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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/coverity_model.c | 2 |
4 files changed, 521 insertions, 34 deletions
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ Finn Bock Paul Boddie Matthew Boedicker Robin Boerdijk +Nikolay Bogoychev David Bolen Wouter Bolsterlee Gawain Bolton @@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ Octavian Cerna Michael Cetrulo Dave Chambers Pascal Chambon +Nicholas Chammas John Chandler Hye-Shik Chang Jeffrey Chang @@ -350,6 +352,7 @@ Humberto Diogenes Yves Dionne Daniel Dittmar Josip Djolonga +Walter Dörwald Jaromir Dolecek Ismail Donmez Robert Donohue @@ -377,7 +380,6 @@ Eugene Dvurechenski Karmen Dykstra Josip Dzolonga Maxim Dzumanenko -Walter Dörwald Hans Eckardt Rodolpho Eckhardt Ulrich Eckhardt @@ -766,6 +768,7 @@ Damon Kohler Marko Kohtala Vajrasky Kok Guido Kollerie +Jacek Kołodziej Jacek Konieczny Arkady Koplyarov Peter A. Koren @@ -870,6 +873,7 @@ Everett Lipman Mirko Liss Nick Lockwood Stephanie Lockwood +Martin von Löwis Hugo Lopes Tavares Guillermo López-Anglada Anne Lord @@ -879,13 +883,13 @@ Ned Jackson Lovely Peter Lovett Chalmer Lowe Jason Lowe -Martin von Löwis Tony Lownds Ray Loyzaga Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu Lukas Lueg Loren Luke Fredrik Lundh +Mike Lundy Zhongyue Luo Mark Lutz Taras Lyapun @@ -1219,6 +1223,7 @@ Mark Roddy Kevin Rodgers Sean Rodman Giampaolo Rodola +Mauro S. M. Rodrigues Elson Rodriguez Adi Roiban Luis Rojas @@ -1418,6 +1423,7 @@ Péter Szabó John Szakmeister Amir Szekely Maciej Szulik +Joel Taddei Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis Hideaki Takahashi Takase Arihiro @@ -1429,6 +1435,7 @@ William Tanksley Christian Tanzer Steven Taschuk Amy Taylor +Julian Taylor Monty Taylor Anatoly Techtonik Gustavo Temple @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Python News +++++++++++ -What's New in Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1? -=============================================== +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 1? +=================================== Release date: tba @@ -14,16 +14,15 @@ Core and Builtins (*) unpacking in function calls. Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and Daniel Urban. -- Issue #26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function to get - the current Python thread state, but don't issue a fatal error if it is NULL. - This new function must be used instead of accessing directly the - _PyThreadState_Current variable. The variable is no more exposed since - Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact implementation of atomic C types, to avoid - compiler issues. +- Issue #26146: Add a new kind of AST node: ``ast.Constant``. It can be used + by external AST optimizers, but the compiler does not emit directly such + node. + +- Issue #23601: Sped-up allocation of dict key objects by using Python's + small object allocator. (Contributed by Julian Taylor.) -- Issue #26194: Deque.insert() gave odd results for bounded deques that had - reached their maximum size. Now an IndexError will be raised when attempting - to insert into a full deque. +- Issue #18018: Import raises ImportError instead of SystemError if a relative + import is attempted without a known parent package. - Issue #25843: When compiling code, don't merge constants if they are equal but have a different types. For example, ``f1, f2 = lambda: 1, lambda: 1.0`` @@ -31,10 +30,20 @@ Core and Builtins (``int``) and ``f2()`` returns ``1.0`` (``int``), even if ``1`` and ``1.0`` are equal. -- Issue #25731: Fix set and deleting __new__ on a class. +- Issue #26107: The format of the ``co_lnotab`` attribute of code objects + changes to support negative line number delta. + +- Issue #26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function to get + the current Python thread state, but don't issue a fatal error if it is NULL. + This new function must be used instead of accessing directly the + _PyThreadState_Current variable. The variable is no more exposed since + Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact implementation of atomic C types, to avoid + compiler issues. + +- Issue #25791: If __package__ != __spec__.parent or if neither __package__ or + __spec__ are defined then ImportWarning is raised. -- Issue #22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests in - _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based projects. +- Issue #25731: Fix set and deleting __new__ on a class. - Issue #25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name. @@ -57,6 +66,11 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8 cache. +- Issue #5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API allowing Python to set an exit status + of 120 on failure to flush buffered streams. + +- Issue #25485: telnetlib.Telnet is now a context manager. + - Issue #24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside __getattr__. @@ -64,15 +78,101 @@ Core and Builtins __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and float correspondingly. +- Issue #25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in functions + that accept filesystem paths. + +- Issue #23564: Fixed a partially broken sanity check in the _posixsubprocess + internals regarding how fds_to_pass were passed to the child. The bug had + no actual impact as subprocess.py already avoided it. + +- Issue #25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code + with a null byte. + +- Issue #25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most + operations in C implementation of OrderedDict. + +- Issue #22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now + rejects builtin types with not defined __new__. + +- Issue #24802: 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. + +- Issue #25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of "arg" node + when compiling AST from Python objects. + +- Issue #24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict that + was mutated by direct calls of dict methods. + +- Issue #25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now raises + KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python implementation. + +- Issue #25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures were + garbage collected. + +- Issue #25401: Optimize bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex(): they are now + between 2x and 3.5x faster. + +- Issue #25399: Optimize bytearray % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter + API. Formatting is now between 2.5 and 5 times faster. + +- Issue #25274: 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. + +- Issue #24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when + sys.stdout.fileno() fails. + +- Issue #25349: Optimize bytes % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter API. + Formatting is now up to 2 times faster. + +- Issue #24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from + being subclassed through multiple inheritance. + +- Issue #25301: The UTF-8 decoder is now up to 15 times as fast for error + handlers: ``ignore``, ``replace`` and ``surrogateescape``. + +- Issue #24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data. + +- Issue #25267: The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for error + handlers: ``ignore``, ``replace``, ``surrogateescape``, ``surrogatepass``. + Patch co-written with Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no + longer formatted twice. + +- Issue #25227: Optimize ASCII and latin1 encoders with the ``surrogateescape`` + error handler: the encoders are now up to 3 times as fast. Initial patch + written by Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #25003: 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. + +- 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. + +- Issue #24965: Implement PEP 498 "Literal String Interpolation". This + allows you to embed expressions inside f-strings, which are + converted to normal strings at run time. Given x=3, then + f'value={x}' == 'value=3'. Patch by Eric V. Smith. + - Issue #26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in zipimporter.get_data(). - Issue #25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline. +- Issue #26288: Optimize PyLong_AsDouble. Library ------- +- Issue #26039: Added zipfile.ZipInfo.from_file() and zipinfo.ZipInfo.is_dir(). + Patch by Thomas Kluyver. + - Issue #12923: Reset FancyURLopener's redirect counter even if there is an exception. Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco. @@ -93,6 +193,10 @@ Library gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the hostname from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8. +- Issue #26099: The site module now writes an error into stderr if + sitecustomize module can be imported but executing the module raise an + ImportError. Same change for usercustomize. + - Issue #26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used non-UTF-8 encoding. @@ -103,13 +207,21 @@ Library - Issue #26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles created in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower). +- Issue #26129: Deprecated accepting non-integers in grp.getgrgid(). + - Issue #25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows. -- Issue #17633: Improve zipimport's support for namespace packages. +- Issue #25822: Add docstrings to the fields of urllib.parse results. + Patch contributed by Swati Jaiswal. + +- Issue #22642: Convert trace module option parsing mechanism to argparse. + Patch contributed by SilentGhost. - Issue #24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars appearing before $() vars. +- Issue #26069: Remove the deprecated apis in the trace module. + - Issue #22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors. Restore original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean McCully. @@ -128,13 +240,28 @@ Library - Issue #24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with pathlib.Path.[r]glob(). Patch by Ulrich Petri. +- Issue #21815: Accept ] characters in the data portion of imap responses, + in order to handle the flags with square brackets accepted and produced + by servers such as gmail. + - Issue #25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have a buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility). +- Issue #25971: Optimized creating Fractions from floats by 2 times and from + Decimals by 3 times. + +- Issue #25802: Document as deprecated the remaining implementations of + importlib.abc.Loader.load_module(). + +- Issue #25928: Add Decimal.as_integer_ratio(). + - Issue #25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always works, - independedly from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original + independently from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original object unchanged). +- Issue #25768: Have the functions in compileall return booleans instead of + ints and add proper documentation and tests for the return values. + - Issue #24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.XMLPullParser. - Issue #25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when error @@ -142,8 +269,22 @@ Library - Issue #25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__. +- Issue #25869: Optimized deepcopying ElementTree; it is now 20 times faster. + +- Issue #25873: Optimized iterating ElementTree. Iterating elements + Element.iter() is now 40% faster, iterating text Element.itertext() + is now up to 2.5 times faster. + - Issue #25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration. +- Issue #22227: The TarFile iterator is reimplemented using generator. + This implementation is simpler that using class. + +- Issue #25638: Optimized ElementTree.iterparse(); it is now 2x faster. + Optimized ElementTree parsing; it is now 10% faster. + +- Issue #25761: Improved detecting errors in broken pickle data. + - Issue #25717: Restore the previous behaviour of tolerating most fstat() errors when opening files. This was a regression in 3.5a1, and stopped anonymous temporary files from working in special cases. @@ -155,6 +296,9 @@ Library - Issue #25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused by fork() failure when preexec_fn is used. +- Issue #25771: Tweak the exception message for importlib.util.resolve_name() + when 'package' isn't specified but necessary. + - Issue #6478: _strptime's regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone with time.tzset(). @@ -176,6 +320,9 @@ Library - Issue #10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents. Based on patch by Marian Ganisin. +- Issue #7990: dir() on ElementTree.Element now lists properties: "tag", + "text", "tail" and "attrib". Original patch by Santoso Wijaya. + - Issue #25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when unpickling invalid data including tuple instructions. @@ -191,6 +338,202 @@ Library - Issue #25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory entries. Patch by Dingyuan Wang. +- Issue #25626: 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. + +- Issue #25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) + when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST. + +- Issue #25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio. + +- Issue #6973: 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. + +- Issue #23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs + for the following modules: calendar, csv, enum, fileinput, ftplib, logging, + optparse, tarfile, threading and wave. Also added a + test.support.check__all__() helper. Patches by Jacek Kołodziej, Mauro + S. M. Rodrigues and Joel Taddei. + +- Issue #25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per + attribute. Also complete names of attributes such as properties and slots + which are listed by dir() but not yet created on an instance. + +- Issue #25498: 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. + +- Issue #25584: Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module. + +- Issue #25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with '\*\*'. + +- Issue #25446: Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support. + +- Issue #18010: Fix the pydoc web server's module search function to handle + exceptions from importing packages. + +- Issue #25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression parsing. + +- Issue #18973: Command-line interface of the calendar module now uses argparse + instead of optparse. + +- Issue #25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b'' instead of '' + at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode. + Patch by Ryosuke Ito. + +- Issue #25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of properties. + Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg. + +- Issue #25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4. + +- Issue #21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common + whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace. + Based on patch by Robert Li. + +- Issue #25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and pickled + (by returning the original object unchanged). + +- Issue #25390: typing: Don't crash on Union[str, Pattern]. + +- Issue #25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed. + +- Issue #25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of + OrderedDict. + +- Issue #25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better use of + the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch. + +- Move the imp module from a PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning. + +- Issue #25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed in + Python 3.6. + +- Issue #25406: 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. + +- Issue #25382: pickletools.dis() now outputs implicit memo index for the + MEMOIZE opcode. + +- Issue #25357: Add an optional newline paramer to binascii.b2a_base64(). + base64.b64encode() uses it to avoid a memory copy. + +- Issue #24164: Objects that need calling ``__new__`` with keyword arguments, + can now be pickled using pickle protocols older than protocol version 4. + +- Issue #25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds. + +- Issue #25328: smtpd's SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError if both + decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true. + +- Issue #16099: RobotFileParser now supports Crawl-delay and Request-rate + extensions. Patch by Nikolay Bogoychev. + +- Issue #25316: distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError + when MSVC is not installed. + +- Issue #25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in + pickletools.opcodes. + +- Issue #23972: 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. + +- Issue #25304: 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. + +- Issue #25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the + first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the + query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #25287: Don't add crypt.METHOD_CRYPT to crypt.methods if it's not + supported. Check if it is supported, it may not be supported on OpenBSD for + example. + +- Issue #23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning + wrong results in some cases. + +- Issue #25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the + module in inconsistent state. + +- Issue #25011: rlcompleter now omits private and special attribute names unless + the prefix starts with underscores. + +- Issue #25209: rlcompleter now can add a space or a colon after completed keyword. + +- 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.getmoduleinfo function. + +- Issue #25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer(). + +- Issue #25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating + ssl.SSLContext. + +- Issue #25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert(). + +- Issue #25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn't appear to be + nonblocking. + +- Issue #25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition + should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock. + - Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. @@ -199,11 +542,108 @@ Library - Issue #26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method. Patch by Марк Коренберг. +IDLE +---- + +- Issue 15348: 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. + +- Issue #24455: 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. + +- 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. + +- Issue #24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar. + Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #25313: 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. + +- Issue #24782: 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. + +- Issue #22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content + about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme. + +- Issue #24820: 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. + +- Issue #25224: 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'. + +- Issue #24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in + Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #24972: 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. + +- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs + affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) + now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. + Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. + For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman. + +- Issue #25198: 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. + +- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors. + +- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python. + +- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor. + +- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section. + +- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. + Some were missing and notes were not correct. + +- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. + Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__. + +- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers. + +- Issue #16893: 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 Rose Roseman. + The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated. + +- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6. + +- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts). + Documentation ------------- -- Issue #25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is searched for - in the global scope. +- Issue #24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in + the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip. Tests ----- @@ -214,19 +654,42 @@ Tests - Issue #25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections into separate file test_ordered_dict. +- Issue #25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses. + +- Issue #25188: Add -P/--pgo to test.regrtest to suppress error output when + running the test suite for the purposes of a PGO build. Initial patch by + Alecsandru Patrascu. + +- Issue #22806: Add ``python -m test --list-tests`` command to list tests. + +- Issue #18174: ``python -m test --huntrleaks ...`` now also checks for leak of + file descriptors. Patch written by Richard Oudkerk. + +- Issue #25260: Fix ``python -m test --coverage`` on Windows. Remove the + list of ignored directories. + +- ``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 #25348: Added ``--pgo`` and ``--pgo-job`` arguments to ``PCbuild\build.bat`` for building with Profile-Guided Optimization. The - old ``PCbuild\build_pgo.bat`` script is now deprecated, and simply calls - ``PCbuild\build.bat --pgo %*``. + old ``PCbuild\build_pgo.bat`` script is removed. - Issue #25827: Add support for building with ICC to ``configure``, including a new ``--with-icc`` flag. - Issue #25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9. +- Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors + when external libraries are not available. + +- Issue #24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions. + Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds + were concurrent. + - Issue #25798: Update OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2e. Windows @@ -240,6 +703,24 @@ Windows - Issue #26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable distro. +- Issue #25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory. + +Tools/Demos +----------- + +- Issue #25440: Fix output of python-config --extension-suffix. + +- Issue #25154: The pyvenv script has been deprecated in favour of + `python3 -m venv`. + +C API +----- + +- Issue #26198: ValueError is now raised instead of TypeError on buffer + overflow in parsing "es#" and "et#" format units. SystemError is now raised + instead of TypeError on programmical error in parsing format string. + + What's New in Python 3.5.1 final? ================================= @@ -988,12 +1469,6 @@ 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. @@ -1004,6 +1479,9 @@ 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. @@ -1015,7 +1493,6 @@ 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? ================================== @@ -1176,6 +1653,9 @@ 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. diff --git a/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt b/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt index 3004174..4b673fd 100644 --- a/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt +++ b/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt @@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ sys.getobjects(max[, type]) simply by virtue of being in the list. envvar PYTHONDUMPREFS - If this envvar exists, Py_Finalize() arranges to print a list of all + If this envvar exists, Py_FinalizeEx() arranges to print a list of all still-live heap objects. This is printed twice, in different formats, - before and after Py_Finalize has cleaned up everything it can clean up. The + before and after Py_FinalizeEx has cleaned up everything it can clean up. The first output block produces the repr() of each object so is more informative; however, a lot of stuff destined to die is still alive then. The second output block is much harder to work with (repr() can't be invoked @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Special gimmicks: envvar PYTHONMALLOCSTATS If this envvar exists, a report of pymalloc summary statistics is printed to - stderr whenever a new arena is allocated, and also by Py_Finalize(). + stderr whenever a new arena is allocated, and also by Py_FinalizeEx(). Changed in 2.5: The number of extra bytes allocated is 4*sizeof(size_t). Before it was 16 on all boxes, reflecting that Python couldn't make use of @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Each type object grows three new members: */ int tp_maxalloc; -Allocation and deallocation code keeps these counts up to date. Py_Finalize() +Allocation and deallocation code keeps these counts up to date. Py_FinalizeEx() displays a summary of the info returned by sys.getcounts() (see below), along with assorted other special allocation counts (like the number of tuple allocations satisfied by a tuple free-list, the number of 1-character strings diff --git a/Misc/coverity_model.c b/Misc/coverity_model.c index 493e7c1..f776d76 100644 --- a/Misc/coverity_model.c +++ b/Misc/coverity_model.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ wchar_t *Py_DecodeLocale(const char* arg, size_t *size) } /* Parser/pgenmain.c */ -grammar *getgrammar(char *filename) +grammar *getgrammar(const char *filename) { grammar *g; __coverity_tainted_data_sink__(filename); |