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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 35 |
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ Chris Rebert Marc Recht John Redford Terry Reedy +Gareth Rees Steve Reeves Lennart Regebro Ofir Reichenberg @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Core and Builtins - Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before compiling them. +- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False. + Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic + in PyObject_IsTrue(). + - Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by Julian Berman. @@ -234,9 +238,36 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is empty, instead of OverflowError. +- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray + now accept a bytearray argument. + Library ------- +- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Thread, + Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden + classes (_Thread, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this + code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible to + inherit from Thread and other classes, without having to import the private + underscored names like multiprocessing did. + +- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command + lines. + +- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime. + +- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage + collections when it is done. + +- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is + given as a low fd, it gets overwritten. + +- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line + when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden. + +- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates) + Connection:close header. + - Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso. @@ -1267,6 +1298,8 @@ C-API - Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const char *` instead of `char *`. +- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format. + Documentation ------------- @@ -6665,4 +6698,4 @@ Docs ---- -**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**
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