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authorNed Deily <nad@python.org>2017-03-22 00:39:58 (GMT)
committerNed Deily <nad@python.org>2017-03-22 00:39:58 (GMT)
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Python News
+++++++++++
+What's New in Python 3.6.2 release candidate 1?
+===============================================
+
+*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- bpo-29859: Show correct error messages when any of the pthread_* calls in
+ thread_pthread.h fails.
+
+- bpo-28876: ``bool(range)`` works even if ``len(range)``
+ raises :exc:`OverflowError`.
+
+- bpo-29600: Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration.
+
+- bpo-28856: Fix an oversight that %b format for bytes should support objects
+ follow the buffer protocol.
+
+- bpo-29714: Fix a regression that bytes format may fail when containing zero
+ bytes inside.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
+
+- bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords
+ are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert.
+
+- bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport.
+ Patch by Nikolay Kim.
+
+- bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes "encoding"
+ or "errors" of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
+
+- bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array 'Q', 'L' and 'I' from accepting big
+ intables (objects that have __int__) as elements. Patch by Oren Milman.
+
+- bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external
+ paths.
+
+- bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now
+ check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
+
+- bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other
+ exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods.
+ Patch by Petr Motejlek.
+
+
What's New in Python 3.6.1?
===========================