with which it ships (this applies
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to both maintenance releases and feature releases). ``ensurepip`` does not
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access the internet. (If the installation has Internet access, it is of course
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possible to upgrade ``pip`` to a release more recent than the bundled ``pip``
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by using the bundled ``pip`` command itself once it is installed.)
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The module is named *ensure*\ pip because if called when ``pip`` is already
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installed, it does nothing. It also has an ``--upgrade`` option that will
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cause it to install the bundled copy of ``pip`` if the existing installed
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version of ``pip`` is older than the bundled copy.
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.. _whatsnew-enum:
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enum
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----
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The new :mod:`enum` module (defined in :pep:`435`) provides a standard
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implementation of enumeration types, allowing other modules (such as
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:mod:`socket`) to provide more informative error messages and better
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debugging support by replacing opaque integer constants with backwards
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compatible enumeration values.
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`435` -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
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PEP written by Barry Warsaw, Eli Bendersky and Ethan Furman,
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implemented by Ethan Furman.
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.. _whatsnew-pathlib:
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pathlib
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-------
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The new :mod:`pathlib` module offers classes representing filesystem paths
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with semantics appropriate for different operating systems. Path classes are
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divided between *pure paths*, which provide purely computational operations
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without I/O, and *concrete paths*, which inherit from pure paths but also
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provide I/O operations.
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For Python 3.4, this module is considered a :term:`provisional API`.
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`428` -- The pathlib module -- object-oriented filesystem paths
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PEP written and implemented by Antoine Pitrou.
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.. _whatsnew-selectors:
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selectors
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---------
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The new :mod:`selectors` module (created as part of implementing :pep:`3156`)
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allows high-level and efficient I/O multiplexing, built upon the
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:mod:`select` module primitives.
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.. _whatsnew-statistics:
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statistics
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----------
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The new :mod:`statistics` module (defined in :pep:`450`) offers some core
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statistics functionality directly in the standard library. This module
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supports calculation of the mean, median, mode, variance and standard
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deviation of a data series.
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`450` -- Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
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PEP written and implemented by Steven D'Aprano
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.. _whatsnew-tracemalloc:
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tracemalloc
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-----------
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The new :mod:`tracemalloc` module (defined in :pep:`454`) is a debug tool to
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trace memory blocks allocated by Python. It provides the following information:
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* Traceback where an object was allocated
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* Statistics on allocated memory blocks per filename and per line number:
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total size, number and average size of allocated memory blocks
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* Compute the differences between two snapshots to detect memory leaks
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.. seealso::
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:pep:`454` -- Add a new tracemalloc module to trace Python memory allocations
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PEP written and implemented by Victor Stinner
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Improved Modules
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================
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abc
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---
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New function :func:`abc.get_cache_token` can be used to know when to invalidate
|
|
caches that are affected by changes in the object graph. (Contributed
|
|
by Łukasz Langa in :issue:`16832`.)
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New class :class:`~abc.ABC` has :class:`~abc.ABCMeta` as its meta class.
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Using ``ABC`` as a base class has essentially the same effect as specifying
|
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``metaclass=abc.ABCMeta``, but is simpler to type and easier to read.
|
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(Contributed by Bruno Dupuis in :issue:`16049`.)
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aifc
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----
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The :meth:`~aifc.getparams` method now returns a namedtuple rather than a
|
|
plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17818`.)
|
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|
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:func:`aifc.open` now supports the context manager protocol: when used in a
|
|
:keyword:`with` block, the :meth:`~aifc.aifc.close` method of the returned
|
|
object will be called automatically at the end of the block. (Contributed by
|
|
Serhiy Storchacha in :issue:`16486`.)
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argparse
|
|
--------
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|
|
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The :class:`~argparse.FileType` class now accepts *encoding* and
|
|
*errors* arguments, which are passed through to :func:`open`. (Contributed
|
|
by Lucas Maystre in :issue:`11175`.)
|
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audioop
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
Added support for 24-bit samples (:issue:`12866`).
|
|
|
|
Added the :func:`~audioop.byteswap` function to convert big-endian samples
|
|
to little-endian and vice versa (:issue:`19641`).
|
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base64
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
The encoding and decoding functions in :mod:`base64` now accept any
|
|
:term:`bytes-like object` in cases where it previously required a
|
|
:class:`bytes` or :class:`bytearray` instance (:issue:`17839`).
|
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colorsys
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
The number of digits in the coefficients for the RGB --- YIQ conversions have
|
|
been expanded so that they match the FCC NTSC versions. The change in
|
|
results should be less than 1% and may better match results found elsewhere.
|
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contextlib
|
|
----------
|
|
|
|
The new :class:`contextlib.suppress` context manager helps to clarify the
|
|
intent of code that deliberately suppresses exceptions from a single
|
|
statement. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`15806` and
|
|
Zero Piraeus in :issue:`19266`)
|
|
|
|
The new :func:`contextlib.redirect_stdout` context manager makes it easier
|
|
for utility scripts to handle inflexible APIs that don't provide any
|
|
options to retrieve their output as a string or direct it to somewhere
|
|
other than :data:`sys.stdout`. In conjunction with :class:`io.StringIO`,
|
|
this context manager is also useful for checking expected output from
|
|
command line utilities. (Contribute by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`15805`)
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`contextlib` documentation has also been updated to include a
|
|
:ref:`discussion <single-use-reusable-and-reentrant-cms>` of the
|
|
differences between single use, reusable and reentrant context managers.
|
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|
dis
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
Functions :func:`~dis.show_code`, :func:`~dis.dis`, :func:`~dis.distb`, and
|
|
:func:`~dis.disassemble` now accept a keyword-only *file* argument that
|
|
controls where they write their output.
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`dis` module is now built around an :class:`~dis.Instruction` class
|
|
that provides object oriented access to the details of each individual bytecode
|
|
operation.
|
|
|
|
A new method, :func:`~dis.get_instructions`, provides an iterator that emits
|
|
the Instruction stream for a given piece of Python code. Thus it is now
|
|
possible to write a program that inspects and manipulates a bytecode
|
|
object in ways different from those provided by the :mod:`~dis` module
|
|
itself. For example::
|
|
|
|
>>> import dis
|
|
>>> for instr in dis.get_instructions(lambda x: x + 1):
|
|
... print(instr.opname)
|
|
LOAD_FAST
|
|
LOAD_CONST
|
|
BINARY_ADD
|
|
RETURN_VALUE
|
|
|
|
The various display tools in the :mod:`dis` module have been rewritten to use
|
|
these new components.
|
|
|
|
In addition, a new application-friendly class :class:`~dis.Bytecode` provides
|
|
an object-oriented API for inspecting bytecode in both in human-readable form
|
|
and for iterating over instructions. The :class:`~dis.Bytecode` constructor
|
|
takes the same arguments that :func:`~dis.get_instruction` does (plus an
|
|
optional *current_offset*), and the resulting object can be iterated to produce
|
|
:class:`~dis.Instruction` objects. But it also has a :mod:`~dis.Bytecode.dis`
|
|
method, equivalent to calling :mod:`~dis.dis` on the constructor argument, but
|
|
returned as a multi-line string::
|
|
|
|
>>> bytecode = dis.Bytecode(lambda x: x +1, current_offset=3)
|
|
>>> for instr in bytecode:
|
|
... print('{} ({})'.format(instr.opname, instr.opcode))
|
|
LOAD_FAST (124)
|
|
LOAD_CONST (100)
|
|
BINARY_ADD (23)
|
|
RETURN_VALUE (83)
|
|
>>> bytecode.dis().splitlines() # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
|
|
[' 1 0 LOAD_FAST 0 (x)',
|
|
' --> 3 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)',
|
|
' 6 BINARY_ADD',
|
|
' 7 RETURN_VALUE']
|
|
|
|
:class:`~dis.Bytecode` also has a class method,
|
|
:meth:`~dis.Bytecode.from_traceback`, that provides the ability to manipulate a
|
|
traceback (that is, ``print(Bytecode.from_traceback(tb).dis())`` is equivalent
|
|
to ``distb(tb)``).
|
|
|
|
(Contributed by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver in :issue:`11816`
|
|
and Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17916`)
|
|
|
|
|
|
doctest
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
A new :ref:`option flag <doctest-options>`, :data:`~doctest.FAIL_FAST`, halts
|
|
test running as soon as the first failure is detected. (Contributed by R.
|
|
David Murray and Daniel Urban in :issue:`16522`.)
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`doctest` command line interface now uses :mod:`argparse`, and has two
|
|
new options, ``-o`` and ``-f``. ``-o`` allows :ref:`doctest options
|
|
<doctest-options>` to be specified on the command line, and ``-f`` is a
|
|
shorthand for ``-o FAIL_FAST`` (to parallel the similar option supported by the
|
|
:mod:`unittest` CLI). (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`11390`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
email
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
:meth:`~email.message.Message.as_string` now accepts a *policy* argument to
|
|
override the default policy of the message when generating a string
|
|
representation of it. This means that ``as_string`` can now be used in more
|
|
circumstances, instead of having to create and use a :mod:`~email.generator` in
|
|
order to pass formatting parameters to its ``flatten`` method.
|
|
|
|
New method :meth:`~email.message.Message.as_bytes` added to produce a bytes
|
|
representation of the message in a fashion similar to how ``as_string``
|
|
produces a string representation. It does not accept the *maxheaderlen*
|
|
argument, but does accept the *unixfrom* and *policy* arguments. The
|
|
:class:`~email.message.Message` :meth:`~email.message.Message.__bytes__` method
|
|
calls it, meaning that ``bytes(mymsg)`` will now produce the intuitive
|
|
result: a bytes object containing the fully formatted message.
|
|
|
|
(Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`18600`.)
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew_email_contentmanager:
|
|
|
|
A pair of new subclasses of :class:`~email.message.Message` have been added,
|
|
along with a new sub-module, :mod:`~email.contentmanager`. All documentation
|
|
is currently in the new module, which is being added as part of the new
|
|
:term:`provisional <provisional package>` email API. These classes provide a
|
|
number of new methods that make extracting content from and inserting content
|
|
into email messages much easier. See the :mod:`~email.contentmanager`
|
|
documentation for details.
|
|
|
|
These API additions complete the bulk of the work that was planned as part of
|
|
the email6 project. The currently provisional API is scheduled to become final
|
|
in Python 3.5 (possibly with a few minor additions in the area of error
|
|
handling).
|
|
|
|
(Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`18891`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
filecmp
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
A new :func:`~filecmp.clear_cache` function provides the ability to clear the
|
|
:mod:`filecmp` comparison cache, which uses :func:`os.stat` information to
|
|
determine if the file has changed since the last compare. This can be used,
|
|
for example, if the file might have been changed and re-checked in less time
|
|
than the resolution of a particular filesystem's file modification time field.
|
|
(Contributed by Mark Levitt in :issue:`18149`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
functools
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
The new :func:`~functools.partialmethod` descriptor brings partial argument
|
|
application to descriptors, just as :func:`~functools.partial` provides
|
|
for normal callables. The new descriptor also makes it easier to get
|
|
arbitrary callables (including :func:`~functools.partial` instances)
|
|
to behave like normal instance methods when included in a class definition.
|
|
|
|
(Contributed by Alon Horev and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`4331`)
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-singledispatch:
|
|
|
|
The new :func:`~functools.singledispatch` decorator brings support for
|
|
single-dispatch generic functions to the Python standard library. Where
|
|
object oriented programming focuses on grouping multiple operations on a
|
|
common set of data into a class, a generic function focuses on grouping
|
|
multiple implementations of an operation that allows it to work with
|
|
*different* kinds of data.
|
|
|
|
.. seealso::
|
|
|
|
:pep:`443` -- Single-dispatch generic functions
|
|
PEP written and implemented by Łukasz Langa.
|
|
|
|
A pure-python version of the :func:`~functools.partial` function is now in the
|
|
stdlib; in CPython it is overridden by the C accelerated version, but it is
|
|
available for other implementations to use. (Contributed by Brian Thorne in
|
|
:issue:`12428`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
gc
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
New function :func:`~gc.get_stats` returns a list of three per-generation
|
|
dictionaries containing the collections statistics since interpreter startup.
|
|
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16351`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
hashlib
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
New :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function.
|
|
(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`18582`)
|
|
|
|
|
|
html
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
Added a new :func:`html.unescape` function that converts HTML5 character
|
|
references to the corresponding Unicode characters.
|
|
(Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`2927`)
|
|
|
|
Added a new *convert_charrefs* keyword argument to
|
|
:class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser` that, when ``True``, automatically converts
|
|
all character references. For backward-compatibility, its value defaults
|
|
to ``False``, but it will change to ``True`` in future versions, so you
|
|
are invited to set it explicitly and update your code to use this new feature.
|
|
(Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`13633`)
|
|
|
|
The *strict* argument of :class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser` is now deprecated.
|
|
(Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`15114`)
|
|
|
|
|
|
http
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
:meth:`~http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error` now accepts an
|
|
optional additional *explain* parameter which can be used to provide an
|
|
extended error description, overriding the hardcoded default if there is one.
|
|
This extended error description will be formatted using the
|
|
:attr:`~http.server.HTTP.error_message_format` attribute and sent as the body
|
|
of the error response. (Contributed by Karl Cow in :issue:`12921`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
importlib
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
The :class:`~importlib.abc.InspectLoader` ABC defines a new method,
|
|
:meth:`~importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code` that accepts source
|
|
data and a path and returns a code object. The default implementation
|
|
is equivalent to ``compile(data, path, 'exec', dont_inherit=True)``.
|
|
(Contributed by Eric Snow and Brett Cannon in :issue:`15627`.)
|
|
|
|
:class:`~importlib.abc.InspectLoader` also now has a default implementation
|
|
for the :meth:`~importlib.abc.InspectLoader.get_code` method. However,
|
|
it will normally be desirable to override the default implementation
|
|
for performance reasons. (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`18072`.)
|
|
|
|
The :func:`~importlib.reload` function has been moved from :mod:`imp` to
|
|
:mod:`importlib` as part of the :mod:`imp` module deprecation. (Contributed by
|
|
Berker Peksag in :issue:`18193`.)
|
|
|
|
:mod:`importlib.util` now has a :data:`~importlib.util.MAGIC_NUMBER` attribute
|
|
providing access to the bytecode version number. This replaces the
|
|
:func:`~imp.get_magic` function in the deprecated :mod:`imp` module.
|
|
(Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`18192`.)
|
|
|
|
New :mod:`importlib.util` functions :func:`~importlib.util.cache_from_source`
|
|
and :func:`~importlib.util.source_from_cache` replace the same-named functions
|
|
in the deprecated :mod:`imp` module. (Contributed by Brett Cannon in
|
|
:issue:`18194`.)
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`importlib` bootstrap :class:`.NamespaceLoader` now conforms to
|
|
the :class:`.InspectLoader` ABC, which means that ``runpy`` and
|
|
``python -m`` can now be used with namespace packages. (Contributed
|
|
by Brett Cannon in :issue:`18058`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
inspect
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
The inspect module now offers a basic :ref:`command line interface
|
|
<inspect-module-cli>` to quickly display source code and other
|
|
information for modules, classes and functions. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa
|
|
and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`18626`)
|
|
|
|
:func:`~inspect.unwrap` makes it easy to unravel wrapper function chains
|
|
created by :func:`functools.wraps` (and any other API that sets the
|
|
``__wrapped__`` attribute on a wrapper function). (Contributed by
|
|
Daniel Urban, Aaron Iles and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`13266`)
|
|
|
|
As part of the implementation of the new :mod:`enum` module, the
|
|
:mod:`inspect` module now has substantially better support for custom
|
|
``__dir__`` methods and dynamic class attributes provided through
|
|
metaclasses (Contributed by Ethan Furman in :issue:`18929` and
|
|
:issue:`19030`)
|
|
|
|
:func:`~inspect.getfullargspec` and :func:`~inspect.getargspec`
|
|
now use the :func:`~inspect.signature` API. This allows them to
|
|
support much broader range of functions, including some builtins and
|
|
callables that follow ``__signature__`` protocol. It is still
|
|
recommended to update your code to use :func:`~inspect.signature`
|
|
directly. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`17481`)
|
|
|
|
:func:`~inspect.signature` now supports duck types of CPython functions,
|
|
which adds support for functions compiled with Cython. (Contributed
|
|
by Stefan Behnel and Yury Selivanov in :issue:`17159`)
|
|
|
|
|
|
logging
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
The :class:`~logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler` has a new *atTime*
|
|
parameter that can be used to specify the time of day when rollover should
|
|
happen. (Contributed by Ronald Oussoren in :issue:`9556`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-marshal-3:
|
|
|
|
marshal
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
The default :mod:`marshal` version has been bumped to 3. The code implementing
|
|
the new version restores the Python2 behavior of recording only one copy of
|
|
interned strings and preserving the interning on deserialization, and extends
|
|
this "one copy" ability to any object type (including handling recursive
|
|
references). This reduces both the size of ``.pyc`` files and the amount of
|
|
memory a module occupies in memory when it is loaded from a ``.pyc`` (or
|
|
``.pyo``) file. (Contributed by Kristján Valur Jónsson in :issue:`16475`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
mmap
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
mmap objects can now be weakref'ed.
|
|
(Contributed by Valerie Lambert in :issue:`4885`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
mock
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
:mod:`~unittest.mock` objects now inspect their specification signatures when
|
|
matching calls, which means an argument can now be matched by either position
|
|
or name, instead of only by position. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in
|
|
:issue:`17015`.)
|
|
|
|
:func:`~mock.mock_open` objects now have ``readline`` and ``readlines``
|
|
methods. (Contributed by Toshio Kuratomi in :issue:`17467`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
multiprocessing
|
|
---------------
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-multiprocessing-no-fork:
|
|
|
|
On Unix, two new :ref:`start methods <multiprocessing-start-methods>`
|
|
(``spawn`` and ``forkserver``) have been added for starting processes using
|
|
:mod:`multiprocessing`. These make the mixing of processes with threads more
|
|
robust, and the ``spawn`` method matches the semantics that multiprocessing has
|
|
always used on Windows. (Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`8713`).
|
|
|
|
Also, except when using the old *fork* start method, child processes
|
|
will no longer inherit unneeded handles/file descriptors from their parents
|
|
(part of :issue:`8713`).
|
|
|
|
:mod:`multiprocessing` now relies on :mod:`runpy` (which implements the
|
|
``-m`` switch) to initialise ``__main__`` appropriately in child processes
|
|
when using the ``spawn`` or ``forkserver`` start methods. This resolves some
|
|
edge cases where combining multiprocessing, the ``-m`` command line switch
|
|
and explicit relative imports could cause obscure failures in child
|
|
processes. (Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`19946`)
|
|
|
|
|
|
operator
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
There is now a pure-python version of the :mod:`operator` module available for
|
|
reference and for use by alternate implementations of Python. (Contributed by
|
|
Zachary Ware in :issue:`16694`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
os
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
New functions to get and set the :ref:`inheritable flag <fd_inheritance>` of a file
|
|
descriptors or a Windows handle:
|
|
|
|
* :func:`os.get_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_inheritable`
|
|
* :func:`os.get_handle_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_handle_inheritable`
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`os` module now provides a :func:`~os.cpu_count` function, analogous to
|
|
the :func:`multiprocessing.cpu_count` function (which is now implemented in
|
|
terms of the new :mod:`os` function). (Contributed by Trent Nelson, Yogesh
|
|
Chaudhari, Victor Stinner, and Charles-François Natali in :issue:`17914`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
pdb
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
The ``print`` command has been removed from :mod:`pdb`, restoring access to the
|
|
``print`` function.
|
|
|
|
Rationale: Python2's ``pdb`` did not have a ``print`` command; instead,
|
|
entering ``print`` executed the ``print`` statement. In Python3 ``print`` was
|
|
mistakenly made an alias for the pdb :pdbcmd:`p` command. ``p``, however,
|
|
prints the ``repr`` of its argument, not the ``str`` like the Python2 ``print``
|
|
command did. Worse, the Python3 ``pdb print`` command shadowed the Python3
|
|
``print`` function, making it inaccessible at the ``pdb`` prompt.
|
|
|
|
(Contributed by Connor Osborn in :issue:`18764`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-protocol-4:
|
|
|
|
pickle
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
protocol 4
|
|
|
|
:mod:`pickle` now supports (but does not use by default) a new pickle protocol,
|
|
protocol 4. This new protocol addresses a number of issues that were present
|
|
in previous protocols, such as the serialization of nested classes, very large
|
|
strings and containers, or classes whose :meth:`__new__` method takes
|
|
keyword-only arguments. It also provides some efficiency improvements.
|
|
|
|
.. seealso::
|
|
|
|
:pep:`3154` -- Pickle protocol 4
|
|
PEP written by Antoine Pitrou and implemented by Alexandre Vassalotti.
|
|
|
|
|
|
poplib
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
Two new methods have been added to :mod:`poplib`: :meth:`~poplib.POP3.capa`,
|
|
which returns the list of capabilities advertised by the POP server, and
|
|
:meth:`~poplib.POP3.stls`, which switches a clear-text POP3 session into an
|
|
encrypted POP3 session if the POP server supports it. (Contributed by Lorenzo
|
|
Catucci in :issue:`4473`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
pprint
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`pprint` module now supports *compact* mode for formatting long
|
|
sequences (:issue:`19132`).
|
|
|
|
Long strings are now wrapped using Python's normal line continuation
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syntax (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`17150`.)
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pty
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|
---
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:func:`pty.spawn` now returns the status value from :func:`os.waitpid` on
|
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the child process, instead of ``None``. (Contributed by Gregory P. Smith.)
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pydoc
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|
-----
|
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|
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While significant changes have not been made to :mod:`pydoc` directly,
|
|
its handling of custom ``__dir__`` methods and various descriptor
|
|
behaviours has been improved substantially by the underlying changes in
|
|
the :mod:`inspect` module.
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re
|
|
--
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|
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|
Added :func:`re.fullmatch` function and :meth:`regex.fullmatch` method,
|
|
which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match.
|
|
(Contributed by Matthew Barnett in :issue:`16203`.)
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The repr of :ref:`regex objects <re-objects>` now includes the pattern
|
|
and the flags; the repr of :ref:`match objects <match-objects>` now
|
|
includes the start, end, and the part of the string that matched.
|
|
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`13592` and :issue:`17087`.)
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resource
|
|
--------
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|
|
|
New :func:`resource.prlimit` function and Linux specific constants.
|
|
(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`16595` and :issue:`19324`.)
|
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select
|
|
------
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|
|
:class:`~select.epoll` objects now support the context management protocol.
|
|
When used in a :keyword:`with` statement, the :meth:`~select.epoll.close`
|
|
method will be called automatically at the end of the block. (Contributed
|
|
by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`16488`.)
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shelve
|
|
------
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|
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:class:`~shelve.Shelf` instances may now be used in :keyword:`with` statements,
|
|
and will be automatically closed at the end of the :keyword:`with` block.
|
|
(Contributed by Filip Gruszczyński in :issue:`13896`.)
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smtpd
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
The :class:`~smtpd.SMTPServer` and :class:`~smtpd.SMTPChannel` classes now
|
|
accept a *map* keyword argument, which if specified is passed in to
|
|
:class:`asynchat.async_chat` as its *map* argument. This allows an application
|
|
to avoid affecting the global socket map. (Contributed by Vinay Sajip in
|
|
:issue:`11959`.)
|
|
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|
smtplib
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
:exc:`~smtplib.SMTPException` is now a subclass of :exc:`OSError`, which allows
|
|
both socket level errors and SMTP protocol level errors to be caught in one
|
|
try/except statement by code that only cares whether or not an error occurred.
|
|
(:issue:`2118`).
|
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|
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|
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socket
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
The socket module now supports the :data:`~socket.CAN_BCM` protocol on
|
|
platforms that support it. (Contributed by Brian Thorne in :issue:`15359`.)
|
|
|
|
Socket objects have new methods to get or set their :ref:`inheritable flag
|
|
<fd_inheritance>`, :meth:`~socket.socket.get_inheritable` and
|
|
:meth:`~socket.socket.set_inheritable`.
|
|
|
|
The ``socket.AF_*`` and ``socket.SOCK_*`` constants are now enumeration values
|
|
using the new :mod:`enum` module. This allows meaningful names to be printed
|
|
during debugging, instead of integer "magic numbers".
|
|
|
|
The :data:`~socket.AF_LINK` constant is now available on BSD and OSX.
|
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|
|
sqlite3
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
A new boolean parameter, *uri*, to the :func:`~sqlite3.connect` function can
|
|
be used to indicate that the *database* parameter is a ``uri`` (see
|
|
the `SQLite URI documentation <http://www.sqlite.org/uri.html>`_).
|
|
(Contributed by poq in :issue:`13773`.)
|
|
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|
|
ssl
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-tls-11-12:
|
|
|
|
:data:`~ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_1` and :data:`~ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2` (TLSv1.1 and
|
|
TLSv1.2 support) have been added; support for these protocols is only available if
|
|
Python is linked with OpenSSL 1.0.1 or later. (Contributed by Michele Orrù and
|
|
Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16692`)
|
|
|
|
New function :func:`~ssl.get_default_verify_paths` returns
|
|
a named tuple of the paths and environment variables that the
|
|
:meth:`~ssl.SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths` method uses to set
|
|
OpenSSL's default ``cafile`` and ``capath``. This can be an aid in
|
|
debugging default verification issues. (Contributed by Christian Heimes
|
|
in :issue:`18143`.)
|
|
|
|
:class:`~ssl.SSLContext` has a new method,
|
|
:meth:`~ssl.SSLContext.cert_store_stats`, that reports the number of loaded
|
|
``X.509`` certs, ``X.509 CA`` certs, and certificate revocation lists (``crl``\
|
|
s), as well as a :meth:`~ssl.SSLContext.get_ca_certs` method that returns a
|
|
list of the loaded ``CA`` certificates. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in
|
|
and :issue:`18147`.)
|
|
|
|
Two new windows-only functions, :func:`~ssl.enum_certificates` and
|
|
:func:`~ssl.enum_crls` provide the ability to retrieve certificates,
|
|
certificate information, and CRLs from the Windows cert store. (Contributed
|
|
by Christian Heimes in :issue:`17134`.)
|
|
|
|
Support for server-side SNI using the new
|
|
:meth:`ssl.SSLContext.set_servername_callback` method.
|
|
(Contributed by Daniel Black in :issue:`8109`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
stat
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`stat` module is now backed by a C implementation in :mod:`_stat`. A C
|
|
implementation is required as most of the values aren't standardized and
|
|
platform-dependent. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`11016`.)
|
|
|
|
The module supports new file types: door, event port and whiteout.
|
|
|
|
|
|
struct
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
:mod:`struct` now supports the streamed unpacking of a buffer containing
|
|
repeated instances of a given format of data. Both a module level
|
|
:mod:`~struct.iter_unpack` function and a :meth:`struct.Struct.iter_unpack`
|
|
method on compiled formats have been added. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in
|
|
:issue:`17804`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
subprocess
|
|
----------
|
|
|
|
:func:`~subprocess.check_output` now accepts an *input* argument that can
|
|
be used to provide the contents of ``stdin`` for the command that is run.
|
|
(Contributed by Zack Weinberg in :issue:`16624`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
sunau
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
The :meth:`~sunau.getparams` method now returns a namedtuple rather than a
|
|
plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`18901`.)
|
|
|
|
:meth:`sunau.open` now supports the context manager protocol (:issue:`18878`).
|
|
|
|
|
|
sys
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks` returns the current number of
|
|
blocks allocated by the interpreter (in CPython with the default
|
|
``--with-pymalloc`` setting, this is allocations made through the
|
|
:c:func:`PyObject_Malloc` API). This can be useful for tracking memory leaks,
|
|
especially if automated via a test suite. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou
|
|
in :issue:`13390`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
traceback
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
A new :func:`traceback.clear_frames` function takes a traceback object
|
|
and clears the local variables in all of the frames it references,
|
|
reducing the amount of memory consumed (:issue:`1565525`).
|
|
|
|
|
|
urllib
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
:mod:`urllib.request` now supports ``data:`` URLs via the
|
|
:class:`~urllib.request.DataHandler` class. (Contributed by Mathias Panzenböck
|
|
in :issue:`16423`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
unittest
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
The :class:`~unittest.TestCase` class has a new method,
|
|
:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.subTest`, that produces a context manager whose
|
|
:keyword:`with` block becomes a "sub-test". This context manager allows a test
|
|
method to dynamically generate subtests by, say, calling the ``subTest``
|
|
context manager inside a loop. A single test method can thereby produce an
|
|
indefinite number of separately-identified and separately-counted tests, all of
|
|
which will run even if one or more of them fail. For example::
|
|
|
|
class NumbersTest(unittest.TestCase):
|
|
def test_even(self):
|
|
for i in range(6):
|
|
with self.subTest(i=1):
|
|
self.assertEqual(i % 2, 0)
|
|
|
|
will result in six subtests, each identified in the unittest verbose output
|
|
with a label consisting of the variable name ``i`` and a particular value for
|
|
that variable (``i=0``, ``i=1``, etc). See :ref:`subtests` for the full
|
|
version of this example. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16997`.)
|
|
|
|
:func:`unittest.main` now accepts an iterable of test names for
|
|
*defaultTest*, where previously it only accepted a single test name as a
|
|
string. (Contributed by Jyrki Pulliainen in :issue:`15132`.)
|
|
|
|
If :class:`~unittest.SkipTest` is raised during test discovery (that is, at the
|
|
module level in the test file), it is now reported as a skip instead of an
|
|
error. (Contributed by Zach Ware in :issue:`16935`.)
|
|
|
|
:meth:`~unittest.TestLoader.discover` now sorts the discovered files to provide
|
|
consistent test ordering. (Contributed by Martin Melin and Jeff Ramnani in
|
|
:issue:`16709`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
venv
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
:mod:`venv` now includes activation scripts for the ``csh`` and ``fish``
|
|
shells (Contributed by Andrew Svetlov in :issue:`15417`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
wave
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
The :meth:`~wave.getparams` method now returns a namedtuple rather than a
|
|
plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17487`.)
|
|
|
|
:meth:`wave.open` now supports the context manager protocol. (Contributed
|
|
by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17616`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
weakref
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
New :class:`~weakref.WeakMethod` class simulates weak references to bound
|
|
methods. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`14631`.)
|
|
|
|
New :class:`~weakref.finalize` class makes it possible to register a callback
|
|
to be invoked when an object is garbage collected, without needing to
|
|
carefully manage the lifecycle of the weak reference itself. (Contributed by
|
|
Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`15528`)
|
|
|
|
The callback, if any, associated with a :class:`~weakref.ref` is now
|
|
exposed via the :attr:`~weakref.ref.__callback__` attribute. (Contributed
|
|
by Mark Dickinson in :issue:`17643`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
xml.etree
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
A new parser, :class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLPullParser`, allows a
|
|
non-blocking applications to parse XML documents. An example can be
|
|
seen at :ref:`elementtree-pull-parsing`. (Contributed by Antoine
|
|
Pitrou in :issue:`17741`.)
|
|
|
|
The :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` :func:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring` and
|
|
:func:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.tostringlist` functions, and the
|
|
:class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree`
|
|
:meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write` method, now have a
|
|
*short_empty_elements* :ref:`keyword-only parameter <keyword-only_parameter>`
|
|
providing control over whether elements with no content are written in
|
|
abbreviated (``<tag />``) or expanded (``<tag></tag>``) form. (Contributed by
|
|
Ariel Poliak and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`14377`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
zipfile.PyZipfile
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
Add a filter function to ignore some packages (tests for instance),
|
|
:meth:`~zipfile.PyZipFile.writepy`.
|
|
(Contributed by Christian Tismer in :issue:`19274`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CPython Implementation Changes
|
|
==============================
|
|
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-pep-445:
|
|
|
|
PEP 445: Customization of CPython Memory Allocators
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
:pep:`445` adds new C level interfaces to customize memory allocation in
|
|
the CPython interpreter.
|
|
|
|
.. seealso::
|
|
|
|
:pep:`445` -- Add new APIs to customize Python memory allocators
|
|
PEP written and implemented by Victor Stinner.
|
|
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-pep-442:
|
|
|
|
PEP 442: Safe Object Finalization
|
|
---------------------------------
|
|
|
|
:pep:`442` removes the current limitations and quirks of object finalization
|
|
in CPython. With it, objects with :meth:`__del__` methods, as well as
|
|
generators with :keyword:`finally` clauses, can be finalized when they are
|
|
part of a reference cycle.
|
|
|
|
As part of this change, module globals are no longer forcibly set to
|
|
:const:`None` during interpreter shutdown in most cases, instead relying
|
|
on the normal operation of the cyclic garbage collector. This avoids a
|
|
whole class of interpreter-shutdown-time errors, usually involving
|
|
``__del__`` methods, that have plagued Python since the cyclic GC
|
|
was first introduced.
|
|
|
|
.. seealso::
|
|
|
|
:pep:`442` -- Safe object finalization
|
|
PEP written and implemented by Antoine Pitrou.
|
|
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-pep-456:
|
|
|
|
PEP 456: Secure and Interchangeable Hash Algorithm
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
:pep:`456` follows up on earlier security fix work done on Python's hash
|
|
algorithm to address certain DOS attacks to which public facing APIs backed by
|
|
dictionary lookups may be subject. (See :issue:`14621` for the start of the
|
|
current round of improvements.) The PEP unifies CPython's hash code to make it
|
|
easier for a packager to substitute a different hash algorithm, and switches
|
|
Python's default implementation to a SipHash implementation on platforms that
|
|
have a 64 bit data type. Any performance differences in comparison with the
|
|
older FNV algorithm are trivial.
|
|
|
|
The PEP adds additional fields to the :func:`sys.hash_info` struct sequence to
|
|
describe the hash algorithm in use by the currently executing binary. Otherwise,
|
|
the PEP does not alter any existing CPython APIs.
|
|
|
|
|
|
.. _whatsnew-pep-436:
|
|
|
|
PEP 436: Argument Clinic
|
|
------------------------
|
|
|
|
"Argument Clinic" (:pep:`436`) is now part of the CPython build process
|
|
and can be used to simplify the process of defining and maintaining
|
|
accurate signatures for builtins and standard library extension modules
|
|
implemented in C.
|
|
|
|
.. note::
|
|
The Argument Clinic PEP is not fully up to date with the state of the
|
|
implementation. This has been deemed acceptable by the release manager
|
|
and core development team in this case, as Argument Clinic will not
|
|
be made available as a public API for third party use in Python 3.4.
|
|
|
|
.. seealso::
|
|
|
|
:pep:`436` -- The Argument Clinic DSL
|
|
PEP written and implemented by Larry Hastings.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Build and C API Changes
|
|
-----------------------------
|
|
|
|
* The new :c:func:`Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API
|
|
allows applications embedding the CPython interpreter to reliably force
|
|
a particular encoding and error handler for the standard streams
|
|
(Contributed by Bastien Montagne and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`16129`)
|
|
|
|
* Most Python C APIs that don't mutate string arguments are now correctly
|
|
marked as accepting ``const char *`` rather than ``char *`` (Contributed
|
|
by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`1772673`).
|
|
|
|
* New shell version of ``python-config``; can be used even when a python
|
|
interpreter is not available (for example, in cross compilation scenarios).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Improvements
|
|
==================
|
|
|
|
* Tab-completion is now enabled by default in the interactive interpreter.
|
|
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou and Éric Araujo in :issue:`5845`.)
|
|
|
|
* Invoking the Python interpreter with ``--version`` now outputs the version to
|
|
standard output instead of standard error (:issue:`18338`). Similar changes
|
|
were made to :mod:`argparse` (:issue:`18920`) and other modules that have
|
|
script-like invocation capabilities (:issue:`18922`).
|
|
|
|
* The CPython Windows installer now adds ``.py`` to the :envvar:`PATHEXT`
|
|
variable when extensions are registered, allowing users to run a python
|
|
script at the windows command prompt by just typing its name without the
|
|
``.py`` extension. (Contributed by Paul Moore in :issue:`18569`.)
|
|
|
|
* A new ``make`` target `coverage-report
|
|
<http://docs.python.org/devguide/coverage.html#measuring-coverage-of-c-code-with-gcov-and-lcov>`_
|
|
will build python, run the test suite, and generate an HTML coverage report
|
|
for the C codebase using ``gcov`` and `lcov
|
|
<http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php>`_.
|
|
|
|
* The ``-R`` option to the :ref:`python regression test suite <regrtest>` now
|
|
also checks for memory allocation leaks, using
|
|
:func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()`. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in
|
|
:issue:`13390`).
|
|
|
|
* ``python -m`` now works with namespace packages.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Significant Optimizations
|
|
=========================
|
|
|
|
* The UTF-32 decoder is now 3x to 4x faster. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka
|
|
in :issue:`14625`.)
|
|
|
|
* The cost of hash collisions for sets is now reduced. Each hash table
|
|
probe now checks a series of consecutive, adjacent key/hash pairs before
|
|
continuing to make random probes through the hash table. This exploits
|
|
cache locality to make collision resolution less expensive.
|
|
The collision resolution scheme can be described as a hybrid of linear
|
|
probing and open addressing. The number of additional linear probes
|
|
defaults to nine. This can be changed at compile-time by defining
|
|
LINEAR_PROBES to be any value. Set LINEAR_PROBES=0 to turn-off
|
|
linear probing entirely. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in
|
|
:issue:`18771`.)
|
|
|
|
* The interpreter starts about 30% faster. A couple of measures lead to the
|
|
speedup. The interpreter loads fewer modules on startup, e.g. the :mod:`re`,
|
|
:mod:`collections` and :mod:`locale` modules and their dependencies are no
|
|
longer imported by default. The marshal module has been improved to load
|
|
compiled Python code faster. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, Christian
|
|
Heimes and Victor Stinner in :issue:`19219`, :issue:`19218`, :issue:`19209`,
|
|
:issue:`19205` and :issue:`9548`)
|
|
|
|
* :class:`bz2.BZ2File` is now as fast or faster than the Python2 version for
|
|
most cases. :class:`lzma.LZMAFile` has also been optimized. (Contributed by
|
|
Serhiy Storchaka and Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`16034`.)
|
|
|
|
* :func:`random.getrandbits` is 20%-40% faster for small integers (the most
|
|
common use case). (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`16674`).
|
|
|
|
* By taking advantage of the new storage format for strings, pickling of
|
|
strings is now significantly faster. (Contributed by Victor Stinner and
|
|
Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`15596`.)
|
|
|
|
* A performance issue in :meth:`io.FileIO.readall` has been solved. This
|
|
particularly affects Windows, and significantly speeds up the case of piping
|
|
significant amounts of data through :mod:`subprocess`. (Contributed
|
|
by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`15758`.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deprecated
|
|
==========
|
|
|
|
This section covers various APIs and other features that have been deprecated
|
|
in Python 3.4, and will be removed in Python 3.5 or later. In most (but not
|
|
all) cases, using the deprecated APIs will produce a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`
|
|
when the interpreter is run with deprecation warnings enabled (for example, by
|
|
using ``-Wd``).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deprecated Python Modules, Functions and Methods
|
|
------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
* :meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.isbjunk` and
|
|
:meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.isbpopular` were removed: use ``x in sm.bjunk`` and
|
|
``x in sm.bpopular``, where *sm* is a :class:`~difflib.SequenceMatcher` object.
|
|
|
|
* :func:`importlib.util.module_for_loader` is pending deprecation. Using
|
|
:func:`importlib.util.module_to_load` and
|
|
:meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs` allows subclasses of a loader
|
|
to more easily customize module loading.
|
|
|
|
* The :mod:`imp` module is pending deprecation. To keep compatibility with
|
|
Python 2/3 code bases, the module's removal is currently not scheduled.
|
|
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* The :mod:`formatter` module is pending deprecation and is slated for removal
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in Python 3.6.
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* MD5 as default digestmod for :mod:`hmac` is deprecated. Python 3.6 will
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require an explicit digest name or constructor as *digestmod* argument.
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* The internal ``Netrc`` class in the :mod:`ftplib` module has been documented
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as deprecated in its docstring for quite some time. It now emits a
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:exc:`DeprecationWarning` and will be removed completely in Python 3.5.
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Deprecated Functions and Types in the C API
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-------------------------------------------
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XXX: None so far
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Deprecated Features
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-------------------
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* Running :ref:`idle` with the ``-n`` flag (no subprocess) is deprecated.
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However, the feature will not be removed until :issue:`18823` is resolved.
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* The site module adding a "site-python" directory to sys.path, if it
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exists, is deprecated (:issue:`19375`).
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Removed
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=======
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Operating Systems No Longer Supported
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-------------------------------------
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Support for the following operating systems has been removed from the source
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and build tools:
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* OS/2 (:issue:`16135`).
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* Windows 2000 (changeset e52df05b496a).
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* VMS (:issue:`16136`).
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API and Feature Removals
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------------------------
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The following obsolete and previously deprecated APIs and features have been
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removed:
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* The unmaintained ``Misc/TextMate`` and ``Misc/vim`` directories have been
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removed (see the `devguide <http://docs.python.org/devguide>`_
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for suggestions on what to use instead).
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* The ``SO`` makefile macro is removed (it was replaced by the
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``SHLIB_SUFFIX`` and ``EXT_SUFFIX`` macros) (:issue:`16754`).
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* The ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field has been removed; its value has
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been meaningless since Python 3.2, when the "new GIL" was introduced.
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* ``PyLoader`` and ``PyPycLoader`` have been removed from :mod:`importlib`.
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(Contributed by Taras Lyapun in :issue:`15641`.)
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* The *strict* argument to :class:`~http.client.HTTPConnection` and
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:class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection` has been removed. HTTP 0.9-style
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"Simple Responses" are no longer supported.
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* The deprecated :mod:`urllib.request.Request` getter and setter methods
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``add_data``, ``has_data``, ``get_data``, ``get_type``, ``get_host``,
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``get_selector``, ``set_proxy``, ``get_origin_req_host``, and
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``is_unverifiable`` have been removed (use direct attribute access instead).
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* Support for loading the deprecated ``TYPE_INT64`` has been removed from
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:mod:`marshal`. (Contributed by Dan Riti in :issue:`15480`.)
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* :class:`inspect.Signature`: positional-only parameters are now required
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to have a valid name.
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Code Cleanups
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|
-------------
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* The unused and undocumented internal ``Scanner`` class has been removed from
|
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the :mod:`pydoc` module.
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Porting to Python 3.4
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|
=====================
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|
This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes
|
|
that may require changes to your code.
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|
|
Changes in the Python API
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-------------------------
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* The ABCs defined in :mod:`importlib.abc` now either raise the appropriate
|
|
exception or return a default value instead of raising
|
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:exc:`NotImplementedError` blindly. This will only affect code calling
|
|
:func:`super` and falling through all the way to the ABCs. For compatibility,
|
|
catch both :exc:`NotImplementedError` or the appropriate exception as needed.
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|
|
|
* The module type now initializes the :attr:`__package__` and :attr:`__loader__`
|
|
attributes to ``None`` by default. To determine if these attributes were set
|
|
in a backwards-compatible fashion, use e.g.
|
|
``getattr(module, '__loader__', None) is not None``.
|
|
|
|
* :meth:`importlib.util.module_for_loader` now sets ``__loader__`` and
|
|
``__package__`` unconditionally to properly support reloading. If this is not
|
|
desired then you will need to set these attributes manually. You can use
|
|
:func:`importlib.util.module_to_load` for module management.
|
|
|
|
* Import now resets relevant attributes (e.g. ``__name__``, ``__loader__``,
|
|
``__package__``, ``__file__``, ``__cached__``) unconditionally when reloading.
|
|
|
|
* Frozen packages no longer set ``__path__`` to a list containing the package
|
|
name but an empty list instead. Determing if a module is a package should be
|
|
done using ``hasattr(module, '__path__')``.
|
|
|
|
* :func:`py_compile.compile` now raises :exc:`FileExistsError` if the file path
|
|
it would write to is a symlink or a non-regular file. This is to act as a
|
|
warning that import will overwrite those files with a regular file regardless
|
|
of what type of file path they were originally.
|
|
|
|
* :meth:`importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source` no longer raises
|
|
:exc:`ImportError` when the source code being loaded triggers a
|
|
:exc:`SyntaxError` or :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError`. As :exc:`ImportError` is
|
|
meant to be raised only when source code cannot be found but it should, it was
|
|
felt to be over-reaching/overloading of that meaning when the source code is
|
|
found but improperly structured. If you were catching ImportError before and
|
|
wish to continue to ignore syntax or decoding issues, catch all three
|
|
exceptions now.
|
|
|
|
* :func:`functools.update_wrapper` and :func:`functools.wraps` now correctly
|
|
set the ``__wrapped__`` attribute to the function being wrapper, even if
|
|
that function also had its ``__wrapped__`` attribute set. This means
|
|
``__wrapped__`` attributes now correctly link a stack of decorated
|
|
functions rather than every ``__wrapped__`` attribute in the chain
|
|
referring to the innermost function. Introspection libraries that
|
|
assumed the previous behaviour was intentional can use
|
|
:func:`inspect.unwrap` to access the first function in the chain that has
|
|
no ``__wrapped__`` attribute.
|
|
|
|
* :class:`importlib.machinery.PathFinder` now passes on the current working
|
|
directory to objects in :data:`sys.path_hooks` for the empty string. This
|
|
results in :data:`sys.path_importer_cache` never containing ``''``, thus
|
|
iterating through :data:`sys.path_importer_cache` based on :data:`sys.path`
|
|
will not find all keys. A module's ``__file__`` when imported in the current
|
|
working directory will also now have an absolute path, including when using
|
|
``-m`` with the interpreter (this does not influence when the path to a file
|
|
is specified on the command-line).
|
|
|
|
* The removal of the *strict* argument to :class:`~http.client.HTTPConnection`
|
|
and :class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection` changes the meaning of the
|
|
remaining arguments if you are specifying them positionally rather than by
|
|
keyword. If you've been paying attention to deprecation warnings your code
|
|
should already be specifying any additional arguments via keywords.
|
|
|
|
* Strings between ``from __future__ import ...`` statements now *always* raise
|
|
a :exc:`SyntaxError`. Previously if there was no leading docstring, an
|
|
interstitial string would sometimes be ignored. This brings CPython into
|
|
compliance with the language spec; Jython and PyPy already were.
|
|
(:issue:`17434`).
|
|
|
|
* :meth:`ssl.SSLSocket.getpeercert` and :meth:`ssl.SSLSocket.do_handshake`
|
|
now raise an :exc:`OSError` with ``ENOTCONN`` when the ``SSLSocket`` is not
|
|
connected, instead of the previous behavior of raising an
|
|
:exc:`AttributError`. In addition, :meth:`~ssl.SSLSocket.getpeercert`
|
|
will raise a :exc:`ValueError` if the handshake has not yet been done.
|
|
|
|
* :func:`base64.b32decode` now raises a :exc:`binascii.Error` when the
|
|
input string contains non-b32-alphabet characters, instead of a
|
|
:exc:`TypeError`. This particular :exc:`TypeError` was missed when the other
|
|
:exc:`TypeError`\ s were converted. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in
|
|
:issue:`18011`.) Note: this change was also inadvertently applied in Python
|
|
3.3.3.
|
|
|
|
* The :attr:`~cgi.FieldStorage.file` attribute is now automatically closed when
|
|
the creating :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` instance is garbage collected. If you
|
|
were pulling the file object out separately from the :class:`cgi.FieldStorage`
|
|
instance and not keeping the instance alive, then you should either store the
|
|
entire :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` instance or read the contents of the file
|
|
before the :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` instance is garbage collected.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Changes in the C API
|
|
--------------------
|
|
|
|
* :c:func:`PyErr_SetImportError` now sets :exc:`TypeError` when its **msg**
|
|
argument is not set. Previously only ``NULL`` was returned with no exception
|
|
set.
|
|
|
|
* The result of the :c:data:`PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer` callback must
|
|
now be a string allocated by :c:func:`PyMem_RawMalloc` or
|
|
:c:func:`PyMem_RawRealloc`, or *NULL* if an error occurred, instead of a
|
|
string allocated by :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` or :c:func:`PyMem_Realloc`.
|
|
|
|
* :c:func:`PyThread_set_key_value` now always set the value. In Python
|
|
3.3, the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current
|
|
value is a non-NULL pointer).
|
|
|
|
* The ``f_tstate`` (thread state) field of the :c:type:`PyFrameObject`
|
|
structure has been removed to fix a bug: see :issue:`14432` for the
|
|
rationale.
|