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@@ -915,6 +915,15 @@ using the new :mod:`enum` module. This allows meaningful names to be printed
during debugging, instead of integer "magic numbers".
+sqlite3
+-------
+
+A new boolean parameter, *uri*, to the :func:`~sqlite3.connect` function can
+be used to indicate that the *database* parameter is a ``uri`` (see
+the `SQLite URI documentation <http://www.sqlite.org/uri.html>`_).
+(Contributed by poq in :issue:`13773`.)
+
+
ssl
---
@@ -998,6 +1007,10 @@ Support for easy dynamically-generated subtests using the
:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.subTest` context manager.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16997`.)
+:func:`unittest.main` now also accepts an iterable of test names for
+*defaultTest*, where previously it only accepted a single test name as a
+string. (Contributed by Jyrki Pulliainen in :issue:`15132`.)
+
venv
----
@@ -1246,6 +1259,10 @@ Deprecated Python Modules, Functions and Methods
* MD5 as default digestmod for :mod:`hmac` is deprecated. Python 3.6 will
require an explicit digest name or constructor as *digestmod* argument.
+* The internal ``Netrc`` class in the :mod:`ftplib` module has been documented
+ as deprecated in its docstring for quite some time. It now emits a
+ :exc:`DeprecationWarning` and will be removed completely in Python 3.5.
+
Deprecated Functions and Types in the C API
-------------------------------------------