.. bpo: 23285 .. date: 8948 .. nonce: bJJA8B .. release date: 2015-02-08 .. section: Core and Builtins PEP 475 - EINTR handling. .. .. bpo: 22735 .. date: 8947 .. nonce: mFEX9n .. section: Core and Builtins Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving custom mro() implementations. .. .. bpo: 22896 .. date: 8946 .. nonce: xSDAHK .. section: Core and Builtins Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(), PyObject_AsReadBuffer() and PyObject_AsWriteBuffer(). .. .. bpo: 21295 .. date: 8945 .. nonce: LYq9nF .. section: Core and Builtins Revert some changes (issue #16795) to AST line numbers and column offsets that constituted a regression. .. .. bpo: 22986 .. date: 8944 .. nonce: yay2Lv .. section: Core and Builtins Allow changing an object's __class__ between a dynamic type and static type in some cases. .. .. bpo: 15859 .. date: 8943 .. nonce: Fs5mE2 .. section: Core and Builtins PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS() and PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is not a Unicode object. For PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), it was already the case on platforms other than Windows. Patch written by Campbell Barton. .. .. bpo: 21408 .. date: 8942 .. nonce: Lz6P3P .. section: Core and Builtins The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. Original patch by Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 23321 .. date: 8941 .. nonce: HQelge .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned replacement string longer than malformed input data. .. .. bpo: 22286 .. date: 8940 .. nonce: l6Qyy1 .. section: Core and Builtins The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with decoding and translating. .. .. bpo: 23253 .. date: 8939 .. nonce: p4B1H- .. section: Core and Builtins Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced startup overhead on Windows. .. .. bpo: 22038 .. date: 8938 .. nonce: BMZUHx .. section: Core and Builtins pyatomic.h now uses stdatomic.h or GCC built-in functions for atomic memory access if available. Patch written by Vitor de Lima and Gustavo Temple. .. .. bpo: 20284 .. date: 8937 .. nonce: CH8wpD .. section: Core and Builtins %-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes and bytearray. .. .. bpo: 23048 .. date: 8936 .. nonce: X5BUd3 .. section: Core and Builtins Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb. .. .. bpo: 20335 .. date: 8935 .. nonce: YcAPOs .. section: Core and Builtins bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors is specified with non-string argument. Based on patch by Renaud Blanch. .. .. bpo: 22834 .. date: 8934 .. nonce: N1kAXN .. section: Core and Builtins If the current working directory ends up being set to a non-existent directory then import will no longer raise FileNotFoundError. .. .. bpo: 22869 .. date: 8933 .. nonce: rAWg-V .. section: Core and Builtins Move the interpreter startup & shutdown code to a new dedicated pylifecycle.c module .. .. bpo: 22847 .. date: 8932 .. nonce: 6baj9f .. section: Core and Builtins Improve method cache efficiency. .. .. bpo: 22335 .. date: 8931 .. nonce: DWsXiy .. section: Core and Builtins Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff bytes on a 32-bit platform. .. .. bpo: 22653 .. date: 8930 .. nonce: pCNlpv .. section: Core and Builtins Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant dict insertion in debug mode. .. .. bpo: 22643 .. date: 8929 .. nonce: xv8xev .. section: Core and Builtins Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower, title, swapcase, casefold). .. .. bpo: 17636 .. date: 8928 .. nonce: wiqnhw .. section: Core and Builtins Circular imports involving relative imports are now supported. .. .. bpo: 22604 .. date: 8927 .. nonce: yii-It .. section: Core and Builtins Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex number by (nan+0j). .. .. bpo: 21052 .. date: 8926 .. nonce: -sf3tp .. section: Core and Builtins Do not raise ImportWarning when sys.path_hooks or sys.meta_path are set to None. .. .. bpo: 16518 .. date: 8925 .. nonce: UADwcN .. section: Core and Builtins Use 'bytes-like object required' in error messages that previously used the far more cryptic "'x' does not support the buffer protocol. .. .. bpo: 22470 .. date: 8924 .. nonce: igrgN2 .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace", "xmlcharrefreplace", and "surrogatepass" error handlers. .. .. bpo: 22540 .. date: 8923 .. nonce: FM72m- .. section: Core and Builtins speed up `PyObject_IsInstance` and `PyObject_IsSubclass` in the common case that the second argument has metaclass `type`. .. .. bpo: 18711 .. date: 8922 .. nonce: ds5wQa .. section: Core and Builtins Add a new `PyErr_FormatV` function, similar to `PyErr_Format` but accepting a `va_list` argument. .. .. bpo: 22520 .. date: 8921 .. nonce: ZPJXSq .. section: Core and Builtins Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode object. .. .. bpo: 22519 .. date: 8920 .. nonce: xvJVg0 .. section: Core and Builtins Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr. .. .. bpo: 22518 .. date: 8919 .. nonce: C9T6ed .. section: Core and Builtins Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding. .. .. bpo: 16324 .. date: 8918 .. nonce: YfrBNz .. section: Core and Builtins _charset parameter of MIMEText now also accepts email.charset.Charset instances. Initial patch by Claude Paroz. .. .. bpo: 1764286 .. date: 8917 .. nonce: L4seL2 .. section: Core and Builtins Fix inspect.getsource() to support decorated functions. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 18554 .. date: 8916 .. nonce: hxnaui .. section: Core and Builtins os.__all__ includes posix functions. .. .. bpo: 21391 .. date: 8915 .. nonce: 3jntPd .. section: Core and Builtins Use os.path.abspath in the shutil module. .. .. bpo: 11471 .. date: 8914 .. nonce: Uu752F .. section: Core and Builtins avoid generating a JUMP_FORWARD instruction at the end of an if-block if there is no else-clause. Original patch by Eugene Toder. .. .. bpo: 22215 .. date: 8913 .. nonce: IBFi6H .. section: Core and Builtins Now ValueError is raised instead of TypeError when str or bytes argument contains not permitted null character or byte. .. .. bpo: 22258 .. date: 8912 .. nonce: 4FszMt .. section: Core and Builtins Fix the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos. This platform exposes the function ``ioctl(FIOCLEX)``, but calling it fails with errno is ENOTTY: "Inappropriate ioctl for device". set_inheritable() now falls back to the slower ``fcntl()`` (``F_GETFD`` and then ``F_SETFD``). .. .. bpo: 21389 .. date: 8911 .. nonce: dnWZBn .. section: Core and Builtins Displaying the __qualname__ of the underlying function in the repr of a bound method. .. .. bpo: 22206 .. date: 8910 .. nonce: 0i_ihB .. section: Core and Builtins Using pthread, PyThread_create_key() now sets errno to ENOMEM and returns -1 (error) on integer overflow. .. .. bpo: 20184 .. date: 8909 .. nonce: bb3uHY .. section: Core and Builtins Argument Clinic based signature introspection added for 30 of the builtin functions. .. .. bpo: 22116 .. date: 8908 .. nonce: auVmIt .. section: Core and Builtins C functions and methods (of the 'builtin_function_or_method' type) can now be weakref'ed. Patch by Wei Wu. .. .. bpo: 22077 .. date: 8907 .. nonce: KZUDR- .. section: Core and Builtins Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes, lists, and tuples by adding 'or slices'. Added ', not ' for bytearrays. Original patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 20179 .. date: 8906 .. nonce: Nvhffc .. section: Core and Builtins Apply Argument Clinic to bytes and bytearray. Patch by Tal Einat. .. .. bpo: 22082 .. date: 8905 .. nonce: 6X8Qmg .. section: Core and Builtins Clear interned strings in slotdefs. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8904 .. nonce: tuMnCc .. section: Core and Builtins Upgrade Unicode database to Unicode 7.0.0. .. .. bpo: 21897 .. date: 8903 .. nonce: kiOGHe .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure variables when frame.clear() has been called. .. .. bpo: 21205 .. date: 8902 .. nonce: wZsx1K .. section: Core and Builtins Add a new ``__qualname__`` attribute to generator, the qualified name, and use it in the representation of a generator (``repr(gen)``). The default name of the generator (``__name__`` attribute) is now get from the function instead of the code. Use ``gen.gi_code.co_name`` to get the name of the code. .. .. bpo: 21669 .. date: 8901 .. nonce: DFDrBA .. section: Core and Builtins With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the parser now attempts to generate more meaningful (or at least more search engine friendly) error messages when "exec" and "print" are used as statements. .. .. bpo: 21642 .. date: 8900 .. nonce: -lWoKz .. section: Core and Builtins In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written with no space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else False``) to be valid syntax. .. .. bpo: 21523 .. date: 8899 .. nonce: f_PPYO .. section: Core and Builtins Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of some opcodes in the compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation time issue noticeable when compiling code with a large number of "and" and "or" operators. .. .. bpo: 21418 .. date: 8898 .. nonce: z9jp1_ .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python). .. .. bpo: 21425 .. date: 8897 .. nonce: i3Teb8 .. section: Core and Builtins Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive interpreter. .. .. bpo: 21435 .. date: 8896 .. nonce: ZojVOT .. section: Core and Builtins In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in internal iteration logic. .. .. bpo: 21377 .. date: 8895 .. nonce: OawYfl .. section: Core and Builtins PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when the first argument has a reference count of 1. Patch by Nikolaus Rath. .. .. bpo: 20355 .. date: 8894 .. nonce: OrCNkZ .. section: Core and Builtins -W command line options now have higher priority than the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable. Patch by Arfrever. .. .. bpo: 21274 .. date: 8893 .. nonce: fVGfwq .. section: Core and Builtins Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c. .. .. bpo: 20904 .. date: 8892 .. nonce: fAGdj2 .. section: Core and Builtins Support setting FPU precision on m68k. .. .. bpo: 21209 .. date: 8891 .. nonce: nMljFr .. section: Core and Builtins Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield from syntax. .. .. bpo: 21193 .. date: 8890 .. nonce: Dg98Oo .. section: Core and Builtins pow(a, b, c) now raises ValueError rather than TypeError when b is negative. Patch by Josh Rosenberg. .. .. bpo: 21176 .. date: 8889 .. nonce: mitDhW .. section: Core and Builtins PEP 465: Add the '@' operator for matrix multiplication. .. .. bpo: 21134 .. date: 8888 .. nonce: ZL4SKo .. section: Core and Builtins Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object. .. .. bpo: 19537 .. date: 8887 .. nonce: AkuC_J .. section: Core and Builtins Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k. Patch by Andreas Schwab. .. .. bpo: 20929 .. date: 8886 .. nonce: 9NlUR7 .. section: Core and Builtins Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number. .. .. bpo: 20731 .. date: 8885 .. nonce: _03SZg .. section: Core and Builtins Properly position in source code files even if they are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. .. .. bpo: 20637 .. date: 8884 .. nonce: ppYU0o .. section: Core and Builtins Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of subclasses. Patch by Peter Ingebretson. .. .. bpo: 8297 .. date: 8883 .. nonce: _XdGON .. section: Core and Builtins Attributes missing from modules now include the module name in the error text. Original patch by ysj.ray. .. .. bpo: 19995 .. date: 8882 .. nonce: mnHEzX .. section: Core and Builtins %c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer input. .. .. bpo: 19655 .. date: 8881 .. nonce: JgVdes .. section: Core and Builtins The ASDL parser - used by the build process to generate code for managing the Python AST in C - was rewritten. The new parser is self contained and does not require to carry long the spark.py parser-generator library; spark.py was removed from the source base. .. .. bpo: 12546 .. date: 8880 .. nonce: 09naZ9 .. section: Core and Builtins Allow ``\x00`` to be used as a fill character when using str, int, float, and complex __format__ methods. .. .. bpo: 20480 .. date: 8879 .. nonce: TIYPLo .. section: Core and Builtins Add ipaddress.reverse_pointer. Patch by Leon Weber. .. .. bpo: 13598 .. date: 8878 .. nonce: GJelrw .. section: Core and Builtins Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of replacement fields. It now matches the behavior of str.format() in this regard. Patches by Phil Elson and Ramchandra Apte. .. .. bpo: 8931 .. date: 8877 .. nonce: M05x4f .. section: Core and Builtins Make alternate formatting ('#') for type 'c' raise an exception. In versions prior to 3.5, '#' with 'c' had no effect. Now specifying it is an error. Patch by Torsten Landschoff. .. .. bpo: 23165 .. date: 8876 .. nonce: lk8uCE .. section: Core and Builtins Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the _Py_char2wchar function. .. .. bpo: 23399 .. date: 8875 .. nonce: hXMYgA .. section: Library pyvenv creates relative symlinks where possible. .. .. bpo: 20289 .. date: 8874 .. nonce: nio1N- .. section: Library cgi.FieldStorage() now supports the context management protocol. .. .. bpo: 13128 .. date: 8873 .. nonce: vqEcsy .. section: Library Print response headers for CONNECT requests when debuglevel > 0. Patch by Demian Brecht. .. .. bpo: 15381 .. date: 8872 .. nonce: Xv-wu8 .. section: Library Optimized io.BytesIO to make less allocations and copyings. .. .. bpo: 22818 .. date: 8871 .. nonce: NYdAc9 .. section: Library Splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string now raises a warning. Patterns that can only match empty strings are now rejected. .. .. bpo: 23099 .. date: 8870 .. nonce: ZASrUo .. section: Library Closing io.BytesIO with exported buffer is rejected now to prevent corrupting exported buffer. .. .. bpo: 23326 .. date: 8869 .. nonce: 8VzlZD .. section: Library Removed __ne__ implementations. Since fixing default __ne__ implementation in issue #21408 they are redundant. .. .. bpo: 23363 .. date: 8868 .. nonce: -koaol .. section: Library Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations. .. .. bpo: 23364 .. date: 8867 .. nonce: 3yBV-6 .. section: Library Fix possible overflow in itertools.product. .. .. bpo: 23366 .. date: 8866 .. nonce: tyAfm8 .. section: Library Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations. .. .. bpo: 23369 .. date: 8865 .. nonce: nqChyE .. section: Library Fixed possible integer overflow in _json.encode_basestring_ascii. .. .. bpo: 23353 .. date: 8864 .. nonce: Iytkpc .. section: Library Fix the exception handling of generators in PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). At entry, save or swap the exception state even if PyEval_EvalFrameEx() is called with throwflag=0. At exit, the exception state is now always restored or swapped, not only if why is WHY_YIELD or WHY_RETURN. Patch co-written with Antoine Pitrou. .. .. bpo: 14099 .. date: 8863 .. nonce: t9-HVE .. section: Library Restored support of writing ZIP files to tellable but non-seekable streams. .. .. bpo: 14099 .. date: 8862 .. nonce: Myxxww .. section: Library Writing to ZipFile and reading multiple ZipExtFiles is threadsafe now. .. .. bpo: 19361 .. date: 8861 .. nonce: 2mvrV3 .. section: Library JSON decoder now raises JSONDecodeError instead of ValueError. .. .. bpo: 18518 .. date: 8860 .. nonce: JXgicC .. section: Library timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled outside a function or a loop (e.g. "return" or "break"). .. .. bpo: 23094 .. date: 8859 .. nonce: -8AXSi .. section: Library Fixed readline with frames in Python implementation of pickle. .. .. bpo: 23268 .. date: 8858 .. nonce: ATtRa5 .. section: Library Fixed bugs in the comparison of ipaddress classes. .. .. bpo: 21408 .. date: 8857 .. nonce: 0rI6tx .. section: Library Removed incorrect implementations of __ne__() which didn't returned NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. The default __ne__() now works correctly. .. .. bpo: 19996 .. date: 8856 .. nonce: 2-SiMf .. section: Library :class:`email.feedparser.FeedParser` now handles (malformed) headers with no key rather than assuming the body has started. .. .. bpo: 20188 .. date: 8855 .. nonce: xocY-2 .. section: Library Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the ssl module. .. .. bpo: 23133 .. date: 8854 .. nonce: 8p2Wnl .. section: Library Pickling of ipaddress objects now produces more compact and portable representation. .. .. bpo: 23248 .. date: 8853 .. nonce: FjcyCP .. section: Library Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master. .. .. bpo: 23266 .. date: 8852 .. nonce: Mo7alR .. section: Library Much faster implementation of ipaddress.collapse_addresses() when there are many non-consecutive addresses. .. .. bpo: 23098 .. date: 8851 .. nonce: 7VwF3K .. section: Library 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module. .. .. bpo: 21817 .. date: 8850 .. nonce: xYUW-9 .. section: Library When an exception is raised in a task submitted to a ProcessPoolExecutor, the remote traceback is now displayed in the parent process. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 15955 .. date: 8849 .. nonce: uvpBL4 .. section: Library Add an option to limit output size when decompressing LZMA data. Patch by Nikolaus Rath and Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 23250 .. date: 8848 .. nonce: qNGAUf .. section: Library In the http.cookies module, capitalize "HttpOnly" and "Secure" as they are written in the standard. .. .. bpo: 23063 .. date: 8847 .. nonce: 9-UJRs .. section: Library In the distutils' check command, fix parsing of reST with code or code-block directives. .. .. bpo: 23209 .. date: 8846 .. nonce: I0bCCH .. section: Library selectors.BaseSelector.get_key() now raises a RuntimeError if the selector is closed. And selectors.BaseSelector.close() now clears its internal reference to the selector mapping to break a reference cycle. Initial patch written by Martin Richard. (See also: bpo-23225) .. .. bpo: 17911 .. date: 8845 .. nonce: yg65Iu .. section: Library Provide a way to seed the linecache for a PEP-302 module without actually loading the code. .. .. bpo: 17911 .. date: 8844 .. nonce: qeTePa .. section: Library Provide a new object API for traceback, including the ability to not lookup lines at all until the traceback is actually rendered, without any trace of the original objects being kept alive. .. .. bpo: 19777 .. date: 8843 .. nonce: H_NDIA .. section: Library Provide a home() classmethod on Path objects. Contributed by Victor Salgado and Mayank Tripathi. .. .. bpo: 23206 .. date: 8842 .. nonce: xSiYwq .. section: Library Make ``json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)`` as fast as the default case of ``ensure_ascii=True``. Patch by Naoki Inada. .. .. bpo: 23185 .. date: 8841 .. nonce: KHyoSO .. section: Library Add math.inf and math.nan constants. .. .. bpo: 23186 .. date: 8840 .. nonce: KzWLP2 .. section: Library Add ssl.SSLObject.shared_ciphers() and ssl.SSLSocket.shared_ciphers() to fetch the client's list ciphers sent at handshake. .. .. bpo: 23143 .. date: 8839 .. nonce: AWxJXV .. section: Library Remove compatibility with OpenSSLs older than 0.9.8. .. .. bpo: 23132 .. date: 8838 .. nonce: pbQcut .. section: Library Improve performance and introspection support of comparison methods created by functool.total_ordering. .. .. bpo: 19776 .. date: 8837 .. nonce: BxNgxd .. section: Library Add an expanduser() method on Path objects. .. .. bpo: 23112 .. date: 8836 .. nonce: dZGf82 .. section: Library Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string and fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash. .. .. bpo: 21793 .. date: 8835 .. nonce: T1kQBL .. section: Library Added http.HTTPStatus enums (i.e. HTTPStatus.OK, HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND). Patch by Demian Brecht. .. .. bpo: 23093 .. date: 8834 .. nonce: cP7OqD .. section: Library In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached streams. .. .. bpo: 23111 .. date: 8833 .. nonce: A34IA4 .. section: Library In the ftplib, make ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 the default protocol version. .. .. bpo: 22585 .. date: 8832 .. nonce: F4BkNo .. section: Library On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(), instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes. .. .. bpo: 19104 .. date: 8831 .. nonce: _eIThy .. section: Library pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped strings. .. .. bpo: 23071 .. date: 8830 .. nonce: 3BSqF7 .. section: Library Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 22783 .. date: 8829 .. nonce: OfYxBd .. section: Library Pickling now uses the NEWOBJ opcode instead of the NEWOBJ_EX opcode if possible. .. .. bpo: 15513 .. date: 8828 .. nonce: 7yVnRE .. section: Library Added a __sizeof__ implementation for pickle classes. .. .. bpo: 19858 .. date: 8827 .. nonce: cqOlIt .. section: Library pickletools.optimize() now aware of the MEMOIZE opcode, can produce more compact result and no longer produces invalid output if input data contains MEMOIZE opcodes together with PUT or BINPUT opcodes. .. .. bpo: 22095 .. date: 8826 .. nonce: iISzxM .. section: Library Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port. The port value in the host header was set to "None". Patch by Demian Brecht. .. .. bpo: 23016 .. date: 8825 .. nonce: LyrPd_ .. section: Library A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when the program is run with pythonw.exe. .. .. bpo: 21775 .. date: 8824 .. nonce: ELR_Al .. section: Library shutil.copytree(): fix crash when copying to VFAT. An exception handler assumed that OSError objects always have a 'winerror' attribute. That is not the case, so the exception handler itself raised AttributeError when run on Linux (and, presumably, any other non-Windows OS). Patch by Greg Ward. .. .. bpo: 1218234 .. date: 8823 .. nonce: 4GcoQK .. section: Library Fix inspect.getsource() to load updated source of reloaded module. Initial patch by Berker Peksag. .. .. bpo: 21740 .. date: 8822 .. nonce: TtAApO .. section: Library Support wrapped callables in doctest. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 23009 .. date: 8821 .. nonce: -sW7gk .. section: Library Make sure selectors.EpollSelector.select() works when no FD is registered. .. .. bpo: 22959 .. date: 8820 .. nonce: Vxt3EP .. section: Library In the constructor of http.client.HTTPSConnection, prefer the context's check_hostname attribute over the *check_hostname* parameter. .. .. bpo: 22696 .. date: 8819 .. nonce: pvdcxs .. section: Library Add function :func:`sys.is_finalizing` to know about interpreter shutdown. .. .. bpo: 16043 .. date: 8818 .. nonce: TGIC7t .. section: Library Add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode will return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753. .. .. bpo: 14099 .. date: 8817 .. nonce: GJ5meQ .. section: Library ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file. Objects returned by ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of the ZipFile even if the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first argument to the constructor. .. .. bpo: 22966 .. date: 8816 .. nonce: zIxDrT .. section: Library Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile is asked to compile a source file containing multiple dots in the source file name. .. .. bpo: 21971 .. date: 8815 .. nonce: XlTc22 .. section: Library Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index. .. .. bpo: 21032 .. date: 8814 .. nonce: wxT_41 .. section: Library Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails. Original patch by Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 22407 .. date: 8813 .. nonce: CWi1wX .. section: Library Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns or re.ASCII. It was newer worked. .. .. bpo: 22902 .. date: 8812 .. nonce: ZqXriA .. section: Library The "ip" command is now used on Linux to determine MAC address in uuid.getnode(). Pach by Bruno Cauet. .. .. bpo: 22960 .. date: 8811 .. nonce: 2VDILT .. section: Library Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy constructor. .. .. bpo: 22389 .. date: 8810 .. nonce: 82DuwD .. section: Library Add contextlib.redirect_stderr(). .. .. bpo: 21356 .. date: 8809 .. nonce: 8NY75J .. section: Library Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The availability of the function is checked during the compilation. Patch written by Bernard Spil. .. .. bpo: 22915 .. date: 8808 .. nonce: 709UAo .. section: Library SAX parser now supports files opened with file descriptor or bytes path. .. .. bpo: 22609 .. date: 8807 .. nonce: mmLoeb .. section: Library Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the collections module now accept the self keyword argument. .. .. bpo: 22940 .. date: 8806 .. nonce: SP99Nf .. section: Library Add readline.append_history_file. .. .. bpo: 19676 .. date: 8805 .. nonce: Wijwr8 .. section: Library Added the "namereplace" error handler. .. .. bpo: 22788 .. date: 8804 .. nonce: vofL9e .. section: Library Add *context* parameter to logging.handlers.HTTPHandler. .. .. bpo: 22921 .. date: 8803 .. nonce: a4wx1C .. section: Library Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even if OpenSSL doesn't support SNI. .. .. bpo: 22894 .. date: 8802 .. nonce: 4AkwPA .. section: Library TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be stopped when in failfast mode, even in the absence of failures. .. .. bpo: 22796 .. date: 8801 .. nonce: _pFPFA .. section: Library HTTP cookie parsing is now stricter, in order to protect against potential injection attacks. .. .. bpo: 22370 .. date: 8800 .. nonce: j4y21u .. section: Library Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust. .. .. bpo: 22841 .. date: 8799 .. nonce: 8wpk7T .. section: Library Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler(). Patch by Ludovic.Gasc. .. .. bpo: 19494 .. date: 8798 .. nonce: 7O5O8k .. section: Library Added urllib.request.HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler. Patch by Matej Cepl. .. .. bpo: 22578 .. date: 8797 .. nonce: 6XZ0Jf .. section: Library Added attributes to the re.error class. .. .. bpo: 22849 .. date: 8796 .. nonce: AqBPyj .. section: Library Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper constructor. .. .. bpo: 12728 .. date: 8795 .. nonce: rHZmXO .. section: Library Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions. .. .. bpo: 22821 .. date: 8794 .. nonce: 30cQ-U .. section: Library Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian platforms. .. .. bpo: 21650 .. date: 8793 .. nonce: 62MLqr .. section: Library Add an `--sort-keys` option to json.tool CLI. .. .. bpo: 22824 .. date: 8792 .. nonce: d5Txvr .. section: Library Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set literals. Patch contributed by Berker Peksag. .. .. bpo: 22824 .. date: 8791 .. nonce: H_r9uH .. section: Library Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display empty arrays without an unnecessary empty list. Suggested by Serhiy Storchaka. .. .. bpo: 22406 .. date: 8790 .. nonce: sPlVbI .. section: Library Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x. Based on patch by Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 17293 .. date: 8789 .. nonce: Hk06bO .. section: Library uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat. Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns. .. .. bpo: 22769 .. date: 8788 .. nonce: PunnvQ .. section: Library Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments. .. .. bpo: 22417 .. date: 8787 .. nonce: To4b7U .. section: Library Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476). .. .. bpo: 22775 .. date: 8786 .. nonce: V5aCUz .. section: Library Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with protocol 2 and above. Patch by Tim Graham. .. .. bpo: 22776 .. date: 8785 .. nonce: xNcRse .. section: Library Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in SysLogHandler.emit(). .. .. bpo: 22665 .. date: 8784 .. nonce: j6Jlp8 .. section: Library Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to shutil.__all__. .. .. bpo: 6623 .. date: 8783 .. nonce: 6LOidS .. section: Library Remove deprecated Netrc class in the ftplib module. Patch by Matt Chaput. .. .. bpo: 17381 .. date: 8782 .. nonce: 4J5yv7 .. section: Library Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular expressions. .. .. bpo: 22410 .. date: 8781 .. nonce: 99YFdd .. section: Library Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale. .. .. bpo: 22759 .. date: 8780 .. nonce: BJPdiL .. section: Library Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(), etc.) now return False when the underlying stat call raises NotADirectoryError. .. .. bpo: 8876 .. date: 8779 .. nonce: A83Av4 .. section: Library distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking doesn't work. This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox shared folders. .. .. bpo: 22217 .. date: 8778 .. nonce: nXzGur .. section: Library Implemented reprs of classes in the zipfile module. .. .. bpo: 22457 .. date: 8777 .. nonce: Xd2Mk- .. section: Library Honour load_tests in the start_dir of discovery. .. .. bpo: 18216 .. date: 8776 .. nonce: trTZw4 .. section: Library gettext now raises an error when a .mo file has an unsupported major version number. Patch by Aaron Hill. .. .. bpo: 13918 .. date: 8775 .. nonce: -OnUhD .. section: Library Provide a locale.delocalize() function which can remove locale-specific number formatting from a string representing a number, without then converting it to a specific type. Patch by Cédric Krier. .. .. bpo: 22676 .. date: 8774 .. nonce: d2v8QM .. section: Library Make the pickling of global objects which don't have a __module__ attribute less slow. .. .. bpo: 18853 .. date: 8773 .. nonce: 76DrPD .. section: Library Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__. .. .. bpo: 9351 .. date: 8772 .. nonce: u5UI-6 .. section: Library Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser. .. .. bpo: 7559 .. date: 8771 .. nonce: QG35ZP .. section: Library unittest test loading ImportErrors are reported as import errors with their import exception rather than as attribute errors after the import has already failed. .. .. bpo: 19746 .. date: 8770 .. nonce: S1dg1K .. section: Library Make it possible to examine the errors from unittest discovery without executing the test suite. The new `errors` attribute on TestLoader exposes these non-fatal errors encountered during discovery. .. .. bpo: 21991 .. date: 8769 .. nonce: Mkm0IN .. section: Library Make email.headerregistry's header 'params' attributes be read-only (MappingProxyType). Previously the dictionary was modifiable but a new one was created on each access of the attribute. .. .. bpo: 22638 .. date: 8768 .. nonce: Ur73gJ .. section: Library SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library. It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually. .. .. bpo: 22641 .. date: 8767 .. nonce: m0ldtl .. section: Library In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security. .. .. bpo: 17401 .. date: 8766 .. nonce: SZd19P .. section: Library Include closefd in io.FileIO repr. .. .. bpo: 21338 .. date: 8765 .. nonce: evDyHD .. section: Library Add silent mode for compileall. quiet parameters of compile_{dir, file, path} functions now have a multilevel value. Also, -q option of the CLI now have a multilevel value. Patch by Thomas Kluyver. .. .. bpo: 20152 .. date: 8764 .. nonce: 9_o92A .. section: Library Convert the array and cmath modules to Argument Clinic. .. .. bpo: 18643 .. date: 8763 .. nonce: 6Qdc0J .. section: Library Add socket.socketpair() on Windows. .. .. bpo: 22435 .. date: 8762 .. nonce: s2U7Zm .. section: Library Fix a file descriptor leak when socketserver bind fails. .. .. bpo: 13096 .. date: 8761 .. nonce: rsailB .. section: Library Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large values. .. .. bpo: 11694 .. date: 8760 .. nonce: JuDrch .. section: Library Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 19380 .. date: 8759 .. nonce: nqgoRQ .. section: Library Optimized parsing of regular expressions. .. .. bpo: 1519638 .. date: 8758 .. nonce: 2pbuog .. section: Library Now unmatched groups are replaced with empty strings in re.sub() and re.subn(). .. .. bpo: 18615 .. date: 8757 .. nonce: 65TxnY .. section: Library sndhdr.what/whathdr now return a namedtuple. .. .. bpo: 22462 .. date: 8756 .. nonce: 1h4Kpr .. section: Library Fix pyexpat's creation of a dummy frame to make it appear in exception tracebacks. .. .. bpo: 21965 .. date: 8755 .. nonce: n_jnXs .. section: Library Add support for in-memory SSL to the ssl module. Patch by Geert Jansen. .. .. bpo: 21173 .. date: 8754 .. nonce: egkbEx .. section: Library Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was called with an iterator alive. .. .. bpo: 11866 .. date: 8753 .. nonce: xrvbIC .. section: Library Eliminated race condition in the computation of names for new threads. .. .. bpo: 21905 .. date: 8752 .. nonce: coKyRo .. section: Library Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when sys.modules is mutated while iterating. Patch by Olivier Grisel. .. .. bpo: 11271 .. date: 8751 .. nonce: ZYiJru .. section: Library concurrent.futures.Executor.map() now takes a *chunksize* argument to allow batching of tasks in child processes and improve performance of ProcessPoolExecutor. Patch by Dan O'Reilly. .. .. bpo: 21883 .. date: 8750 .. nonce: qpuQu6 .. section: Library os.path.join() and os.path.relpath() now raise a TypeError with more helpful error message for unsupported or mismatched types of arguments. .. .. bpo: 22219 .. date: 8749 .. nonce: l9Enh9 .. section: Library The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file. .. .. bpo: 22449 .. date: 8748 .. nonce: nFW_Fl .. section: Library In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the environmental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows. .. .. bpo: 22508 .. date: 8747 .. nonce: 2LbnGQ .. section: Library The email.__version__ variable has been removed; the email code is no longer shipped separately from the stdlib, and __version__ hasn't been updated in several releases. .. .. bpo: 20076 .. date: 8746 .. nonce: -7OIVB .. section: Library Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table. .. .. bpo: 20079 .. date: 8745 .. nonce: qM949O .. section: Library Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table. .. .. bpo: 20218 .. date: 8744 .. nonce: CMgOyE .. section: Library Added convenience methods read_text/write_text and read_bytes/ write_bytes to pathlib.Path objects. .. .. bpo: 22396 .. date: 8743 .. nonce: cQSizA .. section: Library On 32-bit AIX platform, don't expose os.posix_fadvise() nor os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong. .. .. bpo: 22517 .. date: 8742 .. nonce: qT6-aB .. section: Library When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its weakrefs. .. .. bpo: 22437 .. date: 8741 .. nonce: MRVnmQ .. section: Library Number of capturing groups in regular expression is no longer limited by 100. .. .. bpo: 17442 .. date: 8740 .. nonce: rnc87D .. section: Library InteractiveInterpreter now displays the full chained traceback in its showtraceback method, to match the built in interactive interpreter. .. .. bpo: 23392 .. date: 8739 .. nonce: Pe7_WK .. section: Library Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*. .. .. bpo: 10510 .. date: 8738 .. nonce: N-ntcD .. section: Library distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards compliant CRLF line endings. .. .. bpo: 9850 .. date: 8737 .. nonce: D-UnVi .. section: Library Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component. Patch by Oleg Oshmyan. .. .. bpo: 5309 .. date: 8736 .. nonce: pVMmQ8 .. section: Library distutils' build and build_ext commands now accept a ``-j`` option to enable parallel building of extension modules. .. .. bpo: 22448 .. date: 8735 .. nonce: fAapvE .. section: Library Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent unbound memory usage. Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva. .. .. bpo: 22427 .. date: 8734 .. nonce: TZ5S_u .. section: Library TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice when used in the with statement in generator. .. .. bpo: 22362 .. date: 8733 .. nonce: xIBThN .. section: Library Forbidden ambiguous octal escapes out of range 0-0o377 in regular expressions. .. .. bpo: 20912 .. date: 8732 .. nonce: cAq3mZ .. section: Library Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS directory attributes. .. .. bpo: 21866 .. date: 8731 .. nonce: hSc4wM .. section: Library ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory records if allowZip64 is false. .. .. bpo: 22278 .. date: 8730 .. nonce: abqBXZ .. section: Library Fix urljoin problem with relative urls, a regression observed after changes to issue22118 were submitted. .. .. bpo: 22415 .. date: 8729 .. nonce: xJLAvI .. section: Library Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re module. Removed trailing spaces in debugging output. .. .. bpo: 22423 .. date: 8728 .. nonce: Rtb4oT .. section: Library Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled AttributeError when sys.stderr is None. .. .. bpo: 21332 .. date: 8727 .. nonce: Gwxwlr .. section: Library Ensure that ``bufsize=1`` in subprocess.Popen() selects line buffering, rather than block buffering. Patch by Akira Li. .. .. bpo: 21091 .. date: 8726 .. nonce: M5hAtT .. section: Library Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment is now a method. .. .. bpo: 21079 .. date: 8725 .. nonce: czVcL8 .. section: Library Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return the correct result when the header has parameters as well as a value. .. .. bpo: 22247 .. date: 8724 .. nonce: sGIpR3 .. section: Library Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__. .. .. bpo: 22366 .. date: 8723 .. nonce: Dd1eFj .. section: Library urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object (SSLContext) as an argument which will then be used for HTTPS connection. Patch by Alex Gaynor. .. .. bpo: 4180 .. date: 8722 .. nonce: QBx0JK .. section: Library The warnings registries are now reset when the filters are modified. .. .. bpo: 22419 .. date: 8721 .. nonce: FqH4aC .. section: Library Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to 65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed by Devin Cook. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8720 .. nonce: y7r3O2 .. section: Library Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by Sergey Bobrov. .. .. bpo: 20537 .. date: 8719 .. nonce: E0CE54 .. section: Library logging methods now accept an exception instance as well as a Boolean value or exception tuple. Thanks to Yury Selivanov for the patch. .. .. bpo: 22384 .. date: 8718 .. nonce: -Nl4He .. section: Library An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program when it is run with pythonw.exe. .. .. bpo: 22168 .. date: 8717 .. nonce: vLeKWC .. section: Library Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X. .. .. bpo: 21147 .. date: 8716 .. nonce: w9DE17 .. section: Library sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null character instead of truncating it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner. .. .. bpo: 13968 .. date: 8715 .. nonce: 1okGqm .. section: Library The glob module now supports recursive search in subdirectories using the ``**`` pattern. .. .. bpo: 21951 .. date: 8714 .. nonce: 3vS4LK .. section: Library Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with empty string or tuple argument. .. .. bpo: 21951 .. date: 8713 .. nonce: _CCC4v .. section: Library Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash if the memory allocation fails. .. .. bpo: 22338 .. date: 8712 .. nonce: rKlCMz .. section: Library Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure. .. .. bpo: 12410 .. date: 8711 .. nonce: oFf-cB .. section: Library imaplib.IMAP4 now supports the context management protocol. Original patch by Tarek Ziadé. .. .. bpo: 21270 .. date: 8710 .. nonce: qMBaY- .. section: Library We now override tuple methods in mock.call objects so that they can be used as normal call attributes. .. .. bpo: 16662 .. date: 8709 .. nonce: Nghn-Y .. section: Library load_tests() is now unconditionally run when it is present in a package's __init__.py. TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule() still accepts use_load_tests, but it is deprecated and ignored. A new keyword-only attribute `pattern` is added and documented. Patch given by Robert Collins, tweaked by Barry Warsaw. .. .. bpo: 22226 .. date: 8708 .. nonce: T1ZMPY .. section: Library First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in the result of Treeview.heading(). .. .. bpo: 19524 .. date: 8707 .. nonce: EQJjlF .. section: Library Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an invalid response is received. Patch by Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 20421 .. date: 8706 .. nonce: iR0S1s .. section: Library Add a .version() method to SSL sockets exposing the actual protocol version in use. .. .. bpo: 19546 .. date: 8705 .. nonce: 8VdYBK .. section: Library configparser exceptions no longer expose implementation details. Chained KeyErrors are removed, which leads to cleaner tracebacks. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 22051 .. date: 8704 .. nonce: cUjFqL .. section: Library turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them. Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(), which is called each time a demo is run, but not on import. .. .. bpo: 21933 .. date: 8703 .. nonce: IhMjN1 .. section: Library Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a menu selection or control(command) '-' or '+' or control-mousewheel. Original patch by Lita Cho. .. .. bpo: 21597 .. date: 8702 .. nonce: aPTCWJ .. section: Library The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse. The code text pane can be widened to easily view or copy the full width of the text. The canvas can be widened on small screens. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho. .. .. bpo: 18132 .. date: 8701 .. nonce: 2R2nwM .. section: Library Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is shrunk. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho. .. .. bpo: 22043 .. date: 8700 .. nonce: Q6RvGL .. section: Library time.monotonic() is now always available. ``threading.Lock.acquire()``, ``threading.RLock.acquire()`` and socket operations now use a monotonic clock, instead of the system clock, when a timeout is used. .. .. bpo: 21527 .. date: 8699 .. nonce: N5WPxr .. section: Library Add a default number of workers to ThreadPoolExecutor equal to 5 times the number of CPUs. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 22216 .. date: 8698 .. nonce: Cmalu6 .. section: Library smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit. The most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence. .. .. bpo: 22098 .. date: 8697 .. nonce: 5JYiQN .. section: Library ctypes' BigEndianStructure and LittleEndianStructure now define an empty __slots__ so that subclasses don't always get an instance dict. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 22185 .. date: 8696 .. nonce: 1SCCIK .. section: Library Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait() caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock. Patch by Doug Zongker. .. .. bpo: 22287 .. date: 8695 .. nonce: awH2AI .. section: Library On UNIX, _PyTime_gettimeofday() now uses clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) if available. As a side effect, Python now depends on the librt library on Solaris and on Linux (only with glibc older than 2.17). .. .. bpo: 22182 .. date: 8694 .. nonce: 5EG1Bc .. section: Library Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in distutils.file_util.move_file. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8693 .. nonce: zBfe8J .. section: Library The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call. .. .. bpo: 22042 .. date: 8692 .. nonce: WZvb8s .. section: Library signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) now raises an exception if the file descriptor is in blocking mode. .. .. bpo: 16808 .. date: 8691 .. nonce: kPy_5U .. section: Library inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a tuple. Patch by Daniel Shahaf. .. .. bpo: 22236 .. date: 8690 .. nonce: 1utXkg .. section: Library Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode. .. .. bpo: 2527 .. date: 8689 .. nonce: fR2GS6 .. section: Library Add a *globals* argument to timeit functions, in order to override the globals namespace in which the timed code is executed. Patch by Ben Roberts. .. .. bpo: 22118 .. date: 8688 .. nonce: 3gdkOF .. section: Library Switch urllib.parse to use RFC 3986 semantics for the resolution of relative URLs, rather than RFCs 1808 and 2396. Patch by Demian Brecht. .. .. bpo: 21549 .. date: 8687 .. nonce: i1LVvg .. section: Library Added the "members" parameter to TarFile.list(). .. .. bpo: 19628 .. date: 8686 .. nonce: ssQVP8 .. section: Library Allow compileall recursion depth to be specified with a -r option. .. .. bpo: 15696 .. date: 8685 .. nonce: PTwXYJ .. section: Library Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows. .. .. bpo: 22068 .. date: 8684 .. nonce: wCdaW0 .. section: Library Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter. .. .. bpo: 22165 .. date: 8683 .. nonce: J1np4o .. section: Library SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file names. .. .. bpo: 15381 .. date: 8682 .. nonce: Ia8pf6 .. section: Library Optimized line reading in io.BytesIO. .. .. bpo: 8797 .. date: 8681 .. nonce: aJcIPu .. section: Library Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately. Initial patch by Sam Bull. .. .. bpo: 20729 .. date: 8680 .. nonce: I-1Lap .. section: Library Restored the use of lazy iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems() in the mailbox module. .. .. bpo: 21448 .. date: 8679 .. nonce: THJSYB .. section: Library Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N\ :sup:`2`) behavior when parsing long line. Original patch by Raymond Hettinger. .. .. bpo: 22184 .. date: 8678 .. nonce: UCbSOt .. section: Library The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier and clearer error message when the user forgets the required parameters. .. .. bpo: 17923 .. date: 8677 .. nonce: YI_QjG .. section: Library glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on AIX. Based on patch by Delhallt. .. .. bpo: 21725 .. date: 8676 .. nonce: eIu-2N .. section: Library Added support for RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8) in smtpd. .. .. bpo: 22176 .. date: 8675 .. nonce: rgbRyg .. section: Library Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1. This release adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian architectures. .. .. bpo: 5411 .. date: 8674 .. nonce: 5Utapn .. section: Library Added support for the "xztar" format in the shutil module. .. .. bpo: 21121 .. date: 8673 .. nonce: ZLsRil .. section: Library Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with -Werror=declaration-after-statement. .. .. bpo: 21975 .. date: 8672 .. nonce: MI8ntO .. section: Library Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the __new__() method. .. .. bpo: 20170 .. date: 8671 .. nonce: 8QfhN7 .. section: Library Convert posixmodule to use Argument Clinic. .. .. bpo: 21539 .. date: 8670 .. nonce: YccmZF .. section: Library Add an *exists_ok* argument to `Pathlib.mkdir()` to mimic `mkdir -p` and `os.makedirs()` functionality. When true, ignore FileExistsErrors. Patch by Berker Peksag. .. .. bpo: 22127 .. date: 8669 .. nonce: 0l2OO5 .. section: Library Bypass IDNA for pure-ASCII host names in the socket module (in particular for numeric IPs). .. .. bpo: 21047 .. date: 8668 .. nonce: XfUQG3 .. section: Library set the default value for the *convert_charrefs* argument of HTMLParser to True. Patch by Berker Peksag. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8667 .. nonce: 56bAnQ .. section: Library Add an __all__ to html.entities. .. .. bpo: 15114 .. date: 8666 .. nonce: jXwseC .. section: Library the strict mode and argument of HTMLParser, HTMLParser.error, and the HTMLParserError exception have been removed. .. .. bpo: 22085 .. date: 8665 .. nonce: 3JM_Aw .. section: Library Dropped support of Tk 8.3 in Tkinter. .. .. bpo: 21580 .. date: 8664 .. nonce: 3ssycS .. section: Library Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk. In particular this allows initializing images from binary data. .. .. bpo: 22003 .. date: 8663 .. nonce: 4ZIDS1 .. section: Library When initialized from a bytes object, io.BytesIO() now defers making a copy until it is mutated, improving performance and memory use on some use cases. Patch by David Wilson. .. .. bpo: 22018 .. date: 8662 .. nonce: 6ApxSH .. section: Library On Windows, signal.set_wakeup_fd() now also supports sockets. A side effect is that Python depends to the WinSock library. .. .. bpo: 22054 .. date: 8661 .. nonce: zp6Svw .. section: Library Add os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions to get and set the blocking mode of a file descriptor (False if the O_NONBLOCK flag is set, True otherwise). These functions are not available on Windows. .. .. bpo: 17172 .. date: 8660 .. nonce: R_LI_2 .. section: Library Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run with subprocess. Patch by Lita Cho. .. .. bpo: 21704 .. date: 8659 .. nonce: gL3ikj .. section: Library Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores are not available. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. .. .. bpo: 20173 .. date: 8658 .. nonce: FAL-4L .. section: Library Convert sha1, sha256, sha512 and md5 to ArgumentClinic. Patch by Vajrasky Kok. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8657 .. nonce: G25tq3 .. section: Library Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don't fail with OverflowError on closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works fine. .. .. bpo: 22033 .. date: 8656 .. nonce: nkBNci .. section: Library Reprs of most Python implemented classes now contain actual class name instead of hardcoded one. .. .. bpo: 21947 .. date: 8655 .. nonce: mlisu- .. section: Library The dis module can now disassemble generator-iterator objects based on their gi_code attribute. Patch by Clement Rouault. .. .. bpo: 16133 .. date: 8654 .. nonce: tYuYQF .. section: Library The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores BlockingIOError exceptions. .. .. bpo: 22044 .. date: 8653 .. nonce: t09GRU .. section: Library Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method. Patch by Tom Flanagan. .. .. bpo: 19884 .. date: 8652 .. nonce: v73gSn .. section: Library readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence ``"\033[1034h"`` into stdout. This sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable support of 8 bit characters. .. .. bpo: 4350 .. date: 8651 .. nonce: nrTzJn .. section: Library Removed a number of out-of-dated and non-working for a long time Tkinter methods. .. .. bpo: 6167 .. date: 8650 .. nonce: n9dV_D .. section: Library Scrollbar.activate() now returns the name of active element if the argument is not specified. Scrollbar.set() now always accepts only 2 arguments. .. .. bpo: 15275 .. date: 8649 .. nonce: jk0tTI .. section: Library Clean up and speed up the ntpath module. .. .. bpo: 21888 .. date: 8648 .. nonce: danlpz .. section: Library plistlib's load() and loads() now work if the fmt parameter is specified. .. .. bpo: 22032 .. date: 8647 .. nonce: UklzQW .. section: Library __qualname__ instead of __name__ is now always used to format fully qualified class names of Python implemented classes. .. .. bpo: 22031 .. date: 8646 .. nonce: 9aazp1 .. section: Library Reprs now always use hexadecimal format with the "0x" prefix when contain an id in form " at 0x...". .. .. bpo: 22018 .. date: 8645 .. nonce: b_JTHH .. section: Library signal.set_wakeup_fd() now raises an OSError instead of a ValueError on ``fstat()`` failure. .. .. bpo: 21044 .. date: 8644 .. nonce: 16xo9u .. section: Library tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer 'name' attribute. Based on patch by Antoine Pietri. .. .. bpo: 21966 .. date: 8643 .. nonce: hHD9MK .. section: Library Respect -q command-line option when code module is ran. .. .. bpo: 19076 .. date: 8642 .. nonce: xCoIai .. section: Library Don't pass the redundant 'file' argument to self.error(). .. .. bpo: 16382 .. date: 8641 .. nonce: -XBK7z .. section: Library Improve exception message of warnings.warn() for bad category. Initial patch by Phil Elson. .. .. bpo: 21932 .. date: 8640 .. nonce: LK_5S1 .. section: Library os.read() now uses a :c:func:`Py_ssize_t` type instead of :c:type:`int` for the size to support reading more than 2 GB at once. On Windows, the size is truncated to INT_MAX. As any call to os.read(), the OS may read less bytes than the number of requested bytes. .. .. bpo: 21942 .. date: 8639 .. nonce: TLOS41 .. section: Library Fixed source file viewing in pydoc's server mode on Windows. .. .. bpo: 11259 .. date: 8638 .. nonce: GxfYnE .. section: Library asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError if the number of received bytes is negative. .. .. bpo: 12523 .. date: 8637 .. nonce: XBdAky .. section: Library asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn't get a bytes string .. .. bpo: 21707 .. date: 8636 .. nonce: rrY_wd .. section: Library Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code(). .. .. bpo: 20639 .. date: 8635 .. nonce: YdvOpp .. section: Library calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix again. Patch by July Tikhonov. .. .. bpo: 21714 .. date: 8634 .. nonce: HhkGXW .. section: Library Disallow the construction of invalid paths using Path.with_name(). Original patch by Antony Lee. .. .. bpo: 15014 .. date: 8633 .. nonce: dB50zb .. section: Library Added 'auth' method to smtplib to make implementing auth mechanisms simpler, and used it internally in the login method. .. .. bpo: 21151 .. date: 8632 .. nonce: o7IuiD .. section: Library Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when ``None`` is passed as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman. .. .. bpo: 21090 .. date: 8631 .. nonce: 20Ooif .. section: Library io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before, it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed. .. .. bpo: 5800 .. date: 8630 .. nonce: ZJiLZP .. section: Library headers parameter of wsgiref.headers.Headers is now optional. Initial patch by Pablo Torres Navarrete and SilentGhost. .. .. bpo: 21781 .. date: 8629 .. nonce: u_oiv9 .. section: Library ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB. .. .. bpo: 21679 .. date: 8628 .. nonce: CTVT9A .. section: Library Prevent extraneous fstat() calls during open(). Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda. .. .. bpo: 21863 .. date: 8627 .. nonce: BzbwSL .. section: Library cProfile now displays the module name of C extension functions, in addition to their own name. .. .. bpo: 11453 .. date: 8626 .. nonce: 53Gr_R .. section: Library asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The close() method can now be called twice: the second call does nothing. .. .. bpo: 21858 .. date: 8625 .. nonce: 0hbFBG .. section: Library Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module. .. .. bpo: 21476 .. date: 8624 .. nonce: VN-5pW .. section: Library Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is discarded after parsing, so the input file isn't unexpectedly closed. .. .. bpo: 20295 .. date: 8623 .. nonce: U1MPhw .. section: Library imghdr now recognizes OpenEXR format images. .. .. bpo: 21729 .. date: 8622 .. nonce: dk7o_U .. section: Library Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure files closing. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 21491 .. date: 8621 .. nonce: Zxmut- .. section: Library socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping. .. .. bpo: 21719 .. date: 8620 .. nonce: DhQz3I .. section: Library Added the ``st_file_attributes`` field to os.stat_result on Windows. .. .. bpo: 21832 .. date: 8619 .. nonce: PBA0Uu .. section: Library Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings. .. .. bpo: 21722 .. date: 8618 .. nonce: WTHuRy .. section: Library The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero return code when uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler. .. .. bpo: 21723 .. date: 8617 .. nonce: r86fwb .. section: Library asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok. .. .. bpo: 21711 .. date: 8616 .. nonce: JWPFQZ .. section: Library support for "site-python" directories has now been removed from the site module (it was deprecated in 3.4). .. .. bpo: 17552 .. date: 8615 .. nonce: NunErD .. section: Library new socket.sendfile() method allowing a file to be sent over a socket by using high-performance os.sendfile() on UNIX. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. .. .. bpo: 18039 .. date: 8614 .. nonce: vC9hNy .. section: Library dbm.dump.open() now always creates a new database when the flag has the value 'n'. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 21326 .. date: 8613 .. nonce: Y6iW3s .. section: Library Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop. run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now raise an exception if the event loop was closed. .. .. bpo: 21766 .. date: 8612 .. nonce: 0xk_xC .. section: Library Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths before checking for a CGI script at that path. .. .. bpo: 21310 .. date: 8611 .. nonce: 2mjByJ .. section: Library Fixed possible resource leak in failed open(). .. .. bpo: 21256 .. date: 8610 .. nonce: dGq6cw .. section: Library Printout of keyword args should be in deterministic order in a mock function call. This will help to write better doctests. .. .. bpo: 21677 .. date: 8609 .. nonce: 58CDDD .. section: Library Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods. .. .. bpo: 11709 .. date: 8608 .. nonce: JdObvL .. section: Library Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a valid file. .. .. bpo: 21515 .. date: 8607 .. nonce: D9TLJF .. section: Library tempfile.TemporaryFile now uses os.O_TMPFILE flag is available. .. .. bpo: 13223 .. date: 8606 .. nonce: 9AzEbN .. section: Library Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods that use 'self' in the example code is generated correctly. .. .. bpo: 21463 .. date: 8605 .. nonce: 09PsgH .. section: Library In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache. .. .. bpo: 21618 .. date: 8604 .. nonce: 3Z7WS3 .. section: Library The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource limits would otherwise allow. On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd or /dev/fd interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed. .. .. bpo: 20383 .. date: 8603 .. nonce: pSPFpW .. section: Library Introduce importlib.util.module_from_spec() as the preferred way to create a new module. .. .. bpo: 21552 .. date: 8602 .. nonce: uVy4tM .. section: Library Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms. .. .. bpo: 14315 .. date: 8601 .. nonce: YzZzS8 .. section: Library The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in the wild and is ignored by other zip tools. .. .. bpo: 13742 .. date: 8600 .. nonce: QJiVSC .. section: Library Added "key" and "reverse" parameters to heapq.merge(). (First draft of patch contributed by Simon Sapin.) .. .. bpo: 21402 .. date: 8599 .. nonce: 51vDXt .. section: Library tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set. .. .. bpo: 3015 .. date: 8598 .. nonce: FE_PII .. section: Library _tkinter.create() now creates tkapp object with wantobject=1 by default. .. .. bpo: 10203 .. date: 8597 .. nonce: zgr0hh .. section: Library sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particular it supports reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 18807 .. date: 8596 .. nonce: XP7p8B .. section: Library If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than symlinking. .. .. bpo: 20197 .. date: 8595 .. nonce: nYR9fq .. section: Library Added support for the WebP image type in the imghdr module. Patch by Fabrice Aneche and Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 21513 .. date: 8594 .. nonce: ro4AOe .. section: Library Speedup some properties of IP addresses (IPv4Address, IPv6Address) such as .is_private or .is_multicast. .. .. bpo: 21137 .. date: 8593 .. nonce: wgHb_F .. section: Library Improve the repr for threading.Lock() and its variants by showing the "locked" or "unlocked" status. Patch by Berker Peksag. .. .. bpo: 21538 .. date: 8592 .. nonce: Q60FWA .. section: Library The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files when reference or offset size is not a power of two. .. .. bpo: 21455 .. date: 8591 .. nonce: 6-Uvv4 .. section: Library Add a default backlog to socket.listen(). .. .. bpo: 21525 .. date: 8590 .. nonce: hAKOve .. section: Library Most Tkinter methods which accepted tuples now accept lists too. .. .. bpo: 22166 .. date: 8589 .. nonce: sZYhmv .. section: Library With the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec helping function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the appearance of a reference leak .. .. bpo: 22236 .. date: 8588 .. nonce: ginJSI .. section: Library Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window. New root window is created for every test class. .. .. bpo: 10744 .. date: 8587 .. nonce: kfV0wm .. section: Library Fix :pep:`3118` format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial shape. .. .. bpo: 20826 .. date: 8586 .. nonce: 3rXqMC .. section: Library Optimize ipaddress.collapse_addresses(). .. .. bpo: 21487 .. date: 8585 .. nonce: sX8YmK .. section: Library Optimize ipaddress.summarize_address_range() and ipaddress.{IPv4Network,IPv6Network}.subnets(). .. .. bpo: 21486 .. date: 8584 .. nonce: CeFKRP .. section: Library Optimize parsing of netmasks in ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network. .. .. bpo: 13916 .. date: 8583 .. nonce: D77YVH .. section: Library Disallowed the surrogatepass error handler for non UTF-\* encodings. .. .. bpo: 20998 .. date: 8582 .. nonce: fkxpXI .. section: Library Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern with ignore case. Original patch by Matthew Barnett. .. .. bpo: 21075 .. date: 8581 .. nonce: f_hmEh .. section: Library fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if binary mode is specified. Patch by Sam Kimbrel. .. .. bpo: 19775 .. date: 8580 .. nonce: yxxD_R .. section: Library Add a samefile() method to pathlib Path objects. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok. .. .. bpo: 21226 .. date: 8579 .. nonce: pzGmG1 .. section: Library Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject (and friends). .. .. bpo: 21398 .. date: 8578 .. nonce: guSBXt .. section: Library Fix a unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding. .. .. bpo: 16531 .. date: 8577 .. nonce: AhrY_v .. section: Library ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network now accept an (address, netmask) tuple argument, so as to easily construct network objects from existing addresses. .. .. bpo: 21156 .. date: 8576 .. nonce: 3dmBEp .. section: Library importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() is now a staticmethod. .. .. bpo: 21424 .. date: 8575 .. nonce: 8CJBqW .. section: Library Simplified and optimized heaqp.nlargest() and nmsmallest() to make fewer tuple comparisons. .. .. bpo: 21396 .. date: 8574 .. nonce: cqO6DN .. section: Library Fix TextIOWrapper(..., write_through=True) to not force a flush() on the underlying binary stream. Patch by akira. .. .. bpo: 18314 .. date: 8573 .. nonce: NCd_KF .. section: Library Unlink now removes junctions on Windows. Patch by Kim Gräsman .. .. bpo: 21088 .. date: 8572 .. nonce: WOg7Xy .. section: Library Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0. In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed. .. .. bpo: 21407 .. date: 8571 .. nonce: cZjFde .. section: Library _decimal: The module now supports function signatures. .. .. bpo: 10650 .. date: 8570 .. nonce: HYT4Oe .. section: Library Remove the non-standard 'watchexp' parameter from the Decimal.quantize() method in the Python version. It had never been present in the C version. .. .. bpo: 21469 .. date: 8569 .. nonce: _fFGuq .. section: Library Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist prior to returning True in can_fetch(). .. .. bpo: 19414 .. date: 8568 .. nonce: bAAw4D .. section: Library Have the OrderedDict mark deleted links as unusable. This gives an early failure if the link is deleted during iteration. .. .. bpo: 21421 .. date: 8567 .. nonce: 5AKAat .. section: Library Add __slots__ to the MappingViews ABC. Patch by Josh Rosenberg. .. .. bpo: 21101 .. date: 8566 .. nonce: Lj-_P4 .. section: Library Eliminate double hashing in the C speed-up code for collections.Counter(). .. .. bpo: 21321 .. date: 8565 .. nonce: wUkTON .. section: Library itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source iterator when the slice is exhausted. Patch by Anton Afanasyev. .. .. bpo: 21057 .. date: 8564 .. nonce: 0TC4Xl .. section: Library TextIOWrapper now allows the underlying binary stream's read() or read1() method to return an arbitrary bytes-like object (such as a memoryview). Patch by Nikolaus Rath. .. .. bpo: 20951 .. date: 8563 .. nonce: tF0dJi .. section: Library SSLSocket.send() now raises either SSLWantReadError or SSLWantWriteError on a non-blocking socket if the operation would block. Previously, it would return 0. Patch by Nikolaus Rath. .. .. bpo: 13248 .. date: 8562 .. nonce: 7vtGj0 .. section: Library removed previously deprecated asyncore.dispatcher __getattr__ cheap inheritance hack. .. .. bpo: 9815 .. date: 8561 .. nonce: 52FPlI .. section: Library assertRaises now tries to clear references to local variables in the exception's traceback. .. .. bpo: 19940 .. date: 8560 .. nonce: 2qtBQ8 .. section: Library ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() now interprets the given time string in the UTC timezone (as specified in RFC 5280), not the local timezone. .. .. bpo: 13204 .. date: 8559 .. nonce: ZPKA5g .. section: Library Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter, now it raises a TypeError. .. .. bpo: 19385 .. date: 8558 .. nonce: PexO_g .. section: Library Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always raise the same exception. .. .. bpo: 21207 .. date: 8557 .. nonce: Hr72AB .. section: Library Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or replaced, and open it anew. .. .. bpo: 21291 .. date: 8556 .. nonce: 5sSLWN .. section: Library subprocess's Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that multiple threads may be calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value. .. .. bpo: 21127 .. date: 8555 .. nonce: A1aBjG .. section: Library Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass instances (such as ``numpy.str_``). .. .. bpo: 15002 .. date: 8554 .. nonce: qorYDe .. section: Library urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and _TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune. .. .. bpo: 12220 .. date: 8553 .. nonce: U25uE9 .. section: Library mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it doesn't support spaces in URIs instead of letting a 'split' ValueError bubble up. .. .. bpo: 21068 .. date: 8552 .. nonce: 9k6N9m .. section: Library The ssl.PROTOCOL* constants are now enum members. .. .. bpo: 21276 .. date: 8551 .. nonce: JkfhvQ .. section: Library posixmodule: Don't define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and the Hurd. .. .. bpo: 21262 .. date: 8550 .. nonce: 1J5ylk .. section: Library New method assert_not_called for Mock. It raises AssertionError if the mock has been called. .. .. bpo: 21238 .. date: 8549 .. nonce: 5CDoox .. section: Library New keyword argument `unsafe` to Mock. It raises `AttributeError` incase of an attribute startswith assert or assret. .. .. bpo: 20896 .. date: 8548 .. nonce: oWwAb1 .. section: Library ssl.get_server_certificate() now uses PROTOCOL_SSLv23, not PROTOCOL_SSLv3, for maximum compatibility. .. .. bpo: 21239 .. date: 8547 .. nonce: EalCNt .. section: Library patch.stopall() didn't work deterministically when the same name was patched more than once. .. .. bpo: 21203 .. date: 8546 .. nonce: 1IMs-Z .. section: Library Updated fileConfig and dictConfig to remove inconsistencies. Thanks to Jure Koren for the patch. .. .. bpo: 21222 .. date: 8545 .. nonce: G6MQBP .. section: Library Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now works. .. .. bpo: 21197 .. date: 8544 .. nonce: Gzfqdl .. section: Library Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X POSIX. .. .. bpo: 17498 .. date: 8543 .. nonce: LR9xyb .. section: Library Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors, violating strict RFC conformance. Instead of losing the error code when we issue the subsequent RSET, smtplib now returns the error code and defers raising the SMTPServerDisconnected error until the next command is issued. .. .. bpo: 17826 .. date: 8542 .. nonce: z0zMRV .. section: Library setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function created by create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das. .. .. bpo: 7776 .. date: 8541 .. nonce: K5S2Pe .. section: Library Fix ``Host:`` header and reconnection when using http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath. .. .. bpo: 20968 .. date: 8540 .. nonce: 53Aagz .. section: Library unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division. Patch by Johannes Baiter. .. .. bpo: 21529 .. date: 8539 .. nonce: 57R_Fc .. section: Library Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken. (See also: CVE-2014-4616) .. .. bpo: 21169 .. date: 8538 .. nonce: KE7B0M .. section: Library getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the replace error handler. .. .. bpo: 21171 .. date: 8537 .. nonce: iUbV9S .. section: Library Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec. Patch by Berker Peksag. .. .. bpo: 20539 .. date: 8536 .. nonce: 62nbEb .. section: Library Improved math.factorial error message for large positive inputs and changed exception type (OverflowError -> ValueError) for large negative inputs. .. .. bpo: 21172 .. date: 8535 .. nonce: dQ7yY7 .. section: Library isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping. .. .. bpo: 21155 .. date: 8534 .. nonce: JSKEE7 .. section: Library asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a ValueError if path and sock are specified at the same time. .. .. bpo: 21136 .. date: 8533 .. nonce: JZAKv3 .. section: Library Avoid unnecessary normalization of Fractions resulting from power and other operations. Patch by Raymond Hettinger. .. .. bpo: 17621 .. date: 8532 .. nonce: 1x0mvJ .. section: Library Introduce importlib.util.LazyLoader. .. .. bpo: 21076 .. date: 8531 .. nonce: upxQc6 .. section: Library signal module constants were turned into enums. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. .. .. bpo: 20636 .. date: 8530 .. nonce: KGh-BD .. section: Library Improved the repr of Tkinter widgets. .. .. bpo: 19505 .. date: 8529 .. nonce: VEtIE6 .. section: Library The items, keys, and values views of OrderedDict now support reverse iteration using reversed(). .. .. bpo: 21149 .. date: 8528 .. nonce: cnjwMR .. section: Library Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch. .. .. bpo: 21058 .. date: 8527 .. nonce: IhluPP .. section: Library Fix a leak of file descriptor in :func:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile`, close the file descriptor if :func:`io.open` fails .. .. bpo: 21200 .. date: 8526 .. nonce: Kht8yD .. section: Library Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is missing. .. .. bpo: 21013 .. date: 8525 .. nonce: 3s8Ic0 .. section: Library Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for server side sockets to provide better security by default. .. .. bpo: 20145 .. date: 8524 .. nonce: FP5FY0 .. section: Library `assertRaisesRegex` and `assertWarnsRegex` now raise a TypeError if the second argument is not a string or compiled regex. .. .. bpo: 20633 .. date: 8523 .. nonce: 6kaPjT .. section: Library Replace relative import by absolute import. .. .. bpo: 20980 .. date: 8522 .. nonce: cYszHY .. section: Library Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool. .. .. bpo: 21082 .. date: 8521 .. nonce: GLzGlV .. section: Library In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True. .. .. bpo: 20990 .. date: 8520 .. nonce: PBfjW3 .. section: Library Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing. .. .. bpo: 21015 .. date: 8519 .. nonce: xnwWAH .. section: Library SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic curve for ECDH key exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and otherwise default to "prime256v1". .. .. bpo: 21000 .. date: 8518 .. nonce: JUyyVV .. section: Library Improve the command-line interface of json.tool. .. .. bpo: 20995 .. date: 8517 .. nonce: KSORJT .. section: Library Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to enable better security and prioritize perfect forward secrecy. .. .. bpo: 20884 .. date: 8516 .. nonce: qNmub_ .. section: Library Don't assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__. .. .. bpo: 21499 .. date: 8515 .. nonce: wU4OBi .. section: Library Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests. .. .. bpo: 20627 .. date: 8514 .. nonce: fgfQ1x .. section: Library xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy is now a context manager. .. .. bpo: 19165 .. date: 8513 .. nonce: sAkUjU .. section: Library The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning instead of PendingDeprecationWarning. .. .. bpo: 13936 .. date: 8512 .. nonce: _Q0Yog .. section: Library Remove the ability of datetime.time instances to be considered false in boolean contexts. .. .. bpo: 18931 .. date: 8511 .. nonce: mq4Mud .. section: Library selectors module now supports /dev/poll on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. .. .. bpo: 19977 .. date: 8510 .. nonce: A-sQ_V .. section: Library When the ``LC_TYPE`` locale is the POSIX locale (``C`` locale), :py:data:`sys.stdin` and :py:data:`sys.stdout` are now using the ``surrogateescape`` error handler, instead of the ``strict`` error handler. .. .. bpo: 20574 .. date: 8509 .. nonce: KaKqSs .. section: Library Implement incremental decoder for cp65001 code (Windows code page 65001, Microsoft UTF-8). .. .. bpo: 20879 .. date: 8508 .. nonce: myeYdq .. section: Library Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to not waste memory if these modules are not used. .. .. bpo: 19157 .. date: 8507 .. nonce: V1-XhC .. section: Library Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6 in ipaddress. .. .. bpo: 11599 .. date: 8506 .. nonce: 9QOXf4 .. section: Library When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set. .. .. bpo: 4931 .. date: 8505 .. nonce: uF10hr .. section: Library distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated. .. .. bpo: 20875 .. date: 8504 .. nonce: IjfI5V .. section: Library Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError. Patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 11558 .. date: 8503 .. nonce: pxrsmq .. section: Library ``email.message.Message.attach`` now returns a more useful error message if ``attach`` is called on a message for which ``is_multipart`` is False. .. .. bpo: 20283 .. date: 8502 .. nonce: v0Vs9V .. section: Library RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as deprecated aliases. .. .. bpo: 20778 .. date: 8501 .. nonce: g_fAGI .. section: Library Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules. .. .. bpo: 20791 .. date: 8500 .. nonce: n_zrkc .. section: Library copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is a bytes object. Initial patch by Peter Otten. .. .. bpo: 19748 .. date: 8499 .. nonce: kiA171 .. section: Library On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year outsize range [1902; 2037]. .. .. bpo: 19573 .. date: 8498 .. nonce: QJvX_V .. section: Library inspect.signature: Use enum for parameter kind constants. .. .. bpo: 20726 .. date: 8497 .. nonce: 0yfRDI .. section: Library inspect.signature: Make Signature and Parameter picklable. .. .. bpo: 17373 .. date: 8496 .. nonce: ECwuJO .. section: Library Add inspect.Signature.from_callable method. .. .. bpo: 20378 .. date: 8495 .. nonce: l9M3H- .. section: Library Improve repr of inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter. .. .. bpo: 20816 .. date: 8494 .. nonce: DFMEgN .. section: Library Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin. .. .. bpo: 20817 .. date: 8493 .. nonce: O5XyZB .. section: Library Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin. .. .. bpo: 6676 .. date: 8492 .. nonce: CJu5On .. section: Library Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance. (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with suggested wording by David Gutteridge) .. .. bpo: 21117 .. date: 8491 .. nonce: hyH7EK .. section: Library Fix inspect.signature to better support functools.partial. Due to the specifics of functools.partial implementation, positional-or-keyword arguments passed as keyword arguments become keyword-only. .. .. bpo: 20334 .. date: 8490 .. nonce: 0yFmfQ .. section: Library inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter are now hashable. Thanks to Antony Lee for bug reports and suggestions. .. .. bpo: 15916 .. date: 8489 .. nonce: _vhKPn .. section: Library doctest.DocTestSuite returns an empty unittest.TestSuite instead of raising ValueError if it finds no tests .. .. bpo: 21209 .. date: 8488 .. nonce: wRE7Dn .. section: Library Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug in yield-from implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8487 .. nonce: Q1I78Z .. section: Library asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper (upstream issue #163). .. .. bpo: 21311 .. date: 8486 .. nonce: JsDF8H .. section: Library Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler configurations. Patch by John Szakmeister. .. .. bpo: 11571 .. date: 8485 .. nonce: RPeGNo .. section: Library Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost window when launched on OS X. .. .. bpo: 21801 .. date: 8484 .. nonce: rzfhYl .. section: Library Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature. .. .. bpo: 21923 .. date: 8483 .. nonce: hXnoZa .. section: Library Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler due to possible uninitialized _config_vars. .. .. bpo: 21323 .. date: 8482 .. nonce: quiWfl .. section: Library Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories, broken by the fix for security issue #19435. Patch by Zach Byrne. .. .. bpo: 22733 .. date: 8481 .. nonce: 21gJBp .. section: Library Fix ffi_prep_args not zero-extending argument values correctly on 64-bit Windows. .. .. bpo: 23302 .. date: 8480 .. nonce: X2dabK .. section: Library Default to TCP_NODELAY=1 upon establishing an HTTPConnection. Removed use of hard-coded MSS as it's an optimization that's no longer needed with Nagle disabled. .. .. bpo: 20577 .. date: 8479 .. nonce: Y71IMj .. section: IDLE Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog. Patch by Tal Einat. .. .. bpo: 16893 .. date: 8478 .. nonce: JfHAA4 .. section: IDLE Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new information. .. .. bpo: 3068 .. date: 8477 .. nonce: TYjXTA .. section: IDLE Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu. Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. Original patch by Tal Einat. .. .. bpo: 16233 .. date: 8476 .. nonce: sOadNo .. section: IDLE A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise, from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened. .. .. bpo: 4832 .. date: 8475 .. nonce: GRKi9M .. section: IDLE Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems automatically add .txt when type is Text files. .. .. bpo: 21986 .. date: 8474 .. nonce: 04GUv2 .. section: IDLE Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module. To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle. .. .. bpo: 17390 .. date: 8473 .. nonce: I4vHFh .. section: IDLE Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python', move version to end. .. .. bpo: 14105 .. date: 8472 .. nonce: -FZwYH .. section: IDLE Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear when inserting or deleting lines. .. .. bpo: 17172 .. date: 8471 .. nonce: R8jkU1 .. section: IDLE Turtledemo can now be run from Idle. Currently, the entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run. Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho. .. .. bpo: 21765 .. date: 8470 .. nonce: JyiDbd .. section: IDLE Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser. .. .. bpo: 21940 .. date: 8469 .. nonce: VlIRz7 .. section: IDLE Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. .. .. bpo: 18592 .. date: 8468 .. nonce: sMG-SZ .. section: IDLE Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster. .. .. bpo: 21694 .. date: 8467 .. nonce: 1oLmRo .. section: IDLE Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. .. .. bpo: 21686 .. date: 8466 .. nonce: TAkFB0 .. section: IDLE add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. .. .. bpo: 12387 .. date: 8465 .. nonce: XO7Ozk .. section: IDLE Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy. .. .. bpo: 21695 .. date: 8464 .. nonce: g-t0Tm .. section: IDLE Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is still in progress no longer closes Idle. .. .. bpo: 18910 .. date: 8463 .. nonce: ke8lMK .. section: IDLE Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster. .. .. bpo: 18292 .. date: 8462 .. nonce: ks_3wm .. section: IDLE Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar. .. .. bpo: 18409 .. date: 8461 .. nonce: 7fe-aK .. section: IDLE Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster. .. .. bpo: 21477 .. date: 8460 .. nonce: 33NOe0 .. section: IDLE htest.py - Improve framework, complete set of tests. Patches by Saimadhav Heblikar .. .. bpo: 18104 .. date: 8459 .. nonce: 8Fj9Pf .. section: IDLE Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests. .. .. bpo: 21139 .. date: 8458 .. nonce: kqetng .. section: IDLE Change default paragraph width to 72, the :pep:`8` recommendation. .. .. bpo: 21284 .. date: 8457 .. nonce: KKJfmv .. section: IDLE Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width. .. .. bpo: 17654 .. date: 8456 .. nonce: NbzhNS .. section: IDLE Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk. .. .. bpo: 23180 .. date: 8455 .. nonce: cE_89F .. section: IDLE Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window". Patch by Al Sweigart. .. .. bpo: 15506 .. date: 8454 .. nonce: nh8KlR .. section: Build Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the configure script. .. .. bpo: 22935 .. date: 8453 .. nonce: -vY3lc .. section: Build Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn't support SSL 3. .. .. bpo: 22592 .. date: 8452 .. nonce: O_IE9W .. section: Build Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python. The distutils module still supports it to build extensions. .. .. bpo: 22591 .. date: 8451 .. nonce: wwBlG8 .. section: Build Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port of GCC). .. .. bpo: 16537 .. date: 8450 .. nonce: llFo71 .. section: Build Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by Jonathan Hosmer. .. .. bpo: 22359 .. date: 8449 .. nonce: YYFOFG .. section: Build Remove incorrect uses of recursive make. Patch by Jonas Wagner. .. .. bpo: 21958 .. date: 8448 .. nonce: 3rq4qR .. section: Build Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and above. Patch by Zachary Turner. .. .. bpo: 18093 .. date: 8447 .. nonce: gnZieo .. section: Build the programs that embed the CPython runtime are now in a separate "Programs" directory, rather than being kept in the Modules directory. .. .. bpo: 15759 .. date: 8446 .. nonce: iGLR6O .. section: Build "make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest" in Doc/ now display special message when and only when there are failures. .. .. bpo: 21141 .. date: 8445 .. nonce: 669LzK .. section: Build The Windows build process no longer attempts to find Perl, instead relying on OpenSSL source being configured and ready to build. The ``PCbuild\build_ssl.py`` script has been re-written and re-named to ``PCbuild\prepare_ssl.py``, and takes care of configuring OpenSSL source for both 32 and 64 bit platforms. OpenSSL sources obtained from svn.python.org will always be pre-configured and ready to build. .. .. bpo: 21037 .. date: 8444 .. nonce: v1rZzo .. section: Build Add a build option to enable AddressSanitizer support. .. .. bpo: 19962 .. date: 8443 .. nonce: HDlwsE .. section: Build The Windows build process now creates "python.bat" in the root of the source tree, which passes all arguments through to the most recently built interpreter. .. .. bpo: 21285 .. date: 8442 .. nonce: cU9p2E .. section: Build Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search in a ncursesw directory. .. .. bpo: 15234 .. date: 8441 .. nonce: vlM720 .. section: Build For BerkeleyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library and include directories if they aren't already being searched. This avoids an explicit runtime library dependency. .. .. bpo: 17861 .. date: 8440 .. nonce: jCi44U .. section: Build Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically regenerates Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets any change. .. .. bpo: 20644 .. date: 8439 .. nonce: aV0zq7 .. section: Build OS X installer build support for documentation build changes in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin. .. .. bpo: 20022 .. date: 8438 .. nonce: EqSCTW .. section: Build Eliminate use of deprecated bundlebuilder in OS X builds. .. .. bpo: 15968 .. date: 8437 .. nonce: vxUxHK .. section: Build Incorporated Tcl, Tk, and Tix builds into the Windows build solution. .. .. bpo: 17095 .. date: 8436 .. nonce: -XEBIU .. section: Build Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support. .. .. bpo: 21811 .. date: 8435 .. nonce: 3_Xyr- .. section: Build Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9. .. .. bpo: 21166 .. date: 8434 .. nonce: KAl7aO .. section: Build Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python --generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target. .. .. bpo: 18096 .. date: 8433 .. nonce: ELyAUJ .. section: Build Fix library order returned by python-config. .. .. bpo: 17219 .. date: 8432 .. nonce: q8ueQ0 .. section: Build Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds. .. .. bpo: 22919 .. date: 8431 .. nonce: 1XThL9 .. section: Build Windows build updated to support VC 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015), which will be used for the official release. .. .. bpo: 21236 .. date: 8430 .. nonce: 84LXxj .. section: Build Build _msi.pyd with cabinet.lib instead of fci.lib .. .. bpo: 17128 .. date: 8429 .. nonce: U2biLA .. section: Build Use private version of OpenSSL for OS X 10.5+ installer. .. .. bpo: 14203 .. date: 8428 .. nonce: 3hv0TX .. section: C API Remove obsolete support for view==NULL in PyBuffer_FillInfo(), bytearray_getbuffer(), bytesiobuf_getbuffer() and array_buffer_getbuf(). All functions now raise BufferError in that case. .. .. bpo: 22445 .. date: 8427 .. nonce: s0AOAS .. section: C API PyBuffer_IsContiguous() now implements precise contiguity tests, compatible with NumPy's NPY_RELAXED_STRIDES_CHECKING compilation flag. Previously the function reported false negatives for corner cases. .. .. bpo: 22079 .. date: 8426 .. nonce: zhs2qM .. section: C API PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has no dynamically allocated bases. .. .. bpo: 22453 .. date: 8425 .. nonce: XoO4ns .. section: C API Removed non-documented macro PyObject_REPR(). .. .. bpo: 18395 .. date: 8424 .. nonce: YC9B06 .. section: C API Rename ``_Py_char2wchar()`` to :c:func:`Py_DecodeLocale`, rename ``_Py_wchar2char()`` to :c:func:`Py_EncodeLocale`, and document these functions. .. .. bpo: 21233 .. date: 8423 .. nonce: 98hZAt .. section: C API Add new C functions: PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_Calloc(), PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) is now using ``calloc()`` instead of ``malloc()`` for large objects which is faster and use less memory. .. .. bpo: 20942 .. date: 8422 .. nonce: qHLJ5- .. section: C API PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets __file__ to match what importlib does; this affects _frozen_importlib as well as any module loaded using imp.init_frozen(). .. .. bpo: 19548 .. date: 8421 .. nonce: yOX8sS .. section: Documentation Update the codecs module documentation to better cover the distinction between text encodings and other codecs, together with other clarifications. Patch by Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 22394 .. date: 8420 .. nonce: 6bJywY .. section: Documentation Doc/Makefile now supports ``make venv PYTHON=../python`` to create a venv for generating the documentation, e.g., ``make html PYTHON=venv/bin/python3``. .. .. bpo: 21514 .. date: 8419 .. nonce: 1H16T6 .. section: Documentation The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC 7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627. .. .. bpo: 21777 .. date: 8418 .. nonce: dtQCWV .. section: Documentation The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are now documented explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able to derive the expected behaviour from the behaviour of the corresponding str methods. .. .. bpo: 6916 .. date: 8417 .. nonce: 4sm3nE .. section: Documentation undocument deprecated asynchat.fifo class. .. .. bpo: 17386 .. date: 8416 .. nonce: ivaGLb .. section: Documentation Expanded functionality of the ``Doc/make.bat`` script to make it much more comparable to ``Doc/Makefile``. .. .. bpo: 21312 .. date: 8415 .. nonce: 6IqcV4 .. section: Documentation Update the thread_foobar.h template file to include newer threading APIs. Patch by Jack McCracken. .. .. bpo: 21043 .. date: 8414 .. nonce: oEOC8O .. section: Documentation Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to mention the ability to load the OS certificates. .. .. bpo: 20765 .. date: 8413 .. nonce: Rv3GgV .. section: Documentation Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and PurePath.with_suffix(). .. .. bpo: 19407 .. date: 8412 .. nonce: mRyNnG .. section: Documentation New package installation and distribution guides based on the Python Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been retained as legacy links from the distutils docs, as they still contain some required reference material for tool developers that isn't recorded anywhere else. .. .. bpo: 19697 .. date: 8411 .. nonce: 2jMQBP .. section: Documentation Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None. .. .. bpo: 18982 .. date: 8410 .. nonce: TynSM6 .. section: Tests Add tests for CLI of the calendar module. .. .. bpo: 19548 .. date: 8409 .. nonce: 25Kxq_ .. section: Tests Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure that statements in the updated documentation remain accurate. Patch by Martin Panter. .. .. bpo: 22838 .. date: 8408 .. nonce: VZBtZg .. section: Tests All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery. .. .. bpo: 22173 .. date: 8407 .. nonce: dxIIVx .. section: Tests Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery. .. .. bpo: 16000 .. date: 8406 .. nonce: Y7O6TP .. section: Tests Convert test_curses to use unittest. .. .. bpo: 21456 .. date: 8405 .. nonce: Axsw43 .. section: Tests Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not present. Patch by Remi Pointel. .. .. bpo: 20746 .. date: 8404 .. nonce: N2pzAY .. section: Tests Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R). Patch by Xavier de Gaye. .. .. bpo: 22060 .. date: 8403 .. nonce: TduJNO .. section: Tests test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and simplified; it now uses unittest test discovery to find its tests. .. .. bpo: 22104 .. date: 8402 .. nonce: -YYDup .. section: Tests regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of tests loaded from test modules that don't define test_main(). .. .. bpo: 22111 .. date: 8401 .. nonce: 0XlFAU .. section: Tests Assorted cleanups in test_imaplib. Patch by Milan Oberkirch. .. .. bpo: 22002 .. date: 8400 .. nonce: jpiaA2 .. section: Tests Added ``load_package_tests`` function to test.support and used it to implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio, test_email, test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools. .. .. bpo: 21976 .. date: 8399 .. nonce: Slq6se .. section: Tests Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks to William Orr. .. .. bpo: 21918 .. date: 8398 .. nonce: QTFFSj .. section: Tests Converted test_tools from a module to a package containing separate test files for each tested script. .. .. bpo: 9554 .. date: 8397 .. nonce: VsP0Ve .. section: Tests Use modern unittest features in test_argparse. Initial patch by Denver Coneybeare and Radu Voicilas. .. .. bpo: 20155 .. date: 8396 .. nonce: nphzS3 .. section: Tests Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine) does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests. .. .. bpo: 19493 .. date: 8395 .. nonce: SwbzLQ .. section: Tests Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly rather than silently. .. .. bpo: 18492 .. date: 8394 .. nonce: ylPRU7 .. section: Tests All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by regrtest.py. .. .. bpo: 21634 .. date: 8393 .. nonce: Eng06F .. section: Tests Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true division to benchmark integers instead of floating point numbers. Set pystone version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro. .. .. bpo: 21605 .. date: 8392 .. nonce: qsLV8d .. section: Tests Added tests for Tkinter images. .. .. bpo: 21493 .. date: 8391 .. nonce: NqhRsy .. section: Tests Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by Claudiu Popa. .. .. bpo: 19925 .. date: 8390 .. nonce: dhMx08 .. section: Tests Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok. .. .. bpo: 21522 .. date: 8389 .. nonce: b-VwFW .. section: Tests Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(), PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure(). .. .. bpo: 17756 .. date: 8388 .. nonce: LLfbfU .. section: Tests Fix test_code test when run from the installed location. .. .. bpo: 17752 .. date: 8387 .. nonce: P8iG44 .. section: Tests Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location. .. .. bpo: 18604 .. date: 8386 .. nonce: Q00Xrj .. section: Tests Consolidated checks for GUI availability. All platforms now at least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is requested. .. .. bpo: 21275 .. date: 8385 .. nonce: lI5FkX .. section: Tests Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD. .. .. bpo: 21223 .. date: 8384 .. nonce: lMY6ka .. section: Tests Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the extensions are built as builtins. .. .. bpo: 20635 .. date: 8383 .. nonce: mzWmoS .. section: Tests Added tests for Tk geometry managers. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8382 .. nonce: E5XNqr .. section: Tests Add test case for freeze. .. .. bpo: 20743 .. date: 8381 .. nonce: hxZQUf .. section: Tests Fix a reference leak in test_tcl. .. .. bpo: 21097 .. date: 8380 .. nonce: gsUesm .. section: Tests Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib. .. .. bpo: 21503 .. date: 8379 .. nonce: H9TPCg .. section: Tests Use test_both() consistently in test_importlib. .. .. bpo: 20939 .. date: 8378 .. nonce: x3KQ35 .. section: Tests Avoid various network test failures due to new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org: use http://www.example.com instead. .. .. bpo: 20668 .. date: 8377 .. nonce: IWjOSC .. section: Tests asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file. (Patch by Vajrasky Kok) .. .. bpo: 21093 .. date: 8376 .. nonce: CcpRim .. section: Tests Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib. .. .. bpo: 22770 .. date: 8375 .. nonce: FxAh91 .. section: Tests Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests. .. .. bpo: 23211 .. date: 8374 .. nonce: Bc-QfJ .. section: Tests Workaround test_logging failure on some OS X 10.6 systems. .. .. bpo: 23345 .. date: 8373 .. nonce: HIGBKx .. section: Tests Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level values (like 0.9.8zc). .. .. bpo: 22314 .. date: 8372 .. nonce: ws6xsH .. section: Tools/Demos pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set. .. .. bpo: 22615 .. date: 8371 .. nonce: My3DWN .. section: Tools/Demos Argument Clinic now supports the "type" argument for the int converter. This permits using the int converter with enums and typedefs. .. .. bpo: 20076 .. date: 8370 .. nonce: ZNuBrC .. section: Tools/Demos The makelocalealias.py script no longer ignores UTF-8 mapping. .. .. bpo: 20079 .. date: 8369 .. nonce: ogPXcK .. section: Tools/Demos The makelocalealias.py script now can parse the SUPPORTED file from glibc sources and supports command line options for source paths. .. .. bpo: 22201 .. date: 8368 .. nonce: k1Awbh .. section: Tools/Demos Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly extracts ZIP files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson. .. .. bpo: 22120 .. date: 8367 .. nonce: KmBUj- .. section: Tools/Demos For functions using an unsigned integer return converter, Argument Clinic now generates a cast to that type for the comparison to -1 in the generated code. (This suppresses a compilation warning.) .. .. bpo: 18974 .. date: 8366 .. nonce: I3DdAo .. section: Tools/Demos Tools/scripts/diff.py now uses argparse instead of optparse. .. .. bpo: 21906 .. date: 8365 .. nonce: ZsKy9v .. section: Tools/Demos Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3. Patch by Zachary Ware. .. .. bpo: 21629 .. date: 8364 .. nonce: 9kZmQl .. section: Tools/Demos Fix Argument Clinic's "--converters" feature. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8363 .. nonce: _-ge-g .. section: Tools/Demos Add support for ``yield from`` to 2to3. .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8362 .. nonce: dpFbyZ .. section: Tools/Demos Add support for the :pep:`465` matrix multiplication operator to 2to3. .. .. bpo: 16047 .. date: 8361 .. nonce: IsgTzm .. section: Tools/Demos Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge. .. .. bpo: 11824 .. date: 8360 .. nonce: OBWc3T .. section: Tools/Demos Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge. .. .. bpo: 20535 .. date: 8359 .. nonce: 0qkvZZ .. section: Tools/Demos PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. .. .. bpo: 23260 .. date: 8358 .. nonce: aZ5VLH .. section: Windows Update Windows installer .. .. bpo: 0 .. date: 8357 .. nonce: _aEUNt .. section: Windows The bundled version of Tcl/Tk has been updated to 8.6.3. The most visible result of this change is the addition of new native file dialogs when running on Windows Vista or newer. See Tcl/Tk's TIP 432 for more information. Also, this version of Tcl/Tk includes support for Windows 10. .. .. bpo: 17896 .. date: 8356 .. nonce: o79rHM .. section: Windows The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources to be in ``PCbuild\..\externals`` rather than ``PCbuild\..\..``. .. .. bpo: 17717 .. date: 8355 .. nonce: y1zoye .. section: Windows The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from svn.python.org to build OpenSSL. .. .. bpo: 21907 .. date: 8354 .. nonce: jm1smN .. section: Windows Improved the batch scripts provided for building Python. .. .. bpo: 22644 .. date: 8353 .. nonce: gosBki .. section: Windows The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j. .. .. bpo: 10747 .. date: 8352 .. nonce: LTWhLn .. section: Windows Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu. Patch by Olive Kilburn. .. .. bpo: 22980 .. date: 8351 .. nonce: -UypE5 .. section: Windows .pyd files with a version and platform tag (for example, ".cp35-win32.pyd") will now be loaded in preference to those without tags.