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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a4.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b162bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a4.rst @@ -0,0 +1,665 @@ +.. bpo: 22980 +.. date: 9109 +.. nonce: Lu_y6y +.. release date: 2015-04-19 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Under Linux, GNU/KFreeBSD and the Hurd, C extensions now include the +architecture triplet in the extension name, to make it easy to test builds +for different ABIs in the same working tree. Under OS X, the extension name +now includes PEP 3149-style information. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22631 +.. date: 9108 +.. nonce: nTx_ZF +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Added Linux-specific socket constant CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES. Patch courtesy of +Joe Jevnik. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23731 +.. date: 9107 +.. nonce: FOXb37 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Implement PEP 488: removal of .pyo files. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23726 +.. date: 9106 +.. nonce: ZopTQ0 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Don't enable GC for user subclasses of non-GC types that don't add any new +fields. Patch by Eugene Toder. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23309 +.. date: 9105 +.. nonce: Wfnsnz +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is aborted while it is +holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the main thread tries to use +the same I/O object (typically stdout or stderr). A fatal error is emitted +instead. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22977 +.. date: 9104 +.. nonce: hutEse +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed formatting Windows error messages on Wine. Patch by Martin Panter. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23466 +.. date: 9103 +.. nonce: KhMltK +.. section: Core and Builtins + +%c, %o, %x, and %X in bytes formatting now raise TypeError on non-integer +input. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24044 +.. date: 9102 +.. nonce: H7vb6- +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix possible null pointer dereference in list.sort in out of memory +conditions. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21354 +.. date: 9101 +.. nonce: ZZTe1E +.. section: Core and Builtins + +PyCFunction_New function is exposed by python DLL again. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23840 +.. date: 9100 +.. nonce: mtSbqO +.. section: Library + +tokenize.open() now closes the temporary binary file on error to fix a +resource warning. + +.. + +.. bpo: 16914 +.. date: 9099 +.. nonce: GrP2Jr +.. section: Library + +new debuglevel 2 in smtplib adds timestamps to debug output. + +.. + +.. bpo: 7159 +.. date: 9098 +.. nonce: KCgOUm +.. section: Library + +urllib.request now supports sending auth credentials automatically after the +first 401. This enhancement is a superset of the enhancement from issue +#19494 and supersedes that change. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23703 +.. date: 9097 +.. nonce: kYybxm +.. section: Library + +Fix a regression in urljoin() introduced in 901e4e52b20a. Patch by Demian +Brecht. + +.. + +.. bpo: 4254 +.. date: 9096 +.. nonce: eUC_2H +.. section: Library + +Adds _curses.update_lines_cols(). Patch by Arnon Yaari + +.. + +.. bpo: 19933 +.. date: 9095 +.. nonce: Qq8utk +.. section: Library + +Provide default argument for ndigits in round. Patch by Vajrasky Kok. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23193 +.. date: 9094 +.. nonce: n5ahcG +.. section: Library + +Add a numeric_owner parameter to tarfile.TarFile.extract and +tarfile.TarFile.extractall. Patch by Michael Vogt and Eric Smith. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23342 +.. date: 9093 +.. nonce: CbSzYI +.. section: Library + +Add a subprocess.run() function than returns a CalledProcess instance for a +more consistent API than the existing call* functions. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21217 +.. date: 9092 +.. nonce: TkFTlk +.. section: Library + +inspect.getsourcelines() now tries to compute the start and end lines from +the code object, fixing an issue when a lambda function is used as decorator +argument. Patch by Thomas Ballinger and Allison Kaptur. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24521 +.. date: 9091 +.. nonce: bn4U-y +.. section: Library + +Fix possible integer overflows in the pickle module. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22931 +.. date: 9090 +.. nonce: 4CuWYD +.. section: Library + +Allow '[' and ']' in cookie values. + +.. + +.. bpo: 0 +.. date: 9089 +.. nonce: fgX8Qe +.. section: Library + +The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a dictionary. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23811 +.. date: 9088 +.. nonce: B6tzf9 +.. section: Library + +Add missing newline to the PyCompileError error message. Patch by Alex +Shkop. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21116 +.. date: 9087 +.. nonce: Orft3K +.. section: Library + +Avoid blowing memory when allocating a multiprocessing shared array that's +larger than 50% of the available RAM. Patch by Médéric Boquien. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22982 +.. date: 9086 +.. nonce: xYmG62 +.. section: Library + +Improve BOM handling when seeking to multiple positions of a writable text +file. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23464 +.. date: 9085 +.. nonce: _XGkBk +.. section: Library + +Removed deprecated asyncio JoinableQueue. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23529 +.. date: 9084 +.. nonce: Hr7AHH +.. section: Library + +Limit the size of decompressed data when reading from GzipFile, BZ2File or +LZMAFile. This defeats denial of service attacks using compressed bombs +(i.e. compressed payloads which decompress to a huge size). Patch by Martin +Panter and Nikolaus Rath. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21859 +.. date: 9083 +.. nonce: GYrUNP +.. section: Library + +Added Python implementation of io.FileIO. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23865 +.. date: 9082 +.. nonce: PtSLgU +.. section: Library + +close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent and more robust at +shutdown. If they need to release multiple resources, all are released even +if errors occur. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23400 +.. date: 9081 +.. nonce: JSh9Z3 +.. section: Library + +Raise same exception on both Python 2 and 3 if sem_open is not available. +Patch by Davin Potts. + +.. + +.. bpo: 10838 +.. date: 9080 +.. nonce: p9tSPC +.. section: Library + +The subprocess now module includes SubprocessError and TimeoutError in its +list of exported names for the users wild enough to use ``from subprocess +import *``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23411 +.. date: 9079 +.. nonce: 0im3Qw +.. section: Library + +Added DefragResult, ParseResult, SplitResult, DefragResultBytes, +ParseResultBytes, and SplitResultBytes to urllib.parse.__all__. Patch by +Martin Panter. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23881 +.. date: 9078 +.. nonce: yZjl4b +.. section: Library + +urllib.request.ftpwrapper constructor now closes the socket if the FTP +connection failed to fix a ResourceWarning. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23853 +.. date: 9077 +.. nonce: mNY1eI +.. section: Library + +:meth:`socket.socket.sendall` does no more reset the socket timeout each +time data is sent successfully. The socket timeout is now the maximum total +duration to send all data. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22721 +.. date: 9076 +.. nonce: MVfBL9 +.. section: Library + +An order of multiline pprint output of set or dict containing orderable and +non-orderable elements no longer depends on iteration order of set or dict. + +.. + +.. bpo: 15133 +.. date: 9075 +.. nonce: C0QfV8 +.. section: Library + +_tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports Tcl_Obj and always returns bool. +tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values (accepted bool, int, str, and +Tcl_Obj). tkinter.BooleanVar.get() now always returns bool. + +.. + +.. bpo: 10590 +.. date: 9074 +.. nonce: nkxXfU +.. section: Library + +xml.sax.parseString() now supports string argument. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23338 +.. date: 9073 +.. nonce: ZYMGN1 +.. section: Library + +Fixed formatting ctypes error messages on Cygwin. Patch by Makoto Kato. + +.. + +.. bpo: 15582 +.. date: 9072 +.. nonce: 26wJNk +.. section: Library + +inspect.getdoc() now follows inheritance chains. + +.. + +.. bpo: 2175 +.. date: 9071 +.. nonce: cHiVOp +.. section: Library + +SAX parsers now support a character stream of InputSource object. + +.. + +.. bpo: 16840 +.. date: 9070 +.. nonce: kKIhPm +.. section: Library + +Tkinter now supports 64-bit integers added in Tcl 8.4 and arbitrary +precision integers added in Tcl 8.5. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23834 +.. date: 9069 +.. nonce: fX3TF4 +.. section: Library + +Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store the result of +sendto() instead of the C int type. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23618 +.. date: 9068 +.. nonce: Of_q5t +.. section: Library + +:meth:`socket.socket.connect` now waits until the connection completes +instead of raising :exc:`InterruptedError` if the connection is interrupted +by signals, signal handlers don't raise an exception and the socket is +blocking or has a timeout. :meth:`socket.socket.connect` still raise +:exc:`InterruptedError` for non-blocking sockets. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21526 +.. date: 9067 +.. nonce: QQEXrR +.. section: Library + +Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23836 +.. date: 9066 +.. nonce: zrEmlR +.. section: Library + +Fix the faulthandler module to handle reentrant calls to its signal +handlers. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23838 +.. date: 9065 +.. nonce: IX6FPX +.. section: Library + +linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty result on MemoryError. + +.. + +.. bpo: 10395 +.. date: 9064 +.. nonce: fi_lZp +.. section: Library + +Added os.path.commonpath(). Implemented in posixpath and ntpath. Based on +patch by Rafik Draoui. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23611 +.. date: 9063 +.. nonce: QkBJVB +.. section: Library + +Serializing more "lookupable" objects (such as unbound methods or nested +classes) now are supported with pickle protocols < 4. + +.. + +.. bpo: 13583 +.. date: 9062 +.. nonce: -MPBjZ +.. section: Library + +sqlite3.Row now supports slice indexing. + +.. + +.. bpo: 18473 +.. date: 9061 +.. nonce: 89RHm- +.. section: Library + +Fixed 2to3 and 3to2 compatible pickle mappings. Fixed ambigious reverse +mappings. Added many new mappings. Import mapping is no longer applied to +modules already mapped with full name mapping. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23485 +.. date: 9060 +.. nonce: kQWN6L +.. section: Library + +select.select() is now retried automatically with the recomputed timeout +when interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an +exception. This change is part of the PEP 475. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23752 +.. date: 9059 +.. nonce: 5fbVNb +.. section: Library + +When built from an existing file descriptor, io.FileIO() now only calls +fstat() once. Before fstat() was called twice, which was not necessary. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23704 +.. date: 9058 +.. nonce: Ggjvm8 +.. section: Library + +collections.deque() objects now support __add__, __mul__, and __imul__(). + +.. + +.. bpo: 23171 +.. date: 9057 +.. nonce: b6PBzM +.. section: Library + +csv.Writer.writerow() now supports arbitrary iterables. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23745 +.. date: 9056 +.. nonce: E00Bml +.. section: Library + +The new email header parser now handles duplicate MIME parameter names +without error, similar to how get_param behaves. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22117 +.. date: 9055 +.. nonce: bTO0xx +.. section: Library + +Fix os.utime(), it now rounds the timestamp towards minus infinity (-inf) +instead of rounding towards zero. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23310 +.. date: 9054 +.. nonce: GXmFMR +.. section: Library + +Fix MagicMock's initializer to work with __methods__, just like +configure_mock(). Patch by Kasia Jachim. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23817 +.. date: 9053 +.. nonce: DTmVan +.. section: Build + +FreeBSD now uses "1.0" in the SOVERSION as other operating systems, instead +of just "1". + +.. + +.. bpo: 23501 +.. date: 9052 +.. nonce: iz10e6 +.. section: Build + +Argument Clinic now generates code into separate files by default. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23799 +.. date: 9051 +.. nonce: XU2xDw +.. section: Tests + +Added test.support.start_threads() for running and cleaning up multiple +threads. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22390 +.. date: 9050 +.. nonce: UPVFnq +.. section: Tests + +test.regrtest now emits a warning if temporary files or directories are left +after running a test. + +.. + +.. bpo: 18128 +.. date: 9049 +.. nonce: lx2V5a +.. section: Tools/Demos + +pygettext now uses standard +NNNN format in the POT-Creation-Date header. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23935 +.. date: 9048 +.. nonce: JSYowT +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Argument Clinic's understanding of format units accepting bytes, bytearrays, +and buffers is now consistent with both the documentation and the +implementation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23944 +.. date: 9047 +.. nonce: Q8ZL2s +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Argument Clinic now wraps long impl prototypes at column 78. + +.. + +.. bpo: 20586 +.. date: 9046 +.. nonce: 7BiEkx +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Argument Clinic now ensures that functions without docstrings have +signatures. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23492 +.. date: 9045 +.. nonce: kjIcQW +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Argument Clinic now generates argument parsing code with PyArg_Parse instead +of PyArg_ParseTuple if possible. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23500 +.. date: 9044 +.. nonce: H6_dX_ +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Argument Clinic is now smarter about generating the "#ifndef" (empty) +definition of the methoddef macro: it's only generated once, even if +Argument Clinic processes the same symbol multiple times, and it's emitted +at the end of all processing rather than immediately after the first use. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23998 +.. date: 9043 +.. nonce: z7mlLW +.. section: C API + +PyImport_ReInitLock() now checks for lock allocation error |