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.. bpo: 42103
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.. date: 2020-10-23-19-19-30
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.. nonce: cILT66
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.. release date: 2020-12-07
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.. section: Security
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Prevented potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing
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malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.
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.. bpo: 42051
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.. date: 2020-10-19-10-56-27
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.. nonce: EU_B7u
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.. section: Security
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The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
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plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
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entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.
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.. bpo: 40791
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.. date: 2020-05-28-06-06-47
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.. nonce: QGZClX
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.. section: Security
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Add ``volatile`` to the accumulator variable in ``hmac.compare_digest``,
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making constant-time-defeating optimizations less likely.
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.. bpo: 41686
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.. date: 2020-11-17-16-25-50
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.. nonce: hX77kL
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.. section: Core and Builtins
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On Windows, the ``SIGINT`` event, ``_PyOS_SigintEvent()``, is now created
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even if Python is configured to not install signal handlers (if
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:c:member:`PyConfig.install_signal_handlers` equals to 0, or
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``Py_InitializeEx(0)``).
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.. bpo: 42143
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.. date: 2020-10-27-21-34-05
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.. nonce: N6KXUO
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.. section: Core and Builtins
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Fix handling of errors during creation of ``PyFunctionObject``, which
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resulted in operations on uninitialized memory. Patch by Yonatan
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Goldschmidt.
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.. bpo: 41984
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.. date: 2020-10-14-16-19-43
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.. nonce: SEtKMr
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.. section: Core and Builtins
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The garbage collector now tracks all user-defined classes. Patch by Brandt
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Bucher.
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.. bpo: 41909
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.. date: 2020-10-04-10-55-12
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.. nonce: BqHPcm
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.. section: Core and Builtins
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Fixed stack overflow in :func:`issubclass` and :func:`isinstance` when
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getting the ``__bases__`` attribute leads to infinite recursion.
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.. bpo: 41894
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.. date: 2020-10-02-11-35-33
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.. nonce: ffmtOt
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.. section: Core and Builtins
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When loading a native module and a load failure occurs, prevent a possible
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UnicodeDecodeError when not running in a UTF-8 locale by decoding the load
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error message using the current locale's encoding.
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.. bpo: 17735
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.. date: 2020-12-03-22-22-24
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.. nonce: Qsaaue
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.. section: Library
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:func:`inspect.findsource` now raises :exc:`OSError` instead of
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:exc:`IndexError` when :attr:`co_lineno` of a code object is greater than
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the file length. This can happen, for example, when a file is edited after
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it was imported. PR by Irit Katriel.
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.. bpo: 42116
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.. date: 2020-12-03-15-42-32
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.. nonce: yIwroP
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.. section: Library
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Fix handling of trailing comments by :func:`inspect.getsource`.
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.. bpo: 42482
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.. date: 2020-11-27-16-46-58
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.. nonce: EJC3sd
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.. section: Library
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:class:`~traceback.TracebackException` no longer holds a reference to the
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exception's traceback object. Consequently, instances of TracebackException
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for equivalent but non-equal exceptions now compare as equal.
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.. bpo: 42406
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.. date: 2020-11-19-10-44-41
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.. nonce: r9rNCj
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.. section: Library
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We fixed an issue in `pickle.whichmodule` in which importing
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`multiprocessing` could change the how pickle identifies which module an
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object belongs to, potentially breaking the unpickling of those objects.
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.. bpo: 42328
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.. date: 2020-11-15-17-02-00
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.. nonce: bqpPlR
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.. section: Library
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Fixed :meth:`tkinter.ttk.Style.map`. The function accepts now the
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representation of the default state as empty sequence (as returned by
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``Style.map()``). The structure of the result is now the same on all
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platform and does not depend on the value of ``wantobjects``.
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.. bpo: 42014
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.. date: 2020-11-10-15-40-56
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.. nonce: ShM37l
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.. section: Library
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The ``onerror`` callback from ``shutil.rmtree`` now receives correct
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function when ``os.open`` fails.
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.. bpo: 42237
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.. date: 2020-11-10-14-27-49
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.. nonce: F363jO
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.. section: Library
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Fix `os.sendfile()` on illumos.
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.. bpo: 42249
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.. date: 2020-11-03-09-22-56
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.. nonce: vfNO2u
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.. section: Library
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Fixed writing binary Plist files larger than 4 GiB.
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.. bpo: 35455
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.. date: 2020-11-02-14-10-48
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.. nonce: Q1xTIo
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.. section: Library
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On Solaris, :func:`~time.thread_time` is now implemented with
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``gethrvtime()`` because ``clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)`` is not
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always available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.
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.. bpo: 41754
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.. date: 2020-11-01-15-07-20
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.. nonce: DraSZh
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.. section: Library
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webbrowser: Ignore *NotADirectoryError* when calling ``xdg-settings``.
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.. bpo: 29566
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.. date: 2020-10-31-13-28-36
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.. nonce: 6aDbty
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.. section: Library
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``binhex.binhex()`` consisently writes macOS 9 line endings.
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.. bpo: 42183
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.. date: 2020-10-29-11-17-35
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.. nonce: 50ZcIi
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.. section: Library
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Fix a stack overflow error for asyncio Task or Future repr().
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The overflow occurs under some circumstances when a Task or Future
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recursively returns itself.
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.. bpo: 42103
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.. date: 2020-10-23-19-20-14
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.. nonce: C5obK2
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.. section: Library
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:exc:`~plistlib.InvalidFileException` and :exc:`RecursionError` are now the
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only errors caused by loading malformed binary Plist file (previously
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ValueError and TypeError could be raised in some specific cases).
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.. bpo: 41491
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.. date: 2020-10-19-14-02-09
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.. nonce: d1BUWH
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.. section: Library
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plistlib: fix parsing XML plists with hexadecimal integer values
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.. bpo: 32498
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.. date: 2020-10-18-19-22-39
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.. nonce: MoqSgo
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.. section: Library
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Clearer exception message when passing an argument of type bytes to
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:func:`urllib.parse.unquote`. This is only for 3.8; in 3.9 and later this
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function accepts bytes inputs as well. PR by Irit Katriel.
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.. bpo: 42065
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.. date: 2020-10-17-23-17-18
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.. nonce: 85BsRA
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.. section: Library
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Fix an incorrectly formatted error from :meth:`_codecs.charmap_decode` when
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called with a mapped value outside the range of valid Unicode code points.
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PR by Max Bernstein.
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.. bpo: 41966
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.. date: 2020-10-17-07-52-53
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.. nonce: gwEQRZ
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.. section: Library
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Fix pickling pure Python :class:`datetime.time` subclasses. Patch by Dean
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Inwood.
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.. bpo: 41976
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.. date: 2020-10-08-18-22-28
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.. nonce: Svm0wb
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.. section: Library
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Fixed a bug that was causing :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` to return
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``None`` when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is
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available and ``ldconfig`` is not. Patch by Pablo Galindo
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.. bpo: 41900
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.. date: 2020-10-01-10-50-12
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.. nonce: Cho7oh
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.. section: Library
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C14N 2.0 serialisation in xml.etree.ElementTree failed for unprefixed
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attributes when a default namespace was defined.
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.. bpo: 41855
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.. date: 2020-09-24-16-45-59
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.. nonce: q6Y1nm
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.. section: Library
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In ``importlib.metadata``, fix issue where multiple children can be returned
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from ``FastPath.zip_children()``. Backport of
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`python-devs/importlib_metadata#117
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<https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/-/issues/117>`_.
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.. bpo: 41840
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.. date: 2020-09-23-23-17-59
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.. nonce: QRFr4L
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.. section: Library
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Fix a bug in the :mod:`symtable` module that was causing module-scope global
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variables to not be reported as both local and global. Patch by Pablo
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Galindo.
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.. bpo: 41831
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.. date: 2020-09-22-11-07-50
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.. nonce: k-Eop_
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.. section: Library
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``str()`` for the ``type`` attribute of the ``tkinter.Event`` object always
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returns now the numeric code returned by Tk instead of the name of the event
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type.
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.. bpo: 41662
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.. date: 2020-08-30-21-38-57
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.. nonce: 6e9iZn
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.. section: Library
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No longer override exceptions raised in ``__len__()`` of a sequence of
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parameters in :mod:`sqlite3` with :exc:`~sqlite3.ProgrammingError`.
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.. bpo: 41662
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.. date: 2020-08-29-16-07-36
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.. nonce: Mn79zh
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.. section: Library
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Fixed crash when mutate list of parameters during iteration in
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:mod:`sqlite3`.
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.. bpo: 34215
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.. date: 2020-08-19-20-17-51
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.. nonce: _Cv8c-
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.. section: Library
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Clarify the error message for :exc:`asyncio.IncompleteReadError` when
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``expected`` is ``None``.
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.. bpo: 41316
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.. date: 2020-07-28-12-08-58
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.. nonce: bSCbK4
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.. section: Library
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Fix the :mod:`tarfile` module to write only basename of TAR file to GZIP
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compression header.
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.. bpo: 12800
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.. date: 2020-07-09-11-32-28
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.. section: Library
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Extracting a symlink from a tarball should succeed and overwrite the symlink
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if it already exists. The fix is to remove the existing file or symlink
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before extraction. Based on patch by Chris AtLee, Jeffrey Kintscher, and
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Senthil Kumaran.
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.. date: 2020-07-08-09-45-00
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.. section: Library
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Allow ``ctypes.wintypes`` to be imported on non-Windows systems.
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.. date: 2020-05-14-16-01-34
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.. section: Library
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:func:`shutil.which` now ignores empty entries in :envvar:`PATHEXT` instead
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of treating them as a match.
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.. bpo: 40492
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.. date: 2020-05-04-12-16-00
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.. nonce: ONk9Na
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.. section: Library
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Fix ``--outfile`` for :mod:`cProfile` / :mod:`profile` not writing the
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output file in the original directory when the program being profiled
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changes the working directory. PR by Anthony Sottile.
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.. date: 2020-04-03-16-13-59
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.. nonce: hfM2c0
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.. section: Library
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ZipFile truncates files to avoid corruption when a shorter comment is
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provided in append ("a") mode. Patch by Jan Mazur.
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.. bpo: 27321
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.. date: 2020-01-19-18-40-26
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.. nonce: 8e6SpM
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.. section: Library
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Fixed KeyError exception when flattening an email to a string attempts to
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replace a non-existent Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
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.. date: 2019-08-20-05-17-32
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.. nonce: cgpXl6
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.. section: Library
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Fix a duplicated debug message when :meth:`smtplib.SMTP.connect` is called.
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.. bpo: 42153
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.. date: 2020-11-15-13-46-31
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.. nonce: KjBhx3
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.. section: Documentation
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Fix the URL for the IMAP protocol documents.
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.. bpo: 41910
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.. date: 2020-10-21-14-40-54
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.. section: Documentation
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Document the default implementation of `object.__eq__`.
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.. bpo: 41774
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.. date: 2020-09-24-15-35-13
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.. section: Documentation
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In Programming FAQ "Sequences (Tuples/Lists)" section, add "How do you
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remove multiple items from a list".
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.. date: 2020-01-22-05-14-53
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.. section: Documentation
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Document some restrictions on the default string representations of numeric
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classes.
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.. bpo: 41473
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.. date: 2020-12-04-11-47-09
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.. nonce: W_updK
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.. section: Tests
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Reenable test_gdb on gdb 9.2 and newer:
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866884 bug is fixed in gdb
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10.1.
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.. bpo: 42553
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.. date: 2020-12-03-13-32-44
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.. section: Tests
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Fix ``test_asyncio.test_call_later()`` race condition: don't measure asyncio
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performance in the ``call_later()`` unit test. The test failed randomly on
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the CI.
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.. bpo: 40754
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.. date: 2020-11-13-21-51-34
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.. section: Tests
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Include ``_testinternalcapi`` module in Windows installer for test suite
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.. bpo: 41739
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.. date: 2020-10-12-00-11-47
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.. section: Tests
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Fix test_logging.test_race_between_set_target_and_flush(): the test now
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waits until all threads complete to avoid leaking running threads.
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.. bpo: 41944
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.. date: 2020-10-05-17-43-46
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.. nonce: rf1dYb
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.. section: Tests
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Tests for CJK codecs no longer call ``eval()`` on content received via HTTP.
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.. bpo: 41939
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.. date: 2020-10-05-09-37-43
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.. nonce: P4OlbA
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.. section: Tests
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Fix test_site.test_license_exists_at_url(): call
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``urllib.request.urlcleanup()`` to reset the global
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``urllib.request._opener``. Patch by Victor Stinner.
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.. bpo: 41561
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.. date: 2020-09-18-16-14-03
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.. section: Tests
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test_ssl: skip test_min_max_version_mismatch when TLS 1.0 is not available
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.. bpo: 41602
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.. date: 2020-08-25-19-25-36
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.. section: Tests
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Add tests for SIGINT handling in the runpy module.
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.. bpo: 41306
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.. date: 2020-08-03-13-44-37
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.. nonce: VDoWXI
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.. section: Tests
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Fixed a failure in ``test_tk.test_widgets.ScaleTest`` happening when
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executing the test with Tk 8.6.10.
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.. bpo: 42398
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.. date: 2020-11-18-11-58-44
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.. nonce: Yt5wO8
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.. section: Build
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Fix a race condition in "make regen-all" when make -jN option is used to run
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jobs in parallel. The clinic.py script now only use atomic write to write
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files. Moveover, generated files are now left unchanged if the content does
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not change, to not change the file modification time.
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.. bpo: 42120
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.. date: 2020-11-16-22-41-02
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.. nonce: 9scgko
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.. section: Windows
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Remove macro definition of ``copysign`` (to ``_copysign``) in headers.
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.. bpo: 38439
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.. date: 2020-10-20-13-19-42
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.. nonce: eMLi-t
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.. section: Windows
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Updates the icons for IDLE in the Windows Store package.
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.. bpo: 41557
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.. date: 2020-08-26-09-35-06
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.. nonce: vt00cQ
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.. section: Windows
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Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
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..
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.. bpo: 38324
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.. date: 2020-05-30-02-46-43
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.. nonce: 476M-5
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.. section: Windows
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Avoid Unicode errors when accessing certain locale data on Windows.
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..
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.. bpo: 38443
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.. date: 2020-10-23-10-26-53
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.. nonce: vu64tl
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.. section: macOS
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The ``--enable-universalsdk`` and ``--with-universal-archs`` options for the
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configure script now check that the specified architectures can be used.
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..
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.. bpo: 41471
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.. date: 2020-10-19-12-25-19
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.. nonce: gwA7un
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.. section: macOS
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Ignore invalid prefix lengths in system proxy excludes.
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..
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.. bpo: 41557
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.. date: 2020-08-26-09-31-37
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.. nonce: mcQ75z
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.. section: macOS
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Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
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..
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.. bpo: 42426
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.. date: 2020-11-21-17-21-21
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.. nonce: kNnPoC
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.. section: IDLE
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Fix reporting offset of the RE error in searchengine.
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..
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.. bpo: 42415
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.. date: 2020-11-20-01-30-27
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.. nonce: CyD-va
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.. section: IDLE
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Get docstrings for IDLE calltips more often by using inspect.getdoc.
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..
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.. bpo: 33987
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.. date: 2020-10-24-21-27-37
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.. nonce: fIh9JL
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||
.. section: IDLE
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Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor, settings, and searches.
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||
Some patches by Mark Roseman.
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..
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.. bpo: 41775
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.. date: 2020-09-24-14-31-16
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.. nonce: sB8Vre
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||
.. section: IDLE
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||
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Use 'IDLE Shell' as shell title
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||
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..
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.. bpo: 40511
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.. date: 2020-06-16-12-16-13
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.. nonce: XkihpM
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.. section: IDLE
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||
|
||
Typing opening and closing parentheses inside the parentheses of a function
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||
call will no longer cause unnecessary "flashing" off and on of an existing
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||
open call-tip, e.g. when typed in a string literal.
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||
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..
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.. bpo: 38439
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.. date: 2020-04-22-09-37-40
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||
.. nonce: ieXL-c
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||
.. section: IDLE
|
||
|
||
Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to the Windows .ico file. Created by Andrew
|
||
Clover. Remove the low-color gif variations from the .ico file.
|
||
|
||
..
|
||
|
||
.. bpo: 41986
|
||
.. date: 2020-10-09-22-50-46
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||
.. nonce: JUPE59
|
||
.. section: C API
|
||
|
||
:c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors` and :c:data:`Py_UTF8Mode` are
|
||
available again in limited API.
|