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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cabb60 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2305 @@ +**************************** + What's New In Python 3.6 +**************************** + +:Release: |release| +:Date: |today| +:Editors: Elvis Pranskevichus <elvis@magic.io>, Yury Selivanov <yury@magic.io> + +.. Rules for maintenance: + + * Anyone can add text to this document. Do not spend very much time + on the wording of your changes, because your text will probably + get rewritten to some degree. + + * The maintainer will go through Misc/NEWS periodically and add + changes; it's therefore more important to add your changes to + Misc/NEWS than to this file. + + * This is not a complete list of every single change; completeness + is the purpose of Misc/NEWS. Some changes I consider too small + or esoteric to include. If such a change is added to the text, + I'll just remove it. (This is another reason you shouldn't spend + too much time on writing your addition.) + + * If you want to draw your new text to the attention of the + maintainer, add 'XXX' to the beginning of the paragraph or + section. + + * It's OK to just add a fragmentary note about a change. For + example: "XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the + socket module." The maintainer will research the change and + write the necessary text. + + * You can comment out your additions if you like, but it's not + necessary (especially when a final release is some months away). + + * Credit the author of a patch or bugfix. Just the name is + sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary. + + * It's helpful to add the bug/patch number as a comment: + + XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the socket + module. + (Contributed by P.Y. Developer in :issue:`12345`.) + + This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the Mercurial log + when researching a change. + +This article explains the new features in Python 3.6, compared to 3.5. +Python 3.6 was released on December 23, 2016. See the +`changelog <https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html>`_ for a full +list of changes. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`494` - Python 3.6 Release Schedule + + +Summary -- Release highlights +============================= + +New syntax features: + +* :ref:`PEP 498 <whatsnew36-pep498>`, formatted string literals. + +* :ref:`PEP 515 <whatsnew36-pep515>`, underscores in numeric literals. + +* :ref:`PEP 526 <whatsnew36-pep526>`, syntax for variable annotations. + +* :ref:`PEP 525 <whatsnew36-pep525>`, asynchronous generators. + +* :ref:`PEP 530 <whatsnew36-pep530>`: asynchronous comprehensions. + + +New library modules: + +* :mod:`secrets`: :ref:`PEP 506 -- Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library <whatsnew36-pep506>`. + + +CPython implementation improvements: + +* The :ref:`dict <typesmapping>` type has been reimplemented to use + a :ref:`more compact representation <whatsnew36-compactdict>` + similar to the `PyPy dict implementation`_. This resulted in dictionaries + using 20% to 25% less memory when compared to Python 3.5. + +* Customization of class creation has been simplified with the + :ref:`new protocol <whatsnew36-pep487>`. + +* The class attribute definition order is + :ref:`now preserved <whatsnew36-pep520>`. + +* The order of elements in ``**kwargs`` now + :ref:`corresponds to the order <whatsnew36-pep468>` in which keyword + arguments were passed to the function. + +* DTrace and SystemTap :ref:`probing support <whatsnew36-tracing>` has + been added. + +* The new :ref:`PYTHONMALLOC <whatsnew36-pythonmalloc>` environment variable + can now be used to debug the interpreter memory allocation and access + errors. + + +Significant improvements in the standard library: + +* The :mod:`asyncio` module has received new features, significant + usability and performance improvements, and a fair amount of bug fixes. + Starting with Python 3.6 the ``asyncio`` module is no longer provisional + and its API is considered stable. + +* A new :ref:`file system path protocol <whatsnew36-pep519>` has been + implemented to support :term:`path-like objects <path-like object>`. + All standard library functions operating on paths have been updated to + work with the new protocol. + +* The :mod:`datetime` module has gained support for + :ref:`Local Time Disambiguation <whatsnew36-pep495>`. + +* The :mod:`typing` module received a number of + :ref:`improvements <whatsnew36-typing>` and is no longer provisional. + +* The :mod:`tracemalloc` module has been significantly reworked + and is now used to provide better output for :exc:`ResourceWarning` + as well as provide better diagnostics for memory allocation errors. + See the :ref:`PYTHONMALLOC section <whatsnew36-pythonmalloc>` for more + information. + + +Security improvements: + +* The new :mod:`secrets` module has been added to simplify the generation of + cryptographically strong pseudo-random numbers suitable for + managing secrets such as account authentication, tokens, and similar. + +* On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now blocks until the system urandom entropy + pool is initialized to increase the security. See the :pep:`524` for the + rationale. + +* The :mod:`hashlib` and :mod:`ssl` modules now support OpenSSL 1.1.0. + +* The default settings and feature set of the :mod:`ssl` module have been + improved. + +* The :mod:`hashlib` module received support for the BLAKE2, SHA-3 and SHAKE + hash algorithms and the :func:`~hashlib.scrypt` key derivation function. + + +Windows improvements: + +* :ref:`PEP 528 <whatsnew36-pep529>` and :ref:`PEP 529 <whatsnew36-pep529>`, + Windows filesystem and console encoding changed to UTF-8. + +* The ``py.exe`` launcher, when used interactively, no longer prefers + Python 2 over Python 3 when the user doesn't specify a version (via + command line arguments or a config file). Handling of shebang lines + remains unchanged - "python" refers to Python 2 in that case. + +* ``python.exe`` and ``pythonw.exe`` have been marked as long-path aware, + which means that the 260 character path limit may no longer apply. + See :ref:`removing the MAX_PATH limitation <max-path>` for details. + +* A ``._pth`` file can be added to force isolated mode and fully specify + all search paths to avoid registry and environment lookup. See + :ref:`the documentation <finding_modules>` for more information. + +* A ``python36.zip`` file now works as a landmark to infer + :envvar:`PYTHONHOME`. See :ref:`the documentation <finding_modules>` for + more information. + + +.. _PyPy dict implementation: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-efficient-and-more.html + + +New Features +============ + +.. _whatsnew36-pep498: + +PEP 498: Formatted string literals +---------------------------------- + +:pep:`498` introduces a new kind of string literals: *f-strings*, or +:ref:`formatted string literals <f-strings>`. + +Formatted string literals are prefixed with ``'f'`` and are similar to +the format strings accepted by :meth:`str.format`. They contain replacement +fields surrounded by curly braces. The replacement fields are expressions, +which are evaluated at run time, and then formatted using the +:func:`format` protocol:: + + >>> name = "Fred" + >>> f"He said his name is {name}." + 'He said his name is Fred.' + >>> width = 10 + >>> precision = 4 + >>> value = decimal.Decimal("12.34567") + >>> f"result: {value:{width}.{precision}}" # nested fields + 'result: 12.35' + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`498` -- Literal String Interpolation. + PEP written and implemented by Eric V. Smith. + + :ref:`Feature documentation <f-strings>`. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep526: + +PEP 526: Syntax for variable annotations +---------------------------------------- + +:pep:`484` introduced the standard for type annotations of function +parameters, a.k.a. type hints. This PEP adds syntax to Python for annotating +the types of variables including class variables and instance variables:: + + primes: List[int] = [] + + captain: str # Note: no initial value! + + class Starship: + stats: Dict[str, int] = {} + +Just as for function annotations, the Python interpreter does not attach any +particular meaning to variable annotations and only stores them in the +``__annotations__`` attribute of a class or module. + +In contrast to variable declarations in statically typed languages, +the goal of annotation syntax is to provide an easy way to specify structured +type metadata for third party tools and libraries via the abstract syntax tree +and the ``__annotations__`` attribute. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`526` -- Syntax for variable annotations. + PEP written by Ryan Gonzalez, Philip House, Ivan Levkivskyi, Lisa Roach, + and Guido van Rossum. Implemented by Ivan Levkivskyi. + + Tools that use or will use the new syntax: + `mypy <http://github.com/python/mypy>`_, + `pytype <http://github.com/google/pytype>`_, PyCharm, etc. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep515: + +PEP 515: Underscores in Numeric Literals +---------------------------------------- + +:pep:`515` adds the ability to use underscores in numeric literals for +improved readability. For example:: + + >>> 1_000_000_000_000_000 + 1000000000000000 + >>> 0x_FF_FF_FF_FF + 4294967295 + +Single underscores are allowed between digits and after any base +specifier. Leading, trailing, or multiple underscores in a row are not +allowed. + +The :ref:`string formatting <formatspec>` language also now has support +for the ``'_'`` option to signal the use of an underscore for a thousands +separator for floating point presentation types and for integer +presentation type ``'d'``. For integer presentation types ``'b'``, +``'o'``, ``'x'``, and ``'X'``, underscores will be inserted every 4 +digits:: + + >>> '{:_}'.format(1000000) + '1_000_000' + >>> '{:_x}'.format(0xFFFFFFFF) + 'ffff_ffff' + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`515` -- Underscores in Numeric Literals + PEP written by Georg Brandl and Serhiy Storchaka. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep525: + +PEP 525: Asynchronous Generators +-------------------------------- + +:pep:`492` introduced support for native coroutines and ``async`` / ``await`` +syntax to Python 3.5. A notable limitation of the Python 3.5 implementation +is that it was not possible to use ``await`` and ``yield`` in the same +function body. In Python 3.6 this restriction has been lifted, making it +possible to define *asynchronous generators*:: + + async def ticker(delay, to): + """Yield numbers from 0 to *to* every *delay* seconds.""" + for i in range(to): + yield i + await asyncio.sleep(delay) + +The new syntax allows for faster and more concise code. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`525` -- Asynchronous Generators + PEP written and implemented by Yury Selivanov. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep530: + +PEP 530: Asynchronous Comprehensions +------------------------------------ + +:pep:`530` adds support for using ``async for`` in list, set, dict +comprehensions and generator expressions:: + + result = [i async for i in aiter() if i % 2] + +Additionally, ``await`` expressions are supported in all kinds +of comprehensions:: + + result = [await fun() for fun in funcs if await condition()] + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`530` -- Asynchronous Comprehensions + PEP written and implemented by Yury Selivanov. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep487: + +PEP 487: Simpler customization of class creation +------------------------------------------------ + +It is now possible to customize subclass creation without using a metaclass. +The new ``__init_subclass__`` classmethod will be called on the base class +whenever a new subclass is created:: + + class PluginBase: + subclasses = [] + + def __init_subclass__(cls, **kwargs): + super().__init_subclass__(**kwargs) + cls.subclasses.append(cls) + + class Plugin1(PluginBase): + pass + + class Plugin2(PluginBase): + pass + +In order to allow zero-argument :func:`super` calls to work correctly from +:meth:`~object.__init_subclass__` implementations, custom metaclasses must +ensure that the new ``__classcell__`` namespace entry is propagated to +``type.__new__`` (as described in :ref:`class-object-creation`). + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`487` -- Simpler customization of class creation + PEP written and implemented by Martin Teichmann. + + :ref:`Feature documentation <class-customization>` + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep487-descriptors: + +PEP 487: Descriptor Protocol Enhancements +----------------------------------------- + +:pep:`487` extends the descriptor protocol to include the new optional +:meth:`~object.__set_name__` method. Whenever a new class is defined, the new +method will be called on all descriptors included in the definition, providing +them with a reference to the class being defined and the name given to the +descriptor within the class namespace. In other words, instances of +descriptors can now know the attribute name of the descriptor in the +owner class:: + + class IntField: + def __get__(self, instance, owner): + return instance.__dict__[self.name] + + def __set__(self, instance, value): + if not isinstance(value, int): + raise ValueError(f'expecting integer in {self.name}') + instance.__dict__[self.name] = value + + # this is the new initializer: + def __set_name__(self, owner, name): + self.name = name + + class Model: + int_field = IntField() + + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`487` -- Simpler customization of class creation + PEP written and implemented by Martin Teichmann. + + :ref:`Feature documentation <descriptors>` + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep519: + +PEP 519: Adding a file system path protocol +------------------------------------------- + +File system paths have historically been represented as :class:`str` +or :class:`bytes` objects. This has led to people who write code which +operate on file system paths to assume that such objects are only one +of those two types (an :class:`int` representing a file descriptor +does not count as that is not a file path). Unfortunately that +assumption prevents alternative object representations of file system +paths like :mod:`pathlib` from working with pre-existing code, +including Python's standard library. + +To fix this situation, a new interface represented by +:class:`os.PathLike` has been defined. By implementing the +:meth:`~os.PathLike.__fspath__` method, an object signals that it +represents a path. An object can then provide a low-level +representation of a file system path as a :class:`str` or +:class:`bytes` object. This means an object is considered +:term:`path-like <path-like object>` if it implements +:class:`os.PathLike` or is a :class:`str` or :class:`bytes` object +which represents a file system path. Code can use :func:`os.fspath`, +:func:`os.fsdecode`, or :func:`os.fsencode` to explicitly get a +:class:`str` and/or :class:`bytes` representation of a path-like +object. + +The built-in :func:`open` function has been updated to accept +:class:`os.PathLike` objects, as have all relevant functions in the +:mod:`os` and :mod:`os.path` modules, and most other functions and +classes in the standard library. The :class:`os.DirEntry` class +and relevant classes in :mod:`pathlib` have also been updated to +implement :class:`os.PathLike`. + +The hope is that updating the fundamental functions for operating +on file system paths will lead to third-party code to implicitly +support all :term:`path-like objects <path-like object>` without any +code changes, or at least very minimal ones (e.g. calling +:func:`os.fspath` at the beginning of code before operating on a +path-like object). + +Here are some examples of how the new interface allows for +:class:`pathlib.Path` to be used more easily and transparently with +pre-existing code:: + + >>> import pathlib + >>> with open(pathlib.Path("README")) as f: + ... contents = f.read() + ... + >>> import os.path + >>> os.path.splitext(pathlib.Path("some_file.txt")) + ('some_file', '.txt') + >>> os.path.join("/a/b", pathlib.Path("c")) + '/a/b/c' + >>> import os + >>> os.fspath(pathlib.Path("some_file.txt")) + 'some_file.txt' + +(Implemented by Brett Cannon, Ethan Furman, Dusty Phillips, and Jelle Zijlstra.) + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`519` -- Adding a file system path protocol + PEP written by Brett Cannon and Koos Zevenhoven. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep495: + +PEP 495: Local Time Disambiguation +---------------------------------- + +In most world locations, there have been and will be times when local clocks +are moved back. In those times, intervals are introduced in which local +clocks show the same time twice in the same day. In these situations, the +information displayed on a local clock (or stored in a Python datetime +instance) is insufficient to identify a particular moment in time. + +:pep:`495` adds the new *fold* attribute to instances of +:class:`datetime.datetime` and :class:`datetime.time` classes to differentiate +between two moments in time for which local times are the same:: + + >>> u0 = datetime(2016, 11, 6, 4, tzinfo=timezone.utc) + >>> for i in range(4): + ... u = u0 + i*HOUR + ... t = u.astimezone(Eastern) + ... print(u.time(), 'UTC =', t.time(), t.tzname(), t.fold) + ... + 04:00:00 UTC = 00:00:00 EDT 0 + 05:00:00 UTC = 01:00:00 EDT 0 + 06:00:00 UTC = 01:00:00 EST 1 + 07:00:00 UTC = 02:00:00 EST 0 + +The values of the :attr:`fold <datetime.datetime.fold>` attribute have the +value ``0`` for all instances except those that represent the second +(chronologically) moment in time in an ambiguous case. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`495` -- Local Time Disambiguation + PEP written by Alexander Belopolsky and Tim Peters, implementation + by Alexander Belopolsky. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep529: + +PEP 529: Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 +---------------------------------------------------- + +Representing filesystem paths is best performed with str (Unicode) rather than +bytes. However, there are some situations where using bytes is sufficient and +correct. + +Prior to Python 3.6, data loss could result when using bytes paths on Windows. +With this change, using bytes to represent paths is now supported on Windows, +provided those bytes are encoded with the encoding returned by +:func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding()`, which now defaults to ``'utf-8'``. + +Applications that do not use str to represent paths should use +:func:`os.fsencode()` and :func:`os.fsdecode()` to ensure their bytes are +correctly encoded. To revert to the previous behaviour, set +:envvar:`PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING` or call +:func:`sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding`. + +See :pep:`529` for more information and discussion of code modifications that +may be required. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep528: + +PEP 528: Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 +------------------------------------------------- + +The default console on Windows will now accept all Unicode characters and +provide correctly read str objects to Python code. ``sys.stdin``, +``sys.stdout`` and ``sys.stderr`` now default to utf-8 encoding. + +This change only applies when using an interactive console, and not when +redirecting files or pipes. To revert to the previous behaviour for interactive +console use, set :envvar:`PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSIOENCODING`. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`528` -- Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 + PEP written and implemented by Steve Dower. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep520: + +PEP 520: Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order +---------------------------------------------------- + +Attributes in a class definition body have a natural ordering: the same +order in which the names appear in the source. This order is now +preserved in the new class's :attr:`~object.__dict__` attribute. + +Also, the effective default class *execution* namespace (returned from +:ref:`type.__prepare__() <prepare>`) is now an insertion-order-preserving +mapping. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`520` -- Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order + PEP written and implemented by Eric Snow. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep468: + +PEP 468: Preserving Keyword Argument Order +------------------------------------------ + +``**kwargs`` in a function signature is now guaranteed to be an +insertion-order-preserving mapping. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`468` -- Preserving Keyword Argument Order + PEP written and implemented by Eric Snow. + + +.. _whatsnew36-compactdict: + +New :ref:`dict <typesmapping>` implementation +--------------------------------------------- + +The :ref:`dict <typesmapping>` type now uses a "compact" representation +`pioneered by PyPy <https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-efficient-and-more.html>`_. +The memory usage of the new :func:`dict` is between 20% and 25% smaller +compared to Python 3.5. + +The order-preserving aspect of this new implementation is considered an +implementation detail and should not be relied upon (this may change in +the future, but it is desired to have this new dict implementation in +the language for a few releases before changing the language spec to mandate +order-preserving semantics for all current and future Python +implementations; this also helps preserve backwards-compatibility +with older versions of the language where random iteration order is +still in effect, e.g. Python 3.5). + +(Contributed by INADA Naoki in :issue:`27350`. Idea +`originally suggested by Raymond Hettinger +<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/123028.html>`_.) + + +.. _whatsnew36-pep523: + +PEP 523: Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython +------------------------------------------------- + +While Python provides extensive support to customize how code +executes, one place it has not done so is in the evaluation of frame +objects. If you wanted some way to intercept frame evaluation in +Python there really wasn't any way without directly manipulating +function pointers for defined functions. + +:pep:`523` changes this by providing an API to make frame +evaluation pluggable at the C level. This will allow for tools such +as debuggers and JITs to intercept frame evaluation before the +execution of Python code begins. This enables the use of alternative +evaluation implementations for Python code, tracking frame +evaluation, etc. + +This API is not part of the limited C API and is marked as private to +signal that usage of this API is expected to be limited and only +applicable to very select, low-level use-cases. Semantics of the +API will change with Python as necessary. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`523` -- Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython + PEP written by Brett Cannon and Dino Viehland. + + +.. _whatsnew36-pythonmalloc: + +PYTHONMALLOC environment variable +--------------------------------- + +The new :envvar:`PYTHONMALLOC` environment variable allows setting the Python +memory allocators and installing debug hooks. + +It is now possible to install debug hooks on Python memory allocators on Python +compiled in release mode using ``PYTHONMALLOC=debug``. Effects of debug hooks: + +* Newly allocated memory is filled with the byte ``0xCB`` +* Freed memory is filled with the byte ``0xDB`` +* Detect violations of the Python memory allocator API. For example, + :c:func:`PyObject_Free` called on a memory block allocated by + :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc`. +* Detect writes before the start of a buffer (buffer underflows) +* Detect writes after the end of a buffer (buffer overflows) +* Check that the :term:`GIL <global interpreter lock>` is held when allocator + functions of :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ` (ex: :c:func:`PyObject_Malloc`) and + :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM` (ex: :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc`) domains are called. + +Checking if the GIL is held is also a new feature of Python 3.6. + +See the :c:func:`PyMem_SetupDebugHooks` function for debug hooks on Python +memory allocators. + +It is now also possible to force the usage of the :c:func:`malloc` allocator of +the C library for all Python memory allocations using ``PYTHONMALLOC=malloc``. +This is helpful when using external memory debuggers like Valgrind on +a Python compiled in release mode. + +On error, the debug hooks on Python memory allocators now use the +:mod:`tracemalloc` module to get the traceback where a memory block was +allocated. + +Example of fatal error on buffer overflow using +``python3.6 -X tracemalloc=5`` (store 5 frames in traces):: + + Debug memory block at address p=0x7fbcd41666f8: API 'o' + 4 bytes originally requested + The 7 pad bytes at p-7 are FORBIDDENBYTE, as expected. + The 8 pad bytes at tail=0x7fbcd41666fc are not all FORBIDDENBYTE (0xfb): + at tail+0: 0x02 *** OUCH + at tail+1: 0xfb + at tail+2: 0xfb + at tail+3: 0xfb + at tail+4: 0xfb + at tail+5: 0xfb + at tail+6: 0xfb + at tail+7: 0xfb + The block was made by call #1233329 to debug malloc/realloc. + Data at p: 1a 2b 30 00 + + Memory block allocated at (most recent call first): + File "test/test_bytes.py", line 323 + File "unittest/case.py", line 600 + File "unittest/case.py", line 648 + File "unittest/suite.py", line 122 + File "unittest/suite.py", line 84 + + Fatal Python error: bad trailing pad byte + + Current thread 0x00007fbcdbd32700 (most recent call first): + File "test/test_bytes.py", line 323 in test_hex + File "unittest/case.py", line 600 in run + File "unittest/case.py", line 648 in __call__ + File "unittest/suite.py", line 122 in run + File "unittest/suite.py", line 84 in __call__ + File "unittest/suite.py", line 122 in run + File "unittest/suite.py", line 84 in __call__ + ... + +(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`26516` and :issue:`26564`.) + + +.. _whatsnew36-tracing: + +DTrace and SystemTap probing support +------------------------------------ + +Python can now be built ``--with-dtrace`` which enables static markers +for the following events in the interpreter: + +* function call/return + +* garbage collection started/finished + +* line of code executed. + +This can be used to instrument running interpreters in production, +without the need to recompile specific debug builds or providing +application-specific profiling/debugging code. + +More details in :ref:`instrumentation`. + +The current implementation is tested on Linux and macOS. Additional +markers may be added in the future. + +(Contributed by Łukasz Langa in :issue:`21590`, based on patches by +Jesús Cea Avión, David Malcolm, and Nikhil Benesch.) + + +Other Language Changes +====================== + +Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: + +* A ``global`` or ``nonlocal`` statement must now textually appear + before the first use of the affected name in the same scope. + Previously this was a ``SyntaxWarning``. + +* It is now possible to set a :ref:`special method <specialnames>` to + ``None`` to indicate that the corresponding operation is not available. + For example, if a class sets :meth:`__iter__` to ``None``, the class + is not iterable. + (Contributed by Andrew Barnert and Ivan Levkivskyi in :issue:`25958`.) + +* Long sequences of repeated traceback lines are now abbreviated as + ``"[Previous line repeated {count} more times]"`` (see + :ref:`whatsnew36-traceback` for an example). + (Contributed by Emanuel Barry in :issue:`26823`.) + +* Import now raises the new exception :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` + (subclass of :exc:`ImportError`) when it cannot find a module. Code + that currently checks for ImportError (in try-except) will still work. + (Contributed by Eric Snow in :issue:`15767`.) + +* Class methods relying on zero-argument ``super()`` will now work correctly + when called from metaclass methods during class creation. + (Contributed by Martin Teichmann in :issue:`23722`.) + + +New Modules +=========== + +.. _whatsnew36-pep506: + +secrets +------- + +The main purpose of the new :mod:`secrets` module is to provide an obvious way +to reliably generate cryptographically strong pseudo-random values suitable +for managing secrets, such as account authentication, tokens, and similar. + +.. warning:: + + Note that the pseudo-random generators in the :mod:`random` module + should *NOT* be used for security purposes. Use :mod:`secrets` + on Python 3.6+ and :func:`os.urandom()` on Python 3.5 and earlier. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`506` -- Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library + PEP written and implemented by Steven D'Aprano. + + +Improved Modules +================ + +array +----- + +Exhausted iterators of :class:`array.array` will now stay exhausted even +if the iterated array is extended. This is consistent with the behavior +of other mutable sequences. + +Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`26492`. + +ast +--- + +The new :class:`ast.Constant` AST node has been added. It can be used +by external AST optimizers for the purposes of constant folding. + +Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`26146`. + + +asyncio +------- + +Starting with Python 3.6 the ``asyncio`` module is no longer provisional and its +API is considered stable. + +Notable changes in the :mod:`asyncio` module since Python 3.5.0 +(all backported to 3.5.x due to the provisional status): + +* The :func:`~asyncio.get_event_loop` function has been changed to + always return the currently running loop when called from couroutines + and callbacks. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`28613`.) + +* The :func:`~asyncio.ensure_future` function and all functions that + use it, such as :meth:`loop.run_until_complete() <asyncio.BaseEventLoop.run_until_complete>`, + now accept all kinds of :term:`awaitable objects <awaitable>`. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov.) + +* New :func:`~asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe` function to submit + coroutines to event loops from other threads. + (Contributed by Vincent Michel.) + +* New :meth:`Transport.is_closing() <asyncio.BaseTransport.is_closing>` + method to check if the transport is closing or closed. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov.) + +* The :meth:`loop.create_server() <asyncio.BaseEventLoop.create_server>` + method can now accept a list of hosts. + (Contributed by Yann Sionneau.) + +* New :meth:`loop.create_future() <asyncio.BaseEventLoop.create_future>` + method to create Future objects. This allows alternative event + loop implementations, such as + `uvloop <https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop>`_, to provide a faster + :class:`asyncio.Future` implementation. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`27041`.) + +* New :meth:`loop.get_exception_handler() <asyncio.BaseEventLoop.get_exception_handler>` + method to get the current exception handler. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`27040`.) + +* New :meth:`StreamReader.readuntil() <asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil>` + method to read data from the stream until a separator bytes + sequence appears. + (Contributed by Mark Korenberg.) + +* The performance of :meth:`StreamReader.readexactly() <asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly>` + has been improved. + (Contributed by Mark Korenberg in :issue:`28370`.) + +* The :meth:`loop.getaddrinfo() <asyncio.BaseEventLoop.getaddrinfo>` + method is optimized to avoid calling the system ``getaddrinfo`` + function if the address is already resolved. + (Contributed by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.) + +* The :meth:`loop.stop() <asyncio.BaseEventLoop.stop>` + method has been changed to stop the loop immediately after + the current iteration. Any new callbacks scheduled as a result + of the last iteration will be discarded. + (Contributed by Guido van Rossum in :issue:`25593`.) + +* :meth:`Future.set_exception <asyncio.futures.Future.set_exception>` + will now raise :exc:`TypeError` when passed an instance of + the :exc:`StopIteration` exception. + (Contributed by Chris Angelico in :issue:`26221`.) + +* New :meth:`loop.connect_accepted_socket() <asyncio.BaseEventLoop.connect_accepted_socket>` + method to be used by servers that accept connections outside of asyncio, + but that use asyncio to handle them. + (Contributed by Jim Fulton in :issue:`27392`.) + +* ``TCP_NODELAY`` flag is now set for all TCP transports by default. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`27456`.) + +* New :meth:`loop.shutdown_asyncgens() <asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.shutdown_asyncgens>` + to properly close pending asynchronous generators before closing the + loop. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`28003`.) + +* :class:`Future <asyncio.Future>` and :class:`Task <asyncio.Task>` + classes now have an optimized C implementation which makes asyncio + code up to 30% faster. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov and INADA Naoki in :issue:`26081` + and :issue:`28544`.) + + +binascii +-------- + +The :func:`~binascii.b2a_base64` function now accepts an optional *newline* +keyword argument to control whether the newline character is appended to the +return value. +(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25357`.) + + +cmath +----- + +The new :const:`cmath.tau` (τ) constant has been added. +(Contributed by Lisa Roach in :issue:`12345`, see :pep:`628` for details.) + +New constants: :const:`cmath.inf` and :const:`cmath.nan` to +match :const:`math.inf` and :const:`math.nan`, and also :const:`cmath.infj` +and :const:`cmath.nanj` to match the format used by complex repr. +(Contributed by Mark Dickinson in :issue:`23229`.) + + +collections +----------- + +The new :class:`~collections.abc.Collection` abstract base class has been +added to represent sized iterable container classes. +(Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar in :issue:`27598`.) + +The new :class:`~collections.abc.Reversible` abstract base class represents +iterable classes that also provide the :meth:`__reversed__` method. +(Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi in :issue:`25987`.) + +The new :class:`~collections.abc.AsyncGenerator` abstract base class represents +asynchronous generators. +(Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`28720`.) + +The :func:`~collections.namedtuple` function now accepts an optional +keyword argument *module*, which, when specified, is used for +the ``__module__`` attribute of the returned named tuple class. +(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`17941`.) + +The *verbose* and *rename* arguments for +:func:`~collections.namedtuple` are now keyword-only. +(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`25628`.) + +Recursive :class:`collections.deque` instances can now be pickled. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`26482`.) + + +concurrent.futures +------------------ + +The :class:`ThreadPoolExecutor <concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor>` +class constructor now accepts an optional *thread_name_prefix* argument +to make it possible to customize the names of the threads created by the +pool. +(Contributed by Gregory P. Smith in :issue:`27664`.) + + +contextlib +---------- + +The :class:`contextlib.AbstractContextManager` class has been added to +provide an abstract base class for context managers. It provides a +sensible default implementation for `__enter__()` which returns +``self`` and leaves `__exit__()` an abstract method. A matching +class has been added to the :mod:`typing` module as +:class:`typing.ContextManager`. +(Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`25609`.) + + +datetime +-------- + +The :class:`~datetime.datetime` and :class:`~datetime.time` classes have +the new :attr:`~time.fold` attribute used to disambiguate local time +when necessary. Many functions in the :mod:`datetime` have been +updated to support local time disambiguation. +See :ref:`Local Time Disambiguation <whatsnew36-pep495>` section for more +information. +(Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky in :issue:`24773`.) + +The :meth:`datetime.strftime() <datetime.datetime.strftime>` and +:meth:`date.strftime() <datetime.date.strftime>` methods now support +ISO 8601 date directives ``%G``, ``%u`` and ``%V``. +(Contributed by Ashley Anderson in :issue:`12006`.) + +The :func:`datetime.isoformat() <datetime.datetime.isoformat>` function +now accepts an optional *timespec* argument that specifies the number +of additional components of the time value to include. +(Contributed by Alessandro Cucci and Alexander Belopolsky in :issue:`19475`.) + +The :meth:`datetime.combine() <datetime.datetime.combine>` now +accepts an optional *tzinfo* argument. +(Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky in :issue:`27661`.) + + +decimal +------- + +New :meth:`Decimal.as_integer_ratio() <decimal.Decimal.as_integer_ratio>` +method that returns a pair ``(n, d)`` of integers that represent the given +:class:`~decimal.Decimal` instance as a fraction, in lowest terms and +with a positive denominator:: + + >>> Decimal('-3.14').as_integer_ratio() + (-157, 50) + +(Contributed by Stefan Krah amd Mark Dickinson in :issue:`25928`.) + + + +distutils +--------- + +The ``default_format`` attribute has been removed from +:class:`distutils.command.sdist.sdist` and the ``formats`` +attribute defaults to ``['gztar']``. Although not anticipated, +any code relying on the presence of ``default_format`` may +need to be adapted. See :issue:`27819` for more details. + + +email +----- + +The new email API, enabled via the *policy* keyword to various constructors, is +no longer provisional. The :mod:`email` documentation has been reorganized and +rewritten to focus on the new API, while retaining the old documentation for +the legacy API. (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`24277`.) + +The :mod:`email.mime` classes now all accept an optional *policy* keyword. +(Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`27331`.) + +The :class:`~email.generator.DecodedGenerator` now supports the *policy* +keyword. + +There is a new :mod:`~email.policy` attribute, +:attr:`~email.policy.Policy.message_factory`, that controls what class is used +by default when the parser creates new message objects. For the +:attr:`email.policy.compat32` policy this is :class:`~email.message.Message`, +for the new policies it is :class:`~email.message.EmailMessage`. +(Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`20476`.) + + +encodings +--------- + +On Windows, added the ``'oem'`` encoding to use ``CP_OEMCP``, and the ``'ansi'`` +alias for the existing ``'mbcs'`` encoding, which uses the ``CP_ACP`` code page. +(Contributed by Steve Dower in :issue:`27959`.) + + +enum +---- + +Two new enumeration base classes have been added to the :mod:`enum` module: +:class:`~enum.Flag` and :class:`~enum.IntFlags`. Both are used to define +constants that can be combined using the bitwise operators. +(Contributed by Ethan Furman in :issue:`23591`.) + +Many standard library modules have been updated to use the +:class:`~enum.IntFlags` class for their constants. + +The new :class:`enum.auto` value can be used to assign values to enum +members automatically:: + + >>> from enum import Enum, auto + >>> class Color(Enum): + ... red = auto() + ... blue = auto() + ... green = auto() + ... + >>> list(Color) + [<Color.red: 1>, <Color.blue: 2>, <Color.green: 3>] + + +faulthandler +------------ + +On Windows, the :mod:`faulthandler` module now installs a handler for Windows +exceptions: see :func:`faulthandler.enable`. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in +:issue:`23848`.) + + +fileinput +--------- + +:func:`~fileinput.hook_encoded` now supports the *errors* argument. +(Contributed by Joseph Hackman in :issue:`25788`.) + + +hashlib +------- + +:mod:`hashlib` supports OpenSSL 1.1.0. The minimum recommend version is 1.0.2. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`26470`.) + +BLAKE2 hash functions were added to the module. :func:`~hashlib.blake2b` +and :func:`~hashlib.blake2s` are always available and support the full +feature set of BLAKE2. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`26798` based on code by +Dmitry Chestnykh and Samuel Neves. Documentation written by Dmitry Chestnykh.) + +The SHA-3 hash functions :func:`~hashlib.sha3_224`, :func:`~hashlib.sha3_256`, +:func:`~hashlib.sha3_384`, :func:`~hashlib.sha3_512`, and SHAKE hash functions +:func:`~hashlib.shake_128` and :func:`~hashlib.shake_256` were added. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`16113`. Keccak Code Package +by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters, Gilles Van Assche, and +Ronny Van Keer.) + +The password-based key derivation function :func:`~hashlib.scrypt` is now +available with OpenSSL 1.1.0 and newer. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`27928`.) + +http.client +----------- + +:meth:`HTTPConnection.request() <http.client.HTTPConnection.request>` and +:meth:`~http.client.HTTPConnection.endheaders` both now support +chunked encoding request bodies. +(Contributed by Demian Brecht and Rolf Krahl in :issue:`12319`.) + + +idlelib and IDLE +---------------- + +The idlelib package is being modernized and refactored to make IDLE look and +work better and to make the code easier to understand, test, and improve. Part +of making IDLE look better, especially on Linux and Mac, is using ttk widgets, +mostly in the dialogs. As a result, IDLE no longer runs with tcl/tk 8.4. It +now requires tcl/tk 8.5 or 8.6. We recommend running the latest release of +either. + +'Modernizing' includes renaming and consolidation of idlelib modules. The +renaming of files with partial uppercase names is similar to the renaming of, +for instance, Tkinter and TkFont to tkinter and tkinter.font in 3.0. As a +result, imports of idlelib files that worked in 3.5 will usually not work in +3.6. At least a module name change will be needed (see idlelib/README.txt), +sometimes more. (Name changes contributed by Al Swiegart and Terry Reedy in +:issue:`24225`. Most idlelib patches since have been and will be part of the +process.) + +In compensation, the eventual result with be that some idlelib classes will be +easier to use, with better APIs and docstrings explaining them. Additional +useful information will be added to idlelib when available. + + +importlib +--------- + +Import now raises the new exception :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` +(subclass of :exc:`ImportError`) when it cannot find a module. Code +that current checks for ``ImportError`` (in try-except) will still work. +(Contributed by Eric Snow in :issue:`15767`.) + +:class:`importlib.util.LazyLoader` now calls +:meth:`~importlib.abc.Loader.create_module` on the wrapped loader, removing the +restriction that :class:`importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter` and +:class:`importlib.machinery.ExtensionFileLoader` couldn't be used with +:class:`importlib.util.LazyLoader`. + +:func:`importlib.util.cache_from_source`, +:func:`importlib.util.source_from_cache`, and +:func:`importlib.util.spec_from_file_location` now accept a +:term:`path-like object`. + + +inspect +------- + +The :func:`inspect.signature() <inspect.signature>` function now reports the +implicit ``.0`` parameters generated by the compiler for comprehension and +generator expression scopes as if they were positional-only parameters called +``implicit0``. (Contributed by Jelle Zijlstra in :issue:`19611`.) + +To reduce code churn when upgrading from Python 2.7 and the legacy +:func:`inspect.getargspec` API, the previously documented deprecation of +:func:`inspect.getfullargspec` has been reversed. While this function is +convenient for single/source Python 2/3 code bases, the richer +:func:`inspect.signature` interface remains the recommended approach for new +code. (Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`27172`) + + +json +---- + +:func:`json.load` and :func:`json.loads` now support binary input. Encoded +JSON should be represented using either UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`17909`.) + + +logging +------- + +The new :meth:`WatchedFileHandler.reopenIfNeeded() <logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler.reopenIfNeeded>` +method has been added to add the ability to check if the log file needs to +be reopened. +(Contributed by Marian Horban in :issue:`24884`.) + + +math +---- + +The tau (τ) constant has been added to the :mod:`math` and :mod:`cmath` +modules. +(Contributed by Lisa Roach in :issue:`12345`, see :pep:`628` for details.) + + +multiprocessing +--------------- + +:ref:`Proxy Objects <multiprocessing-proxy_objects>` returned by +:func:`multiprocessing.Manager` can now be nested. +(Contributed by Davin Potts in :issue:`6766`.) + + +os +-- + +See the summary of :ref:`PEP 519 <whatsnew36-pep519>` for details on how the +:mod:`os` and :mod:`os.path` modules now support +:term:`path-like objects <path-like object>`. + +:func:`~os.scandir` now supports :class:`bytes` paths on Windows. + +A new :meth:`~os.scandir.close` method allows explicitly closing a +:func:`~os.scandir` iterator. The :func:`~os.scandir` iterator now +supports the :term:`context manager` protocol. If a :func:`scandir` +iterator is neither exhausted nor explicitly closed a :exc:`ResourceWarning` +will be emitted in its destructor. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25994`.) + +On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now blocks until the system urandom entropy pool +is initialized to increase the security. See the :pep:`524` for the rationale. + +The Linux ``getrandom()`` syscall (get random bytes) is now exposed as the new +:func:`os.getrandom` function. +(Contributed by Victor Stinner, part of the :pep:`524`) + + +pathlib +------- + +:mod:`pathlib` now supports :term:`path-like objects <path-like object>`. +(Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`27186`.) + +See the summary of :ref:`PEP 519 <whatsnew36-pep519>` for details. + + +pdb +--- + +The :class:`~pdb.Pdb` class constructor has a new optional *readrc* argument +to control whether ``.pdbrc`` files should be read. + + +pickle +------ + +Objects that need ``__new__`` called with keyword arguments can now be pickled +using :ref:`pickle protocols <pickle-protocols>` older than protocol version 4. +Protocol version 4 already supports this case. (Contributed by Serhiy +Storchaka in :issue:`24164`.) + + +pickletools +----------- + +:func:`pickletools.dis()` now outputs the implicit memo index for the +``MEMOIZE`` opcode. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25382`.) + + +pydoc +----- + +The :mod:`pydoc` module has learned to respect the ``MANPAGER`` +environment variable. +(Contributed by Matthias Klose in :issue:`8637`.) + +:func:`help` and :mod:`pydoc` can now list named tuple fields in the +order they were defined rather than alphabetically. +(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`24879`.) + + +random +------- + +The new :func:`~random.choices` function returns a list of elements of +specified size from the given population with optional weights. +(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`18844`.) + + +re +-- + +Added support of modifier spans in regular expressions. Examples: +``'(?i:p)ython'`` matches ``'python'`` and ``'Python'``, but not ``'PYTHON'``; +``'(?i)g(?-i:v)r'`` matches ``'GvR'`` and ``'gvr'``, but not ``'GVR'``. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`433028`.) + +Match object groups can be accessed by ``__getitem__``, which is +equivalent to ``group()``. So ``mo['name']`` is now equivalent to +``mo.group('name')``. (Contributed by Eric Smith in :issue:`24454`.) + +:class:`~re.Match` objects now support +:meth:`index-like objects <object.__index__>` as group +indices. +(Contributed by Jeroen Demeyer and Xiang Zhang in :issue:`27177`.) + + +readline +-------- + +Added :func:`~readline.set_auto_history` to enable or disable +automatic addition of input to the history list. (Contributed by +Tyler Crompton in :issue:`26870`.) + + +rlcompleter +----------- + +Private and special attribute names now are omitted unless the prefix starts +with underscores. A space or a colon is added after some completed keywords. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25011` and :issue:`25209`.) + + +shlex +----- + +The :class:`~shlex.shlex` has much +:ref:`improved shell compatibility <improved-shell-compatibility>` +through the new *punctuation_chars* argument to control which characters +are treated as punctuation. +(Contributed by Vinay Sajip in :issue:`1521950`.) + + +site +---- + +When specifying paths to add to :attr:`sys.path` in a `.pth` file, +you may now specify file paths on top of directories (e.g. zip files). +(Contributed by Wolfgang Langner in :issue:`26587`). + + +sqlite3 +------- + +:attr:`sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid` now supports the ``REPLACE`` statement. +(Contributed by Alex LordThorsen in :issue:`16864`.) + + +socket +------ + +The :func:`~socket.socket.ioctl` function now supports the +:data:`~socket.SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH` control code. +(Contributed by Daniel Stokes in :issue:`26536`.) + +The :meth:`~socket.socket.getsockopt` constants ``SO_DOMAIN``, +``SO_PROTOCOL``, ``SO_PEERSEC``, and ``SO_PASSSEC`` are now supported. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`26907`.) + +The :meth:`~socket.socket.setsockopt` now supports the +``setsockopt(level, optname, None, optlen: int)`` form. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`27744`.) + +The socket module now supports the address family +:data:`~socket.AF_ALG` to interface with Linux Kernel crypto API. ``ALG_*``, +``SOL_ALG`` and :meth:`~socket.socket.sendmsg_afalg` were added. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`27744` with support from +Victor Stinner.) + + +socketserver +------------ + +Servers based on the :mod:`socketserver` module, including those +defined in :mod:`http.server`, :mod:`xmlrpc.server` and +:mod:`wsgiref.simple_server`, now support the :term:`context manager` +protocol. +(Contributed by Aviv Palivoda in :issue:`26404`.) + +The :attr:`~socketserver.StreamRequestHandler.wfile` attribute of +:class:`~socketserver.StreamRequestHandler` classes now implements +the :class:`io.BufferedIOBase` writable interface. In particular, +calling :meth:`~io.BufferedIOBase.write` is now guaranteed to send the +data in full. (Contributed by Martin Panter in :issue:`26721`.) + + +ssl +--- + +:mod:`ssl` supports OpenSSL 1.1.0. The minimum recommend version is 1.0.2. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`26470`.) + +3DES has been removed from the default cipher suites and ChaCha20 Poly1305 +cipher suites have been added. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`27850` and :issue:`27766`.) + +:class:`~ssl.SSLContext` has better default configuration for options +and ciphers. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`28043`.) + +SSL session can be copied from one client-side connection to another +with the new :class:`~ssl.SSLSession` class. TLS session resumption can +speed up the initial handshake, reduce latency and improve performance +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`19500` based on a draft by +Alex Warhawk.) + +The new :meth:`~ssl.SSLContext.get_ciphers` method can be used to +get a list of enabled ciphers in order of cipher priority. + +All constants and flags have been converted to :class:`~enum.IntEnum` and +:class:`~enum.IntFlags`. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`28025`.) + +Server and client-side specific TLS protocols for :class:`~ssl.SSLContext` +were added. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`28085`.) + + +statistics +---------- + +A new :func:`~statistics.harmonic_mean` function has been added. +(Contributed by Steven D'Aprano in :issue:`27181`.) + + +struct +------ + +:mod:`struct` now supports IEEE 754 half-precision floats via the ``'e'`` +format specifier. +(Contributed by Eli Stevens, Mark Dickinson in :issue:`11734`.) + + +subprocess +---------- + +:class:`subprocess.Popen` destructor now emits a :exc:`ResourceWarning` warning +if the child process is still running. Use the context manager protocol (``with +proc: ...``) or explicitly call the :meth:`~subprocess.Popen.wait` method to +read the exit status of the child process. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in +:issue:`26741`.) + +The :class:`subprocess.Popen` constructor and all functions that pass arguments +through to it now accept *encoding* and *errors* arguments. Specifying either +of these will enable text mode for the *stdin*, *stdout* and *stderr* streams. +(Contributed by Steve Dower in :issue:`6135`.) + + +sys +--- + +The new :func:`~sys.getfilesystemencodeerrors` function returns the name of +the error mode used to convert between Unicode filenames and bytes filenames. +(Contributed by Steve Dower in :issue:`27781`.) + +On Windows the return value of the :func:`~sys.getwindowsversion` function +now includes the *platform_version* field which contains the accurate major +version, minor version and build number of the current operating system, +rather than the version that is being emulated for the process +(Contributed by Steve Dower in :issue:`27932`.) + + +telnetlib +--------- + +:class:`~telnetlib.Telnet` is now a context manager (contributed by +Stéphane Wirtel in :issue:`25485`). + + +time +---- + +The :class:`~time.struct_time` attributes :attr:`tm_gmtoff` and +:attr:`tm_zone` are now available on all platforms. + + +timeit +------ + +The new :meth:`Timer.autorange() <timeit.Timer.autorange>` convenience +method has been added to call :meth:`Timer.timeit() <timeit.Timer.timeit>` +repeatedly so that the total run time is greater or equal to 200 milliseconds. +(Contributed by Steven D'Aprano in :issue:`6422`.) + +:mod:`timeit` now warns when there is substantial (4x) variance +between best and worst times. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`23552`.) + + +tkinter +------- + +Added methods :meth:`~tkinter.Variable.trace_add`, +:meth:`~tkinter.Variable.trace_remove` and :meth:`~tkinter.Variable.trace_info` +in the :class:`tkinter.Variable` class. They replace old methods +:meth:`~tkinter.Variable.trace_variable`, :meth:`~tkinter.Variable.trace`, +:meth:`~tkinter.Variable.trace_vdelete` and +:meth:`~tkinter.Variable.trace_vinfo` that use obsolete Tcl commands and might +not work in future versions of Tcl. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`22115`). + + +.. _whatsnew36-traceback: + +traceback +--------- + +Both the traceback module and the interpreter's builtin exception display now +abbreviate long sequences of repeated lines in tracebacks as shown in the +following example:: + + >>> def f(): f() + ... + >>> f() + Traceback (most recent call last): + File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> + File "<stdin>", line 1, in f + File "<stdin>", line 1, in f + File "<stdin>", line 1, in f + [Previous line repeated 995 more times] + RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded + +(Contributed by Emanuel Barry in :issue:`26823`.) + + +tracemalloc +----------- + +The :mod:`tracemalloc` module now supports tracing memory allocations in +multiple different address spaces. + +The new :class:`~tracemalloc.DomainFilter` filter class has been added +to filter block traces by their address space (domain). + +(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`26588`.) + + +.. _whatsnew36-typing: + +typing +------ + +Starting with Python 3.6 the :mod:`typing` module is no longer provisional +and its API is considered stable. + +Since the :mod:`typing` module was :term:`provisional <provisional api>` +in Python 3.5, all changes introduced in Python 3.6 have also been +backported to Python 3.5.x. + +The :mod:`typing` module has a much improved support for generic type +aliases. For example ``Dict[str, Tuple[S, T]]`` is now a valid +type annotation. +(Contributed by Guido van Rossum in `Github #195 +<https://github.com/python/typing/pull/195>`_.) + +The :class:`typing.ContextManager` class has been added for +representing :class:`contextlib.AbstractContextManager`. +(Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`25609`.) + +The :class:`typing.Collection` class has been added for +representing :class:`collections.abc.Collection`. +(Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi in :issue:`27598`.) + +The :const:`typing.ClassVar` type construct has been added to +mark class variables. As introduced in :pep:`526`, a variable annotation +wrapped in ClassVar indicates that a given attribute is intended to be used as +a class variable and should not be set on instances of that class. +(Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi in `Github #280 +<https://github.com/python/typing/issues/280>`_.) + +A new :const:`~typing.TYPE_CHECKING` constant that is assumed to be +``True`` by the static type chekers, but is ``False`` at runtime. +(Contributed by Guido van Rossum in `Github #230 +<https://github.com/python/typing/issues/230>`_.) + +A new :func:`~typing.NewType` helper function has been added to create +lightweight distinct types for annotations:: + + from typing import NewType + + UserId = NewType('UserId', int) + some_id = UserId(524313) + +The static type checker will treat the new type as if it were a subclass +of the original type. (Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi in `Github #189 +<https://github.com/python/typing/issues/189>`_.) + + +unicodedata +----------- + +The :mod:`unicodedata` module now uses data from `Unicode 9.0.0 +<http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode9.0.0/>`_. +(Contributed by Benjamin Peterson.) + + +unittest.mock +------------- + +The :class:`~unittest.mock.Mock` class has the following improvements: + +* Two new methods, :meth:`Mock.assert_called() + <unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called>` and :meth:`Mock.assert_called_once() + <unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called_once>` to check if the mock object + was called. + (Contributed by Amit Saha in :issue:`26323`.) + +* The :meth:`Mock.reset_mock() <unittest.mock.Mock.reset_mock>` method + now has two optional keyword only arguments: *return_value* and + *side_effect*. + (Contributed by Kushal Das in :issue:`21271`.) + + +urllib.request +-------------- + +If a HTTP request has a file or iterable body (other than a +bytes object) but no ``Content-Length`` header, rather than +throwing an error, :class:`~urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler` now +falls back to use chunked transfer encoding. +(Contributed by Demian Brecht and Rolf Krahl in :issue:`12319`.) + + +urllib.robotparser +------------------ + +:class:`~urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser` now supports the ``Crawl-delay`` and +``Request-rate`` extensions. +(Contributed by Nikolay Bogoychev in :issue:`16099`.) + + +venv +---- + +:mod:`venv` accepts a new parameter ``--prompt``. This parameter provides an +alternative prefix for the virtual environment. (Proposed by Łukasz Balcerzak +and ported to 3.6 by Stéphane Wirtel in :issue:`22829`.) + + +warnings +-------- + +A new optional *source* parameter has been added to the +:func:`warnings.warn_explicit` function: the destroyed object which emitted a +:exc:`ResourceWarning`. A *source* attribute has also been added to +:class:`warnings.WarningMessage` (contributed by Victor Stinner in +:issue:`26568` and :issue:`26567`). + +When a :exc:`ResourceWarning` warning is logged, the :mod:`tracemalloc` module is now +used to try to retrieve the traceback where the destroyed object was allocated. + +Example with the script ``example.py``:: + + import warnings + + def func(): + return open(__file__) + + f = func() + f = None + +Output of the command ``python3.6 -Wd -X tracemalloc=5 example.py``:: + + example.py:7: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name='example.py' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'> + f = None + Object allocated at (most recent call first): + File "example.py", lineno 4 + return open(__file__) + File "example.py", lineno 6 + f = func() + +The "Object allocated at" traceback is new and is only displayed if +:mod:`tracemalloc` is tracing Python memory allocations and if the +:mod:`warnings` module was already imported. + + +winreg +------ + +Added the 64-bit integer type :data:`REG_QWORD <winreg.REG_QWORD>`. +(Contributed by Clement Rouault in :issue:`23026`.) + + +winsound +-------- + +Allowed keyword arguments to be passed to :func:`Beep <winsound.Beep>`, +:func:`MessageBeep <winsound.MessageBeep>`, and :func:`PlaySound +<winsound.PlaySound>` (:issue:`27982`). + + +xmlrpc.client +------------- + +The :mod:`xmlrpc.client` module now supports unmarshalling +additional data types used by the Apache XML-RPC implementation +for numerics and ``None``. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`26885`.) + + +zipfile +------- + +A new :meth:`ZipInfo.from_file() <zipfile.ZipInfo.from_file>` class method +allows making a :class:`~zipfile.ZipInfo` instance from a filesystem file. +A new :meth:`ZipInfo.is_dir() <zipfile.ZipInfo.is_dir>` method can be used +to check if the :class:`~zipfile.ZipInfo` instance represents a directory. +(Contributed by Thomas Kluyver in :issue:`26039`.) + +The :meth:`ZipFile.open() <zipfile.ZipFile.open>` method can now be used to +write data into a ZIP file, as well as for extracting data. +(Contributed by Thomas Kluyver in :issue:`26039`.) + + +zlib +---- + +The :func:`~zlib.compress` and :func:`~zlib.decompress` functions now accept +keyword arguments. +(Contributed by Aviv Palivoda in :issue:`26243` and +Xiang Zhang in :issue:`16764` respectively.) + + +Optimizations +============= + +* The Python interpreter now uses a 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode which + made a number of opcode optimizations possible. + (Contributed by Demur Rumed with input and reviews from + Serhiy Storchaka and Victor Stinner in :issue:`26647` and :issue:`28050`.) + +* The :class:`asyncio.Future` class now has an optimized C implementation. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov and INADA Naoki in :issue:`26081`.) + +* The :class:`asyncio.Task` class now has an optimized + C implementation. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`28544`.) + +* Various implementation improvements in the :mod:`typing` module + (such as caching of generic types) allow up to 30 times performance + improvements and reduced memory footprint. + +* The ASCII decoder is now up to 60 times as fast for error handlers + ``surrogateescape``, ``ignore`` and ``replace`` (Contributed + by Victor Stinner in :issue:`24870`). + +* The ASCII and the Latin1 encoders are now up to 3 times as fast for the + error handler ``surrogateescape`` + (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25227`). + +* The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for error handlers + ``ignore``, ``replace``, ``surrogateescape``, ``surrogatepass`` (Contributed + by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25267`). + +* The UTF-8 decoder is now up to 15 times as fast for error handlers + ``ignore``, ``replace`` and ``surrogateescape`` (Contributed + by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25301`). + +* ``bytes % args`` is now up to 2 times faster. (Contributed by Victor Stinner + in :issue:`25349`). + +* ``bytearray % args`` is now between 2.5 and 5 times faster. (Contributed by + Victor Stinner in :issue:`25399`). + +* Optimize :meth:`bytes.fromhex` and :meth:`bytearray.fromhex`: they are now + between 2x and 3.5x faster. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25401`). + +* Optimize ``bytes.replace(b'', b'.')`` and ``bytearray.replace(b'', b'.')``: + up to 80% faster. (Contributed by Josh Snider in :issue:`26574`). + +* Allocator functions of the :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` domain + (:c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM`) now use the :ref:`pymalloc memory allocator + <pymalloc>` instead of :c:func:`malloc` function of the C library. The + pymalloc allocator is optimized for objects smaller or equal to 512 bytes + with a short lifetime, and use :c:func:`malloc` for larger memory blocks. + (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`26249`). + +* :func:`pickle.load` and :func:`pickle.loads` are now up to 10% faster when + deserializing many small objects (Contributed by Victor Stinner in + :issue:`27056`). + +* Passing :term:`keyword arguments <keyword argument>` to a function has an + overhead in comparison with passing :term:`positional arguments + <positional argument>`. Now in extension functions implemented with using + Argument Clinic this overhead is significantly decreased. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`27574`). + +* Optimized :func:`~glob.glob` and :func:`~glob.iglob` functions in the + :mod:`glob` module; they are now about 3--6 times faster. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25596`). + +* Optimized globbing in :mod:`pathlib` by using :func:`os.scandir`; + it is now about 1.5--4 times faster. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`26032`). + +* :class:`xml.etree.ElementTree` parsing, iteration and deepcopy performance + has been significantly improved. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25638`, :issue:`25873`, + and :issue:`25869`.) + +* Creation of :class:`fractions.Fraction` instances from floats and + decimals is now 2 to 3 times faster. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25971`.) + + +Build and C API Changes +======================= + +* Python now requires some C99 support in the toolchain to build. + Most notably, Python now uses standard integer types and macros in + place of custom macros like ``PY_LONG_LONG``. + For more information, see :pep:`7` and :issue:`17884`. + +* Cross-compiling CPython with the Android NDK and the Android API level set to + 21 (Android 5.0 Lollilop) or greater runs successfully. While Android is not + yet a supported platform, the Python test suite runs on the Android emulator + with only about 16 tests failures. See the Android meta-issue :issue:`26865`. + +* The ``--enable-optimizations`` configure flag has been added. Turning it on + will activate expensive optimizations like PGO. + (Original patch by Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel in :issue:`26539`.) + +* The :term:`GIL <global interpreter lock>` must now be held when allocator + functions of :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ` (ex: :c:func:`PyObject_Malloc`) and + :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM` (ex: :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc`) domains are called. + +* New :c:func:`Py_FinalizeEx` API which indicates if flushing buffered data + failed. + (Contributed by Martin Panter in :issue:`5319`.) + +* :c:func:`PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords` now supports :ref:`positional-only + parameters <positional-only_parameter>`. Positional-only parameters are + defined by empty names. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`26282`). + +* ``PyTraceback_Print`` method now abbreviates long sequences of repeated lines + as ``"[Previous line repeated {count} more times]"``. + (Contributed by Emanuel Barry in :issue:`26823`.) + +* The new :c:func:`PyErr_SetImportErrorSubclass` function allows for + specifying a subclass of :exc:`ImportError` to raise. + (Contributed by Eric Snow in :issue:`15767`.) + +* The new :c:func:`PyErr_ResourceWarning` function can be used to generate + a :exc:`ResourceWarning` providing the source of the resource allocation. + (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`26567`.) + +* The new :c:func:`PyOS_FSPath` function returns the file system + representation of a :term:`path-like object`. + (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`27186`.) + +* The :c:func:`PyUnicode_FSConverter` and :c:func:`PyUnicode_FSDecoder` + functions will now accept :term:`path-like objects <path-like object>`. + + +Other Improvements +================== + +* When :option:`--version` (short form: :option:`-V`) is supplied twice, + Python prints :data:`sys.version` for detailed information. + + .. code-block:: shell-session + + $ ./python -VV + Python 3.6.0b4+ (3.6:223967b49e49+, Nov 21 2016, 20:55:04) + [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] + + +Deprecated +========== + +New Keywords +------------ + +``async`` and ``await`` are not recommended to be used as variable, class, +function or module names. Introduced by :pep:`492` in Python 3.5, they will +become proper keywords in Python 3.7. Starting in Python 3.6, the use of +``async`` or ``await`` as names will generate a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. + + +Deprecated Python behavior +-------------------------- + +Raising the :exc:`StopIteration` exception inside a generator will now +generate a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`, and will trigger a :exc:`RuntimeError` +in Python 3.7. See :ref:`whatsnew-pep-479` for details. + +The :meth:`__aiter__` method is now expected to return an asynchronous +iterator directly instead of returning an awaitable as previously. +Doing the former will trigger a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. Backward +compatibility will be removed in Python 3.7. +(Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`27243`.) + +A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates +a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. Although this will eventually become a +:exc:`SyntaxError`, that will not be for several Python releases. +(Contributed by Emanuel Barry in :issue:`27364`.) + +When performing a relative import, falling back on ``__name__`` and +``__path__`` from the calling module when ``__spec__`` or +``__package__`` are not defined now raises an :exc:`ImportWarning`. +(Contributed by Rose Ames in :issue:`25791`.) + + +Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods +------------------------------------------------ + +asynchat +~~~~~~~~ + +The :mod:`asynchat` has been deprecated in favor of :mod:`asyncio`. +(Contributed by Mariatta in :issue:`25002`.) + + +asyncore +~~~~~~~~ + +The :mod:`asyncore` has been deprecated in favor of :mod:`asyncio`. +(Contributed by Mariatta in :issue:`25002`.) + + +dbm +~~~ + +Unlike other :mod:`dbm` implementations, the :mod:`dbm.dumb` module +creates databases with the ``'rw'`` mode and allows modifying the database +opened with the ``'r'`` mode. This behavior is now deprecated and will +be removed in 3.8. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`21708`.) + + +distutils +~~~~~~~~~ + +The undocumented ``extra_path`` argument to the +:class:`~distutils.Distribution` constructor is now considered deprecated +and will raise a warning if set. Support for this parameter will be +removed in a future Python release. See :issue:`27919` for details. + + +grp +~~~ + +The support of non-integer arguments in :func:`~grp.getgrgid` has been +deprecated. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`26129`.) + + +importlib +~~~~~~~~~ + +The :meth:`importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader.load_module` and +:meth:`importlib.machinery.SourcelessFileLoader.load_module` methods +are now deprecated. They were the only remaining implementations of +:meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.load_module` in :mod:`importlib` that had not +been deprecated in previous versions of Python in favour of +:meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module`. + +The :class:`importlib.machinery.WindowsRegistryFinder` class is now +deprecated. As of 3.6.0, it is still added to :attr:`sys.meta_path` by +default (on Windows), but this may change in future releases. + +os +~~ + +Undocumented support of general :term:`bytes-like objects <bytes-like object>` +as paths in :mod:`os` functions, :func:`compile` and similar functions is +now deprecated. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25791` and :issue:`26754`.) + +re +~~ + +Support for inline flags ``(?letters)`` in the middle of the regular +expression has been deprecated and will be removed in a future Python +version. Flags at the start of a regular expression are still allowed. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`22493`.) + +ssl +~~~ + +OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 are deprecated and no longer supported. +In the future the :mod:`ssl` module will require at least OpenSSL 1.0.2 or +1.1.0. + +SSL-related arguments like ``certfile``, ``keyfile`` and ``check_hostname`` +in :mod:`ftplib`, :mod:`http.client`, :mod:`imaplib`, :mod:`poplib`, +and :mod:`smtplib` have been deprecated in favor of ``context``. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`28022`.) + +A couple of protocols and functions of the :mod:`ssl` module are now +deprecated. Some features will no longer be available in future versions +of OpenSSL. Other features are deprecated in favor of a different API. +(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`28022` and :issue:`26470`.) + +tkinter +~~~~~~~ + +The :mod:`tkinter.tix` module is now deprecated. :mod:`tkinter` users +should use :mod:`tkinter.ttk` instead. + +venv +~~~~ + +The ``pyvenv`` script has been deprecated in favour of ``python3 -m venv``. +This prevents confusion as to what Python interpreter ``pyvenv`` is +connected to and thus what Python interpreter will be used by the virtual +environment. (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`25154`.) + + +Deprecated functions and types of the C API +------------------------------------------- + +Undocumented functions :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject`, +:c:func:`PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject`, :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode` +and :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode` are deprecated now. +Use the :ref:`generic codec based API <codec-registry>` instead. + + +Deprecated Build Options +------------------------ + +The ``--with-system-ffi`` configure flag is now on by default on non-macOS +UNIX platforms. It may be disabled by using ``--without-system-ffi``, but +using the flag is deprecated and will not be accepted in Python 3.7. +macOS is unaffected by this change. Note that many OS distributors already +use the ``--with-system-ffi`` flag when building their system Python. + + +Removed +======= + +API and Feature Removals +------------------------ + +* Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in + regular expressions will now cause an error. In replacement templates for + :func:`re.sub` they are still allowed, but deprecated. + The :const:`re.LOCALE` flag can now only be used with binary patterns. + +* ``inspect.getmoduleinfo()`` was removed (was deprecated since CPython 3.3). + :func:`inspect.getmodulename` should be used for obtaining the module + name for a given path. + (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`13248`.) + +* ``traceback.Ignore`` class and ``traceback.usage``, ``traceback.modname``, + ``traceback.fullmodname``, ``traceback.find_lines_from_code``, + ``traceback.find_lines``, ``traceback.find_strings``, + ``traceback.find_executable_lines`` methods were removed from the + :mod:`traceback` module. They were undocumented methods deprecated since + Python 3.2 and equivalent functionality is available from private methods. + +* The ``tk_menuBar()`` and ``tk_bindForTraversal()`` dummy methods in + :mod:`tkinter` widget classes were removed (corresponding Tk commands + were obsolete since Tk 4.0). + +* The :meth:`~zipfile.ZipFile.open` method of the :class:`zipfile.ZipFile` + class no longer supports the ``'U'`` mode (was deprecated since Python 3.4). + Use :class:`io.TextIOWrapper` for reading compressed text files in + :term:`universal newlines` mode. + +* The undocumented ``IN``, ``CDROM``, ``DLFCN``, ``TYPES``, ``CDIO``, and + ``STROPTS`` modules have been removed. They had been available in the + platform specific ``Lib/plat-*/`` directories, but were chronically out of + date, inconsistently available across platforms, and unmaintained. The + script that created these modules is still available in the source + distribution at :source:`Tools/scripts/h2py.py`. + +* The deprecated ``asynchat.fifo`` class has been removed. + + +Porting to Python 3.6 +===================== + +This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes +that may require changes to your code. + +Changes in 'python' Command Behavior +------------------------------------ + +* The output of a special Python build with defined ``COUNT_ALLOCS``, + ``SHOW_ALLOC_COUNT`` or ``SHOW_TRACK_COUNT`` macros is now off by + default. It can be re-enabled using the ``-X showalloccount`` option. + It now outputs to ``stderr`` instead of ``stdout``. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`23034`.) + + +Changes in the Python API +------------------------- + +* :func:`open() <open>` will no longer allow combining the ``'U'`` mode flag + with ``'+'``. + (Contributed by Jeff Balogh and John O'Connor in :issue:`2091`.) + +* :mod:`sqlite3` no longer implicitly commits an open transaction before DDL + statements. + +* On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now blocks until the system urandom entropy pool + is initialized to increase the security. + +* When :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module` is defined, + :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.create_module` must also be defined. + +* :c:func:`PyErr_SetImportError` now sets :exc:`TypeError` when its **msg** + argument is not set. Previously only ``NULL`` was returned. + +* The format of the ``co_lnotab`` attribute of code objects changed to support + a negative line number delta. By default, Python does not emit bytecode with + a negative line number delta. Functions using ``frame.f_lineno``, + ``PyFrame_GetLineNumber()`` or ``PyCode_Addr2Line()`` are not affected. + Functions directly decoding ``co_lnotab`` should be updated to use a signed + 8-bit integer type for the line number delta, but this is only required to + support applications using a negative line number delta. See + ``Objects/lnotab_notes.txt`` for the ``co_lnotab`` format and how to decode + it, and see the :pep:`511` for the rationale. + +* The functions in the :mod:`compileall` module now return booleans instead + of ``1`` or ``0`` to represent success or failure, respectively. Thanks to + booleans being a subclass of integers, this should only be an issue if you + were doing identity checks for ``1`` or ``0``. See :issue:`25768`. + +* Reading the :attr:`~urllib.parse.SplitResult.port` attribute of + :func:`urllib.parse.urlsplit` and :func:`~urllib.parse.urlparse` results + now raises :exc:`ValueError` for out-of-range values, rather than + returning :const:`None`. See :issue:`20059`. + +* The :mod:`imp` module now raises a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` instead of + :exc:`PendingDeprecationWarning`. + +* The following modules have had missing APIs added to their :attr:`__all__` + attributes to match the documented APIs: + :mod:`calendar`, :mod:`cgi`, :mod:`csv`, + :mod:`~xml.etree.ElementTree`, :mod:`enum`, + :mod:`fileinput`, :mod:`ftplib`, :mod:`logging`, :mod:`mailbox`, + :mod:`mimetypes`, :mod:`optparse`, :mod:`plistlib`, :mod:`smtpd`, + :mod:`subprocess`, :mod:`tarfile`, :mod:`threading` and + :mod:`wave`. This means they will export new symbols when ``import *`` + is used. + (Contributed by Joel Taddei and Jacek Kołodziej in :issue:`23883`.) + +* When performing a relative import, if ``__package__`` does not compare equal + to ``__spec__.parent`` then :exc:`ImportWarning` is raised. + (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`25791`.) + +* When a relative import is performed and no parent package is known, then + :exc:`ImportError` will be raised. Previously, :exc:`SystemError` could be + raised. (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`18018`.) + +* Servers based on the :mod:`socketserver` module, including those + defined in :mod:`http.server`, :mod:`xmlrpc.server` and + :mod:`wsgiref.simple_server`, now only catch exceptions derived + from :exc:`Exception`. Therefore if a request handler raises + an exception like :exc:`SystemExit` or :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`, + :meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.handle_error` is no longer called, and + the exception will stop a single-threaded server. (Contributed by + Martin Panter in :issue:`23430`.) + +* :func:`spwd.getspnam` now raises a :exc:`PermissionError` instead of + :exc:`KeyError` if the user doesn't have privileges. + +* The :meth:`socket.socket.close` method now raises an exception if + an error (e.g. ``EBADF``) was reported by the underlying system call. + (Contributed by Martin Panter in :issue:`26685`.) + +* The *decode_data* argument for the :class:`smtpd.SMTPChannel` and + :class:`smtpd.SMTPServer` constructors is now ``False`` by default. + This means that the argument passed to + :meth:`~smtpd.SMTPServer.process_message` is now a bytes object by + default, and ``process_message()`` will be passed keyword arguments. + Code that has already been updated in accordance with the deprecation + warning generated by 3.5 will not be affected. + +* All optional arguments of the :func:`~json.dump`, :func:`~json.dumps`, + :func:`~json.load` and :func:`~json.loads` functions and + :class:`~json.JSONEncoder` and :class:`~json.JSONDecoder` class + constructors in the :mod:`json` module are now :ref:`keyword-only + <keyword-only_parameter>`. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`18726`.) + +* Subclasses of :class:`type` which don't override ``type.__new__`` may no + longer use the one-argument form to get the type of an object. + +* As part of :pep:`487`, the handling of keyword arguments passed to + :class:`type` (other than the metaclass hint, ``metaclass``) is now + consistently delegated to :meth:`object.__init_subclass__`. This means that + :meth:`type.__new__` and :meth:`type.__init__` both now accept arbitrary + keyword arguments, but :meth:`object.__init_subclass__` (which is called from + :meth:`type.__new__`) will reject them by default. Custom metaclasses + accepting additional keyword arguments will need to adjust their calls to + :meth:`type.__new__` (whether direct or via :class:`super`) accordingly. + +* In :class:`distutils.command.sdist.sdist`, the ``default_format`` + attribute has been removed and is no longer honored. Instead, the + gzipped tarfile format is the default on all platforms and no + platform-specific selection is made. + In environments where distributions are + built on Windows and zip distributions are required, configure + the project with a ``setup.cfg`` file containing the following:: + + [sdist] + formats=zip + + This behavior has also been backported to earlier Python versions + by Setuptools 26.0.0. + +* In the :mod:`urllib.request` module and the + :meth:`http.client.HTTPConnection.request` method, if no Content-Length + header field has been specified and the request body is a file object, + it is now sent with HTTP 1.1 chunked encoding. If a file object has to + be sent to a HTTP 1.0 server, the Content-Length value now has to be + specified by the caller. + (Contributed by Demian Brecht and Rolf Krahl with tweaks from + Martin Panter in :issue:`12319`.) + +* The :class:`~csv.DictReader` now returns rows of type + :class:`~collections.OrderedDict`. + (Contributed by Steve Holden in :issue:`27842`.) + +* The :const:`crypt.METHOD_CRYPT` will no longer be added to ``crypt.methods`` + if unsupported by the platform. + (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25287`.) + +* The *verbose* and *rename* arguments for + :func:`~collections.namedtuple` are now keyword-only. + (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`25628`.) + +* On Linux, :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` now looks in + ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` for shared libraries. + (Contributed by Vinay Sajip in :issue:`9998`.) + +* The :class:`imaplib.IMAP4` class now handles flags containing the + ``']'`` character in messages sent from the server to improve + real-world compatibility. + (Contributed by Lita Cho in :issue:`21815`.) + +* The :func:`mmap.write() <mmap.write>` function now returns the number + of bytes written like other write methods. + (Contributed by Jakub Stasiak in :issue:`26335`.) + +* The :func:`pkgutil.iter_modules` and :func:`pkgutil.walk_packages` + functions now return :class:`~pkgutil.ModuleInfo` named tuples. + (Contributed by Ramchandra Apte in :issue:`17211`.) + +* :func:`re.sub` now raises an error for invalid numerical group + references in replacement templates even if the pattern is not + found in the string. The error message for invalid group references + now includes the group index and the position of the reference. + (Contributed by SilentGhost, Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25953`.) + +* :class:`zipfile.ZipFile` will now raise :exc:`NotImplementedError` for + unrecognized compression values. Previously a plain :exc:`RuntimeError` + was raised. Additionally, calling :class:`~zipfile.ZipFile` methods + on a closed ZipFile or calling the :meth:`~zipfile.ZipFile.write` method + on a ZipFile created with mode ``'r'`` will raise a :exc:`ValueError`. + Previously, a :exc:`RuntimeError` was raised in those scenarios. + +* when custom metaclasses are combined with zero-argument :func:`super` or + direct references from methods to the implicit ``__class__`` closure + variable, the implicit ``__classcell__`` namespace entry must now be passed + up to ``type.__new__`` for initialisation. Failing to do so will result in + a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` in 3.6 and a :exc:`RuntimeWarning` in the future. + +Changes in the C API +-------------------- + +* The :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` allocator family now uses the :ref:`pymalloc allocator + <pymalloc>` rather than the system :c:func:`malloc`. Applications calling + :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` without holding the GIL can now crash. Set the + :envvar:`PYTHONMALLOC` environment variable to ``debug`` to validate the + usage of memory allocators in your application. See :issue:`26249`. + +* :c:func:`Py_Exit` (and the main interpreter) now override the exit status + with 120 if flushing buffered data failed. See :issue:`5319`. + + +CPython bytecode changes +------------------------ + +There have been several major changes to the :term:`bytecode` in Python 3.6. + +* The Python interpreter now uses a 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode. + (Contributed by Demur Rumed with input and reviews from + Serhiy Storchaka and Victor Stinner in :issue:`26647` and :issue:`28050`.) + +* The new :opcode:`FORMAT_VALUE` and :opcode:`BUILD_STRING` opcodes as part + of the :ref:`formatted string literal <whatsnew36-pep498>` implementation. + (Contributed by Eric Smith in :issue:`25483` and + Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`27078`.) + +* The new :opcode:`BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP` opcode to optimize the creation + of dictionaries with constant keys. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`27140`.) + +* The function call opcodes have been heavily reworked for better performance + and simpler implementation. + The :opcode:`MAKE_FUNCTION`, :opcode:`CALL_FUNCTION`, + :opcode:`CALL_FUNCTION_KW` and :opcode:`BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL` opcodes + have been modified, the new :opcode:`CALL_FUNCTION_EX` and + :opcode:`BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL` have been added, and + ``CALL_FUNCTION_VAR``, ``CALL_FUNCTION_VAR_KW`` and ``MAKE_CLOSURE`` opcodes + have been removed. + (Contributed by Demur Rumed in :issue:`27095`, and Serhiy Storchaka in + :issue:`27213`, :issue:`28257`.) + +* The new :opcode:`SETUP_ANNOTATIONS` and :opcode:`STORE_ANNOTATION` opcodes + have been added to support the new :term:`variable annotation` syntax. + (Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi in :issue:`27985`.) |