cpython/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a2.rst

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.. bpo: 23571
.. date: 7950
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.. release date: 2015-03-09
.. section: Core and Builtins
PyObject_Call() and PyCFunction_Call() now raise a SystemError if a function
returns a result and raises an exception. The SystemError is chained to the
previous exception.
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.. date: 7949
.. nonce: Ks6_2x
.. section: Library
New os.scandir() function, part of the PEP 471: "os.scandir() function -- a
better and faster directory iterator". Patch written by Ben Hoyt.
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.. section: Library
Reduced the memory consumption of IPv4Address and IPv6Address.
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.. section: Library
BaseHTTPRequestHandler again logs response code as numeric, not as
stringified enum. Patch by Demian Brecht.
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.. section: Library
In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL's X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST flag on
certificate stores when it is available.
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.. section: Library
Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached in the SSL layer but
the underlying connection hasn't been closed.
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.. section: Library
Added an __all__ to the types module.
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.. section: Library
Optimized utility functions in urllib.parse.
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.. section: Library
Flatten nested functools.partial.
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.. section: Library
Added the __module__ attribute to _tkinter classes.
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.. section: Library
Improved help() for non-recognized strings. help('') now shows the help on
str. help('help') now shows the help on help(). Original patch by Mark
Lawrence.
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.. section: Library
Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta division.
Eliminated OverflowError from ``timedelta * float`` for some floats;
Corrected rounding in timedlta true division.
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.. date: 7938
.. nonce: uL0SZh
.. section: Library
Popen objects no longer leave a zombie after exit in the with statement if
the pipe was broken. Patch by Martin Panter.
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.. date: 7937
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.. section: Library
Make it possible to show local variables in tracebacks for both the
traceback module and unittest.
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.. date: 7936
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.. section: Library
Add an option to limit the output size in bz2.decompress(). Patch by
Nikolaus Rath.
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.. date: 7935
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.. section: Library
Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after closing the
window.
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.. date: 7934
.. nonce: icZb-I
.. section: Library
Group references and conditional group references now work in lookbehind
assertions in regular expressions. (See also: bpo-9179)
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.. date: 7933
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.. section: Library
Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores errors consumed too
much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError. Original patch by Aleksi
Torhamo.
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.. bpo: 5700
.. date: 7932
.. nonce: iA5yzL
.. section: Library
io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file. flush() was not called in
close() if closefd=False.
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.. date: 7931
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.. section: Library
Fixed pydoc failure with non-ASCII files when stdout encoding differs from
file system encoding (e.g. on Mac OS).
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.. date: 7930
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.. section: Library
Remove RC4 from the SSL module's default cipher list.
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.. section: Library
Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with empty docstrings.
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.. section: Library
Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dbm.dumb module.
Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
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.. date: 7927
.. nonce: PGUq7T
.. section: Library
ssl.match_hostname() now supports matching of IP addresses.
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.. bpo: 23146
.. date: 7926
.. nonce: PW-O3u
.. section: Library
Fix mishandling of absolute Windows paths with forward slashes in pathlib.
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.. bpo: 23096
.. date: 7925
.. nonce: Ftrmf3
.. section: Library
Pickle representation of floats with protocol 0 now is the same for both
Python and C implementations.
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.. date: 7924
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.. section: Library
pprint now more efficiently uses free space at the right.
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.. section: Library
Add allow_abbrev parameter to argparse.ArgumentParser. Patch by Jonathan
Paugh, Steven Bethard, paul j3 and Daniel Eriksson.
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.. bpo: 21717
.. date: 7922
.. nonce: Knut81
.. section: Library
tarfile.open() now supports 'x' (exclusive creation) mode.
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.. section: Library
marshal.dumps() is now 20-25% faster on average.
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.. section: Library
marshal.dumps() with protocols 3 and 4 is now 40-50% faster on average.
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.. section: Library
Fixed compression in tarfile CLI. Patch by wdv4758h.
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.. date: 7918
.. nonce: kHnFiz
.. section: Library
Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.
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.. date: 7917
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.. section: Library
Fix possible overflow in Windows subprocess creation code.
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.. section: Library
logging.handlers.QueueListener now takes a respect_handler_level keyword
argument which, if set to True, will pass messages to handlers taking
handler levels into account.
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.. date: 7915
.. nonce: WLzTRV
.. section: Library
turtledemo now has a visual sorting algorithm demo. Original patch from
Jason Yeo.
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.. date: 7914
.. nonce: jyJK3z
.. section: Library
Fix issue where cgi.FieldStorage did not always ignore the entire preamble
to a multipart body.
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.. bpo: 23445
.. date: 7913
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.. section: Build
pydebug builds now use "gcc -Og" where possible, to make the resulting
executable faster.
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.. date: 7912
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.. section: Build
Update OS X 10.5 installer build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2a.
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.. bpo: 20204
.. date: 7911
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.. section: C API
Deprecation warning is now raised for builtin types without the __module__
attribute.
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.. date: 7910
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.. section: Windows
Implement PEP 486 - Make the Python Launcher aware of virtual environments.
Patch by Paul Moore.
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.. date: 7909
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.. section: Windows
Make user scripts directory versioned on Windows. Patch by Paul Moore.