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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-10-01 17:27:05 (GMT)
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The default reST role `foo` can now be used in NEWS to refer to Python objects. Use it for a fraction of the current NEWS file.
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@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as
- integer values, by using Py_uintptr_t instead of size_t. Patch by
- Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as integer
+ values, by using `Py_uintptr_t` instead of `size_t`. Patch by Serhiy
+ Storchaka.
-- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast AT_FDCWD as (int). Required on Solaris 10
- (which defines AT_FDCWD as 0xffd19553), harmless on other platforms.
+- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast `AT_FDCWD` as (int). Required on Solaris 10
+ (which defines `AT_FDCWD` as ``0xffd19553``), harmless on other platforms.
-- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in super() to RuntimeErrors.
+- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in `super()` to RuntimeErrors.
-- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using ast.parse in an
+- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using `ast.parse()` in an
exception handler on code with syntax errors.
- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
@@ -32,89 +32,88 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
-- Issue #16034: Fix performance regressions in the new BZ2File implementation.
- Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #16034: Fix performance regressions in the new `bz2.BZ2File`
+ implementation. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
- return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
- be waited on.
+- Issue #15756: `subprocess.poll()` now properly handles `errno.ECHILD` to
+ return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot be waited
+ on.
-- Issue #15323: improve failure message of Mock.assert_called_once_with
+- Issue #15323: Improve failure message of `Mock.assert_called_once_with()`.
-- Issue #16064: unittest -m claims executable is "python", not "python3"
+- Issue #16064: ``unittest -m`` claims executable is "python", not "python3".
-- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
+- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in `TextTestResult.__init__()` super call.
-- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
+- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes.
-- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
+- Issue #16013: Fix `csv.Reader` parsing issue with ending quote characters.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
- datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
+- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in `Calendar.itermonthdates()` after
+ `datetime.MAXYEAR`. Patch by Cédric Krier.
-- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
+- Issue #15970: `xml.etree.ElementTree` now serializes correctly the empty HTML
elements 'meta' and 'param'.
-- Issue #15842: The SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable} methods now
- raise ValueError when the file-like object is closed. Patch by Alessandro
- Moura.
+- Issue #15842: The `SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable}` methods now raise
+ ValueError when the file-like object is closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
-- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the curses module: window.encoding.
+- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the `curses` module: window.encoding.
-- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing. Original patch
- by Chris McDonough.
+- Issue #15881: Fix `atexit` hook in `multiprocessing`. Original patch by Chris
+ McDonough.
-- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of BytesIO
- and StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has been closed.
- Patch by Alessandro Moura.
+- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
+ `io.BytesIO` and `io.StringIO` objects now raise ValueError when the object
+ has been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
-- Issue #15447: Use subprocess.DEVNULL in webbrowser, instead of opening
- os.devnull explicitly and leaving it open.
+- Issue #15447: Use `subprocess.DEVNULL` in webbrowser, instead of opening
+ `os.devnull` explicitly and leaving it open.
-- Issue #15509: webbrowser.UnixBrowser no longer passes empty arguments to
- Popen when %action substitutions produce empty strings.
+- Issue #15509: `webbrowser.UnixBrowser` no longer passes empty arguments to
+ Popen when ``%action`` substitutions produce empty strings.
-- Issue #12776, issue #11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
- only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
- default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was especially
- problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always be opened,
- even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
+- Issue #12776, issue #11839: Call `argparse` type function (specified by
+ add_argument) only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the
+ case where the default was specified and the argument was given as well. This
+ was especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would
+ always be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
-- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
- when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
+- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in `argparse` caused by the preceding change,
+ when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``.
Tests
-----
-- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when os.chdir() fails inside
- test.support.temp_cwd(). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside
+ `test.support.temp_cwd()`. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
- by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in `TestMaildir.test_create_tmp()`. Patch by
+ Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15557: Added a test suite for the webbrowser module, thanks
- to Anton Barkovsky.
+- Issue #15557: Add a test suite for the `webbrowser` module, thanks to Anton
+ Barkovsky.
Build
-----
-- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
- 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
+- Issue #15923: Fix a mistake in ``asdl_c.py`` that resulted in a TypeError
+ after 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
-- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
- source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
+- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly source
+ directory. (Somewhat related to issue #9860.)
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for subprocess.Popen()'s cwd
+- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for `subprocess.Popen()`'s cwd
argument.
-- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
+- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in `int()`'s signature and
arguments.
-- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
+- Issue #15935: Clarification of `argparse` docs, re: add_argument() type and
default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
@@ -124,7 +123,6 @@ Tools/Demos
-----------
-
What's New in Python 3.3.0?
===========================
@@ -135,13 +133,13 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.
-- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when __trunc__ returns an object
- whose __int__ gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
+ `__int__()` gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
+- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
method doesn't require an argument again.
@@ -153,26 +151,26 @@ What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 3?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap().
+- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.
- Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.
- Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
- PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags() when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit
- is false an and set_main_loader() fails.
+ `PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
+ false an and set_main_loader() fails.
- Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15882: Change _decimal to accept any coefficient tuple when
- constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility
- with decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal
- (in accordance with the specification).
+- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
+ constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
+ decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
+ with the specification).
-- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in email.util where the parsedate() and
- parsedate_tz() functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
+- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
+ `parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
not be parsed.
Extension Modules
@@ -184,7 +182,7 @@ Extension Modules
- Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
_set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.
-- Issue #15969: faulthandler module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
+- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
cancel_dump_traceback_later().
@@ -200,35 +198,34 @@ Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
- sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
- chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
- types.
+ sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator chains
+ ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container types.
-- Issue #15784: Modify OSError.__str__() to better distinguish between
- errno error numbers and Windows error numbers.
+- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
+ error numbers and Windows error numbers.
- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples
- as argument lists anymore.
+- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
+ argument lists anymore.
-- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in imp.load_module().
+- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.
-- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
- be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
+- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
+ opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
-- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the Decimal.quantize()
+- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
method.
-- Issue #15785: Modify window.get_wch() API of the curses module: return
- a character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of
- always returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special
- keys like keypad keys.
+- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
+ character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
+ returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
+ keypad keys.
-- Issue #14223: Fix window.addch() of the curses module for special characters
+- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
@@ -244,10 +241,10 @@ Build
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted
- the hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte
- item formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they
- will be correctly enforced in 3.3.1
+- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
+ hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
+ formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
+ correctly enforced in 3.3.1.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
@@ -261,79 +258,78 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
support for any valid struct module format definition.
-- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for __import__ doesn't exist,
+- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
let that propagate.
-- Issue #15778: ensure that str(ImportError(msg)) returns a str
- even when msg isn't a str.
+- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
+ msg isn't a str.
-- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly
- copied to the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib
- reintroduced this problem because these was no regression test. A test
- has been added as part of this patch)
+- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
+ the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
+ problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
+ this patch)
-- Issue #15761: Fix crash when PYTHONEXECUTABLE is set on Mac OS X.
+- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.
-- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.
- Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule. Patch by
+ Robin Schreiber.
-- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
+- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14846: importlib.FileFinder now handles the case where the
- directory being searched is removed after a previous import attempt
+- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
+ being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.
Library
-------
-- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
- compiled using the clang compiler
+- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
+ using the clang compiler.
-- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and
- will be removed in Python 4.0.
+- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
+ removed in Python 4.0.
- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.
-- Issue #15249: BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
+- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.
- Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.
-- Issue ##665194: Update email.utils.localtime to use datetime.astimezone and
+- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.
- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
-- Issue #12643: code.InteractiveConsole now respects sys.excepthook when
- displaying exceptions (Patch by Aaron Iles)
+- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
+ displaying exceptions. Patch by Aaron Iles.
-- Issue #13579: string.Formatter now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
+- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
-- Issue #15595: Fix subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)
- for certain locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
+ locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
-- Issue #15715: importlib.__import__() will silence an ImportError when the use
- of fromlist leads to a failed import.
+- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
+ use of fromlist leads to a failed import.
-- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on MacOSX
- by sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
- TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for MacOSX.
+- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
+ sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
+ TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.
- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
-- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
- multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
- idiom.
+- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
+ on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
-- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line
- (3.3.0b2 regression).
+- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
+ regression).
C API
-----
@@ -347,44 +343,42 @@ Tools/Demos
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
+- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
Patch by Chris Rebert.
- Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
- classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and
- text processing). Operating system limitatons can be reflected with
- the Sphinx ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of
- Contents.
+ classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
+ processing). Operating system limitatons can be reflected with the Sphinx
+ ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.
-- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition
- and the many language enhancements since they were original written
+- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
+ the many language enhancements since they were original written.
- The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
- more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in
- the import system reference docs
+ more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
+ import system reference docs.
-- Issue #15640: Document importlib.abc.Finder as deprecated.
+- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.
-- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
+- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
Daniel Ellis.
Tests
-----
- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
- UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
- tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
+ UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
+ test_posix.py to account for this.
-- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using
- two external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type
- of test.
+- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
+ external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.
-- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in urllib tests. Patch by
+- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
Jeff Knupp.
-- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
- input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
+- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
+ data. Patch by Kushal Das.
Build
-----
@@ -393,11 +387,11 @@ Build
- Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.
-- Drop PC\python_nt.h as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
+- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
build step.
-- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal
- amd64 configuration.
+- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
+ configuration.
- Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.
@@ -412,15 +406,15 @@ What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 2?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of "yield from" when StopIteration is
+- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
raised by a custom iterator.
-- Issue #13119: sys.stdout and sys.stderr are now using "\r\n" newline on
+- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
Windows, as Python 2.
- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
-- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to have the proper default
+- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
supported.
@@ -433,17 +427,17 @@ Core and Builtins
byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
- "BaseException.__new__" to help pickling of naive subclasses.
+ `BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.
-- Issue #12834: Fix PyBuffer_ToContiguous() for non-contiguous arrays.
+- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.
-- Issue #15456: Fix code __sizeof__ after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
+- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
-- Issue #15394: An issue in PyModule_Create that caused references to be leaked
- on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
+- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
+ leaked on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
has been fixed.
@@ -451,7 +445,7 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
in os and shutil functions.
-- Issue #15314: __main__.__loader__ is now set correctly during interpreter
+- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
startup.
- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
@@ -472,7 +466,7 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
-- Issue #15229: An OSError subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
+- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
calling str() on them.
@@ -482,41 +476,41 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
-- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects. Patch by
+- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects. Patch by
Ludwig Hähne.
- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
-- Issue #15502: Have importlib.invalidate_caches() work on sys.meta_path instead
- of sys.path_importer_cache.
+- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
+ instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
- importlib.__import__().
+ `importlib.__import__()`.
- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
- constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement __index__
- (they still implement __int__ as appropriate)
+ constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
+ (they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
- ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+ ended with ``\``. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, os.sched_getaffinity and
- os.sched_setaffinity now use regular sets of integers to represent the CPUs a
- process is restricted to.
+- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
+ `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
+ CPUs a process is restricted to.
-- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo() emulation
- code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
+- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
+ `socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
- correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
+ correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
- import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
+ import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
@@ -524,37 +518,38 @@ Library
- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
-- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
+- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
-- Issue #15413: os.times() had disappeared under Windows.
+- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
-- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
+- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed. Initial
patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
- lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilogue.
+- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
+ mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
+ epilogue.
- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
-- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
+- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
the first one.
-- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
+- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.
- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
-- Issue #15397: inspect.getmodulename() is now based directly on importlib via a
- new importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() API.
+- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
+ a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.
-- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
+- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
@@ -571,7 +566,7 @@ Library
- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
module will be called in a deterministic order.
-- Issue #15238: shutil.copystat now copies Linux "extended attributes".
+- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
the documentation.
@@ -581,42 +576,42 @@ Library
- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
namespace packages.
-- Issue #15056: imp.cache_from_source() and source_from_cache() raise
- NotImplementedError when sys.implementation.cache_tag is set to None.
+- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
+ NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
-- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by imp.find_module().
+- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
-- Issue #5931: wsgiref environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
+- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of argparse.ArgumentParser.
+- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
ipaddress objects.
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress now provides more informative error messages when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
provisional API status).
-- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor pointing
- to a directory.
+- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
+ pointing to a directory.
- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
-- Issue #15166: Implement imp.get_tag() using sys.implementation.cache_tag.
+- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
-- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when importlib.__init__ can't find
+- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
_frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
-- Issue #15030: importlib.abc.PyPycLoader now supports the new source size
+- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
header field in .pyc files.
- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
@@ -629,7 +624,7 @@ Library
renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
mailbox.
-- Issue 10924: Fixed crypt.mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for
+- Issue 10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
cryptographic purpose.
- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
@@ -640,10 +635,10 @@ Library
C API
-----
-- Issue #15610: PyImport_ImportModuleEx() now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
+- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
-- Issues #15169, #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
- imp.source_from_cache() used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
+- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
+ `imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
@@ -651,8 +646,8 @@ C API
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
- of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
+- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
+ type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
@@ -675,8 +670,8 @@ Tools/Demos
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch
- by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by
+ Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
@@ -691,25 +686,25 @@ Documentation
"changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
import itself.
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
- execfile().
+- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
+ `execfile()`.
-- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
+- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
Tests
-----
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support. Patch by
- Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support. Patch
+ by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-- Issue #15168: Move importlib.test to test.test_importlib.
+- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
- forgotten importlib.invalidate_caches() call.
+ forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.