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@@ -2,6 +2,121 @@ Python News +++++++++++ +What's New in Python 3.3.1? +=========================== + +*Release date: XX-XX-XXXX* + +Core and Builtins +----------------- + +- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap + decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as + integer values, by using Py_uintptr_t instead of size_t. Patch by + Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast AT_FDCWD as (int). Required on Solaris 10 + (which defines AT_FDCWD as 0xffd19553), harmless on other platforms. + +- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in super() to RuntimeErrors. + +- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using ast.parse in an + exception handler on code with syntax errors. + +- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually + subscriptable. + +Library +------- + +- Issue #15323: improve failure message of Mock.assert_called_once_with + +- Issue #16064: unittest -m claims executable is "python", not "python3" + +- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call + +- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes + +- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters. + Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after + datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier. + +- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML + elements 'meta' and 'param'. + +- Issue #15842: The SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable} methods now + raise ValueError when the file-like object is closed. Patch by Alessandro + Moura. + +- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the curses module: window.encoding. + +- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing. Original patch + by Chris McDonough. + +- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot + be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch. + +- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of BytesIO + and StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has been closed. + Patch by Alessandro Moura. + +- Issue #15447: Use subprocess.DEVNULL in webbrowser, instead of opening + os.devnull explicitly and leaving it open. + +- Issue #15509: webbrowser.UnixBrowser no longer passes empty arguments to + Popen when %action substitutions produce empty strings. + +- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument) + only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the + default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was + especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always + be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line. + +- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change, + when action='append', type='str' and default=[]. + +Extension Modules +----------------- + +Tests +----- + +- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when os.chdir() fails inside + test.support.temp_cwd(). Patch by Chris Jerdonek. + + +- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch + by Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #15557: Added a test suite for the webbrowser module, thanks + to Anton Barkovsky. + +Build +----- + +- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly + source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.) + +Documentation +------------- + +- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and + arguments. + +- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and + default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek. + +- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent + parameter of json encoding operations. + +Tools/Demos +----------- + + What's New in Python 3.3.0? =========================== @@ -172,8 +287,6 @@ Library - Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs. -- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean. - - Issue #15249: BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes. @@ -190,6 +303,9 @@ Library - Issue #13579: string.Formatter now understands the 'a' conversion specifier. +- Issue #15793: Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd(). + Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. + - Issue #15595: Fix subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True) for certain locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek. @@ -528,6 +644,9 @@ C API Extension Modules ----------------- +- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the + offset check. Patch by Steven Willis. + - Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed. |