3.7.7rc1v3.7.7rc1

70 files changed, 696 insertions, 151 deletions

diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index e912ff0..0006429 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        7
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        6
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        7
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.6+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.7rc1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index 0438309..7ca16fb 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Wed Dec 18 13:43:31 2019
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Wed Mar  4 02:29:35 2020
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -5070,11 +5070,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'only\n'
                   'supported by the numeric types.\n'
                   '\n'
-                  'A general convention is that an empty format string ("""") '
+                  'A general convention is that an empty format specification '
                   'produces\n'
                   'the same result as if you had called "str()" on the value. '
                   'A non-empty\n'
-                  'format string typically modifies the result.\n'
+                  'format specification typically modifies the result.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'The general form of a *standard format specifier* is:\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -5227,9 +5227,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'Changed in version 3.6: Added the "\'_\'" option (see also '
                   '**PEP 515**).\n'
                   '\n'
-                  '*width* is a decimal integer defining the minimum field '
-                  'width.  If not\n'
-                  'specified, then the field width will be determined by the '
+                  '*width* is a decimal integer defining the minimum total '
+                  'field width,\n'
+                  'including any prefixes, separators, and other formatting '
+                  'characters.\n'
+                  'If not specified, then the field width will be determined '
+                  'by the\n'
                   'content.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'When no explicit alignment is given, preceding the *width* '
@@ -6771,7 +6774,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'object.__rfloordiv__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rmod__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rdivmod__(self, other)\n'
-                  'object.__rpow__(self, other)\n'
+                  'object.__rpow__(self, other[, modulo])\n'
                   'object.__rlshift__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rrshift__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rand__(self, other)\n'
@@ -8907,11 +8910,17 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'bases,\n'
                  '**kwds)" (where the additional keyword arguments, if any, '
                  'come from\n'
-                 'the class definition).\n'
+                 'the class definition). The "__prepare__" method should be '
+                 'implemented\n'
+                 'as a "classmethod()". The namespace returned by '
+                 '"__prepare__" is\n'
+                 'passed in to "__new__", but when the final class object is '
+                 'created the\n'
+                 'namespace is copied into a new "dict".\n'
                  '\n'
                  'If the metaclass has no "__prepare__" attribute, then the '
                  'class\n'
-                 'namespace is initialised as an empty ordered mapping.\n'
+                 'namespace is initialised as an empty "dict()".\n'
                  '\n'
                  'See also:\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -9421,7 +9430,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'object.__rfloordiv__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rmod__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rdivmod__(self, other)\n'
-                 'object.__rpow__(self, other)\n'
+                 'object.__rpow__(self, other[, modulo])\n'
                  'object.__rlshift__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rrshift__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rand__(self, other)\n'
@@ -11847,10 +11856,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           '      "co_lnotab" is a string encoding the mapping from bytecode\n'
           '      offsets to line numbers (for details see the source code of '
           'the\n'
-          '      interpreter); "co_stacksize" is the required stack size\n'
-          '      (including local variables); "co_flags" is an integer '
-          'encoding a\n'
-          '      number of flags for the interpreter.\n'
+          '      interpreter); "co_stacksize" is the required stack size;\n'
+          '      "co_flags" is an integer encoding a number of flags for the\n'
+          '      interpreter.\n'
           '\n'
           '      The following flag bits are defined for "co_flags": bit '
           '"0x04"\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.7rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.7rc1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27d05ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.7rc1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,668 @@
+.. bpo: 39401
+.. date: 2020-01-28-20-54-09
+.. nonce: he7h_A
+.. release date: 2020-03-04
+.. section: Security
+
+Avoid unsafe load of ``api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll`` at startup on
+Windows 7.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39776
+.. date: 2020-03-02-20-12-33
+.. nonce: fNaxi_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix race condition where threads created by PyGILState_Ensure() could get a
+duplicate id.
+
+This affects consumers of tstate->id like the contextvar caching machinery,
+which could return invalid cached objects under heavy thread load (observed
+in embedded scenarios).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39778
+.. date: 2020-03-02-19-21-21
+.. nonce: _YGLEc
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a crash due to incorrect handling of weak references in
+``collections.OrderedDict`` classes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39382
+.. date: 2020-02-18-01-40-13
+.. nonce: OLSJu9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a use-after-free in the single inheritance path of ``issubclass()``,
+when the ``__bases__`` of an object has a single reference, and so does its
+first item. Patch by Yonatan Goldschmidt.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39606
+.. date: 2020-02-11-23-59-07
+.. nonce: a72Sxc
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix regression caused by fix for bpo-39386, that prevented calling
+``aclose`` on an async generator that had already been closed or exhausted.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39510
+.. date: 2020-02-04-10-27-41
+.. nonce: PMIh-f
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix segfault in ``readinto()`` method on closed BufferedReader.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39453
+.. date: 2020-01-25-23-51-17
+.. nonce: xCOkYk
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a possible crash in :meth:`list.__contains__` when a list is changed
+during comparing items. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39427
+.. date: 2020-01-22-22-28-04
+.. nonce: LiO-Eo
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Document all possibilities for the ``-X`` options in the command line help
+section. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39421
+.. date: 2020-01-22-15-53-37
+.. nonce: O3nG7u
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible crashes when operating with the functions in the :mod:`heapq`
+module and custom comparison operators.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39386
+.. date: 2020-01-20-21-40-57
+.. nonce: ULqD8t
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Prevent double awaiting of async iterator.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38588
+.. date: 2019-12-29-19-13-54
+.. nonce: pgXnNS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible crashes in dict and list when calling
+:c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39031
+.. date: 2019-12-12-21-05-43
+.. nonce: imlCYZ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When parsing an "elif" node, lineno and col_offset of the node now point to
+the "elif" keyword and not to its condition, making it consistent with the
+"if" node. Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38610
+.. date: 2019-10-31-14-30-39
+.. nonce: fHdVMS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible crashes in several list methods by holding strong references to
+list elements when calling :c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39794
+.. date: 2020-02-29-19-17-39
+.. nonce: 7VjatS
+.. section: Library
+
+Add --without-decimal-contextvar build option.  This enables a thread-local
+rather than a coroutine local context.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39769
+.. date: 2020-02-29-13-20-33
+.. nonce: hJmxu4
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`compileall.compile_dir` function's *ddir* parameter and the
+compileall command line flag `-d` no longer write the wrong pathname to the
+generated pyc file for submodules beneath the root of the directory tree
+being compiled.  This fixes a regression introduced with Python 3.5.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30566
+.. date: 2020-02-24-03-45-28
+.. nonce: qROxty
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :exc:`IndexError` when trying to decode an invalid string with punycode
+codec.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39649
+.. date: 2020-02-23-21-27-10
+.. nonce: qiubSp
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove obsolete check for `__args__` in bdb.Bdb.format_stack_entry.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27657
+.. date: 2020-02-16-07-47-55
+.. nonce: 9kZchc
+.. section: Library
+
+The original fix for bpo-27657, "Fix urlparse() with numeric paths"
+(GH-16839) included in 3.7.6, inadvertently introduced a behavior change
+that broke several third-party packages relying on the original undefined
+parsing behavior. The change is reverted in 3.7.7, restoring the behavior of
+3.7.5 and earlier releases.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21016
+.. date: 2020-02-12-10-04-39
+.. nonce: bFXPH7
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`pydoc` and :mod:`trace` modules now use the :mod:`sysconfig`
+module to get the path to the Python standard library, to support uncommon
+installation path like ``/usr/lib64/python3.9/`` on Fedora. Patch by Jan
+Matějek.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39548
+.. date: 2020-02-06-05-33-52
+.. nonce: DF4FFe
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix handling of header in :class:`urllib.request.AbstractDigestAuthHandler`
+when the optional ``qop`` parameter is not present.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39450
+.. date: 2020-02-02-14-46-34
+.. nonce: 48R274
+.. section: Library
+
+Striped whitespace from docstring before returning it from
+:func:`unittest.case.shortDescription`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39493
+.. date: 2020-01-30-01-13-19
+.. nonce: CbFRi7
+.. section: Library
+
+Mark ``typing.IO.closed`` as a property
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39485
+.. date: 2020-01-29-14-58-27
+.. nonce: Zy3ot6
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug in :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec` that would complain about
+the wrong number of arguments for custom descriptors defined in an extension
+module returning functions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39430
+.. date: 2020-01-24-11-05-21
+.. nonce: I0UQzM
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed race condition in lazy imports in :mod:`tarfile`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39389
+.. date: 2020-01-20-00-56-01
+.. nonce: fEirIS
+.. section: Library
+
+Write accurate compression level metadata in :mod:`gzip` archives, rather
+than always signaling maximum compression.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39274
+.. date: 2020-01-15-23-13-03
+.. nonce: lpc0-n
+.. section: Library
+
+``bool(fraction.Fraction)`` now returns a boolean even if (numerator != 0)
+does not return a boolean (ex: numpy number).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39242
+.. date: 2020-01-08-23-25-27
+.. nonce: bnL65N
+.. section: Library
+
+Updated the Gmane domain from news.gmane.org to news.gmane.io which is used
+for examples of :class:`~nntplib.NNTP` news reader server and nntplib tests.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39152
+.. date: 2020-01-03-18-02-50
+.. nonce: JgPjCC
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ttk.Scale.configure([name]) to return configuration tuple for name or
+all options.  Giovanni Lombardo contributed part of the patch.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39198
+.. date: 2020-01-02-20-21-03
+.. nonce: nzwGyG
+.. section: Library
+
+If an exception were to be thrown in `Logger.isEnabledFor` (say, by asyncio
+timeouts or stopit) , the `logging` global lock may not be released
+appropriately, resulting in deadlock.  This change wraps that block of code
+with `try...finally` to ensure the lock is released.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39191
+.. date: 2020-01-02-17-28-03
+.. nonce: ur_scy
+.. section: Library
+
+Perform a check for running loop before starting a new task in
+``loop.run_until_complete()`` to fail fast; it prevents the side effect of
+new task spawning before exception raising.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38871
+.. date: 2020-01-01-18-44-52
+.. nonce: 3EEOLg
+.. section: Library
+
+Correctly parenthesize filter-based statements that contain lambda
+expressions in mod:`lib2to3`. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39142
+.. date: 2019-12-31-19-27-23
+.. nonce: oqU5iD
+.. section: Library
+
+A change was made to logging.config.dictConfig to avoid converting instances
+of named tuples to ConvertingTuple. It's assumed that named tuples are too
+specialised to be treated like ordinary tuples; if a user of named tuples
+requires ConvertingTuple functionality, they will have to implement that
+themselves in their named tuple class.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38971
+.. date: 2019-12-20-16-06-28
+.. nonce: fKRYlF
+.. section: Library
+
+Open issue in the BPO indicated a desire to make the implementation of
+codecs.open() at parity with io.open(), which implements a try/except to
+assure file stream gets closed before an exception is raised.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39057
+.. date: 2019-12-15-21-47-54
+.. nonce: FOxn-w
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`urllib.request.proxy_bypass_environment` now ignores leading dots and
+no longer ignores a trailing newline.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39056
+.. date: 2019-12-15-21-05-16
+.. nonce: nEfUM9
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed handling invalid warning category in the -W option.  No longer import
+the re module if it is not needed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39055
+.. date: 2019-12-15-19-23-23
+.. nonce: FmN3un
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`base64.b64decode` with ``validate=True`` raises now a binascii.Error
+if the input ends with a single ``\n``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38878
+.. date: 2019-11-22-12-08-52
+.. nonce: EJ0cFf
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed __subclasshook__ of :class:`os.PathLike` to return a correct result
+upon inheritence. Patch by Bar Harel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35182
+.. date: 2019-10-31-19-23-25
+.. nonce: hzeNl9
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed :func:`Popen.communicate` subsequent call crash when the child process
+has already closed any piped standard stream, but still continues to be
+running. Patch by Andriy Maletsky.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38473
+.. date: 2019-10-14-21-14-55
+.. nonce: uXpVld
+.. section: Library
+
+Use signature from inner mock for autospecced methods attached with
+:func:`unittest.mock.attach_mock`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38293
+.. date: 2019-09-29-08-17-03
+.. nonce: wls5s3
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :func:`copy.copy` and :func:`copy.deepcopy` support to :func:`property`
+objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37953
+.. date: 2019-09-06-17-40-34
+.. nonce: db5FQq
+.. section: Library
+
+In :mod:`typing`, improved the ``__hash__`` and ``__eq__`` methods for
+:class:`ForwardReferences`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36406
+.. date: 2019-03-24-12-12-27
+.. nonce: mCEkOl
+.. section: Library
+
+Handle namespace packages in :mod:`doctest`. Patch by Karthikeyan
+Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 13790
+.. date: 2020-02-28-14-39-25
+.. nonce: hvLaRI
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39530
+.. date: 2020-02-23-13-26-40
+.. nonce: _bCvzQ
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix misleading documentation about mixed-type numeric comparisons.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17422
+.. date: 2020-02-19-11-13-47
+.. nonce: g7_9zz
+.. section: Documentation
+
+The language reference now specifies restrictions on class namespaces.
+Adapted from a patch by Ethan Furman.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39654
+.. date: 2020-02-18-07-42-20
+.. nonce: MoT1jI
+.. section: Documentation
+
+In pyclbr doc, update 'class' to 'module' where appropriate and add
+readmodule comment. Patch by Hakan Çelik.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39392
+.. date: 2020-01-27-18-18-42
+.. nonce: oiqcLO
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Explain that when filling with turtle, overlap regions may be left unfilled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39381
+.. date: 2020-01-18-15-37-56
+.. nonce: wTWe8d
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Mention in docs that :func:`asyncio.get_event_loop` implicitly creates new
+event loop only if called from the main thread.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38918
+.. date: 2019-12-15-22-04-41
+.. nonce: 8JnDTS
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add an entry for ``__module__`` in the "function" & "method" sections of the
+`inspect docs types and members table
+<https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#types-and-members>`_
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3530
+.. date: 2019-11-17-11-53-10
+.. nonce: 8zFUMc
+.. section: Documentation
+
+In the :mod:`ast` module documentation, fix a misleading ``NodeTransformer``
+example and add advice on when to use the ``fix_missing_locations``
+function.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38546
+.. date: 2019-12-18-14-52-08
+.. nonce: 2kxNuM
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_ressources_gced_in_workers() of test_concurrent_futures: explicitly
+stop the manager to prevent leaking a child process running in the
+background after the test completes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39144
+.. date: 2019-12-27-22-18-26
+.. nonce: dwHMlR
+.. section: Build
+
+The ctags and etags build targets both include Modules/_ctypes and Python
+standard library source files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38597
+.. date: 2020-03-01-15-04-54
+.. nonce: MnHdYl
+.. section: Windows
+
+:mod:`distutils` will no longer statically link :file:`vcruntime140.dll`
+when a redistributable version is unavailable. All future releases of
+CPython will include a copy of this DLL to ensure distributed extensions can
+continue to load.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38380
+.. date: 2020-02-28-23-51-27
+.. nonce: TpOBCj
+.. section: Windows
+
+Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.31.1
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39439
+.. date: 2020-01-24-03-07-14
+.. nonce: rwMWDR
+.. section: Windows
+
+Reduce overhead when using multiprocessing in a Windows virtual environment
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39185
+.. date: 2020-01-02-01-11-53
+.. nonce: T4herN
+.. section: Windows
+
+The build.bat script has additional options for very-quiet output (-q) and
+very-verbose output (-vv)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38380
+.. date: 2020-02-28-23-51-47
+.. nonce: u-ySyA
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS builds to use SQLite 3.31.1
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39781
+.. date: 2020-02-27-22-17-09
+.. nonce: bbYBeL
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Selecting code context lines no longer causes a jump.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39663
+.. date: 2020-02-17-21-09-03
+.. nonce: wexcsH
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add tests for pyparse find_good_parse_start().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39600
+.. date: 2020-02-10-17-09-48
+.. nonce: X6NsyM
+.. section: IDLE
+
+In the font configuration window, remove duplicated font names.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30780
+.. date: 2020-01-27-16-44-29
+.. nonce: nR80qu
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add remaining configdialog tests for buttons and highlights and keys tabs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39388
+.. date: 2020-01-25-02-26-45
+.. nonce: x4TQNh
+.. section: IDLE
+
+IDLE Settings Cancel button now cancels pending changes
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39050
+.. date: 2020-01-22-22-28-06
+.. nonce: zkn0FO
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Make IDLE Settings dialog Help button work again.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34118
+.. date: 2019-12-30-16-44-07
+.. nonce: FaNW0a
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Tag memoryview, range, and tuple as classes, the same as list, etcetera, in
+the library manual built-in functions list.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38792
+.. date: 2019-11-13-23-51-39
+.. nonce: xhTC5a
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Close an IDLE shell calltip if a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` or shell restart
+occurs.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32989
+.. date: 2018-03-03-12-56-26
+.. nonce: FVhmhH
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add tests for editor newline_and_indent_event method. Remove dead code from
+pyparse find_good_parse_start method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-12-27-22-18-26.bpo-39144.dwHMlR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-12-27-22-18-26.bpo-39144.dwHMlR.rst
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-The ctags and etags build targets both include Modules/_ctypes and Python standard library source files.
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-Fix possible crashes in several list methods by holding strong references to
-list elements when calling :c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-12-21-05-43.bpo-39031.imlCYZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-12-21-05-43.bpo-39031.imlCYZ.rst
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-When parsing an "elif" node, lineno and col_offset of the node now point to the "elif" keyword and not to its condition, making it consistent with the "if" node.

-Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-29-19-13-54.bpo-38588.pgXnNS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-29-19-13-54.bpo-38588.pgXnNS.rst
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-Fix possible crashes in dict and list when calling
-:c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-20-21-40-57.bpo-39386.ULqD8t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-20-21-40-57.bpo-39386.ULqD8t.rst
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-Prevent double awaiting of async iterator.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-22-15-53-37.bpo-39421.O3nG7u.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-22-15-53-37.bpo-39421.O3nG7u.rst
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-Fix possible crashes when operating with the functions in the :mod:`heapq`
-module and custom comparison operators.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-22-22-28-04.bpo-39427.LiO-Eo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-22-22-28-04.bpo-39427.LiO-Eo.rst
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-Document all possibilities for the ``-X`` options in the command line help
-section. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-25-23-51-17.bpo-39453.xCOkYk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-25-23-51-17.bpo-39453.xCOkYk.rst
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-Fixed a possible crash in :meth:`list.__contains__` when a list is changed
-during comparing items. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-04-10-27-41.bpo-39510.PMIh-f.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-04-10-27-41.bpo-39510.PMIh-f.rst
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-Fix segfault in ``readinto()`` method on closed BufferedReader.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-11-23-59-07.bpo-39606.a72Sxc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-11-23-59-07.bpo-39606.a72Sxc.rst
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-Fix regression caused by fix for bpo-39386, that prevented calling
-``aclose`` on an async generator that had already been closed or exhausted.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-18-01-40-13.bpo-39382.OLSJu9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-18-01-40-13.bpo-39382.OLSJu9.rst
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-Fix a use-after-free in the single inheritance path of ``issubclass()``, when
-the ``__bases__`` of an object has a single reference, and so does its first item.
-Patch by Yonatan Goldschmidt.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-03-02-19-21-21.bpo-39778._YGLEc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-03-02-19-21-21.bpo-39778._YGLEc.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed a crash due to incorrect handling of weak references in
-``collections.OrderedDict`` classes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-03-02-20-12-33.bpo-39776.fNaxi_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-03-02-20-12-33.bpo-39776.fNaxi_.rst
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-Fix race condition where threads created by PyGILState_Ensure() could get a
-duplicate id.
-
-This affects consumers of tstate->id like the contextvar caching machinery,
-which could return invalid cached objects under heavy thread load (observed
-in embedded scenarios).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-11-17-11-53-10.bpo-3530.8zFUMc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-11-17-11-53-10.bpo-3530.8zFUMc.rst
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-In the :mod:`ast` module documentation, fix a misleading ``NodeTransformer`` example and add
-advice on when to use the ``fix_missing_locations`` function.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-12-15-22-04-41.bpo-38918.8JnDTS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-12-15-22-04-41.bpo-38918.8JnDTS.rst
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-Add an entry for ``__module__`` in the "function" & "method" sections of the
-`inspect docs types and members table
-<https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#types-and-members>`_
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst
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-Mention in docs that :func:`asyncio.get_event_loop` implicitly creates new
-event loop only if called from the main thread.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-18-18-42.bpo-39392.oiqcLO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-18-18-42.bpo-39392.oiqcLO.rst
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-Explain that when filling with turtle, overlap regions may be left unfilled.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-18-07-42-20.bpo-39654.MoT1jI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-18-07-42-20.bpo-39654.MoT1jI.rst
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-In pyclbr doc, update 'class' to 'module' where appropriate and add readmodule comment.
-Patch by Hakan Çelik.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-19-11-13-47.bpo-17422.g7_9zz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-19-11-13-47.bpo-17422.g7_9zz.rst
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-The language reference now specifies restrictions on class namespaces.  Adapted from a patch by Ethan Furman.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix misleading documentation about mixed-type numeric comparisons.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst
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-Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-03-03-12-56-26.bpo-32989.FVhmhH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-03-03-12-56-26.bpo-32989.FVhmhH.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-03-03-12-56-26.bpo-32989.FVhmhH.rst
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-Add tests for editor newline_and_indent_event method.
-Remove dead code from pyparse find_good_parse_start method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-13-23-51-39.bpo-38792.xhTC5a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-13-23-51-39.bpo-38792.xhTC5a.rst
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Close an IDLE shell calltip if a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`
-or shell restart occurs.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-12-30-16-44-07.bpo-34118.FaNW0a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-12-30-16-44-07.bpo-34118.FaNW0a.rst
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-Tag memoryview, range, and tuple as classes, the same as list, etcetera, in
-the library manual built-in functions list.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-22-22-28-06.bpo-39050.zkn0FO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-22-22-28-06.bpo-39050.zkn0FO.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Make IDLE Settings dialog Help button work again.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-25-02-26-45.bpo-39388.x4TQNh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-25-02-26-45.bpo-39388.x4TQNh.rst
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-IDLE Settings Cancel button now cancels pending changes
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-27-16-44-29.bpo-30780.nR80qu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-27-16-44-29.bpo-30780.nR80qu.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Add remaining configdialog tests for buttons and highlights and keys tabs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-02-10-17-09-48.bpo-39600.X6NsyM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-02-10-17-09-48.bpo-39600.X6NsyM.rst
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-In the font configuration window, remove duplicated font names.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-02-17-21-09-03.bpo-39663.wexcsH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-02-17-21-09-03.bpo-39663.wexcsH.rst
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-Add tests for pyparse find_good_parse_start().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-02-27-22-17-09.bpo-39781.bbYBeL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-02-27-22-17-09.bpo-39781.bbYBeL.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Selecting code context lines no longer causes a jump.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-12-12-27.bpo-36406.mCEkOl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-12-12-27.bpo-36406.mCEkOl.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-12-12-27.bpo-36406.mCEkOl.rst
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-Handle namespace packages in :mod:`doctest`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-06-17-40-34.bpo-37953.db5FQq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-06-17-40-34.bpo-37953.db5FQq.rst
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-In :mod:`typing`, improved the ``__hash__`` and ``__eq__`` methods for

-:class:`ForwardReferences`.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-29-08-17-03.bpo-38293.wls5s3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-29-08-17-03.bpo-38293.wls5s3.rst
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-Add :func:`copy.copy` and :func:`copy.deepcopy` support to :func:`property` objects.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-14-21-14-55.bpo-38473.uXpVld.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-14-21-14-55.bpo-38473.uXpVld.rst
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-Use signature from inner mock for autospecced methods attached with
-:func:`unittest.mock.attach_mock`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-31-19-23-25.bpo-35182.hzeNl9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-31-19-23-25.bpo-35182.hzeNl9.rst
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-Fixed :func:`Popen.communicate` subsequent call crash when the child process
-has already closed any piped standard stream, but still continues to be
-running. Patch by Andriy Maletsky.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-22-12-08-52.bpo-38878.EJ0cFf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-22-12-08-52.bpo-38878.EJ0cFf.rst
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-Fixed __subclasshook__ of :class:`os.PathLike` to return a correct result
-upon inheritence. Patch by Bar Harel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-19-23-23.bpo-39055.FmN3un.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-19-23-23.bpo-39055.FmN3un.rst
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-:func:`base64.b64decode` with ``validate=True`` raises now a binascii.Error
-if the input ends with a single ``\n``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-05-16.bpo-39056.nEfUM9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-05-16.bpo-39056.nEfUM9.rst
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-Fixed handling invalid warning category in the -W option.  No longer import
-the re module if it is not needed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-47-54.bpo-39057.FOxn-w.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-47-54.bpo-39057.FOxn-w.rst
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-:func:`urllib.request.proxy_bypass_environment` now ignores leading dots and
-no longer ignores a trailing newline.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-20-16-06-28.bpo-38971.fKRYlF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-20-16-06-28.bpo-38971.fKRYlF.rst
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-Open issue in the BPO indicated a desire to make the implementation of

-codecs.open() at parity with io.open(), which implements a try/except to

-assure file stream gets closed before an exception is raised.
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-A change was made to logging.config.dictConfig to avoid converting instances
-of named tuples to ConvertingTuple. It's assumed that named tuples are too
-specialised to be treated like ordinary tuples; if a user of named tuples
-requires ConvertingTuple functionality, they will have to implement that
-themselves in their named tuple class.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-01-18-44-52.bpo-38871.3EEOLg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-01-18-44-52.bpo-38871.3EEOLg.rst
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-Correctly parenthesize filter-based statements that contain lambda
-expressions in mod:`lib2to3`. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-02-17-28-03.bpo-39191.ur_scy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-02-17-28-03.bpo-39191.ur_scy.rst
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-Perform a check for running loop before starting a new task in
-``loop.run_until_complete()`` to fail fast; it prevents the side effect of
-new task spawning before exception raising.
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-If an exception were to be thrown in `Logger.isEnabledFor` (say, by asyncio timeouts or stopit) , the `logging` global lock may not be released appropriately, resulting in deadlock.  This change wraps that block of code with `try...finally` to ensure the lock is released.
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-Fix ttk.Scale.configure([name]) to return configuration tuple for name
-or all options.  Giovanni Lombardo contributed part of the patch.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-08-23-25-27.bpo-39242.bnL65N.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-08-23-25-27.bpo-39242.bnL65N.rst
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-Updated the Gmane domain from news.gmane.org to news.gmane.io 
-which is used for examples of :class:`~nntplib.NNTP` news reader server and
-nntplib tests.
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-``bool(fraction.Fraction)`` now returns a boolean even if (numerator != 0) does not return a boolean (ex: numpy number).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-20-00-56-01.bpo-39389.fEirIS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-20-00-56-01.bpo-39389.fEirIS.rst
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-Write accurate compression level metadata in :mod:`gzip` archives, rather
-than always signaling maximum compression.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-24-11-05-21.bpo-39430.I0UQzM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-24-11-05-21.bpo-39430.I0UQzM.rst
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-Fixed race condition in lazy imports in :mod:`tarfile`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-29-14-58-27.bpo-39485.Zy3ot6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-29-14-58-27.bpo-39485.Zy3ot6.rst
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-Fix a bug in :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec` that would complain about
-the wrong number of arguments for custom descriptors defined in an extension
-module returning functions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-30-01-13-19.bpo-39493.CbFRi7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-30-01-13-19.bpo-39493.CbFRi7.rst
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-Mark ``typing.IO.closed`` as a property
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-02-14-46-34.bpo-39450.48R274.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-02-14-46-34.bpo-39450.48R274.rst
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-Striped whitespace from docstring before returning it from
-:func:`unittest.case.shortDescription`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-06-05-33-52.bpo-39548.DF4FFe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-06-05-33-52.bpo-39548.DF4FFe.rst
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-Fix handling of header in :class:`urllib.request.AbstractDigestAuthHandler` when the optional ``qop`` parameter
-is not present.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-12-10-04-39.bpo-21016.bFXPH7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-12-10-04-39.bpo-21016.bFXPH7.rst
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-The :mod:`pydoc` and :mod:`trace` modules now use the :mod:`sysconfig`
-module to get the path to the Python standard library, to support uncommon
-installation path like ``/usr/lib64/python3.9/`` on Fedora.
-Patch by Jan Matějek.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-16-07-47-55.bpo-27657.9kZchc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-16-07-47-55.bpo-27657.9kZchc.rst
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-The original fix for bpo-27657, "Fix urlparse() with numeric paths" (GH-16839)
-included in 3.7.6, inadvertently introduced a behavior change that broke
-several third-party packages relying on the original undefined parsing
-behavior. The change is reverted in 3.7.7, restoring the behavior of 3.7.5 and
-earlier releases.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-23-21-27-10.bpo-39649.qiubSp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-23-21-27-10.bpo-39649.qiubSp.rst
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-Remove obsolete check for `__args__` in bdb.Bdb.format_stack_entry.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-24-03-45-28.bpo-30566.qROxty.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-24-03-45-28.bpo-30566.qROxty.rst
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-Fix :exc:`IndexError` when trying to decode an invalid string with punycode
-codec.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-29-13-20-33.bpo-39769.hJmxu4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-29-13-20-33.bpo-39769.hJmxu4.rst
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-The :func:`compileall.compile_dir` function's *ddir* parameter and the
-compileall command line flag `-d` no longer write the wrong pathname to the
-generated pyc file for submodules beneath the root of the directory tree
-being compiled.  This fixes a regression introduced with Python 3.5.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-29-19-17-39.bpo-39794.7VjatS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-29-19-17-39.bpo-39794.7VjatS.rst
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-Add --without-decimal-contextvar build option.  This enables a thread-local
-rather than a coroutine local context.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-01-28-20-54-09.bpo-39401.he7h_A.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-01-28-20-54-09.bpo-39401.he7h_A.rst
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-Avoid unsafe load of ``api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll`` at startup on Windows 7.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-12-18-14-52-08.bpo-38546.2kxNuM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-12-18-14-52-08.bpo-38546.2kxNuM.rst
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-Fix test_ressources_gced_in_workers() of test_concurrent_futures: explicitly
-stop the manager to prevent leaking a child process running in the background
-after the test completes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-02-01-11-53.bpo-39185.T4herN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-02-01-11-53.bpo-39185.T4herN.rst
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-The build.bat script has additional options for very-quiet output (-q) and very-verbose output (-vv)
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-Reduce overhead when using multiprocessing in a Windows virtual environment
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-Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.31.1
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-03-01-15-04-54.bpo-38597.MnHdYl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-03-01-15-04-54.bpo-38597.MnHdYl.rst
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-:mod:`distutils` will no longer statically link :file:`vcruntime140.dll`
-when a redistributable version is unavailable. All future releases of
-CPython will include a copy of this DLL to ensure distributed extensions can
-continue to load.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-02-28-23-51-47.bpo-38380.u-ySyA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-02-28-23-51-47.bpo-38380.u-ySyA.rst
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-Update macOS builds to use SQLite 3.31.1
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
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-This is Python version 3.7.6+
-=============================
+This is Python version 3.7.7 candidate 1
+========================================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.7
    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI