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| author | Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> | 2016-05-22 11:28:41 (GMT) |
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| committer | Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> | 2016-05-22 11:28:41 (GMT) |
| commit | 835416cf7caff0d397c10b98eb146372d6d6dfd0 (patch) | |
| tree | ad53ba367ac636746f20e78e24878ed99e55d042 /Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | |
| parent | 7f3d16f8f582de1c6d19b40f7d1b8966af06cce0 (diff) | |
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Issue #27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3.
The Windows launcher ``py.exe`` no longer prefers an installed
Python 2 version over Python 3 by default when used interactively.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 2ec8f00..f829e4a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -62,8 +62,17 @@ Summary -- Release highlights .. This section singles out the most important changes in Python 3.6. Brevity is key. +New syntax features: + * PEP 498: :ref:`Formatted string literals <whatsnew-fstrings>` +Windows improvements: + +* The ``py.exe`` launcher, when used interactively, no longer prefers + Python 2 over Python 3 when the user doesn't specify a version (via + command line arguments or a config file). Handling of shebang lines + remains unchanged - "python" refers to Python 2 in that case. + .. PEP-sized items next. .. _pep-4XX: |