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The bug had no actual +impact as subprocess.py already avoided it. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25388 +.. date: 8108 +.. nonce: zm3uuQ +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code with a null +byte. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25462 +.. date: 8107 +.. nonce: eXDzgO +.. section: Core and Builtins + +The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most operations in C +implementation of OrderedDict. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22995 +.. date: 8106 +.. nonce: 90kpuP +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now rejects builtin +types with not defined __new__. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25555 +.. date: 8105 +.. nonce: MUpG-j +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of "arg" node when compiling +AST from Python objects. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24802 +.. date: 8104 +.. nonce: Qie066 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(), exec() and eval() are +passed bytes-like objects. These objects are not necessarily terminated by +a null byte, but the functions assumed they were. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24726 +.. date: 8103 +.. nonce: AHk4v2 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict that was mutated by +direct calls of dict methods. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25449 +.. date: 8102 +.. nonce: VqTOFi +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now raises KeyError in C +implementations as well as in Python implementation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25395 +.. date: 8101 +.. nonce: htkE3W +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures were garbage +collected. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25274 +.. date: 8100 +.. nonce: QCGvAF +.. section: Core and Builtins + +sys.setrecursionlimit() now raises a RecursionError if the new recursion +limit is too low depending at the current recursion depth. Modify also the +"lower-water mark" formula to make it monotonic. This mark is used to decide +when the overflowed flag of the thread state is reset. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24402 +.. date: 8099 +.. nonce: MAgi3X +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when sys.stdout.fileno() +fails. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24806 +.. date: 8098 +.. nonce: Nb0znT +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from being +subclassed through multiple inheritance. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24848 +.. date: 8097 +.. nonce: HlUSuy +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25280 +.. date: 8096 +.. nonce: ivTMwd +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no longer formatted +twice. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25003 +.. date: 8095 +.. nonce: _ban92 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function +instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking +to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such high- +quality entropy. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25182 +.. date: 8094 +.. nonce: gBDq-T +.. section: Core and Builtins + +The stdprinter (used as sys.stderr before the io module is imported at +startup) now uses the backslashreplace error handler. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25131 +.. date: 8093 +.. nonce: j5hH6a +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Make the line number and column offset of set/dict literals and +comprehensions correspond to the opening brace. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25150 +.. date: 8092 +.. nonce: 0Gh-Ty +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Hide the private _Py_atomic_xxx symbols from the public Python.h header to +fix a compilation error with OpenMP. PyThreadState_GET() becomes an alias to +PyThreadState_Get() to avoid ABI incompatibilies. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25626 +.. date: 8091 +.. nonce: TQ3fvb +.. section: Library + +Change three zlib functions to accept sizes that fit in Py_ssize_t, but +internally cap those sizes to UINT_MAX. This resolves a regression in 3.5 +where GzipFile.read() failed to read chunks larger than 2 or 4 GiB. The +change affects the zlib.Decompress.decompress() max_length parameter, the +zlib.decompress() bufsize parameter, and the zlib.Decompress.flush() length +parameter. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25583 +.. date: 8090 +.. nonce: Gk-cim +.. section: Library + +Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) when the OS +gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25593 +.. date: 8089 +.. nonce: 56uegI +.. section: Library + +Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio. + +.. + +.. bpo: 6973 +.. date: 8088 +.. nonce: nl5cHt +.. section: Library + +When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do not allow the +send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do anything as they could +potentially signal a different process. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25590 +.. date: 8087 +.. nonce: aCt-yW +.. section: Library + +In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per attribute. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25498 +.. date: 8086 +.. nonce: AvqEBl +.. section: Library + +Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects created by wrapping a +memoryview. This was a regression made in 3.5a1. Based on patch by +Eryksun. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25584 +.. date: 8085 +.. nonce: 124mYw +.. section: Library + +Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25584 +.. date: 8084 +.. nonce: ZeWX0J +.. section: Library + +Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with ``**``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25446 +.. date: 8083 +.. nonce: k1DByx +.. section: Library + +Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support. + +.. + +.. bpo: 18010 +.. date: 8082 +.. nonce: Azyf1C +.. section: Library + +Fix the pydoc web server's module search function to handle exceptions from +importing packages. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25554 +.. date: 8081 +.. nonce: UM9MlR +.. section: Library + +Got rid of circular references in regular expression parsing. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25510 +.. date: 8080 +.. nonce: 79g7LA +.. section: Library + +fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b'' instead of '' at the end if +the FileInput was opened with binary mode. Patch by Ryosuke Ito. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25503 +.. date: 8079 +.. nonce: Zea0Y7 +.. section: Library + +Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of properties. Original +patch by John Mark Vandenberg. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25515 +.. date: 8078 +.. nonce: fQsyYG +.. section: Library + +Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21827 +.. date: 8077 +.. nonce: k2oreR +.. section: Library + +Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common whitespace is a +substring of smallest leading whitespace. Based on patch by Robert Li. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25447 +.. date: 8076 +.. nonce: eDYc4t +.. section: Library + +The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and pickled (by returning +the original object unchanged). + +.. + +.. bpo: 25390 +.. date: 8075 +.. nonce: 6mSgRq +.. section: Library + +typing: Don't crash on Union[str, Pattern]. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25441 +.. date: 8074 +.. nonce: d7zph6 +.. section: Library + +asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25410 +.. date: 8073 +.. nonce: QAs_3B +.. section: Library + +Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of OrderedDict. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25411 +.. date: 8072 +.. nonce: qsJTCb +.. section: Library + +Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better use of the email +package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25407 +.. date: 8071 +.. nonce: ukNt1D +.. section: Library + +Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed in Python 3.6. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25406 +.. date: 8070 +.. nonce: 5MZKU_ +.. section: Library + +Fixed a bug in C implementation of OrderedDict.move_to_end() that caused +segmentation fault or hang in iterating after moving several items to the +start of ordered dict. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25364 +.. date: 8069 +.. nonce: u_1Wi6 +.. section: Library + +zipfile now works in threads disabled builds. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25328 +.. date: 8068 +.. nonce: Rja1Xg +.. section: Library + +smtpd's SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError if both decode_data +and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25316 +.. date: 8067 +.. nonce: dHQHWI +.. section: Library + +distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError when MSVC is not +installed. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25380 +.. date: 8066 +.. nonce: sKZ6-I +.. section: Library + +Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in pickletools.opcodes. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23972 +.. date: 8065 +.. nonce: s2g30g +.. section: Library + +Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing reuseport and reuseaddr +socket options to be set prior to binding the socket. Mirroring the existing +asyncio create_server method the reuseaddr option for datagram sockets +defaults to True if the O/S is 'posix' (except if the platform is Cygwin). +Patch by Chris Laws. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25304 +.. date: 8064 +.. nonce: CsmLyI +.. section: Library + +Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(). This lets you submit a coroutine to +a loop from another thread, returning a concurrent.futures.Future. By +Vincent Michel. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25232 +.. date: 8063 +.. nonce: KhKjCE +.. section: Library + +Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the first question +mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24657 +.. date: 8062 +.. nonce: h2Ag7y +.. section: Library + +Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the query part of the +URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24483 +.. date: 8061 +.. nonce: WPLGSJ +.. section: Library + +C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now calculates key's hash only +once. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22958 +.. date: 8060 +.. nonce: Ebu7Gl +.. section: Library + +Constructor and update method of weakref.WeakValueDictionary now accept the +self and the dict keyword arguments. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22609 +.. date: 8059 +.. nonce: fV7hdV +.. section: Library + +Constructor of collections.UserDict now accepts the self keyword argument. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25111 +.. date: 8058 +.. nonce: azL4qE +.. section: Library + +Fixed comparison of traceback.FrameSummary. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25262 +.. date: 8057 +.. nonce: pQS5cB +.. section: Library + +Added support for BINBYTES8 opcode in Python implementation of unpickler. +Highest 32 bits of 64-bit size for BINUNICODE8 and BINBYTES8 opcodes no +longer silently ignored on 32-bit platforms in C implementation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25034 +.. date: 8056 +.. nonce: eGvOIb +.. section: Library + +Fix string.Formatter problem with auto-numbering and nested format_specs. +Patch by Anthon van der Neut. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25233 +.. date: 8055 +.. nonce: EdZV9x +.. section: Library + +Rewrite the guts of asyncio.Queue and asyncio.Semaphore to be more +understandable and correct. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25203 +.. date: 8054 +.. nonce: IgDEbt +.. section: Library + +Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the module in +inconsistent state. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23600 +.. date: 8053 +.. nonce: 7J_RD5 +.. section: Library + +Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning wrong results in +some cases. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23329 +.. date: 8052 +.. nonce: yccJBE +.. section: Library + +Allow the ssl module to be built with older versions of LibreSSL. + +.. + +.. bpo: 0 +.. date: 8051 +.. nonce: ww9QSm +.. section: Library + +Prevent overflow in _Unpickler_Read. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25047 +.. date: 8050 +.. nonce: kc8tqx +.. section: Library + +The XML encoding declaration written by Element Tree now respects the letter +case given by the user. This restores the ability to write encoding names in +uppercase like "UTF-8", which worked in Python 2. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25135 +.. date: 8049 +.. nonce: gVHNy- +.. section: Library + +Make deque_clear() safer by emptying the deque before clearing. This helps +avoid possible reentrancy issues. + +.. + +.. bpo: 19143 +.. date: 8048 +.. nonce: 76SBSO +.. section: Library + +platform module now reads Windows version from kernel32.dll to avoid +compatibility shims. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25092 +.. date: 8047 +.. nonce: fQ37Ac +.. section: Library + +Fix datetime.strftime() failure when errno was already set to EINVAL. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23517 +.. date: 8046 +.. nonce: 3ABmf1 +.. section: Library + +Fix rounding in fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods of +datetime.datetime: microseconds are now rounded to nearest with ties going +to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), instead of being rounding towards +minus infinity (ROUND_FLOOR). It's important that these methods use the same +rounding mode than datetime.timedelta to keep the property: +(datetime(1970,1,1) + timedelta(seconds=t)) == datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t). +It also the rounding mode used by round(float) for example. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25155 +.. date: 8045 +.. nonce: JiETzD +.. section: Library + +Fix datetime.datetime.now() and datetime.datetime.utcnow() on Windows to +support date after year 2038. It was a regression introduced in Python +3.5.0. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25108 +.. date: 8044 +.. nonce: zGPbgA +.. section: Library + +Omitted internal frames in traceback functions print_stack(), +format_stack(), and extract_stack() called without arguments. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25118 +.. date: 8043 +.. nonce: wGm1u6 +.. section: Library + +Fix a regression of Python 3.5.0 in os.waitpid() on Windows. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24684 +.. date: 8042 +.. nonce: t4T77O +.. section: Library + +socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of +calling the encode() method of the host, to handle correctly custom string +with an encode() method which doesn't return a byte string. The encoder of +the IDNA codec is now called directly instead of calling the encode() method +of the string. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25060 +.. date: 8041 +.. nonce: zLdvIk +.. section: Library + +Correctly compute stack usage of the BUILD_MAP opcode. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24857 +.. date: 8040 +.. nonce: PpJWZ9 +.. section: Library + +Comparing call_args to a long sequence now correctly returns a boolean +result instead of raising an exception. Patch by A Kaptur. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23144 +.. date: 8039 +.. nonce: cLf67X +.. section: Library + +Make sure that HTMLParser.feed() returns all the data, even when +convert_charrefs is True. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24982 +.. date: 8038 +.. nonce: sGMMAR +.. section: Library + +shutil.make_archive() with the "zip" format now adds entries for directories +(including empty directories) in ZIP file. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25019 +.. date: 8037 +.. nonce: JQJlOZ +.. section: Library + +Fixed a crash caused by setting non-string key of expat parser. Based on +patch by John Leitch. + +.. + +.. bpo: 16180 +.. date: 8036 +.. nonce: 6IUcNS +.. section: Library + +Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping user in an infinite +loop. Patch by Xavier de Gaye. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24891 +.. date: 8035 +.. nonce: ddVmHS +.. section: Library + +Fix a race condition at Python startup if the file descriptor of stdin (0), +stdout (1) or stderr (2) is closed while Python is creating sys.stdin, +sys.stdout and sys.stderr objects. These attributes are now set to None if +the creation of the object failed, instead of raising an OSError exception. +Initial patch written by Marco Paolini. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24992 +.. date: 8034 +.. nonce: 5sqF74 +.. section: Library + +Fix error handling and a race condition (related to garbage collection) in +collections.OrderedDict constructor. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24881 +.. date: 8033 +.. nonce: ZoVZXu +.. section: Library + +Fixed setting binary mode in Python implementation of FileIO on Windows and +Cygwin. Patch from Akira Li. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25578 +.. date: 8032 +.. nonce: G6S-ft +.. section: Library + +Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer(). + +.. + +.. bpo: 25530 +.. date: 8031 +.. nonce: hDFkwu +.. section: Library + +Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating +ssl.SSLContext. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25569 +.. date: 8030 +.. nonce: CfvQjK +.. section: Library + +Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert(). + +.. + +.. bpo: 25471 +.. date: 8029 +.. nonce: T0A02M +.. section: Library + +Sockets returned from accept() shouldn't appear to be nonblocking. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25319 +.. date: 8028 +.. nonce: iyuglv +.. section: Library + +When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition should use a +regular lock rather than a recursive lock. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21112 +.. date: 8027 +.. nonce: vSFU1r +.. section: Library + +Fix regression in unittest.expectedFailure on subclasses. Patch from Berker +Peksag. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24764 +.. date: 8026 +.. nonce: QwFZ2S +.. section: Library + +cgi.FieldStorage.read_multi() now ignores the Content-Length header in part +headers. Patch written by Peter Landry and reviewed by Pierre Quentel. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24913 +.. date: 8025 +.. nonce: p2ZAJ4 +.. section: Library + +Fix overrun error in deque.index(). Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24774 +.. date: 8024 +.. nonce: xLbskG +.. section: Library + +Fix docstring in http.server.test. Patch from Chiu-Hsiang Hsu. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21159 +.. date: 8023 +.. nonce: ochL5W +.. section: Library + +Improve message in configparser.InterpolationMissingOptionError. Patch from +Łukasz Langa. + +.. + +.. bpo: 20362 +.. date: 8022 +.. nonce: 5aP_Ri +.. section: Library + +Honour TestCase.longMessage correctly in assertRegex. Patch from Ilia +Kurenkov. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23572 +.. date: 8021 +.. nonce: QhQ9RD +.. section: Library + +Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with falsy metaclasses. Patch by +Ethan Furman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 0 +.. date: 8020 +.. nonce: DO1sFa +.. section: Library + +asyncio: ensure_future() now accepts awaitable objects. + +.. + +.. bpo: 15348 +.. date: 8019 +.. nonce: d1Fg01 +.. section: IDLE + +Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process) before closing the +debugger window (running in the IDLE process). This prevents the +RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24455 +.. date: 8018 +.. nonce: x6YqtE +.. section: IDLE + +Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the debugger is +active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button (15348); and c) +activating the debugger when already active (24455). The patch by Mark +Roseman does this by making two changes. 1. Suspend and resume the +gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait mechanism intended for this +purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit). 2. In gui.run, allow any +existing interaction to terminate first. + +.. + +.. bpo: 0 +.. date: 8017 +.. nonce: Yp9LRY +.. section: IDLE + +Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?' message to +make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running user +program, not IDLE itself. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24750 +.. date: 8016 +.. nonce: xgsi-K +.. section: IDLE + +Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar. Patch by Mark +Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25313 +.. date: 8015 +.. nonce: xMXHpO +.. section: IDLE + +Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better address the +compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark. Consistently +use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24782 +.. date: 8014 +.. nonce: RgIPYE +.. section: IDLE + +Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences dialog rather +than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted list. Patch by +Mark Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22726 +.. date: 8013 +.. nonce: x8T0dA +.. section: IDLE + +Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content about the other +buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24820 +.. date: 8012 +.. nonce: TFPJhr +.. section: IDLE + +IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme. It is more or less +IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background. Strings, comments, +keywords, ... are still green, red, orange, ... . To use it with IDLEs +released before November 2015, hit the 'Save as New Custom Theme' button and +enter a new name, such as 'Custom Dark'. The custom theme will work with +any IDLE release, and can be modified. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25224 +.. date: 8011 +.. nonce: 5Llwo4 +.. section: IDLE + +README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and curious users. +The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter. 'IDLE' now means +'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24820 +.. date: 8010 +.. nonce: ZUz9Fn +.. section: IDLE + +Users can now set breakpoint colors in Settings -> Custom Highlighting. +Original patch by Mark Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24972 +.. date: 8009 +.. nonce: uc0uNo +.. section: IDLE + +Inactive selection background now matches active selection background, as +configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now always highlighted +on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24570 +.. date: 8008 +.. nonce: s3EkNn +.. section: IDLE + +Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs affected by a tk +regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24988 +.. date: 8007 +.. nonce: tXqq4T +.. section: IDLE + +Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) now work on Mac Aqua. +Patch by Mark Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24801 +.. date: 8006 +.. nonce: -bj_Ou +.. section: IDLE + +Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25173 +.. date: 8005 +.. nonce: EZzrPg +.. section: IDLE + +Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. For Mac OSX, make +them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25198 +.. date: 8004 +.. nonce: -j_BV7 +.. section: IDLE + +Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. * Properly indent +fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). * Give code snippet a very Sphinx- +like light blueish-gray background. * Re-use initial width and height set by +users for shell and editor. * When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, +put the section header at the top of the screen. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25225 +.. date: 8003 +.. nonce: 9pvdq6 +.. section: IDLE + +Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21995 +.. date: 8002 +.. nonce: C5Rmzx +.. section: IDLE + +Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22820 +.. date: 8001 +.. nonce: hix_8X +.. section: IDLE + +Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25224 +.. date: 8000 +.. nonce: UVMYQq +.. section: IDLE + +Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25219 +.. date: 7999 +.. nonce: 8_9DYg +.. section: IDLE + +Update doc for Idle command line options. Some were missing and notes were +not correct. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24861 +.. date: 7998 +.. nonce: Ecg2yT +.. section: IDLE + +Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. Use idleib.idle.* to start +Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25199 +.. date: 7997 +.. nonce: ih7yY3 +.. section: IDLE + +Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers. + +.. + +.. bpo: 16893 +.. date: 7996 +.. nonce: bZtPgJ +.. section: IDLE + +Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display. The new +idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. It looks +better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released. The tkinter +html viewer that works for this file was written by Mark Roseman. The now +unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24199 +.. date: 7995 +.. nonce: VKnZEv +.. section: IDLE + +Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24790 +.. date: 7994 +.. nonce: hD1hlj +.. section: IDLE + +Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts). + +.. + +.. bpo: 22558 +.. date: 7993 +.. nonce: Pk02YC +.. section: Documentation + +Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. Patch by +Yoni Lavi. + +.. + +.. bpo: 12067 +.. date: 7992 +.. nonce: nLD2M- +.. section: Documentation + +Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter of the language +reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed types were incorrect or +ambiguous. NotImplemented is only relevant at a lower level than the +Expressions chapter. Added details of comparing range() objects, and default +behaviour and consistency suggestions for user-defined classes. Patch from +Andy Maier. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24952 +.. date: 7991 +.. nonce: RHhFPE +.. section: Documentation + +Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in the "threading" and +"_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23725 +.. date: 7990 +.. nonce: 49TZ5f +.. section: Documentation + +Overhaul tempfile docs. Note deprecated status of mktemp. Patch from +Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24808 +.. date: 7989 +.. nonce: MGjc3F +.. section: Documentation + +Update the types of some PyTypeObject fields. Patch by Joseph Weston. + +.. + +.. bpo: 22812 +.. date: 7988 +.. nonce: kLCF0G +.. section: Documentation + +Fix unittest discovery examples. Patch from Pam McA'Nulty. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25449 +.. date: 7987 +.. nonce: MP6KNs +.. section: Tests + +Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25099 +.. date: 7986 +.. nonce: tJQOWx +.. section: Tests + +Make test_compileall not fail when an entry on sys.path cannot be written to +(commonly seen in administrative installs on Windows). + +.. + +.. bpo: 23919 +.. date: 7985 +.. nonce: vJnjaq +.. section: Tests + +Prevents assert dialogs appearing in the test suite. + +.. + +.. bpo: 0 +.. date: 7984 +.. nonce: X-Bk5l +.. section: Tests + +``PCbuild\rt.bat`` now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass +along to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24915 +.. date: 7983 +.. nonce: PgD3Cx +.. section: Build + +Add LLVM support for PGO builds and use the test suite to generate the +profile data. Initial patch by Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24910 +.. date: 7982 +.. nonce: ZZdfl0 +.. section: Build + +Windows MSIs now have unique display names. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24986 +.. date: 7981 +.. nonce: 1WyXeU +.. section: Build + +It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors when external +libraries are not available. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25450 +.. date: 7980 +.. nonce: X4xlWf +.. section: Windows + +Updates shortcuts to start Python in installation directory. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25164 +.. date: 7979 +.. nonce: FHVOOA +.. section: Windows + +Changes default all-users install directory to match per-user directory. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25143 +.. date: 7978 +.. nonce: hmxsia +.. section: Windows + +Improves installer error messages for unsupported platforms. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25163 +.. date: 7977 +.. nonce: uCRe8H +.. section: Windows + +Display correct directory in installer when using non-default settings. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25361 +.. date: 7976 +.. nonce: GETaSY +.. section: Windows + +Disables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit build + +.. + +.. bpo: 25089 +.. date: 7975 +.. nonce: n_YJgw +.. section: Windows + +Adds logging to installer for case where launcher is not selected on +upgrade. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25165 +.. date: 7974 +.. nonce: aUTN1e +.. section: Windows + +Windows uninstallation should not remove launcher if other versions remain + +.. + +.. bpo: 25112 +.. date: 7973 +.. nonce: frdKij +.. section: Windows + +py.exe launcher is missing icons + +.. + +.. bpo: 25102 +.. date: 7972 +.. nonce: 6y6Akl +.. section: Windows + +Windows installer does not precompile for -O or -OO. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25081 +.. date: 7971 +.. nonce: dcRCTO +.. section: Windows + +Makes Back button in installer go back to upgrade page when upgrading. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25091 +.. date: 7970 +.. nonce: 1u-VKy +.. section: Windows + +Increases font size of the installer. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25126 +.. date: 7969 +.. nonce: ANx3DW +.. section: Windows + +Clarifies that the non-web installer will download some components. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25213 +.. date: 7968 +.. nonce: KGmXoe +.. section: Windows + +Restores requestedExecutionLevel to manifest to disable UAC virtualization. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25022 +.. date: 7967 +.. nonce: vAt_zr +.. section: Windows + +Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25440 +.. date: 7966 +.. nonce: 5xhyGr +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Fix output of python-config --extension-suffix. |