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| author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2018-12-10 16:11:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-12-10 16:11:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 1c3de541e64f75046b20cdd27bada1557e550bcd (patch) | |
| tree | 958a34f1023404eb33b87a55ed52b34e3702ccd8 /Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | |
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bpo-34977: Use venv redirector instead of original python.exe on Windows (GH-11029)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 8b9b64f..3e94a61 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -2512,3 +2512,13 @@ In 3.7.1 the :mod:`tokenize` module now implicitly emits a ``NEWLINE`` token when provided with input that does not have a trailing new line. This behavior now matches what the C tokenizer does internally. (Contributed by Ammar Askar in :issue:`33899`.) + +Notable changes in Python 3.7.2 +=============================== + +In 3.7.2, :mod:`venv` on Windows no longer copies the original binaries, but +creates redirector scripts named ``python.exe`` and ``pythonw.exe`` instead. +This resolves a long standing issue where all virtual environments would have +to be upgraded or recreated with each Python update. However, note that this +release will still require recreation of virtual environments in order to get +the new scripts. |