diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index f9157e2..e6f519e 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        7
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        1
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        2
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.1+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.2rc1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index f5b9aa1..aaab1f7 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Sat Oct 20 01:59:27 2018
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Dec 11 16:32:31 2018
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
            'implementation, the built-in variable "__debug__" is "True" under\n'
            'normal circumstances, "False" when optimization is requested '
            '(command\n'
-           'line option -O).  The current code generator emits no code for an\n'
+           'line option "-O").  The current code generator emits no code for '
+           'an\n'
            'assert statement when optimization is requested at compile time.  '
            'Note\n'
            'that it is unnecessary to include the source code for the '
@@ -87,23 +88,16 @@
                'parentheses or square brackets, is recursively defined as '
                'follows.\n'
                '\n'
-               '* If the target list is empty: The object must also be an '
-               'empty\n'
-               '  iterable.\n'
+               '* If the target list is a single target with no trailing '
+               'comma,\n'
+               '  optionally in parentheses, the object is assigned to that '
+               'target.\n'
                '\n'
-               '* If the target list is a single target in parentheses: The '
-               'object\n'
-               '  is assigned to that target.\n'
-               '\n'
-               '* If the target list is a comma-separated list of targets, or '
-               'a\n'
-               '  single target in square brackets: The object must be an '
-               'iterable\n'
-               '  with the same number of items as there are targets in the '
-               'target\n'
-               '  list, and the items are assigned, from left to right, to '
-               'the\n'
-               '  corresponding targets.\n'
+               '* Else: The object must be an iterable with the same number of '
+               'items\n'
+               '  as there are targets in the target list, and the items are '
+               'assigned,\n'
+               '  from left to right, to the corresponding targets.\n'
                '\n'
                '  * If the target list contains one target prefixed with an\n'
                '    asterisk, called a “starred” target: The object must be '
@@ -400,9 +394,21 @@
                'the last\n'
                '"__setitem__()" or "__setattr__()" call.\n'
                '\n'
-               'See also: **PEP 526** - Variable and attribute annotation '
-               'syntax\n'
-               '  **PEP 484** - Type hints\n',
+               'See also:\n'
+               '\n'
+               '  **PEP 526** - Syntax for Variable Annotations\n'
+               '     The proposal that added syntax for annotating the types '
+               'of\n'
+               '     variables (including class variables and instance '
+               'variables),\n'
+               '     instead of expressing them through comments.\n'
+               '\n'
+               '  **PEP 484** - Type hints\n'
+               '     The proposal that added the "typing" module to provide a '
+               'standard\n'
+               '     syntax for type annotations that can be used in static '
+               'analysis\n'
+               '     tools and IDEs.\n',
  'async': 'Coroutines\n'
           '**********\n'
           '\n'
@@ -418,18 +424,19 @@
           '\n'
           'Execution of Python coroutines can be suspended and resumed at '
           'many\n'
-          'points (see *coroutine*).  In the body of a coroutine, any "await" '
-          'and\n'
-          '"async" identifiers become reserved keywords; "await" expressions,\n'
-          '"async for" and "async with" can only be used in coroutine bodies.\n'
+          'points (see *coroutine*).  Inside the body of a coroutine '
+          'function,\n'
+          '"await" and "async" identifiers become reserved keywords; "await"\n'
+          'expressions, "async for" and "async with" can only be used in\n'
+          'coroutine function bodies.\n'
           '\n'
           'Functions defined with "async def" syntax are always coroutine\n'
           'functions, even if they do not contain "await" or "async" '
           'keywords.\n'
           '\n'
-          'It is a "SyntaxError" to use "yield from" expressions in "async '
-          'def"\n'
-          'coroutines.\n'
+          'It is a "SyntaxError" to use a "yield from" expression inside the '
+          'body\n'
+          'of a coroutine function.\n'
           '\n'
           'An example of a coroutine function:\n'
           '\n'
@@ -475,8 +482,9 @@
           '\n'
           'See also "__aiter__()" and "__anext__()" for details.\n'
           '\n'
-          'It is a "SyntaxError" to use "async for" statement outside of an\n'
-          '"async def" function.\n'
+          'It is a "SyntaxError" to use an "async for" statement outside the '
+          'body\n'
+          'of a coroutine function.\n'
           '\n'
           '\n'
           'The "async with" statement\n'
@@ -510,10 +518,15 @@
           '\n'
           'See also "__aenter__()" and "__aexit__()" for details.\n'
           '\n'
-          'It is a "SyntaxError" to use "async with" statement outside of an\n'
-          '"async def" function.\n'
+          'It is a "SyntaxError" to use an "async with" statement outside the\n'
+          'body of a coroutine function.\n'
           '\n'
-          'See also: **PEP 492** - Coroutines with async and await syntax\n'
+          'See also:\n'
+          '\n'
+          '  **PEP 492** - Coroutines with async and await syntax\n'
+          '     The proposal that made coroutines a proper standalone concept '
+          'in\n'
+          '     Python, and added supporting syntax.\n'
           '\n'
           '-[ Footnotes ]-\n'
           '\n'
@@ -521,15 +534,11 @@
           '    there is a "finally" clause which happens to raise another\n'
           '    exception. That new exception causes the old one to be lost.\n'
           '\n'
-          '[2] Currently, control “flows off the end” except in the case of\n'
-          '    an exception or the execution of a "return", "continue", or\n'
-          '    "break" statement.\n'
-          '\n'
-          '[3] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the\n'
+          '[2] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the\n'
           '    function body is transformed into the function’s "__doc__"\n'
           '    attribute and therefore the function’s *docstring*.\n'
           '\n'
-          '[4] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the class\n'
+          '[3] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the class\n'
           '    body is transformed into the namespace’s "__doc__" item and\n'
           '    therefore the class’s *docstring*.\n',
  'atom-identifiers': 'Identifiers (Names)\n'
@@ -748,7 +757,7 @@
                      '\n'
                      '       def __setattr__(self, attr, value):\n'
                      "           print(f'Setting {attr}...')\n"
-                     '           setattr(self, attr, value)\n'
+                     '           super().__setattr__(attr, value)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   sys.modules[__name__].__class__ = VerboseModule\n'
                      '\n'
@@ -1350,7 +1359,7 @@
              'is\n'
              'returned.\n'
              '\n'
-             '(Note that neither "and" nor "or" restrict the value and type '
+             'Note that neither "and" nor "or" restrict the value and type '
              'they\n'
              'return to "False" and "True", but rather return the last '
              'evaluated\n'
@@ -1616,7 +1625,7 @@
           'original global namespace. (Usually, the suite contains mostly\n'
           'function definitions.)  When the class’s suite finishes execution, '
           'its\n'
-          'execution frame is discarded but its local namespace is saved. [4] '
+          'execution frame is discarded but its local namespace is saved. [3] '
           'A\n'
           'class object is then created using the inheritance list for the '
           'base\n'
@@ -1666,8 +1675,18 @@
           'unexpected results.  Descriptors can be used to create instance\n'
           'variables with different implementation details.\n'
           '\n'
-          'See also: **PEP 3115** - Metaclasses in Python 3 **PEP 3129** -\n'
-          '  Class Decorators\n',
+          'See also:\n'
+          '\n'
+          '  **PEP 3115** - Metaclasses in Python 3000\n'
+          '     The proposal that changed the declaration of metaclasses to '
+          'the\n'
+          '     current syntax, and the semantics for how classes with\n'
+          '     metaclasses are constructed.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '  **PEP 3129** - Class Decorators\n'
+          '     The proposal that added class decorators.  Function and '
+          'method\n'
+          '     decorators were introduced in **PEP 318**.\n',
  'comparisons': 'Comparisons\n'
                 '***********\n'
                 '\n'
@@ -2371,9 +2390,11 @@
              'returning\n'
              'from a function that handled an exception.\n'
              '\n'
-             'The optional "else" clause is executed if and when control flows '
-             'off\n'
-             'the end of the "try" clause. [2] Exceptions in the "else" clause '
+             'The optional "else" clause is executed if the control flow '
+             'leaves the\n'
+             '"try" suite, no exception was raised, and no "return", '
+             '"continue", or\n'
+             '"break" statement was executed.  Exceptions in the "else" clause '
              'are\n'
              'not handled by the preceding "except" clauses.\n'
              '\n'
@@ -2561,7 +2582,7 @@
              '\n'
              'The function definition does not execute the function body; this '
              'gets\n'
-             'executed only when the function is called. [3]\n'
+             'executed only when the function is called. [2]\n'
              '\n'
              'A function definition may be wrapped by one or more *decorator*\n'
              'expressions. Decorator expressions are evaluated when the '
@@ -2754,7 +2775,7 @@
              'function definitions.)  When the class’s suite finishes '
              'execution, its\n'
              'execution frame is discarded but its local namespace is saved. '
-             '[4] A\n'
+             '[3] A\n'
              'class object is then created using the inheritance list for the '
              'base\n'
              'classes and the saved local namespace for the attribute '
@@ -2806,8 +2827,18 @@
              'unexpected results.  Descriptors can be used to create instance\n'
              'variables with different implementation details.\n'
              '\n'
-             'See also: **PEP 3115** - Metaclasses in Python 3 **PEP 3129** -\n'
-             '  Class Decorators\n'
+             'See also:\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 3115** - Metaclasses in Python 3000\n'
+             '     The proposal that changed the declaration of metaclasses to '
+             'the\n'
+             '     current syntax, and the semantics for how classes with\n'
+             '     metaclasses are constructed.\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 3129** - Class Decorators\n'
+             '     The proposal that added class decorators.  Function and '
+             'method\n'
+             '     decorators were introduced in **PEP 318**.\n'
              '\n'
              '\n'
              'Coroutines\n'
@@ -2825,20 +2856,20 @@
              '\n'
              'Execution of Python coroutines can be suspended and resumed at '
              'many\n'
-             'points (see *coroutine*).  In the body of a coroutine, any '
-             '"await" and\n'
-             '"async" identifiers become reserved keywords; "await" '
-             'expressions,\n'
-             '"async for" and "async with" can only be used in coroutine '
-             'bodies.\n'
+             'points (see *coroutine*).  Inside the body of a coroutine '
+             'function,\n'
+             '"await" and "async" identifiers become reserved keywords; '
+             '"await"\n'
+             'expressions, "async for" and "async with" can only be used in\n'
+             'coroutine function bodies.\n'
              '\n'
              'Functions defined with "async def" syntax are always coroutine\n'
              'functions, even if they do not contain "await" or "async" '
              'keywords.\n'
              '\n'
-             'It is a "SyntaxError" to use "yield from" expressions in "async '
-             'def"\n'
-             'coroutines.\n'
+             'It is a "SyntaxError" to use a "yield from" expression inside '
+             'the body\n'
+             'of a coroutine function.\n'
              '\n'
              'An example of a coroutine function:\n'
              '\n'
@@ -2884,9 +2915,9 @@
              '\n'
              'See also "__aiter__()" and "__anext__()" for details.\n'
              '\n'
-             'It is a "SyntaxError" to use "async for" statement outside of '
-             'an\n'
-             '"async def" function.\n'
+             'It is a "SyntaxError" to use an "async for" statement outside '
+             'the body\n'
+             'of a coroutine function.\n'
              '\n'
              '\n'
              'The "async with" statement\n'
@@ -2920,11 +2951,16 @@
              '\n'
              'See also "__aenter__()" and "__aexit__()" for details.\n'
              '\n'
-             'It is a "SyntaxError" to use "async with" statement outside of '
-             'an\n'
-             '"async def" function.\n'
+             'It is a "SyntaxError" to use an "async with" statement outside '
+             'the\n'
+             'body of a coroutine function.\n'
              '\n'
-             'See also: **PEP 492** - Coroutines with async and await syntax\n'
+             'See also:\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 492** - Coroutines with async and await syntax\n'
+             '     The proposal that made coroutines a proper standalone '
+             'concept in\n'
+             '     Python, and added supporting syntax.\n'
              '\n'
              '-[ Footnotes ]-\n'
              '\n'
@@ -2933,16 +2969,11 @@
              '    exception. That new exception causes the old one to be '
              'lost.\n'
              '\n'
-             '[2] Currently, control “flows off the end” except in the case '
-             'of\n'
-             '    an exception or the execution of a "return", "continue", or\n'
-             '    "break" statement.\n'
-             '\n'
-             '[3] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the\n'
+             '[2] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the\n'
              '    function body is transformed into the function’s "__doc__"\n'
              '    attribute and therefore the function’s *docstring*.\n'
              '\n'
-             '[4] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the '
+             '[3] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the '
              'class\n'
              '    body is transformed into the namespace’s "__doc__" item and\n'
              '    therefore the class’s *docstring*.\n',
@@ -3470,12 +3501,12 @@
                   '     See '
                   'http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for\n'
                   '     details.Changing hash values affects the iteration '
-                  'order of\n'
-                  '     dicts, sets and other mappings.  Python has never made '
-                  'guarantees\n'
-                  '     about this ordering (and it typically varies between '
-                  '32-bit and\n'
-                  '     64-bit builds).See also "PYTHONHASHSEED".\n'
+                  'order of sets.\n'
+                  '     Python has never made guarantees about this ordering '
+                  '(and it\n'
+                  '     typically varies between 32-bit and 64-bit builds).See '
+                  'also\n'
+                  '     "PYTHONHASHSEED".\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   Changed in version 3.3: Hash randomization is enabled by '
                   'default.\n'
@@ -4378,7 +4409,7 @@
               'argument to the interpreter) is a code block.  A script command '
               '(a\n'
               'command specified on the interpreter command line with the '
-              '‘**-c**’\n'
+              '"-c"\n'
               'option) is a code block.  The string argument passed to the '
               'built-in\n'
               'functions "eval()" and "exec()" is a code block.\n'
@@ -5394,7 +5425,7 @@
                   '\n'
                   'The new format syntax also supports new and different '
                   'options, shown\n'
-                  'in the follow examples.\n'
+                  'in the following examples.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'Accessing arguments by position:\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -5574,7 +5605,7 @@
              '\n'
              'The function definition does not execute the function body; this '
              'gets\n'
-             'executed only when the function is called. [3]\n'
+             'executed only when the function is called. [2]\n'
              '\n'
              'A function definition may be wrapped by one or more *decorator*\n'
              'expressions. Decorator expressions are evaluated when the '
@@ -6350,8 +6381,9 @@
  'lambda': 'Lambdas\n'
            '*******\n'
            '\n'
-           '   lambda_expr        ::= "lambda" [parameter_list]: expression\n'
-           '   lambda_expr_nocond ::= "lambda" [parameter_list]: '
+           '   lambda_expr        ::= "lambda" [parameter_list] ":" '
+           'expression\n'
+           '   lambda_expr_nocond ::= "lambda" [parameter_list] ":" '
            'expression_nocond\n'
            '\n'
            'Lambda expressions (sometimes called lambda forms) are used to '
@@ -7453,12 +7485,6 @@
                    'of the\n'
                    '     sequence.\n'
                    '\n'
-                   'object.__missing__(self, key)\n'
-                   '\n'
-                   '   Called by "dict"."__getitem__()" to implement '
-                   '"self[key]" for dict\n'
-                   '   subclasses when key is not in the dictionary.\n'
-                   '\n'
                    'object.__setitem__(self, key, value)\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   Called to implement assignment to "self[key]".  Same '
@@ -7486,6 +7512,12 @@
                    '   raised for improper *key* values as for the '
                    '"__getitem__()" method.\n'
                    '\n'
+                   'object.__missing__(self, key)\n'
+                   '\n'
+                   '   Called by "dict"."__getitem__()" to implement '
+                   '"self[key]" for dict\n'
+                   '   subclasses when key is not in the dictionary.\n'
+                   '\n'
                    'object.__iter__(self)\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   This method is called when an iterator is required for '
@@ -8163,12 +8195,12 @@
                  '     See http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html '
                  'for\n'
                  '     details.Changing hash values affects the iteration '
-                 'order of\n'
-                 '     dicts, sets and other mappings.  Python has never made '
-                 'guarantees\n'
-                 '     about this ordering (and it typically varies between '
-                 '32-bit and\n'
-                 '     64-bit builds).See also "PYTHONHASHSEED".\n'
+                 'order of sets.\n'
+                 '     Python has never made guarantees about this ordering '
+                 '(and it\n'
+                 '     typically varies between 32-bit and 64-bit builds).See '
+                 'also\n'
+                 '     "PYTHONHASHSEED".\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Changed in version 3.3: Hash randomization is enabled by '
                  'default.\n'
@@ -8332,7 +8364,7 @@
                  '\n'
                  '       def __setattr__(self, attr, value):\n'
                  "           print(f'Setting {attr}...')\n"
-                 '           setattr(self, attr, value)\n'
+                 '           super().__setattr__(attr, value)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   sys.modules[__name__].__class__ = VerboseModule\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -8918,8 +8950,8 @@
                  '     Describes the implicit "__class__" closure reference\n'
                  '\n'
                  '\n'
-                 'Metaclass example\n'
-                 '-----------------\n'
+                 'Uses for metaclasses\n'
+                 '--------------------\n'
                  '\n'
                  'The potential uses for metaclasses are boundless. Some ideas '
                  'that have\n'
@@ -8929,48 +8961,6 @@
                  'frameworks, and\n'
                  'automatic resource locking/synchronization.\n'
                  '\n'
-                 'Here is an example of a metaclass that uses an\n'
-                 '"collections.OrderedDict" to remember the order that class '
-                 'variables\n'
-                 'are defined:\n'
-                 '\n'
-                 '   class OrderedClass(type):\n'
-                 '\n'
-                 '       @classmethod\n'
-                 '       def __prepare__(metacls, name, bases, **kwds):\n'
-                 '           return collections.OrderedDict()\n'
-                 '\n'
-                 '       def __new__(cls, name, bases, namespace, **kwds):\n'
-                 '           result = type.__new__(cls, name, bases, '
-                 'dict(namespace))\n'
-                 '           result.members = tuple(namespace)\n'
-                 '           return result\n'
-                 '\n'
-                 '   class A(metaclass=OrderedClass):\n'
-                 '       def one(self): pass\n'
-                 '       def two(self): pass\n'
-                 '       def three(self): pass\n'
-                 '       def four(self): pass\n'
-                 '\n'
-                 '   >>> A.members\n'
-                 "   ('__module__', 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four')\n"
-                 '\n'
-                 'When the class definition for *A* gets executed, the process '
-                 'begins\n'
-                 'with calling the metaclass’s "__prepare__()" method which '
-                 'returns an\n'
-                 'empty "collections.OrderedDict".  That mapping records the '
-                 'methods and\n'
-                 'attributes of *A* as they are defined within the body of the '
-                 'class\n'
-                 'statement. Once those definitions are executed, the ordered '
-                 'dictionary\n'
-                 'is fully populated and the metaclass’s "__new__()" method '
-                 'gets\n'
-                 'invoked.  That method builds the new type and it saves the '
-                 'ordered\n'
-                 'dictionary keys in an attribute called "members".\n'
-                 '\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Customizing instance and subclass checks\n'
                  '========================================\n'
@@ -9196,12 +9186,6 @@
                  'the\n'
                  '     sequence.\n'
                  '\n'
-                 'object.__missing__(self, key)\n'
-                 '\n'
-                 '   Called by "dict"."__getitem__()" to implement "self[key]" '
-                 'for dict\n'
-                 '   subclasses when key is not in the dictionary.\n'
-                 '\n'
                  'object.__setitem__(self, key, value)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called to implement assignment to "self[key]".  Same note '
@@ -9229,6 +9213,12 @@
                  '   raised for improper *key* values as for the '
                  '"__getitem__()" method.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 'object.__missing__(self, key)\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   Called by "dict"."__getitem__()" to implement "self[key]" '
+                 'for dict\n'
+                 '   subclasses when key is not in the dictionary.\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__iter__(self)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   This method is called when an iterator is required for a '
@@ -10878,8 +10868,11 @@
         'restored to their previous values (before the call) when returning\n'
         'from a function that handled an exception.\n'
         '\n'
-        'The optional "else" clause is executed if and when control flows off\n'
-        'the end of the "try" clause. [2] Exceptions in the "else" clause are\n'
+        'The optional "else" clause is executed if the control flow leaves '
+        'the\n'
+        '"try" suite, no exception was raised, and no "return", "continue", '
+        'or\n'
+        '"break" statement was executed.  Exceptions in the "else" clause are\n'
         'not handled by the preceding "except" clauses.\n'
         '\n'
         'If "finally" is present, it specifies a ‘cleanup’ handler.  The '
@@ -12267,8 +12260,8 @@
                  '\n'
                  '   Changed in version 3.7: Dictionary order is guaranteed to '
                  'be\n'
-                 '   insertion order.  This behavior was implementation detail '
-                 'of\n'
+                 '   insertion order.  This behavior was an implementation '
+                 'detail of\n'
                  '   CPython from 3.6.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'See also: "types.MappingProxyType" can be used to create a '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.2rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.2rc1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e1e832
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.2rc1.rst
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+.. bpo: 34812
+.. date: 2018-11-23-15-00-23
+.. nonce: 84VQnb
+.. release date: 2018-12-11
+.. section: Security
+
+The :option:`-I` command line option (run Python in isolated mode) is now
+also copied by the :mod:`multiprocessing` and :mod:`distutils` modules when
+spawning child processes. Previously, only :option:`-E` and :option:`-s`
+options (enabled by :option:`-I`) were copied.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34791
+.. date: 2018-09-24-18-49-25
+.. nonce: 78GmIG
+.. section: Security
+
+The xml.sax and xml.dom.domreg no longer use environment variables to
+override parser implementations when sys.flags.ignore_environment is set by
+-E or -I arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35444
+.. date: 2018-12-09-13-09-39
+.. nonce: 9kYn4V
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed error handling in pickling methods when fail to look up builtin
+"getattr".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35436
+.. date: 2018-12-07-02-38-01
+.. nonce: 0VW7p9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix various issues with memory allocation error handling.  Patch by Zackery
+Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35357
+.. date: 2018-12-03-21-20-24
+.. nonce: rhhoiC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Internal attributes' names of unittest.mock._Call and
+unittest.mock.MagicProxy (name, parent & from_kall) are now prefixed with
+_mock_ in order to prevent clashes with widely used object attributes. Fixed
+minor typo in test function name.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35372
+.. date: 2018-12-01-19-20-53
+.. nonce: RwVJjZ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed the code page decoder for input longer than 2 GiB containing
+undecodable bytes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35336
+.. date: 2018-11-29-23-59-52
+.. nonce: 8LOz4F
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=1 environment variable: only coerce the C locale if
+the LC_CTYPE locale is "C".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33954
+.. date: 2018-11-20-22-33-38
+.. nonce: RzSngM
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+For :meth:`str.format`, :meth:`float.__format__` and
+:meth:`complex.__format__` methods for non-ASCII decimal point when using
+the "n" formatter.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35269
+.. date: 2018-11-17-10-18-29
+.. nonce: gjm1LO
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a possible segfault involving a newly-created coroutine.  Patch by
+Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35214
+.. date: 2018-11-13-00-40-35
+.. nonce: OQBjph
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed an out of bounds memory access when parsing a truncated unicode escape
+sequence at the end of a string such as ``'\N'``.  It would read one byte
+beyond the end of the memory allocation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35214
+.. date: 2018-11-12-11-38-06
+.. nonce: PCHKbX
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The interpreter and extension modules have had annotations added so that
+they work properly under clang's Memory Sanitizer.  A new configure flag
+--with-memory-sanitizer has been added to make test builds of this nature
+easier to perform.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35193
+.. date: 2018-11-08-15-00-58
+.. nonce: HzPS6R
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix an off by one error in the bytecode peephole optimizer where it could
+read bytes beyond the end of bounds of an array when removing unreachable
+code. This bug was present in every release of Python 3.6 and 3.7 until now.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29341
+.. date: 2018-10-25-20-53-32
+.. nonce: jH-AMF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Clarify in the docstrings of :mod:`os` methods that path-like objects are
+also accepted as input parameters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35050
+.. date: 2018-10-23-15-03-53
+.. nonce: 49wraS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:mod:`socket`: Fix off-by-one bug in length check for ``AF_ALG`` name and
+type.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34974
+.. date: 2018-10-13-22-24-19
+.. nonce: 7LgTc2
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray` constructors no longer convert
+unexpected exceptions (e.g. :exc:`MemoryError` and :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`)
+to :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34973
+.. date: 2018-10-13-16-42-03
+.. nonce: B5M-3g
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed crash in :func:`bytes` when the :class:`list` argument is mutated
+while it is iterated.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34824
+.. date: 2018-09-27-11-10-02
+.. nonce: VLlCaU
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a possible null pointer dereference in Modules/_ssl.c. Patch by Zackery
+Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1621
+.. date: 2018-09-11-15-19-37
+.. nonce: 7o19yG
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior (C undefined behavior) when
+performing set hash table resizing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35052
+.. date: 2018-12-10-09-48-27
+.. nonce: xE1ymg
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix xml.dom.minidom cloneNode() on a document with an entity: pass the
+correct arguments to the user data handler of an entity.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35330
+.. date: 2018-12-06-00-43-13
+.. nonce: abB4BN
+.. section: Library
+
+When a :class:`Mock` instance was used to wrap an object, if `side_effect`
+is used in one of the mocks of it methods, don't call the original
+implementation and return the result of using the side effect the same way
+that it is done with return_value.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34172
+.. date: 2018-12-06-00-29-28
+.. nonce: l7CIYt
+.. section: Library
+
+Revert the fix for this issue previously released in 3.7.1 pending further
+investigation: Fix a reference issue inside multiprocessing.Pool that caused
+the pool to remain alive if it was deleted without being closed or
+terminated explicitly.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10496
+.. date: 2018-12-05-13-37-39
+.. nonce: VH-1Lp
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`posixpath.expanduser` now returns the input *path* unchanged if the
+``HOME`` environment variable is not set and the current user has no home
+directory (if the current user identifier doesn't exist in the password
+database). This change fix the :mod:`site` module if the current user
+doesn't exist in the password database (if the user has no home directory).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35310
+.. date: 2018-12-03-19-45-00
+.. nonce: 9k28gR
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug in :func:`select.select` where, in some cases, the file descriptor
+sequences were returned unmodified after a signal interruption, even though
+the file descriptors might not be ready yet.  :func:`select.select` will now
+always return empty lists if a timeout has occurred.  Patch by Oran Avraham.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35380
+.. date: 2018-12-03-14-41-11
+.. nonce: SdRF9l
+.. section: Library
+
+Enable TCP_NODELAY on Windows for proactor asyncio event loop.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35341
+.. date: 2018-12-02-13-50-52
+.. nonce: 32E8T_
+.. section: Library
+
+Add generic version of ``collections.OrderedDict`` to the ``typing`` module.
+Patch by Ismo Toijala.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35371
+.. date: 2018-12-01-13-44-12
+.. nonce: fTAwlX
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed possible crash in ``os.utime()`` on Windows when pass incorrect
+arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27903
+.. date: 2018-11-29-12-14-04
+.. nonce: ia8xgT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``ResourceWarning`` in :func:`platform.dist` on SuSE and Caldera
+OpenLinux. Patch by Ville Skyttä.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35308
+.. date: 2018-11-24-10-33-42
+.. nonce: 9--2iy
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix regression in ``webbrowser`` where default browsers may be preferred
+over browsers in the ``BROWSER`` environment variable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28604
+.. date: 2018-11-20-13-34-01
+.. nonce: iiih5h
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`locale.localeconv` now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale to
+the ``LC_MONETARY`` locale if the two locales are different and monetary
+strings are non-ASCII. This temporary change affects other threads.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35277
+.. date: 2018-11-19-07-22-04
+.. nonce: dsD-2E
+.. section: Library
+
+Update ensurepip to install pip 18.1 and setuptools 40.6.2.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35226
+.. date: 2018-11-15-07-14-32
+.. nonce: wJPEEe
+.. section: Library
+
+Recursively check arguments when testing for equality of
+:class:`unittest.mock.call` objects and add note that tracking of parameters
+used to create ancestors of mocks in ``mock_calls`` is not possible.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29564
+.. date: 2018-11-12-17-40-04
+.. nonce: SFNBT5
+.. section: Library
+
+The warnings module now suggests to enable tracemalloc if the source is
+specified, the tracemalloc module is available, but tracemalloc is not
+tracing memory allocations.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35189
+.. date: 2018-11-09-13-35-36
+.. nonce: gog-sl
+.. section: Library
+
+Modify the following fnctl function to retry if interrupted by a signal
+(EINTR): flock, lockf, fnctl
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35062
+.. date: 2018-10-29-23-09-24
+.. nonce: dQS1ng
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix incorrect parsing of :class:`_io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder`'s
+*translate* argument.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35079
+.. date: 2018-10-26-22-53-16
+.. nonce: Tm5jvF
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve difflib.SequenceManager.get_matching_blocks doc by adding
+'non-overlapping' and changing '!=' to '<'.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35017
+.. date: 2018-10-26-00-11-21
+.. nonce: 6Ez4Cv
+.. section: Library
+
+:meth:`socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever` now exits immediately if it's
+:meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.shutdown` method is called while it is
+polling for new events.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31047
+.. date: 2018-10-25-09-37-03
+.. nonce: kBbX8r
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``ntpath.abspath`` regression where it didn't remove a trailing
+separator on Windows. Patch by Tim Graham.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34794
+.. date: 2018-10-21-14-53-19
+.. nonce: yt3R4-
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a leak in Tkinter when pass the Python wrapper around Tcl_Obj back to
+Tcl/Tk.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35008
+.. date: 2018-10-17-11-54-04
+.. nonce: dotef_
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed references leaks when call the ``__setstate__()`` method of
+:class:`xml.etree.ElementTree.Element` in the C implementation for already
+initialized element.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23420
+.. date: 2018-10-17-11-00-00
+.. nonce: Lq74Uu
+.. section: Library
+
+Verify the value for the parameter '-s' of the cProfile CLI. Patch by Robert
+Kuska
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33947
+.. date: 2018-10-17-02-15-23
+.. nonce: SRuq3T
+.. section: Library
+
+dataclasses now handle recursive reprs without raising RecursionError.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 16965
+.. date: 2018-10-12-20-30-42
+.. nonce: xo5LAr
+.. section: Library
+
+The :term:`2to3` :2to3fixer:`execfile` fixer now opens the file with mode
+``'rb'``.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34966
+.. date: 2018-10-12-18-57-52
+.. nonce: WZeBHO
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`pydoc` now supports aliases not only to methods defined in the end
+class, but also to inherited methods.  The docstring is not duplicated for
+aliases.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34941
+.. date: 2018-10-09-14-42-16
+.. nonce: 1Q5QKv
+.. section: Library
+
+Methods ``find()``, ``findtext()`` and ``findall()`` of the ``Element``
+class in the :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module are now able to find
+children which are instances of ``Element`` subclasses.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34936
+.. date: 2018-10-08-21-05-11
+.. nonce: 3tRqdq
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``TclError`` in ``tkinter.Spinbox.selection_element()``. Patch by
+Juliette Monsel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34866
+.. date: 2018-10-03-11-07-28
+.. nonce: ML6KpJ
+.. section: Library
+
+Adding ``max_num_fields`` to ``cgi.FieldStorage`` to make DOS attacks harder
+by limiting the number of ``MiniFieldStorage`` objects created by
+``FieldStorage``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34022
+.. date: 2018-09-27-13-14-15
+.. nonce: E2cl0r
+.. section: Library
+
+The :envvar:`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable no longer overrides the
+value of the *invalidation_mode* argument to :func:`py_compile.compile`, and
+determines its default value instead.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34738
+.. date: 2018-09-19-16-51-04
+.. nonce: Pr3-iG
+.. section: Library
+
+ZIP files created by :mod:`distutils` will now include entries for
+directories.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31177
+.. date: 2018-09-14-10-38-18
+.. nonce: Sv91TN
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix bug that prevented using :meth:`reset_mock
+<unittest.mock.Mock.reset_mock>` on mock instances with deleted attributes
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34536
+.. date: 2018-09-11-15-49-09
+.. nonce: 3IPIH5
+.. section: Library
+
+`Enum._missing_`:  raise `ValueError` if None returned and `TypeError` if
+non-member is returned.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34604
+.. date: 2018-09-07-10-16-34
+.. nonce: xL7-kG
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix possible mojibake in the error message of `pwd.getpwnam` and
+`grp.getgrnam` using string representation because of invisible characters
+or trailing whitespaces. Patch by William Grzybowski.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34574
+.. date: 2018-09-04-09-32-54
+.. nonce: X4RwYI
+.. section: Library
+
+OrderedDict iterators are not exhausted during pickling anymore. Patch by
+Sergey Fedoseev.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34052
+.. date: 2018-07-24-16-37-40
+.. nonce: VbbFAE
+.. section: Library
+
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate`,
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_function`,
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer`,
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler` methods raises TypeError
+when unhashable objects are passed as callable. These methods now don't pass
+such objects to SQLite API. Previous behavior could lead to segfaults. Patch
+by Sergey Fedoseev.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29877
+.. date: 2017-12-16-11-40-52
+.. nonce: SfWhmz
+.. section: Library
+
+compileall: import ProcessPoolExecutor only when needed, preventing hangs on
+low resource platforms
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 22005
+.. date: 2017-10-12-22-39-55
+.. nonce: lGP-sc
+.. section: Library
+
+Implemented unpickling instances of :class:`~datetime.datetime`,
+:class:`~datetime.date` and :class:`~datetime.time` pickled by Python 2.
+``encoding='latin1'`` should be used for successful decoding.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35089
+.. date: 2018-10-28-16-51-31
+.. nonce: _stCpS
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Remove mention of ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re``. Their types should be
+imported from ``typing`` directly.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35038
+.. date: 2018-10-25-17-45-09
+.. nonce: 2eVOYS
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix the documentation about an unexisting `f_restricted` attribute in the
+frame object. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35044
+.. date: 2018-10-22-14-09-58
+.. nonce: qjvNtI
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix the documentation with the role ``exc`` for the appropriated exception.
+Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35035
+.. date: 2018-10-21-02-20-36
+.. nonce: 4zBObK
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Rename documentation for :mod:`email.utils` to ``email.utils.rst``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34967
+.. date: 2018-10-13-07-39-57
+.. nonce: E40tFP
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Use app.add_object_type() instead of the deprecated Sphinx function
+app.description_unit()
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 11233
+.. date: 2018-10-03-20-39-25
+.. nonce: BX6Gen
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Create availability directive for documentation.  Original patch by Georg
+Brandl.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33594
+.. date: 2018-05-21-14-36-12
+.. nonce: -HRcyX
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document ``getargspec``, ``from_function`` and ``from_builtin`` as
+deprecated in their respective docstring, and include version since
+deprecation in DeprecationWarning message.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32613
+.. date: 2018-02-05-15-05-53
+.. nonce: TDjgM1
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Update the faq/windows.html to use the py command from PEP 397 instead of
+python.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33725
+.. date: 2018-12-09-01-27-29
+.. nonce: TaGayj
+.. section: Tests
+
+test_multiprocessing_fork may crash on recent versions of macOS.  Until the
+issue is resolved, skip the test on macOS.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35352
+.. date: 2018-11-30-17-18-56
+.. nonce: 8bD7GC
+.. section: Tests
+
+Modify test_asyncio to use the certificate set from the test directory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35317
+.. date: 2018-11-26-16-54-21
+.. nonce: jByGP2
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix ``mktime()`` overflow error in ``test_email``: run
+``test_localtime_daylight_true_dst_true()`` and
+``test_localtime_daylight_false_dst_true()`` with a specific timezone.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21263
+.. date: 2018-11-04-20-17-09
+.. nonce: T3qo9r
+.. section: Tests
+
+After several reports that test_gdb does not work properly on macOS and
+since gdb is not shipped by default anymore, test_gdb is now skipped on
+macOS when LLVM Clang has been used to compile Python. Patch by Lysandros
+Nikolaou
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34279
+.. date: 2018-10-27-13-41-55
+.. nonce: v0Xqxe
+.. section: Tests
+
+regrtest issue a warning when no tests have been executed in a particular
+test file. Also, a new final result state is issued if no test have been
+executed across all test files. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35296
+.. date: 2018-12-04-17-10-17
+.. nonce: 2ktH40
+.. section: Build
+
+The Windows installer (MSI) now also install internal header files
+(``Include/internal/`` subdirectory).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35351
+.. date: 2018-12-04-15-33-28
+.. nonce: ZhhBfT
+.. section: Build
+
+When building Python with clang and LTO, LTO flags are no longer passed into
+CFLAGS to build third-party C extensions through distutils.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35139
+.. date: 2018-11-01-15-01-23
+.. nonce: XZTttb
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix a compiler error when statically linking `pyexpat` in `Modules/Setup`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35011
+.. date: 2018-10-17-17-38-57
+.. nonce: GgoPIC
+.. section: Build
+
+Restores the use of pyexpatns.h to isolate our embedded copy of the expat C
+library so that its symbols do not conflict at link or dynamic loading time
+with an embedding application or other extension modules with their own
+version of libexpat.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28015
+.. date: 2018-10-16-12-22-36
+.. nonce: ylSgFh
+.. section: Build
+
+Have --with-lto works correctly with clang.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33015
+.. date: 2018-08-24-09-48-25
+.. nonce: s21y74
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix an undefined behaviour in the pthread implementation of
+:c:func:`PyThread_start_new_thread`: add a function wrapper to always return
+``NULL``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35401
+.. date: 2018-12-10-15-01-13
+.. nonce: 9L1onG
+.. section: Windows
+
+Updates Windows build to OpenSSL 1.1.0j
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34977
+.. date: 2018-12-07-10-00-38
+.. nonce: agQJbD
+.. section: Windows
+
+venv on Windows will now use a python.exe redirector rather than copying the
+actual binaries from the base environment.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34977
+.. date: 2018-10-30-13-39-17
+.. nonce: 0l7_QV
+.. section: Windows
+
+Adds support for building a Windows App Store package
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35067
+.. date: 2018-10-25-11-29-22
+.. nonce: RHWi7W
+.. section: Windows
+
+Remove _distutils_findvs module and use vswhere.exe instead.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34532
+.. date: 2018-09-03-01-23-52
+.. nonce: N1HEbE
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes exit code of list version arguments for py.exe.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32890
+.. date: 2018-03-08-20-02-38
+.. nonce: 3jzFzY
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix usage of GetLastError() instead of errno in os.execve() and
+os.truncate().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35402
+.. date: 2018-12-10-02-44-48
+.. nonce: xzn8qJ
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.6.9.1.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35401
+.. date: 2018-12-09-13-56-49
+.. nonce: n8B7X1
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0j.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35025
+.. date: 2018-10-18-23-54-55
+.. nonce: X4LFJg
+.. section: macOS
+
+Properly guard the use of the ``CLOCK_GETTIME`` et al. macros in
+``timemodule`` on macOS.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 24658
+.. date: 2018-10-17-14-36-08
+.. nonce: Naddgx
+.. section: macOS
+
+On macOS, fix reading from and writing into a file with a size larger than 2
+GiB.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35213
+.. date: 2018-11-12-00-20-01
+.. nonce: cqNgzT
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Where appropriate, use 'macOS' in idlelib.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34864
+.. date: 2018-11-11-17-13-50
+.. nonce: cw0PvO
+.. section: IDLE
+
+On macOS, warn if the system preference "Prefer tabs when opening documents"
+is set to "Always".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34864
+.. date: 2018-11-10-21-27-25
+.. nonce: Ci-G2q
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Document two IDLE on MacOS issues. The System Preferences Dock "prefer tabs
+always" setting disables some IDLE features.  Menus are a bit different than
+as described for Windows and Linux.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35202
+.. date: 2018-11-10-09-10-54
+.. nonce: TeJJrt
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Remove unused imports from lib/idlelib
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33000
+.. date: 2018-11-06-23-10-54
+.. nonce: pQasCt
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit. A program that runs
+indefinitely can overfill memory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23220
+.. date: 2018-11-05-23-23-00
+.. nonce: H3SAWE
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Explain how IDLE's Shell displays output.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35099
+.. date: 2018-11-05-20-43-08
+.. nonce: SVOZXC
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Improve the doc about IDLE running user code.   The section is renamed from
+"IDLE -- console differences" is renamed "Running user code". It mostly
+covers the implications of using custom sys.stdxxx objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35097
+.. date: 2018-10-28-20-17-14
+.. nonce: 07tm66
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add IDLE doc subsection explaining editor windows. Topics include opening,
+title and status bar, .py* extension, and running.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35093
+.. date: 2018-10-28-15-53-51
+.. nonce: cH-tli
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Document the IDLE document viewer in the IDLE doc. Add a paragraph in "Help
+and preferences", "Help sources" subsection.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35088
+.. date: 2018-10-28-00-54-32
+.. nonce: r1lJZd
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Update idlelib.help.copy_string docstring. We now use git and backporting
+instead of hg and forward merging.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35087
+.. date: 2018-10-28-00-08-42
+.. nonce: G7gx2-
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Update idlelib help files for the current doc build. The main change is the
+elimination of chapter-section numbers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34989
+.. date: 2018-10-15-13-22-28
+.. nonce: hU4fra
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+python-gdb.py now handles errors on computing the line number of a Python
+frame.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35322
+.. date: 2018-11-28-03-20-36
+.. nonce: Qcqsag
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix memory leak in :c:func:`PyUnicode_EncodeLocale` and
+:c:func:`PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault` on error handling.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35296
+.. date: 2018-11-22-18-34-23
+.. nonce: nxrIQt
+.. section: C API
+
+``make install`` now also installs the internal API:
+``Include/internal/*.h`` header files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34725
+.. date: 2018-10-13-16-30-54
+.. nonce: j52rIS
+.. section: C API
+
+Adds _Py_SetProgramFullPath so embedders may override sys.executable
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-08-24-09-48-25.bpo-33015.s21y74.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-08-24-09-48-25.bpo-33015.s21y74.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-08-24-09-48-25.bpo-33015.s21y74.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix an undefined behaviour in the pthread implementation of
-:c:func:`PyThread_start_new_thread`: add a function wrapper to always return
-``NULL``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-16-12-22-36.bpo-28015.ylSgFh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-16-12-22-36.bpo-28015.ylSgFh.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a7a43c..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-16-12-22-36.bpo-28015.ylSgFh.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Have --with-lto works correctly with clang.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-17-17-38-57.bpo-35011.GgoPIC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-17-17-38-57.bpo-35011.GgoPIC.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4411ffe..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-17-17-38-57.bpo-35011.GgoPIC.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Restores the use of pyexpatns.h to isolate our embedded copy of the expat C
-library so that its symbols do not conflict at link or dynamic loading time
-with an embedding application or other extension modules with their own
-version of libexpat.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-11-01-15-01-23.bpo-35139.XZTttb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-11-01-15-01-23.bpo-35139.XZTttb.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index aa65088..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-11-01-15-01-23.bpo-35139.XZTttb.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a compiler error when statically linking `pyexpat` in `Modules/Setup`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-15-33-28.bpo-35351.ZhhBfT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-15-33-28.bpo-35351.ZhhBfT.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ee6c870..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-15-33-28.bpo-35351.ZhhBfT.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-When building Python with clang and LTO, LTO flags are no longer passed into
-CFLAGS to build third-party C extensions through distutils.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-17-10-17.bpo-35296.2ktH40.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-17-10-17.bpo-35296.2ktH40.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e6eda2d..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-17-10-17.bpo-35296.2ktH40.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The Windows installer (MSI) now also install internal header files
-(``Include/internal/`` subdirectory).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-10-13-16-30-54.bpo-34725.j52rIS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-10-13-16-30-54.bpo-34725.j52rIS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index b5bc1bf..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-10-13-16-30-54.bpo-34725.j52rIS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Adds _Py_SetProgramFullPath so embedders may override sys.executable
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-22-18-34-23.bpo-35296.nxrIQt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-22-18-34-23.bpo-35296.nxrIQt.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index c5f877a..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-22-18-34-23.bpo-35296.nxrIQt.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-``make install`` now also installs the internal API:
-``Include/internal/*.h`` header files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-28-03-20-36.bpo-35322.Qcqsag.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-28-03-20-36.bpo-35322.Qcqsag.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f5b4796..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-28-03-20-36.bpo-35322.Qcqsag.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix memory leak in :c:func:`PyUnicode_EncodeLocale` and
-:c:func:`PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault` on error handling.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-11-15-19-37.bpo-1621.7o19yG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-11-15-19-37.bpo-1621.7o19yG.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4047ff3..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-11-15-19-37.bpo-1621.7o19yG.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior (C undefined behavior) when
-performing set hash table resizing.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-27-11-10-02.bpo-34824.VLlCaU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-27-11-10-02.bpo-34824.VLlCaU.rst
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index fe95b89..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-27-11-10-02.bpo-34824.VLlCaU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a possible null pointer dereference in Modules/_ssl.c. Patch by Zackery
-Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-16-42-03.bpo-34973.B5M-3g.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-16-42-03.bpo-34973.B5M-3g.rst
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index 6e403cd..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-16-42-03.bpo-34973.B5M-3g.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed crash in :func:`bytes` when the :class:`list` argument is mutated
-while it is iterated.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-22-24-19.bpo-34974.7LgTc2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-22-24-19.bpo-34974.7LgTc2.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a7e773..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-22-24-19.bpo-34974.7LgTc2.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-:class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray` constructors no longer convert
-unexpected exceptions (e.g. :exc:`MemoryError` and :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`)
-to :exc:`TypeError`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-23-15-03-53.bpo-35050.49wraS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-23-15-03-53.bpo-35050.49wraS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a33416..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-23-15-03-53.bpo-35050.49wraS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:mod:`socket`: Fix off-by-one bug in length check for ``AF_ALG`` name and type.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-25-20-53-32.bpo-29341.jH-AMF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-25-20-53-32.bpo-29341.jH-AMF.rst
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index 954ce8c..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-25-20-53-32.bpo-29341.jH-AMF.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Clarify in the docstrings of :mod:`os` methods that path-like objects are also accepted
-as input parameters.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-08-15-00-58.bpo-35193.HzPS6R.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-08-15-00-58.bpo-35193.HzPS6R.rst
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index dddebe1..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-08-15-00-58.bpo-35193.HzPS6R.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix an off by one error in the bytecode peephole optimizer where it could read
-bytes beyond the end of bounds of an array when removing unreachable code.
-This bug was present in every release of Python 3.6 and 3.7 until now.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-12-11-38-06.bpo-35214.PCHKbX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-12-11-38-06.bpo-35214.PCHKbX.rst
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index c7842f3..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-12-11-38-06.bpo-35214.PCHKbX.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-The interpreter and extension modules have had annotations added so that
-they work properly under clang's Memory Sanitizer.  A new configure flag
---with-memory-sanitizer has been added to make test builds of this nature
-easier to perform.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-13-00-40-35.bpo-35214.OQBjph.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-13-00-40-35.bpo-35214.OQBjph.rst
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index d462c97..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-13-00-40-35.bpo-35214.OQBjph.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed an out of bounds memory access when parsing a truncated unicode
-escape sequence at the end of a string such as ``'\N'``.  It would read
-one byte beyond the end of the memory allocation.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-17-10-18-29.bpo-35269.gjm1LO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-17-10-18-29.bpo-35269.gjm1LO.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0076346..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-17-10-18-29.bpo-35269.gjm1LO.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a possible segfault involving a newly-created coroutine.  Patch by
-Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-20-22-33-38.bpo-33954.RzSngM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-20-22-33-38.bpo-33954.RzSngM.rst
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index 9bfbe16..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-20-22-33-38.bpo-33954.RzSngM.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-For :meth:`str.format`, :meth:`float.__format__` and
-:meth:`complex.__format__` methods for non-ASCII decimal point when using
-the "n" formatter.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-29-23-59-52.bpo-35336.8LOz4F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-29-23-59-52.bpo-35336.8LOz4F.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-29-23-59-52.bpo-35336.8LOz4F.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=1 environment variable: only coerce the C locale
-if the LC_CTYPE locale is "C".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-01-19-20-53.bpo-35372.RwVJjZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-01-19-20-53.bpo-35372.RwVJjZ.rst
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index dc2de44..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-01-19-20-53.bpo-35372.RwVJjZ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed the code page decoder for input longer than 2 GiB containing
-undecodable bytes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-03-21-20-24.bpo-35357.rhhoiC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-03-21-20-24.bpo-35357.rhhoiC.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-03-21-20-24.bpo-35357.rhhoiC.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Internal attributes' names of unittest.mock._Call and
-unittest.mock.MagicProxy (name, parent & from_kall) are now prefixed with
-_mock_ in order to prevent clashes with widely used object attributes.
-Fixed minor typo in test function name.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-07-02-38-01.bpo-35436.0VW7p9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-07-02-38-01.bpo-35436.0VW7p9.rst
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index 542fe93..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-07-02-38-01.bpo-35436.0VW7p9.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix various issues with memory allocation error handling.  Patch by Zackery
-Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-09-13-09-39.bpo-35444.9kYn4V.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-09-13-09-39.bpo-35444.9kYn4V.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 22c3969..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-09-13-09-39.bpo-35444.9kYn4V.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed error handling in pickling methods when fail to look up builtin
-"getattr".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-05-15-05-53.bpo-32613.TDjgM1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-05-15-05-53.bpo-32613.TDjgM1.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d4701c2..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-05-15-05-53.bpo-32613.TDjgM1.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Update the faq/windows.html to use the py command from PEP 397 instead of
-python.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-05-21-14-36-12.bpo-33594.-HRcyX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-05-21-14-36-12.bpo-33594.-HRcyX.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index a63c4a5..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-05-21-14-36-12.bpo-33594.-HRcyX.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Document ``getargspec``, ``from_function`` and ``from_builtin`` as
-deprecated in their respective docstring, and include version since
-deprecation in DeprecationWarning message.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-03-20-39-25.bpo-11233.BX6Gen.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-03-20-39-25.bpo-11233.BX6Gen.rst
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index 0637dd6..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-03-20-39-25.bpo-11233.BX6Gen.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Create availability directive for documentation.  Original patch by Georg
-Brandl.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-13-07-39-57.bpo-34967.E40tFP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-13-07-39-57.bpo-34967.E40tFP.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 6341296..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-13-07-39-57.bpo-34967.E40tFP.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Use app.add_object_type() instead of the deprecated Sphinx function
-app.description_unit()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-21-02-20-36.bpo-35035.4zBObK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-21-02-20-36.bpo-35035.4zBObK.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 46436f1..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-21-02-20-36.bpo-35035.4zBObK.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Rename documentation for :mod:`email.utils` to ``email.utils.rst``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-22-14-09-58.bpo-35044.qjvNtI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-22-14-09-58.bpo-35044.qjvNtI.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-22-14-09-58.bpo-35044.qjvNtI.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix the documentation with the role ``exc`` for the appropriated exception. Patch by
-Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-25-17-45-09.bpo-35038.2eVOYS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-25-17-45-09.bpo-35038.2eVOYS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-25-17-45-09.bpo-35038.2eVOYS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix the documentation about an unexisting `f_restricted` attribute in the
-frame object. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-28-16-51-31.bpo-35089._stCpS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-28-16-51-31.bpo-35089._stCpS.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-28-16-51-31.bpo-35089._stCpS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Remove mention of ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re``. Their types should be
-imported from ``typing`` directly.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-00-08-42.bpo-35087.G7gx2-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-00-08-42.bpo-35087.G7gx2-.rst
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-Update idlelib help files for the current doc build. The main change is the
-elimination of chapter-section numbers.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-00-54-32.bpo-35088.r1lJZd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-00-54-32.bpo-35088.r1lJZd.rst
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Update idlelib.help.copy_string docstring. We now use git and backporting
-instead of hg and forward merging.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-15-53-51.bpo-35093.cH-tli.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-15-53-51.bpo-35093.cH-tli.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Document the IDLE document viewer in the IDLE doc. Add a paragraph in "Help
-and preferences", "Help sources" subsection.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-20-17-14.bpo-35097.07tm66.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-20-17-14.bpo-35097.07tm66.rst
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-Add IDLE doc subsection explaining editor windows. Topics include opening,
-title and status bar, .py* extension, and running.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-20-43-08.bpo-35099.SVOZXC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-20-43-08.bpo-35099.SVOZXC.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-20-43-08.bpo-35099.SVOZXC.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Improve the doc about IDLE running user code.   The section is renamed from
-"IDLE -- console differences" is renamed "Running user code".
-It mostly covers the implications of using custom sys.stdxxx objects.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-23-23-00.bpo-23220.H3SAWE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-23-23-00.bpo-23220.H3SAWE.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-23-23-00.bpo-23220.H3SAWE.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Explain how IDLE's Shell displays output.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-06-23-10-54.bpo-33000.pQasCt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-06-23-10-54.bpo-33000.pQasCt.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit. A program that runs
-indefinitely can overfill memory.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-09-10-54.bpo-35202.TeJJrt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-09-10-54.bpo-35202.TeJJrt.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-09-10-54.bpo-35202.TeJJrt.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Remove unused imports from lib/idlelib
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-21-27-25.bpo-34864.Ci-G2q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-21-27-25.bpo-34864.Ci-G2q.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-21-27-25.bpo-34864.Ci-G2q.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Document two IDLE on MacOS issues. The System Preferences Dock "prefer tabs
-always" setting disables some IDLE features.  Menus are a bit different than
-as described for Windows and Linux.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-11-17-13-50.bpo-34864.cw0PvO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-11-17-13-50.bpo-34864.cw0PvO.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-On macOS, warn if the system preference "Prefer tabs when opening documents"
-is set to "Always".
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-12-00-20-01.bpo-35213.cqNgzT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-12-00-20-01.bpo-35213.cqNgzT.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Where appropriate, use 'macOS' in idlelib.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-12-22-39-55.bpo-22005.lGP-sc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-12-22-39-55.bpo-22005.lGP-sc.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-12-22-39-55.bpo-22005.lGP-sc.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Implemented unpickling instances of :class:`~datetime.datetime`,
-:class:`~datetime.date` and :class:`~datetime.time` pickled by Python 2.
-``encoding='latin1'`` should be used for successful decoding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-16-11-40-52.bpo-29877.SfWhmz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-16-11-40-52.bpo-29877.SfWhmz.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-compileall: import ProcessPoolExecutor only when needed, preventing hangs on
-low resource platforms
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-24-16-37-40.bpo-34052.VbbFAE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-24-16-37-40.bpo-34052.VbbFAE.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-24-16-37-40.bpo-34052.VbbFAE.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate`,
-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_function`,
-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer`,
-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler` methods raises TypeError
-when unhashable objects are passed as callable. These methods now don't pass
-such objects to SQLite API. Previous behavior could lead to segfaults. Patch
-by Sergey Fedoseev.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-04-09-32-54.bpo-34574.X4RwYI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-04-09-32-54.bpo-34574.X4RwYI.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-OrderedDict iterators are not exhausted during pickling anymore. Patch by
-Sergey Fedoseev.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-07-10-16-34.bpo-34604.xL7-kG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-07-10-16-34.bpo-34604.xL7-kG.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-07-10-16-34.bpo-34604.xL7-kG.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible mojibake in the error message of `pwd.getpwnam` and
-`grp.getgrnam` using string representation because of invisible characters
-or trailing whitespaces. Patch by William Grzybowski.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-11-15-49-09.bpo-34536.3IPIH5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-11-15-49-09.bpo-34536.3IPIH5.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-`Enum._missing_`:  raise `ValueError` if None returned and `TypeError` if
-non-member is returned.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-14-10-38-18.bpo-31177.Sv91TN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-14-10-38-18.bpo-31177.Sv91TN.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-14-10-38-18.bpo-31177.Sv91TN.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix bug that prevented using :meth:`reset_mock <unittest.mock.Mock.reset_mock>`
-on mock instances with deleted attributes
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-19-16-51-04.bpo-34738.Pr3-iG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-19-16-51-04.bpo-34738.Pr3-iG.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-ZIP files created by :mod:`distutils` will now include entries for
-directories.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-27-13-14-15.bpo-34022.E2cl0r.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-27-13-14-15.bpo-34022.E2cl0r.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-27-13-14-15.bpo-34022.E2cl0r.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-The :envvar:`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable no longer overrides the
-value of the *invalidation_mode* argument to :func:`py_compile.compile`, and
-determines its default value instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-03-11-07-28.bpo-34866.ML6KpJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-03-11-07-28.bpo-34866.ML6KpJ.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Adding ``max_num_fields`` to ``cgi.FieldStorage`` to make DOS attacks harder by
-limiting the number of ``MiniFieldStorage`` objects created by ``FieldStorage``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-08-21-05-11.bpo-34936.3tRqdq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-08-21-05-11.bpo-34936.3tRqdq.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix ``TclError`` in ``tkinter.Spinbox.selection_element()``. Patch by
-Juliette Monsel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-09-14-42-16.bpo-34941.1Q5QKv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-09-14-42-16.bpo-34941.1Q5QKv.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Methods ``find()``, ``findtext()`` and ``findall()`` of the ``Element``
-class in the :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module are now able to find
-children which are instances of ``Element`` subclasses.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-12-18-57-52.bpo-34966.WZeBHO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-12-18-57-52.bpo-34966.WZeBHO.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-:mod:`pydoc` now supports aliases not only to methods defined in
-the end class, but also to inherited methods.  The docstring is not
-duplicated for aliases.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-12-20-30-42.bpo-16965.xo5LAr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-12-20-30-42.bpo-16965.xo5LAr.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The :term:`2to3` :2to3fixer:`execfile` fixer now opens the file with mode
-``'rb'``.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-02-15-23.bpo-33947.SRuq3T.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-02-15-23.bpo-33947.SRuq3T.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-dataclasses now handle recursive reprs without raising RecursionError.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-11-00-00.bpo-23420.Lq74Uu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-11-00-00.bpo-23420.Lq74Uu.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Verify the value for the parameter '-s' of the cProfile CLI. Patch by Robert
-Kuska
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-11-54-04.bpo-35008.dotef_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-11-54-04.bpo-35008.dotef_.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-11-54-04.bpo-35008.dotef_.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fixed references leaks when call the ``__setstate__()`` method of
-:class:`xml.etree.ElementTree.Element` in the C implementation for already
-initialized element.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-21-14-53-19.bpo-34794.yt3R4-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-21-14-53-19.bpo-34794.yt3R4-.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-21-14-53-19.bpo-34794.yt3R4-.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fixed a leak in Tkinter when pass the Python wrapper around Tcl_Obj back to
-Tcl/Tk.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-25-09-37-03.bpo-31047.kBbX8r.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-25-09-37-03.bpo-31047.kBbX8r.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix ``ntpath.abspath`` regression where it didn't remove a trailing
-separator on Windows. Patch by Tim Graham.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-26-00-11-21.bpo-35017.6Ez4Cv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-26-00-11-21.bpo-35017.6Ez4Cv.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-:meth:`socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever` now exits immediately if it's
-:meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.shutdown` method is called while it is
-polling for new events.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-26-22-53-16.bpo-35079.Tm5jvF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-26-22-53-16.bpo-35079.Tm5jvF.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Improve difflib.SequenceManager.get_matching_blocks doc by adding
-'non-overlapping' and changing '!=' to '<'.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-29-23-09-24.bpo-35062.dQS1ng.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-29-23-09-24.bpo-35062.dQS1ng.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix incorrect parsing of :class:`_io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder`'s
-*translate* argument.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-09-13-35-36.bpo-35189.gog-sl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-09-13-35-36.bpo-35189.gog-sl.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-09-13-35-36.bpo-35189.gog-sl.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Modify the following fnctl function to retry if interrupted by a signal
-(EINTR): flock, lockf, fnctl
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-12-17-40-04.bpo-29564.SFNBT5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-12-17-40-04.bpo-29564.SFNBT5.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-12-17-40-04.bpo-29564.SFNBT5.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The warnings module now suggests to enable tracemalloc if the source is
-specified, the tracemalloc module is available, but tracemalloc is not
-tracing memory allocations.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-15-07-14-32.bpo-35226.wJPEEe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-15-07-14-32.bpo-35226.wJPEEe.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Recursively check arguments when testing for equality of
-:class:`unittest.mock.call` objects and add note that tracking of parameters
-used to create ancestors of mocks in ``mock_calls`` is not possible.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-19-07-22-04.bpo-35277.dsD-2E.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-19-07-22-04.bpo-35277.dsD-2E.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-19-07-22-04.bpo-35277.dsD-2E.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Update ensurepip to install pip 18.1 and setuptools 40.6.2.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-20-13-34-01.bpo-28604.iiih5h.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-20-13-34-01.bpo-28604.iiih5h.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-:func:`locale.localeconv` now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale to the
-``LC_MONETARY`` locale if the two locales are different and monetary strings
-are non-ASCII. This temporary change affects other threads.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-24-10-33-42.bpo-35308.9--2iy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-24-10-33-42.bpo-35308.9--2iy.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix regression in ``webbrowser`` where default browsers may be preferred
-over browsers in the ``BROWSER`` environment variable.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-29-12-14-04.bpo-27903.ia8xgT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-29-12-14-04.bpo-27903.ia8xgT.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix ``ResourceWarning`` in :func:`platform.dist` on SuSE and Caldera
-OpenLinux. Patch by Ville Skyttä.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-01-13-44-12.bpo-35371.fTAwlX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-01-13-44-12.bpo-35371.fTAwlX.rst
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-Fixed possible crash in ``os.utime()`` on Windows when pass incorrect
-arguments.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-02-13-50-52.bpo-35341.32E8T_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-02-13-50-52.bpo-35341.32E8T_.rst
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-Add generic version of ``collections.OrderedDict`` to the ``typing`` module.  Patch by Ismo Toijala.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-03-14-41-11.bpo-35380.SdRF9l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-03-14-41-11.bpo-35380.SdRF9l.rst
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-Enable TCP_NODELAY on Windows for proactor asyncio event loop.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-03-19-45-00.bpo-35310.9k28gR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-03-19-45-00.bpo-35310.9k28gR.rst
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-Fix a bug in :func:`select.select` where, in some cases, the file descriptor
-sequences were returned unmodified after a signal interruption, even though the
-file descriptors might not be ready yet.  :func:`select.select` will now always
-return empty lists if a timeout has occurred.  Patch by Oran Avraham.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-05-13-37-39.bpo-10496.VH-1Lp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-05-13-37-39.bpo-10496.VH-1Lp.rst
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-:func:`posixpath.expanduser` now returns the input *path* unchanged if the
-``HOME`` environment variable is not set and the current user has no home
-directory (if the current user identifier doesn't exist in the password
-database). This change fix the :mod:`site` module if the current user doesn't
-exist in the password database (if the user has no home directory).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-06-00-29-28.bpo-34172.l7CIYt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-06-00-29-28.bpo-34172.l7CIYt.rst
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-Revert the fix for this issue previously released in 3.7.1 pending
-further investigation:
-Fix a reference issue inside multiprocessing.Pool that caused the
-pool to remain alive if it was deleted without being closed or terminated
-explicitly.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-06-00-43-13.bpo-35330.abB4BN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-06-00-43-13.bpo-35330.abB4BN.rst
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-When a :class:`Mock` instance was used to wrap an object, if `side_effect`
-is used in one of the mocks of it methods, don't call the original
-implementation and return the result of using the side effect the same way
-that it is done with return_value.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-10-09-48-27.bpo-35052.xE1ymg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-10-09-48-27.bpo-35052.xE1ymg.rst
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-Fix xml.dom.minidom cloneNode() on a document with an entity: pass the
-correct arguments to the user data handler of an entity.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-24-18-49-25.bpo-34791.78GmIG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-24-18-49-25.bpo-34791.78GmIG.rst
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-The xml.sax and xml.dom.domreg no longer use environment variables to
-override parser implementations when sys.flags.ignore_environment is set by
--E or -I arguments.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-11-23-15-00-23.bpo-34812.84VQnb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-11-23-15-00-23.bpo-34812.84VQnb.rst
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-The :option:`-I` command line option (run Python in isolated mode) is now
-also copied by the :mod:`multiprocessing` and :mod:`distutils` modules when
-spawning child processes. Previously, only :option:`-E` and :option:`-s` options
-(enabled by :option:`-I`) were copied.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-10-27-13-41-55.bpo-34279.v0Xqxe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-10-27-13-41-55.bpo-34279.v0Xqxe.rst
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-regrtest issue a warning when no tests have been executed in a particular
-test file. Also, a new final result state is issued if no test have been
-executed across all test files. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-04-20-17-09.bpo-21263.T3qo9r.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-04-20-17-09.bpo-21263.T3qo9r.rst
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-After several reports that test_gdb does not work properly on macOS and
-since gdb is not shipped by default anymore, test_gdb is now skipped on
-macOS when LLVM Clang has been used to compile Python. Patch by
-Lysandros Nikolaou
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-26-16-54-21.bpo-35317.jByGP2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-26-16-54-21.bpo-35317.jByGP2.rst
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-Fix ``mktime()`` overflow error in ``test_email``: run
-``test_localtime_daylight_true_dst_true()`` and
-``test_localtime_daylight_false_dst_true()`` with a specific timezone.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-30-17-18-56.bpo-35352.8bD7GC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-30-17-18-56.bpo-35352.8bD7GC.rst
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-Modify test_asyncio to use the certificate set from the test directory.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-12-09-01-27-29.bpo-33725.TaGayj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-12-09-01-27-29.bpo-33725.TaGayj.rst
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-test_multiprocessing_fork may crash on recent versions of macOS.  Until the
-issue is resolved, skip the test on macOS.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2018-10-15-13-22-28.bpo-34989.hU4fra.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2018-10-15-13-22-28.bpo-34989.hU4fra.rst
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-python-gdb.py now handles errors on computing the line number of a Python
-frame.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-03-08-20-02-38.bpo-32890.3jzFzY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-03-08-20-02-38.bpo-32890.3jzFzY.rst
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-Fix usage of GetLastError() instead of errno in os.execve() and
-os.truncate().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-09-03-01-23-52.bpo-34532.N1HEbE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-09-03-01-23-52.bpo-34532.N1HEbE.rst
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-Fixes exit code of list version arguments for py.exe.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-10-25-11-29-22.bpo-35067.RHWi7W.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-10-25-11-29-22.bpo-35067.RHWi7W.rst
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-Remove _distutils_findvs module and use vswhere.exe instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-10-30-13-39-17.bpo-34977.0l7_QV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-10-30-13-39-17.bpo-34977.0l7_QV.rst
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-Adds support for building a Windows App Store package
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-12-07-10-00-38.bpo-34977.agQJbD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-12-07-10-00-38.bpo-34977.agQJbD.rst
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-venv on Windows will now use a python.exe redirector rather than copying the
-actual binaries from the base environment.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-12-10-15-01-13.bpo-35401.9L1onG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-12-10-15-01-13.bpo-35401.9L1onG.rst
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-Updates Windows build to OpenSSL 1.1.0j
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-10-17-14-36-08.bpo-24658.Naddgx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-10-17-14-36-08.bpo-24658.Naddgx.rst
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-On macOS, fix reading from and writing into a file with a size larger than 2 GiB.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-10-18-23-54-55.bpo-35025.X4LFJg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-10-18-23-54-55.bpo-35025.X4LFJg.rst
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-Properly guard the use of the ``CLOCK_GETTIME`` et al. macros in ``timemodule``
-on macOS.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-12-09-13-56-49.bpo-35401.n8B7X1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-12-09-13-56-49.bpo-35401.n8B7X1.rst
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-Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0j.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-12-10-02-44-48.bpo-35402.xzn8qJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-12-10-02-44-48.bpo-35402.xzn8qJ.rst
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-Update macOS installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.6.9.1.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index db71df8..e332ae2 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.7.1+
-=============================
+This is Python version 3.7.2 candidate 1
+========================================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=master
    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI