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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-11-05 22:13:55 (GMT)
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Update 3.2 what's new
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@@ -245,12 +245,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`9757`.)
-* A warning message will now get printed at interpreter shutdown if the
- :data:`gc.garbage` list isn't empty. This is meant to make the programmer
- aware that their code contains object finalization issues.
-
- (Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`477863`.)
-
* Mark Dickinson crafted an elegant and efficient scheme for assuring that
different numeric datatypes will have the same hash value whenever their
actual values are equal::
@@ -284,6 +278,36 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(See :issue:`4617`.)
+* A new warning category, :exc:`ResourceWarning`, has been added. It is
+ emitted when certain potential issues with resource consumption or cleanup
+ are detected. It is silenced by default in normal release builds, but
+ can be easily enabled through the means provided by the :mod:`warnings`
+ module, or on the command line.
+
+ :exc:`ResourceWarning` is issued at interpreter shutdown if the
+ :data:`gc.garbage` list isn't empty. This is meant to make the programmer
+ aware that their code contains object finalization issues.
+
+ (Added by Antoine Pitrou and Georg Brandl; :issue:`477863`.)
+
+ :exc:`ResourceWarning` is also issued when a :term:`file object` is destroyed
+ without having been explicitly closed. While the deallocator for such
+ object ensures it closes the underlying operating system resource
+ (usually, a file descriptor), the delay in deallocating the object could
+ produce various issues, especially under Windows. Here is an example
+ of enabling the warning from the command line::
+
+ $ ./python -Wdefault
+ Python 3.2a3+ (py3k, Nov 5 2010, 22:58:04)
+ [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
+ Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
+ >>> f = open("foo", "wb")
+ >>> del f
+ __main__:1: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.BufferedWriter name='foo'>
+ >>>
+
+ (Added by Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`10093`.)
+
New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
=====================================
@@ -442,6 +466,14 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
<http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html#CIPHER_LIST_FORMAT>`__. (Added
by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8322`.)
+ When linked against a recent enough version of OpenSSL, the :mod:`ssl`
+ module now supports the Server Name Indication extension to the TLS
+ protocol, allowing for several "virtual hosts" using different certificates
+ on a single IP/port. This extension is only supported in client mode,
+ and is activated by passing the *server_hostname* argument to
+ :meth:`SSLContext.wrap_socket`.
+ (Added by Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`5639`.)
+
Various options have been added to the :mod:`ssl` module, such as
:data:`~ssl.OP_NO_SSLv2` which allows to force disabling of the insecure and
obsolete SSLv2 protocol. (Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`4870`.)
@@ -546,6 +578,11 @@ A number of small performance enhancements have been added:
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`7451`.)
+* JSON encoding now uses the C speedups also when the ``sort_keys`` argument
+ is true.
+
+ (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`10314`.)
+
* Python's peephole optimizer now recognizes patterns such ``x in {1, 2, 3}`` as
being a test for membership in a set of constants. The optimizer recasts the
:class:`set` as a :class:`frozenset` and stores the pre-built constant.