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@@ -2,6 +2,95 @@ Python News +++++++++++ +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 1? +=================================== + +Release date: XXXX-XX-XX + +Core and Builtins +----------------- + +- Issue #9232: Modify Python's grammar to allow trailing commas in the + argument list of a function declaration. For example, "def f(*, a = + 3,): pass" is now legal. Patch from Mark Dickinson. + +Library +------- + +- Issue #22241: timezone.utc name is now plain 'UTC', not 'UTC-00:00'. + +- Issue #23517: fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods of + datetime.datetime now round microseconds to nearest with ties going to + nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), as round(float), instead of rounding + towards -Infinity (ROUND_FLOOR). + +- Issue #23552: Timeit now warns when there is substantial (4x) variance + between best and worst times. Patch from Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #24633: site-packages/README -> README.txt. + +- Issue #24879: help() and pydoc can now list named tuple fields in the + order they were defined rather than alphabetically. The ordering is + determined by the _fields attribute if present. + +- Issue #24874: Improve speed of itertools.cycle() and make its + pickle more compact. + +- Fix crash in itertools.cycle.__setstate__() when the first argument wasn't + a list. + +- Issue #20059: urllib.parse raises ValueError on all invalid ports. + Patch by Martin Panter. + +- Issue #24360: Improve __repr__ of argparse.Namespace() for invalid + identifiers. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier. + +- Issue #23426: run_setup was broken in distutils. + Patch from Alexander Belopolsky. + +- Issue #13938: 2to3 converts StringTypes to a tuple. Patch from Mark Hammond. + +- Issue #2091: open() accepted a 'U' mode string containing '+', but 'U' can + only be used with 'r'. Patch from Jeff Balogh and John O'Connor. + +- Issue #8585: improved tests for zipimporter2. Patch from Mark Lawrence. + +- Issue #18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. + Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst. + +- Issue #24426: Fast searching optimization in regular expressions now works + for patterns that starts with capturing groups. Fast searching optimization + now can't be disabled at compile time. + +- Issue #23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This + was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi + +- Issue #13248: Remove deprecated inspect.getargspec and inspect.getmoduleinfo + functions. + +Documentation +------------- + +- Issue #24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in + the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip. + +Tests +----- + +- PCbuild\rt.bat now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along + to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9. + +Build +----- + +- Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors + when external libraries are not available. + +Windows +------- + +- Issue #25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory. + What's New in Python 3.5.1 release candidate 1? =============================================== @@ -18,14 +107,6 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- -- Issue #23517: 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. - - Issue #25155: 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. @@ -120,11 +201,13 @@ Build - Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors when external libraries are not available. + Windows ------- - Issue #25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory. + What's New in Python 3.5.0 final? ================================= @@ -370,12 +453,6 @@ Library - Issue #24631: Fixed regression in the timeit module with multiline setup. -- Issue #18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. - Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst. - -- Issue #23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This - was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi - - Issue #24608: chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str. - Issue #18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module. @@ -386,6 +463,9 @@ Library - Issue #15014: SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command. +- Issue #6549: Remove hyphen from ttk.Style().element options. Only return result + from ttk.Style().configure if a result was generated or a query submitted. + - Issue #24669: Fix inspect.getsource() for 'async def' functions. Patch by Kai Groner. @@ -397,7 +477,6 @@ Build - Issue #24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2d. - What's New in Python 3.5.0 beta 3? ================================== @@ -558,6 +637,9 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #24268: PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization. Patch by Petr Viktorin. +- Issue #23359: Optimize set object internals by specializing the + hash table search into a lookup function and an insert function. + - Issue #23955: Add pyvenv.cfg option to suppress registry/environment lookup for generating sys.path on Windows. |