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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances). +- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` + method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still + kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` + object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``. Library ------- @@ -31,6 +35,22 @@ Library - Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs. +- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output + from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error. + +- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to + support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in + Content-Disposition headers. + +- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using + captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; + it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers + could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user + doesn't configure logging. + +- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an + exception. + - Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally statements. |