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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index b69f452..8f09621 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -76,16 +76,14 @@ Other Language Changes ====================== * More than 255 arguments can now be passed to a function, and a function can - now have more than 255 parameters. - (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`12844` and :issue:`18896`.) + now have more than 255 parameters. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in + :issue:`12844` and :issue:`18896`.) * :meth:`bytes.fromhex` and :meth:`bytearray.fromhex` now ignore all ASCII - whitespace, not only spaces. - (Contributed by Robert Xiao in :issue:`28927`.) + whitespace, not only spaces. (Contributed by Robert Xiao in :issue:`28927`.) * :exc:`ImportError` now displays module name and module ``__file__`` path when - ``from ... import ...`` fails. - (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier in :issue:`29546`.) + ``from ... import ...`` fails. (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier in :issue:`29546`.) New Modules @@ -97,25 +95,32 @@ New Modules Improved Modules ================ +locale +------ + +Added another argument *monetary* in :meth:`format_string` of :mod:`locale`. +If *monetary* is true, the conversion uses monetary thousands separator and +grouping strings. (Contributed by Garvit in :issue:`10379`.) + os -- -Added support for :class:`bytes` paths in :func:`~os.fwalk`. -(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28682`.) +Added support for :class:`bytes` paths in :func:`~os.fwalk`. (Contributed by +Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28682`.) unittest.mock ------------- The :const:`~unittest.mock.sentinel` attributes now preserve their identity -when they are :mod:`copied <copy>` or :mod:`pickled <pickle>`. -(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`20804`.) +when they are :mod:`copied <copy>` or :mod:`pickled <pickle>`. (Contributed by +Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`20804`.) xmlrpc.server ------------- :meth:`register_function` of :class:`xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher` and -its subclasses can be used as a decorator. -(Contributed by Xiang Zhang in :issue:`7769`.) +its subclasses can be used as a decorator. (Contributed by Xiang Zhang in +:issue:`7769`.) urllib.parse ------------ @@ -130,13 +135,13 @@ Optimizations * Added two new opcodes: ``LOAD_METHOD`` and ``CALL_METHOD`` to avoid instantiation of bound method objects for method calls, which results - in method calls being faster up to 20%. - (Contributed by Yury Selivanov and INADA Naoki in :issue:`26110`.) + in method calls being faster up to 20%. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov and + INADA Naoki in :issue:`26110`.) * Fast implementation from standard C library is now used for functions :func:`~math.tgamma`, :func:`~math.lgamma`, :func:`~math.erf` and - :func:`~math.erfc` in the :mod:`math` module. - (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`26121`.) + :func:`~math.erfc` in the :mod:`math` module. (Contributed by Serhiy + Storchaka in :issue:`26121`.) Build and C API Changes @@ -154,8 +159,8 @@ Build and C API Changes ``char *``. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28761`.) * The result of :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize` and :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsUTF8` - is now of type ``const char *`` rather of ``char *``. - (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28769`.) + is now of type ``const char *`` rather of ``char *``. (Contributed by Serhiy + Storchaka in :issue:`28769`.) * Added functions :c:func:`PySlice_Unpack` and :c:func:`PySlice_AdjustIndices`. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`27867`.) @@ -169,6 +174,9 @@ Deprecated ``0x03050400`` and ``0x03060000`` (not including) or ``0x03060100`` or higher. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`27867`.) +- Deprecated :meth:`format` from :mod:`locale`, use the :meth:`format_string` + instead. (Contributed by Garvit in :issue:`10379`.) + - Methods :meth:`MetaPathFinder.find_module() <importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module>` (replaced by @@ -181,8 +189,8 @@ Deprecated by Matthias Bussonnier in :issue:`29576`) - Using non-integer value for selecting a plural form in :mod:`gettext` is - now deprecated. It never correctly worked. - (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28692`.) + now deprecated. It never correctly worked. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka + in :issue:`28692`.) Changes in the C API @@ -229,8 +237,8 @@ Changes in the Python API * A format string argument for :meth:`string.Formatter.format` is now :ref:`positional-only <positional-only_parameter>`. - Passing it as a keyword argument was deprecated in Python 3.5. - (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29193`.) + Passing it as a keyword argument was deprecated in Python 3.5. (Contributed + by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29193`.) * Attributes :attr:`~http.cookies.Morsel.key`, :attr:`~http.cookies.Morsel.value` and @@ -244,8 +252,8 @@ Changes in the Python API ``ClassDef`` AST nodes now have a new ``docstring`` field. The first statement in their body is not considered as a docstring anymore. ``co_firstlineno`` and ``co_lnotab`` of code object for class - and module are affected by this change. - (Contributed by INADA Naoki and Eugene Toder in :issue:`29463`.) + and module are affected by this change. (Contributed by INADA Naoki and + Eugene Toder in :issue:`29463`.) * The *mode* argument of :func:`os.makedirs` no longer affects the file permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories. |