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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 0f13088..b32b2a6 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -1366,6 +1366,16 @@ ftplib listing format and deprecates :meth:`ftplib.FTP.nlst` and :meth:`ftplib.FTP.dir`. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`11072`) + +functools +--------- + +The :func:`functools.lru_cache` decorator now accepts a ``typed`` keyword +argument (that defaults to ``False`` to ensure that it caches values of +different types that compare equal in separate cache slots. (Contributed +by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`13227`.) + + gc -- @@ -1376,21 +1386,9 @@ before and after collection using the new :data:`~gc.callbacks` list. hmac ---- -A new :func:`~hmac.compare_digest` function has been added to prevent -side channel attacks on digests through timing analysis. - -(Contributed by Nick Coghlan and Christian Heimes in issue:`15061`) - - -html.entities -------------- - -A new :data:`~html.entities.html5` dictionary that maps HTML5 named character -references to the equivalent Unicode character(s) (e.g. ``html5['gt;'] == '>'``) -has been added to the :mod:`html.entities` module. The dictionary is now also -used by :class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser`. - -(Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`11113` and :issue:`15156`) +A new :func:`~hmac.compare_digest` function has been added to prevent side +channel attacks on digests through timing analysis. (Contributed by Nick +Coghlan and Christian Heimes in :issue:`15061`) http @@ -1402,21 +1400,29 @@ called. A new method :meth:`~http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.flush_headers` can be used to directly manage when the accumlated headers are sent. (Contributed by Andrew Schaaf in :issue:`3709`.) +:class:`http.server` now produces valid ``HTML 4.01 strict`` output. +(Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`13295`.) -html.parser ------------ -:class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser` is now able to parse broken markup without +html +---- + +:class:`html.parser.HTMLParser` is now able to parse broken markup without raising errors, therefore the *strict* argument of the constructor and the :exc:`~html.parser.HTMLParseError` exception are now deprecated. The ability to parse broken markup is the result of a number of bug fixes that are also available on the latest bug fix releases of Python 2.7/3.2. - (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`15114`, and :issue:`14538`, :issue:`13993`, :issue:`13960`, :issue:`13358`, :issue:`1745761`, :issue:`755670`, :issue:`13357`, :issue:`12629`, :issue:`1200313`, :issue:`670664`, :issue:`13273`, :issue:`12888`, :issue:`7311`) +A new :data:`~html.entities.html5` dictionary that maps HTML5 named character +references to the equivalent Unicode character(s) (e.g. ``html5['gt;'] == +'>'``) has been added to the :mod:`html.entities` module. The dictionary is +now also used by :class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser`. (Contributed by Ezio +Melotti in :issue:`11113` and :issue:`15156`) + imaplib ------- @@ -1655,6 +1661,14 @@ os * Some platforms now support additional constants for the :func:`~os.lseek` function, such as ``os.SEEK_HOLE`` and ``os.SEEK_DATA``. +* New constants :data:`~os.RTLD_LAZY`, :data:`~os.RTLD_NOW`, + :data:`~os.RTLD_GLOBAL`, :data:`~os.RTLD_LOCAL`, :data:`~os.RTLD_NODELETE`, + :data:`~os.RTLD_NOLOAD`, and :data:`~os.RTLD_DEEPBIND` are available on + platforms that support them. These are for use with the + :func:`sys.setdlopenflags` function, and supersede the similar constants + defined in :mod:`ctypes` and :mod:`DLFCN`. (Contributed by Victor Stinner + in :issue:`13226`.) + * :func:`os.symlink` now accepts (and ignores) the ``target_is_directory`` keyword argument on non-Windows platforms, to ease cross-platform support. @@ -1727,6 +1741,7 @@ select Solaris and derivatives platforms have a new class :class:`select.devpoll` for high performance asynchronous sockets via :file:`/dev/poll`. +(Contributed by Jesús Cea Avión in :issue:`6397`.) shlex @@ -1922,6 +1937,14 @@ the form '-rwxrwxrwx'. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`14807`) +struct +------ + +The :mod:`struct` module now supports ``ssize_t`` and ``size_t`` via the +new codes ``n`` and ``N``, respectively. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou +in :issue:`3163`.) + + subprocess ---------- @@ -1940,6 +1963,7 @@ The :mod:`sys` module has a new :data:`~sys.thread_info` :term:`struct sequence` holding informations about the thread implementation (:issue:`11223`). + textwrap -------- @@ -2014,6 +2038,7 @@ context managers. (Contributed by Ezio Melotti and Winston Ewert in :meth:`unittest.TestCase.run` now returns the :class:`~unittest.TestResult` object. + urllib ------ @@ -2050,6 +2075,18 @@ The module's documentation has also been greatly improved with added examples and a more detailed reference. +zlib +---- + +New attribute :attr:`zlib.Decompress.eof` makes it possible to distinguish +between a properly-formed compressed stream and an incomplete or truncated one. +(Contributed by Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`12646`.) + +New attribute :attr:`zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION` reports the version string of +the underlying ``zlib`` library that is loaded at runtime. (Contributed by +Torsten Landschoff in :issue:`12306`.) + + Optimizations ============= @@ -2332,6 +2369,10 @@ Porting Python code * The deprecated variable ``time.accept2dyear`` has been removed. +* The deprecated ``Context._clamp`` attribute has been removed from the + :mod:`decimal` module. It was previously replaced by the public attribute + :attr:`~decimal.Context.clamp`. (See :issue:`8540`.) + * The undocumented internal helper class ``SSLFakeFile`` has been removed from :mod:`smtplib`, since its functionality has long been provided directly by :meth:`socket.socket.makefile`. |