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authorC.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>2022-10-25 13:19:44 (GMT)
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gh-95913: Prepare Improved Modules in 3.11 WhatsNew for final edits (#98631)
* Add two line breaks and ref target labels to remaining subsections * Fix a few out of order Improved Modules * Fix a few minor textual formatting issues in sections * Fix remaining Sphinx warnings in the Improved Modules section
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@@ -614,12 +614,18 @@ asyncio
These are primarily intended for internal use,
notably by :class:`~asyncio.TaskGroup`.
+
+.. _whatsnew311-contextlib:
+
contextlib
----------
-Added non parallel-safe :func:`~contextlib.chdir` context manager to change
-the current working directory and then restore it on exit. Simple wrapper
-around :func:`~os.chdir`. (Contributed by Filipe Laíns in :issue:`25625`)
+* Added non parallel-safe :func:`~contextlib.chdir` context manager to change
+ the current working directory and then restore it on exit. Simple wrapper
+ around :func:`~os.chdir`. (Contributed by Filipe Laíns in :issue:`25625`)
+
+
+.. _whatsnew311-dataclasses:
dataclasses
-----------
@@ -629,11 +635,15 @@ dataclasses
:class:`dict`, :class:`list` or :class:`set`. (Contributed by Eric V. Smith in
:issue:`44674`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-datetime:
+
datetime
--------
* Add :attr:`datetime.UTC`, a convenience alias for
:attr:`datetime.timezone.utc`. (Contributed by Kabir Kwatra in :gh:`91973`.)
+
* :meth:`datetime.date.fromisoformat`, :meth:`datetime.time.fromisoformat` and
:meth:`datetime.datetime.fromisoformat` can now be used to parse most ISO 8601
formats (barring only those that support fractional hours and minutes).
@@ -658,7 +668,7 @@ enum
(used by :func:`str`, :func:`format` and :term:`f-string`\s).
* Changed :class:`~enum.IntEnum`, :class:`~enum.IntFlag` and :class:`~enum.StrEnum`
- to now inherit from :class:`ReprEnum`,
+ to now inherit from :class:`~enum.ReprEnum`,
so their :func:`str` output now matches :func:`format`
(both ``str(AnIntEnum.ONE)`` and ``format(AnIntEnum.ONE)`` return ``'1'``,
whereas before ``str(AnIntEnum.ONE)`` returned ``'AnIntEnum.ONE'``.
@@ -708,6 +718,18 @@ enum
inverted flags are coerced to their positive equivalent.
+.. _whatsnew311-fcntl:
+
+fcntl
+-----
+
+* On FreeBSD, the :data:`!F_DUP2FD` and :data:`!F_DUP2FD_CLOEXEC` flags respectively
+ are supported, the former equals to ``dup2`` usage while the latter set
+ the ``FD_CLOEXEC`` flag in addition.
+
+
+.. _whatsnew311-fractions:
+
fractions
---------
@@ -718,6 +740,9 @@ fractions
that an ``isinstance(some_fraction, typing.SupportsInt)`` check passes.
(Contributed by Mark Dickinson in :issue:`44547`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-functools:
+
functools
---------
@@ -748,6 +773,9 @@ functools
(Contributed by Yurii Karabas in :issue:`46014`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-hashlib:
+
hashlib
-------
@@ -766,6 +794,9 @@ hashlib
of files or file-like objects.
(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :gh:`89313`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-idle:
+
IDLE and idlelib
----------------
@@ -803,6 +834,9 @@ inspect
(Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :gh:`88116`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-locale:
+
locale
------
@@ -830,6 +864,8 @@ logging
(Contributed by Kirill Pinchuk in :gh:`88457`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-math:
+
math
----
@@ -849,6 +885,8 @@ math
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`46917`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-operator:
+
operator
--------
@@ -857,6 +895,8 @@ operator
(Contributed by Antony Lee in :issue:`44019`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-os:
+
os
--
@@ -865,6 +905,8 @@ os
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`44611`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-pathlib:
+
pathlib
-------
@@ -873,6 +915,9 @@ pathlib
:data:`~os.sep` or :data:`~os.altsep`.
(Contributed by Eisuke Kawasima in :issue:`22276` and :issue:`33392`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-re:
+
re
--
@@ -880,6 +925,9 @@ re
``?+``, ``{m,n}+``) are now supported in regular expressions.
(Contributed by Jeffrey C. Jacobs and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`433030`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-shutil:
+
shutil
------
@@ -887,6 +935,8 @@ shutil
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`46245`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-socket:
+
socket
------
@@ -898,6 +948,9 @@ socket
instead of only raising the last error.
(Contributed by Irit Katriel in :issue:`29980`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-sqlite3:
+
sqlite3
-------
@@ -961,13 +1014,15 @@ string
(Contributed by Ben Kehoe in :gh:`90465`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-sys:
+
sys
---
* :func:`sys.exc_info` now derives the ``type`` and ``traceback`` fields
from the ``value`` (the exception instance), so when an exception is
modified while it is being handled, the changes are reflected in
- the results of subsequent calls to :func:`exc_info`.
+ the results of subsequent calls to :func:`!exc_info`.
(Contributed by Irit Katriel in :issue:`45711`.)
* Add :func:`sys.exception` which returns the active exception instance
@@ -978,6 +1033,8 @@ sys
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`57684`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-sysconfig:
+
sysconfig
---------
@@ -1008,6 +1065,8 @@ tempfile
(Contributed by Carey Metcalfe in :gh:`70363`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-threading:
+
threading
---------
@@ -1019,6 +1078,8 @@ threading
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`41710`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-time:
+
time
----
@@ -1036,6 +1097,18 @@ time
(Contributed by Benjamin Szőke, Dong-hee Na, Eryk Sun and Victor Stinner in :issue:`21302` and :issue:`45429`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-tkinter:
+
+tkinter
+-------
+
+* Added method ``info_patchlevel()`` which returns the exact version of
+ the Tcl library as a named tuple similar to :data:`sys.version_info`.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`91827`.)
+
+
+.. _whatsnew311-traceback:
+
traceback
---------
@@ -1049,6 +1122,8 @@ traceback
(Contributed by Irit Katriel in :issue:`33809`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-typing:
+
typing
------
@@ -1089,7 +1164,7 @@ For major changes, see :ref:`new-feat-related-type-hints-311`.
to clear all registered overloads of a function.
(Contributed by Jelle Zijlstra in :gh:`89263`.)
-* The :meth:`__init__` method of :class:`~typing.Protocol` subclasses
+* The :meth:`~object.__init__` method of :class:`~typing.Protocol` subclasses
is now preserved. (Contributed by Adrian Garcia Badarasco in :gh:`88970`.)
* The representation of empty tuple types (``Tuple[()]``) is simplified.
@@ -1118,19 +1193,16 @@ For major changes, see :ref:`new-feat-related-type-hints-311`.
by Nikita Sobolev in :gh:`90729`.)
-tkinter
--------
-
-* Added method ``info_patchlevel()`` which returns the exact version of
- the Tcl library as a named tuple similar to :data:`sys.version_info`.
- (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`91827`.)
-
+.. _whatsnew311-unicodedata:
unicodedata
-----------
-* The Unicode database has been updated to version 14.0.0. (Contributed by Benjamin Peterson in :issue:`45190`).
+* The Unicode database has been updated to version 14.0.0.
+ (Contributed by Benjamin Peterson in :issue:`45190`).
+
+.. _whatsnew311-unittest:
unittest
--------
@@ -1144,6 +1216,8 @@ unittest
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`45046`.)
+.. _whatsnew311-venv:
+
venv
----
@@ -1157,6 +1231,9 @@ venv
Third party code that also creates new virtual environments should do the same.
(Contributed by Miro Hrončok in :issue:`45413`.)
+
+.. _whatsnew311-warnings:
+
warnings
--------
@@ -1183,14 +1260,6 @@ zipfile
(Contributed by Miguel Brito in :gh:`88261`.)
-fcntl
------
-
-* On FreeBSD, the :attr:`F_DUP2FD` and :attr:`F_DUP2FD_CLOEXEC` flags respectively
- are supported, the former equals to ``dup2`` usage while the latter set
- the ``FD_CLOEXEC`` flag in addition.
-
-
.. _whatsnew311-optimizations:
Optimizations