| **************************** |
| What's New In Python 3.4 |
| **************************** |
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| .. :Author: Someone <email> |
| (uncomment if there is a principal author) |
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| right to rewrite any additions. In particular, for obscure or esoteric |
| features, the maintainer may reduce any addition to a simple reference to |
| the new documentation rather than explaining the feature inline. |
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| * While the maintainer will periodically go through Misc/NEWS |
| and add changes, it's best not to rely on this. We know from experience |
| that any changes that aren't in the What's New documentation around the |
| time of the original release will remain largely unknown to the community |
| for years, even if they're added later. We also know from experience that |
| other priorities can arise, and the maintainer will run out of time to do |
| updates -- in such cases, end users will be much better served by partial |
| notifications that at least give a hint about new features to |
| investigate. |
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| * This is not a complete list of every single change; completeness |
| is the purpose of Misc/NEWS. The What's New should focus on changes that |
| are visible to Python *users* and that *require* a feature release (i.e. |
| most bug fixes should only be recorded in Misc/NEWS) |
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| is that even if no more descriptive text is ever added, readers will at |
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| The :ref:`~socket.transmogrify()` function was added to the |
| :mod:`socket` module. (Contributed by P.Y. Developer in :issue:`12345`.) |
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| This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the Mercurial log |
| when researching a change. |
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| * Cross referencing tip: :ref:`mod.attr` will display as ``mod.attr``, |
| while :ref:`~mod.attr` will display as ``attr``. |
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| This article explains the new features in Python 3.4, compared to 3.3. |
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| .. Python 3.4 was released on TBD. |
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| For full details, see the |
| `changelog <http://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html>`_. |
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| .. note:: Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in |
| draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.4 moves towards |
| release, so it's worth checking back even after reading earlier versions. |
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| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`429` -- Python 3.4 Release Schedule |
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| |
| Summary -- Release Highlights |
| ============================= |
| |
| .. This section singles out the most important changes in Python 3.4. |
| Brevity is key. |
| |
| New syntax features: |
| |
| * No new syntax features were added in Python 3.4. |
| |
| New expected features for Python implementations: |
| |
| * :ref:`pip should always be "available" <whatsnew-pep-453>` (:pep:`453`). |
| * :ref:`Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable <whatsnew-pep-446>` |
| (:pep:`446`). |
| * command line option for :ref:`isolated mode <using-on-misc-options>`, |
| (:issue:`16499`). |
| * :ref:`improvements in the handling of codecs <codec-handling-improvements>` |
| that are not text encodings (multiple issues). |
| * :ref:`A ModuleSpec Type <whatsnew-pep-451>` for the Import System |
| (:pep:`451`). (Affects importer authors.) |
| |
| New library modules: |
| |
| * :mod:`asyncio`: :ref:`New provisional API for asynchronous IO |
| <whatsnew-asyncio>` (:pep:`3156`). |
| * :mod:`ensurepip`: :ref:`Bootstrapping the pip installer <whatsnew-ensurepip>` |
| (:pep:`453`). |
| * :mod:`enum`: :ref:`Support for enumeration types <whatsnew-enum>` |
| (:pep:`435`). |
| * :mod:`pathlib`: :ref:`Object-oriented filesystem paths <whatsnew-pathlib>` |
| (:pep:`428`). |
| * :mod:`selectors`: :ref:`High-level and efficient I/O multiplexing |
| <whatsnew-selectors>`, built upon the :mod:`select` module primitives (part |
| of :pep:`3156`). |
| * :mod:`statistics`: A basic :ref:`numerically stable statistics library |
| <whatsnew-statistics>` (:pep:`450`). |
| * :mod:`tracemalloc`: :ref:`Trace Python memory allocations |
| <whatsnew-tracemalloc>` (:pep:`454`). |
| |
| Significantly Improved Library Modules: |
| |
| * :ref:`Single-dispatch generic functions <whatsnew-singledispatch>` in |
| :mod:`functools` (:pep:`443`). |
| * New :mod:`pickle` :ref:`protocol 4 <whatsnew-protocol-4>` (:pep:`3154`). |
| * :ref:`TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support <whatsnew-tls-11-12>` for :mod:`ssl` |
| (:issue:`16692`). |
| * :mod:`multiprocessing` now has :ref:`an option to avoid using os.fork |
| on Unix <whatsnew-multiprocessing-no-fork>` (:issue:`8713`). |
| * :mod:`email` has a new submodule, :mod:`~email.contentmanager`, and |
| a new :mod:`~email.message.Message` subclass |
| (:class:`~email.contentmanager.EmailMessage`) that :ref:`simplify MIME |
| handling <whatsnew_email_contentmanager>` (:issue:`18891`). |
| |
| CPython implementation improvements: |
| |
| * :ref:`Safe object finalization <whatsnew-pep-442>` (:pep:`442`). |
| * Leveraging :pep:`442`, :ref:`module globals are no longer set to None |
| during finalization <whatsnew-pep-442>`, in most cases (:issue:`18214`). |
| * :ref:`Configurable memory allocators <whatsnew-pep-445>` (:pep:`445`). |
| * :ref:`Secure and interchangeable hash algorithm <whatsnew-pep-456>` |
| (:pep:`456`). |
| * :ref:`Argument Clinic <whatsnew-pep-436>` (:pep:`436`). |
| * The :mod:`marshal` format has been made :ref:`more compact and efficient |
| <whatsnew-marshal-3>` (:issue:`16475`). |
| |
| Please read on for a comprehensive list of user-facing changes, including many |
| other smaller improvements, CPython optimizations, deprecations, and potential |
| porting issues. |
| |
| |
| |
| New Expected Features for Python Implementations |
| ================================================ |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pep-453: |
| |
| PEP 453: Explicit Bootstrapping of PIP in Python Installations |
| -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| The new :mod:`ensurepip` module (defined in :pep:`453`) provides a standard |
| cross-platform mechanism to boostrap the pip installer into Python |
| installations and virtual environments. |
| |
| The :mod:`venv` module and the :command:`pyvenv` utility make use of this |
| module to make ``pip`` readily available in virtual environments. When |
| using the command line interface, ``pip`` is installed by default, while |
| for the module API installation of ``pip`` must be requested explicitly. |
| |
| For CPython source builds on POSIX systems, the ``make install`` and |
| ``make altinstall`` commands bootstrap ``pip`` by default. This behaviour |
| can be controlled through configure options, and overridden through |
| Makefile options. |
| |
| On Windows and Mac OS X, the CPython installers now offer the option to |
| install ``pip`` along with CPython itself. |
| |
| As `discussed in the PEP`__, platform packagers may choose not to install |
| ``pip`` by default, as long as the command ``pip``, when invoked, provides |
| clear and simple directions on how to install ``pip`` on the platform. |
| |
| __ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/#recommendations-for-downstream-distributors |
| |
| .. note:: |
| |
| The implementation of PEP 453 is still a work in progress. Refer to |
| :issue:`19347` for the progress on additional steps: |
| |
| * Having the binary installers install ``pip`` by default |
| * Recommending the use of ``pip`` in the "Installing Python Module" |
| documentation. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`453` -- Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations |
| PEP written by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan, implemented by |
| Donald Stufft, Nick Coghlan, Martin von Löwis and Ned Deily. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pep-446: |
| |
| PEP 446: Make Newly Created File Descriptors Non-Inheritable |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| :pep:`446` makes newly created file descriptors :ref:`non-inheritable |
| <fd_inheritance>`. New functions and methods: |
| |
| * :func:`os.get_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_inheritable` |
| * :func:`os.get_handle_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_handle_inheritable` |
| * :meth:`socket.socket.get_inheritable`, :meth:`socket.socket.set_inheritable` |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`446` -- Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable |
| PEP written and implemented by Victor Stinner. |
| |
| |
| .. _codec-handling-improvements: |
| |
| Improvements to Codec Handling |
| ------------------------------ |
| |
| Since it was first introduced, the :mod:`codecs` module has always been |
| intended to operate as a type-neutral dynamic encoding and decoding |
| system. However, its close coupling with the Python text model, especially |
| the type restricted convenience methods on the builtin :class:`str`, |
| :class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray` types, has historically obscured that |
| fact. |
| |
| As a key step in clarifying the situation, the :meth:`codecs.encode` and |
| :meth:`codecs.decode` convenience functions are now properly documented in |
| Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4. These functions have existed in the :mod:`codecs` |
| module (and have been covered by the regression test suite) since Python 2.4, |
| but were previously only discoverable through runtime introspection. |
| |
| Unlike the convenience methods on :class:`str`, :class:`bytes` and |
| :class:`bytearray`, these convenience functions support arbitrary codecs |
| in both Python 2 and Python 3, rather than being limited to Unicode text |
| encodings (in Python 3) or ``basestring`` <-> ``basestring`` conversions |
| (in Python 2). |
| |
| In Python 3.4, the interpreter is able to identify the known non-text |
| encodings provided in the standard library and direct users towards these |
| general purpose convenience functions when appropriate:: |
| |
| >>> b"abcdef".decode("hex") |
| Traceback (most recent call last): |
| File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> |
| LookupError: 'hex' is not a text encoding; use codecs.decode() to handle arbitrary codecs |
| |
| >>> "hello".encode("rot13") |
| Traceback (most recent call last): |
| File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> |
| LookupError: 'rot13' is not a text encoding; use codecs.encode() to handle arbitrary codecs |
| |
| In a related change, whenever it is feasible without breaking backwards |
| compatibility, exceptions raised during encoding and decoding operations |
| will be wrapped in a chained exception of the same type that mentions the |
| name of the codec responsible for producing the error:: |
| |
| >>> import codecs |
| |
| >>> codecs.decode(b"abcdefgh", "hex") |
| binascii.Error: Non-hexadecimal digit found |
| |
| The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: |
| |
| Traceback (most recent call last): |
| File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> |
| binascii.Error: decoding with 'hex' codec failed (Error: Non-hexadecimal digit found) |
| |
| >>> codecs.encode("hello", "bz2") |
| TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface |
| |
| The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: |
| |
| Traceback (most recent call last): |
| File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> |
| TypeError: encoding with 'bz2' codec failed (TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface) |
| |
| Finally, as the examples above show, these improvements have permitted |
| the restoration of the convenience aliases for the non-Unicode codecs that |
| were themselves restored in Python 3.2. This means that encoding binary data |
| to and from its hexadecimal representation (for example) can now be written |
| as:: |
| |
| >>> from codecs import encode, decode |
| >>> encode(b"hello", "hex") |
| b'68656c6c6f' |
| >>> decode(b"68656c6c6f", "hex") |
| b'hello' |
| |
| The binary and text transforms provided in the standard library are detailed |
| in :ref:`binary-transforms` and :ref:`text-transforms`. |
| |
| (Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`7475`, , :issue:`17827`, |
| :issue:`17828` and :issue:`19619`) |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pep-451: |
| |
| PEP 451: A ModuleSpec Type for the Import System |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| :pep:`451` provides an encapsulation of the information about a module that the |
| import machinery will use to load it (that is, a module specification). This |
| helps simplify both the import implementation and several import-related APIs. |
| The change is also a stepping stone for `several future import-related |
| improvements`__. |
| |
| __ https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/130111.html |
| |
| The public-facing changes from the PEP are entirely backward-compatible. |
| Furthermore, they should be transparent to everyone but importer authors. Key |
| finder and loader methods have been deprecated, but they will continue working. |
| New importers should use the new methods described in the PEP. Existing |
| importers should be updated to implement the new methods. |
| |
| |
| Other Language Changes |
| ---------------------- |
| |
| Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: |
| |
| * Unicode database updated to UCD version 6.3. |
| |
| * :func:`min` and :func:`max` now accept a *default* argument that can be used |
| to specify the value they return if the iterable they are evaluating has no |
| elements. Contributed by Julian Berman in :issue:`18111`. |
| |
| * Module objects are now :mod:`weakref`'able. |
| |
| * Module ``__file__`` attributes (and related values) should now always |
| contain absolute paths by default, with the sole exception of |
| ``__main__.__file__`` when a script has been executed directly using |
| a relative path (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`18416`). |
| |
| * Now all the UTF-\* codecs (except UTF-7) reject surrogates during both |
| encoding and decoding unless the ``surrogatepass`` error handler is used, |
| with the exception of the UTF-16 decoder that accepts valid surrogate pairs, |
| and the UTF-16 encoder that produces them while encoding non-BMP characters. |
| Contributed by Victor Stinner, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu and Serhiy Storchaka in |
| :issue:`12892`. |
| |
| |
| |
| New Modules |
| =========== |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-asyncio: |
| |
| asyncio |
| ------- |
| |
| The new :mod:`asyncio` module (defined in :pep:`3156`) provides a standard |
| pluggable event loop model for Python, providing solid asynchronous IO |
| support in the standard library, and making it easier for other event loop |
| implementations to interoperate with the standard library and each other. |
| |
| For Python 3.4, this module is considered a :term:`provisional API`. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`3156` -- Asynchronous IO Support Rebooted: the "asyncio" Module |
| PEP written and implementation led by Guido van Rossum. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-ensurepip: |
| |
| ensurepip |
| --------- |
| |
| The new :mod:`ensurepip` module is the primary infrastructure for the |
| :pep:`453` implementation. In the normal course of events end users will not |
| need to interact with this module, but it can be used to manually bootstrap |
| ``pip`` if the automated bootstrapping into an installation or virtual |
| environment was declined. |
| |
| :mod:`ensurepip` includes a bundled copy of ``pip``, up-to-date as of the first |
| release candidate of the release of CPython with which it ships (this applies |
| to both maintenance releases and feature releases). ``ensurepip`` does not |
| access the internet. (If the installation has Internet access, it is of course |
| possible to upgrade ``pip`` to a release more recent than the bundled ``pip`` |
| by using the bundled ``pip`` command itself once it is installed.) |
| |
| The module is named *ensure*\ pip because if called when ``pip`` is already |
| installed, it does nothing. It also has an ``--upgrade`` option that will |
| cause it to install the bundled copy of ``pip`` if the existing installed |
| version of ``pip`` is older than the bundled copy. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-enum: |
| |
| enum |
| ---- |
| |
| The new :mod:`enum` module (defined in :pep:`435`) provides a standard |
| implementation of enumeration types, allowing other modules (such as |
| :mod:`socket`) to provide more informative error messages and better |
| debugging support by replacing opaque integer constants with backwards |
| compatible enumeration values. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`435` -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library |
| PEP written by Barry Warsaw, Eli Bendersky and Ethan Furman, |
| implemented by Ethan Furman. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pathlib: |
| |
| pathlib |
| ------- |
| |
| The new :mod:`pathlib` module offers classes representing filesystem paths |
| with semantics appropriate for different operating systems. Path classes are |
| divided between *pure paths*, which provide purely computational operations |
| without I/O, and *concrete paths*, which inherit from pure paths but also |
| provide I/O operations. |
| |
| For Python 3.4, this module is considered a :term:`provisional API`. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`428` -- The pathlib module -- object-oriented filesystem paths |
| PEP written and implemented by Antoine Pitrou. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-selectors: |
| |
| selectors |
| --------- |
| |
| The new :mod:`selectors` module (created as part of implementing :pep:`3156`) |
| allows high-level and efficient I/O multiplexing, built upon the |
| :mod:`select` module primitives. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-statistics: |
| |
| statistics |
| ---------- |
| |
| The new :mod:`statistics` module (defined in :pep:`450`) offers some core |
| statistics functionality directly in the standard library. This module |
| supports calculation of the mean, median, mode, variance and standard |
| deviation of a data series. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`450` -- Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library |
| PEP written and implemented by Steven D'Aprano |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-tracemalloc: |
| |
| |
| tracemalloc |
| ----------- |
| |
| The new :mod:`tracemalloc` module (defined in :pep:`454`) is a debug tool to |
| trace memory blocks allocated by Python. It provides the following information: |
| |
| * Traceback where an object was allocated |
| * Statistics on allocated memory blocks per filename and per line number: |
| total size, number and average size of allocated memory blocks |
| * Compute the differences between two snapshots to detect memory leaks |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`454` -- Add a new tracemalloc module to trace Python memory allocations |
| PEP written and implemented by Victor Stinner |
| |
| |
| |
| Improved Modules |
| ================ |
| |
| |
| abc |
| --- |
| |
| New function :func:`abc.get_cache_token` can be used to know when to invalidate |
| caches that are affected by changes in the object graph. (Contributed |
| by Łukasz Langa in :issue:`16832`.) |
| |
| New class :class:`~abc.ABC` has :class:`~abc.ABCMeta` as its meta class. |
| Using ``ABC`` as a base class has essentially the same effect as specifying |
| ``metaclass=abc.ABCMeta``, but is simpler to type and easier to read. |
| (Contributed by Bruno Dupuis in :issue:`16049`.) |
| |
| |
| aifc |
| ---- |
| |
| The :meth:`~aifc.getparams` method now returns a namedtuple rather than a |
| plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17818`.) |
| |
| :func:`aifc.open` now supports the context manager protocol: when used in a |
| :keyword:`with` block, the :meth:`~aifc.aifc.close` method of the returned |
| object will be called automatically at the end of the block. (Contributed by |
| Serhiy Storchacha in :issue:`16486`.) |
| |
| |
| argparse |
| -------- |
| |
| The :class:`~argparse.FileType` class now accepts *encoding* and |
| *errors* arguments, which are passed through to :func:`open`. (Contributed |
| by Lucas Maystre in :issue:`11175`.) |
| |
| |
| audioop |
| ------- |
| |
| Added support for 24-bit samples (:issue:`12866`). |
| |
| Added the :func:`~audioop.byteswap` function to convert big-endian samples |
| to little-endian and vice versa (:issue:`19641`). |
| |
| |
| base64 |
| ------ |
| |
| The encoding and decoding functions in :mod:`base64` now accept any |
| :term:`bytes-like object` in cases where it previously required a |
| :class:`bytes` or :class:`bytearray` instance (:issue:`17839`). |
| |
| |
| colorsys |
| -------- |
| |
| The number of digits in the coefficients for the RGB --- YIQ conversions have |
| been expanded so that they match the FCC NTSC versions. The change in |
| results should be less than 1% and may better match results found elsewhere. |
| |
| |
| contextlib |
| ---------- |
| |
| The new :class:`contextlib.suppress` context manager helps to clarify the |
| intent of code that deliberately suppresses exceptions from a single |
| statement. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`15806` and |
| Zero Piraeus in :issue:`19266`) |
| |
| The new :func:`contextlib.redirect_stdout` context manager makes it easier |
| for utility scripts to handle inflexible APIs that don't provide any |
| options to retrieve their output as a string or direct it to somewhere |
| other than :data:`sys.stdout`. In conjunction with :class:`io.StringIO`, |
| this context manager is also useful for checking expected output from |
| command line utilities. (Contribute by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`15805`) |
| |
| The :mod:`contextlib` documentation has also been updated to include a |
| :ref:`discussion <single-use-reusable-and-reentrant-cms>` of the |
| differences between single use, reusable and reentrant context managers. |
| |
| |
| dis |
| --- |
| |
| The :mod:`dis` module is now built around an :class:`~dis.Instruction` class |
| that provides details of individual bytecode operations and a |
| :func:`~dis.get_instructions` iterator that emits the Instruction stream for a |
| given piece of Python code. The various display tools in the :mod:`dis` |
| module have been updated to be based on these new components. |
| |
| The new :class:`dis.Bytecode` class provides an object-oriented API for |
| inspecting bytecode, both in human-readable form and for iterating over |
| instructions. |
| |
| (Contributed by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver in :issue:`11816` |
| and Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17916`) |
| |
| |
| doctest |
| ------- |
| |
| A new :ref:`option flag <doctest-options>`, :data:`~doctest.FAIL_FAST`, halts |
| test running as soon as the first failure is detected. (Contributed by R. |
| David Murray and Daniel Urban in :issue:`16522`.) |
| |
| The :mod:`doctest` command line interface now uses :mod:`argparse`, and has two |
| new options, ``-o`` and ``-f``. ``-o`` allows :ref:`doctest options |
| <doctest-options>` to be specified on the command line, and ``-f`` is a |
| shorthand for ``-o FAIL_FAST`` (to parallel the similar option supported by the |
| :mod:`unittest` CLI). (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`11390`.) |
| |
| |
| email |
| ----- |
| |
| :meth:`~email.message.Message.as_string` now accepts a *policy* argument to |
| override the default policy of the message when generating a string |
| representation of it. This means that ``as_string`` can now be used in more |
| circumstances, instead of having to create and use a :mod:`~email.generator` in |
| order to pass formatting parameters to its ``flatten`` method. |
| |
| New method :meth:`~email.message.Message.as_bytes` added to produce a bytes |
| representation of the message in a fashion similar to how ``as_string`` |
| produces a string representation. It does not accept the *maxheaderlen* |
| argument, but does accept the *unixfrom* and *policy* arguments. The |
| :class:`~email.message.Message` :meth:`~email.message.Message.__bytes__` method |
| calls it, meaning that ``bytes(mymsg)`` will now produce the intuitive |
| result: a bytes object containing the fully formatted message. |
| |
| (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`18600`.) |
| |
| .. _whatsnew_email_contentmanager: |
| |
| A pair of new subclasses of :class:`~email.message.Message` have been added, |
| along with a new sub-module, :mod:`~email.contentmanager`. All documentation |
| is currently in the new module, which is being added as part of the new |
| :term:`provisional <provisional package>` email API. These classes provide a |
| number of new methods that make extracting content from and inserting content |
| into email messages much easier. See the :mod:`~email.contentmanager` |
| documentation for details. |
| |
| These API additions complete the bulk of the work that was planned as part of |
| the email6 project. The currently provisional API is scheduled to become final |
| in Python 3.5 (possibly with a few minor additions in the area of error |
| handling). |
| |
| (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`18891`.) |
| |
| |
| functools |
| --------- |
| |
| The new :func:`~functools.partialmethod` descriptor bring partial argument |
| application to descriptors, just as :func:`~functools.partial` provides |
| for normal callables. The new descriptor also makes it easier to get |
| arbitrary callables (including :func:`~functools.partial` instances) |
| to behave like normal instance methods when included in a class definition. |
| |
| (Contributed by Alon Horev and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`4331`) |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-singledispatch: |
| |
| The new :func:`~functools.singledispatch` decorator brings support for |
| single-dispatch generic functions to the Python standard library. Where |
| object oriented programming focuses on grouping multiple operations on a |
| common set of data into a class, a generic function focuses on grouping |
| multiple implementations of an operation that allows it to work with |
| *different* kinds of data. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`443` -- Single-dispatch generic functions |
| PEP written and implemented by Łukasz Langa. |
| |
| A pure-python version of the :func:`~functools.partial` function is now in the |
| stdlib; in CPython it is overridden by the C accelerated version, but it is |
| available for other implementations to use. (Contributed by Brian Thorne in |
| :issue:`12428`.) |
| |
| |
| gc |
| -- |
| |
| New :func:`~gc.get_stats` returns a list of three per-generation dictionaries |
| containing the collections statistics since interpreter startup. (Contributed |
| by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16351`.) |
| |
| |
| hashlib |
| ------- |
| |
| New :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function. |
| (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`18582`) |
| |
| |
| html |
| ---- |
| |
| Added a new :func:`html.unescape` function that converts HTML5 character |
| references to the corresponding Unicode characters. |
| (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`2927`) |
| |
| Added a new *convert_charrefs* keyword argument to |
| :class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser` that, when ``True``, automatically converts |
| all character references. For backward-compatibility, its value defaults |
| to ``False``, but it will change to ``True`` in future versions, so you |
| are invited to set it explicitly and update your code to use this new feature. |
| (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`13633`) |
| |
| The *strict* argument of :class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser` is now deprecated. |
| (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`15114`) |
| |
| |
| http |
| ---- |
| |
| :meth:`~http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error` now accepts an |
| optional additional *exaplain* parameter which can be used to provide an |
| extended error description, overriding the hardcoded default if there is one. |
| This extended error description will be formatted using the |
| :attr:`~http.server.HTTP.error_message_format` attribute and sent as the body |
| of the error response. (Contributed by Karl Cow in :issue:`12921`.) |
| |
| |
| |
| importlib |
| --------- |
| |
| The :class:`~importlib.abc.InspectLoader` ABC defines a new method, |
| :meth:`~importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code` that accepts source |
| data and a path and returns a code object. The default implementation |
| is equivalent to ``compile(data, path, 'exec', dont_inherit=True)``. |
| (Contributed by Eric Snow and Brett Cannon in :issue:`15627`.) |
| |
| |
| inspect |
| ------- |
| |
| |
| The inspect module now offers a basic :ref:`command line interface |
| <inspect-module-cli>` to quickly display source code and other |
| information for modules, classes and functions. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa |
| and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`18626`) |
| |
| :func:`~inspect.unwrap` makes it easy to unravel wrapper function chains |
| created by :func:`functools.wraps` (and any other API that sets the |
| ``__wrapped__`` attribute on a wrapper function). (Contributed by |
| Daniel Urban, Aaron Iles and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`13266`) |
| |
| As part of the implementation of the new :mod:`enum` module, the |
| :mod:`inspect` module now has substantially better support for custom |
| ``__dir__`` methods and dynamic class attributes provided through |
| metaclasses (Contributed by Ethan Furman in :issue:`18929` and |
| :issue:`19030`) |
| |
| |
| logging |
| ------- |
| |
| The :class:`~logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler` has a new *atTime* |
| parameter that can be used to specify the time of day when rollover should |
| happen. (Contributed by Ronald Oussoren in :issue:`9556`.) |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-marshal-3: |
| |
| marshal |
| ------- |
| |
| The default :mod:`marshal` version has been bumped to 3. The code implementing |
| the new version restores the Python2 behavior of recording only one copy of |
| interned strings and preserving the interning on deserialization, and extends |
| this "one copy" ability to any object type (including handling recursive |
| references). This reduces both the size of ``.pyc`` files and the amount of |
| memory a module occupies in memory when it is loaded from a ``.pyc`` (or |
| ``.pyo``) file. (Contributed by Kristján Valur Jónsson in :issue:`16475`.) |
| |
| |
| mmap |
| ---- |
| |
| mmap objects can now be weakref'ed. |
| (Contributed by Valerie Lambert in :issue:`4885`.) |
| |
| |
| mock |
| ---- |
| |
| :mod:`~unittest.mock` objects now inspect their specification signatures when |
| matching calls, which means an argument can now be matched by either position |
| or name, instead of only by position. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in |
| :issue:`17015`.) |
| |
| :func:`~mock.mock_open` objects now have ``readline`` and ``readlines`` |
| methods. (Contributed by Toshio Kuratomi in :issue:`17467`.) |
| |
| |
| multiprocessing |
| --------------- |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-multiprocessing-no-fork: |
| |
| On Unix, two new :ref:`start methods <multiprocessing-start-methods>` |
| (``spawn`` and ``forkserver``) have been added for starting processes using |
| :mod:`multiprocessing`. These make the mixing of processes with threads more |
| robust, and the ``spawn`` method matches the semantics that multiprocessing has |
| always used on Windows. (Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`8713`). |
| |
| Also, except when using the old *fork* start method, child processes |
| will no longer inherit unneeded handles/file descriptors from their parents |
| (part of :issue:`8713`). |
| |
| :mod:`multiprocessing` now relies on :mod:`runpy` (which implements the |
| ``-m`` switch) to initialise ``__main__`` appropriately in child processes |
| when using the ``spawn`` or ``forkserver`` start methods. This resolves some |
| edge cases where combining multiprocessing, the ``-m`` command line switch |
| and explicit relative imports could cause obscure failures in child |
| processes. (Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`19946`) |
| |
| |
| operator |
| -------- |
| |
| There is now a pure-python version of the :mod:`operator` module available for |
| reference and for use by alternate implementations of Python. (Contributed by |
| Zachary Ware in :issue:`16694`.) |
| |
| |
| os |
| -- |
| |
| New functions to get and set the :ref:`inheritable flag <fd_inheritance>` of a file |
| descriptors or a Windows handle: |
| |
| * :func:`os.get_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_inheritable` |
| * :func:`os.get_handle_inheritable`, :func:`os.set_handle_inheritable` |
| |
| |
| pdb |
| --- |
| |
| The ``print`` command has been removed from :mod:`pdb`, restoring access to the |
| ``print`` function. |
| |
| Rationale: Python2's ``pdb`` did not have a ``print`` command; instead, |
| entering ``print`` executed the ``print`` statement. In Python3 ``print`` was |
| mistakenly made an alias for the pdb :pdbcmd:`p` command. ``p``, however, |
| prints the ``repr`` of its argument, not the ``str`` like the Python2 ``print`` |
| command did. Worse, the Python3 ``pdb print`` command shadowed the Python3 |
| ``print`` function, making it inaccessible at the ``pdb`` prompt. |
| |
| (Contributed by Connor Osborn in :issue:`18764`.) |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-protocol-4: |
| |
| pickle |
| ------ |
| |
| protocol 4 |
| |
| :mod:`pickle` now supports (but does not use by default) a new pickle protocol, |
| protocol 4. This new protocol addresses a number of issues that were present |
| in previous protocols, such as the serialization of nested classes, very large |
| strings and containers, or classes whose :meth:`__new__` method takes |
| keyword-only arguments. It also provides some efficiency improvements. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`3154` -- Pickle protocol 4 |
| PEP written by Antoine Pitrou and implemented by Alexandre Vassalotti. |
| |
| |
| poplib |
| ------ |
| |
| Two new methods have been added to :mod:`poplib`: :meth:`~poplib.POP3.capa`, |
| which returns the list of capabilities advertised by the POP server, and |
| :meth:`~poplib.POP3.stls`, which switches a clear-text POP3 session into an |
| encrypted POP3 session if the POP server supports it. (Contributed by Lorenzo |
| Catucci in :issue:`4473`.) |
| |
| |
| pprint |
| ------ |
| |
| The :mod:`pprint` module now supports *compact* mode for formatting long |
| sequences (:issue:`19132`). |
| |
| Long strings are now wrapped using Python's normal line continuation |
| syntax (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`17150`.) |
| |
| |
| pty |
| --- |
| |
| :func:`pty.spawn` now returns the status value from :func:`os.waitpid` on |
| the child process, instead of ``None``. (Contributed by Gregory P. Smith.) |
| |
| |
| pydoc |
| ----- |
| |
| While significant changes have not been made to :mod:`pydoc` directly, |
| its handling of custom ``__dir__`` methods and various descriptor |
| behaviours has been improved substantially by the underlying changes in |
| the :mod:`inspect` module. |
| |
| |
| re |
| -- |
| |
| Added :func:`re.fullmatch` function and :meth:`regex.fullmatch` method, |
| which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match. |
| (Contributed by Matthew Barnett in :issue:`16203`.) |
| |
| The repr of :ref:`regex objects <re-objects>` now includes the pattern |
| and the flags; the repr of :ref:`match objects <match-objects>` now |
| includes the start, end, and the part of the string that matched. |
| (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`13592` and :issue:`17087`.) |
| |
| |
| resource |
| -------- |
| |
| New :func:`resource.prlimit` function and Linux specific constants. |
| (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`16595` and :issue:`19324`.) |
| |
| |
| select |
| ------ |
| |
| :class:`~select.epoll` objects now support the context management protocol. |
| When used in a :keyword:`with` statement, the :meth:`~select.epoll.close` |
| method will be called automatically at the end of the block. (Contributed |
| by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`16488`.) |
| |
| |
| shelve |
| ------ |
| |
| :class:`~shelve.Shelf` instances may now be used in :keyword:`with` statements, |
| and will be automatically closed at the end of the :keyword:`with` block. |
| (Contributed by Filip Gruszczyński in :issue:`13896`.) |
| |
| |
| smtplib |
| ------- |
| |
| :exc:`~smtplib.SMTPException` is now a subclass of :exc:`OSError`, which allows |
| both socket level errors and SMTP protocol level errors to be caught in one |
| try/except statement by code that only cares whether or not an error occurred. |
| (:issue:`2118`). |
| |
| |
| socket |
| ------ |
| |
| The socket module now supports the :data:`~socket.CAN_BCM` protocol on |
| platforms that support it. (Contributed by Brian Thorne in :issue:`15359`.) |
| |
| Socket objects have new methods to get or set their :ref:`inheritable flag |
| <fd_inheritance>`, :meth:`~socket.socket.get_inheritable` and |
| :meth:`~socket.socket.set_inheritable`. |
| |
| The ``socket.AF_*`` and ``socket.SOCK_*`` constants are now enumeration values |
| using the new :mod:`enum` module. This allows meaningful names to be printed |
| during debugging, instead of integer "magic numbers". |
| |
| |
| sqlite3 |
| ------- |
| |
| A new boolean parameter, *uri*, to the :func:`~sqlite3.connect` function can |
| be used to indicate that the *database* parameter is a ``uri`` (see |
| the `SQLite URI documentation <http://www.sqlite.org/uri.html>`_). |
| (Contributed by poq in :issue:`13773`.) |
| |
| |
| ssl |
| --- |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-tls-11-12: |
| |
| :data:`~ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_1` and :data:`~ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2` (TLSv1.1 and |
| TLSv1.2 support) have been added; support for these protocols is only available if |
| Python is linked with OpenSSL 1.0.1 or later. (Contributed by Michele Orrù and |
| Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16692`) |
| |
| New diagnostic functions :func:`~ssl.get_default_verify_paths`, |
| :meth:`~ssl.SSLContext.cert_store_stats` and |
| :meth:`~ssl.SSLContext.get_ca_certs` (Contributed by Christian Heimes |
| in :issue:`18143` and :issue:`18147`) |
| |
| Add :func:`ssl.enum_cert_store` to retrieve certificates and CRL from Windows' |
| cert store. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`17134`.) |
| |
| Support for server-side SNI using the new |
| :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.set_servername_callback` method. |
| (Contributed by Daniel Black in :issue:`8109`.) |
| |
| |
| stat |
| ---- |
| |
| The :mod:`stat` module is now backed by a C implementation in :mod:`_stat`. A C |
| implementation is required as most of the values aren't standardized and |
| platform-dependent. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`11016`.) |
| |
| The module supports new file types: door, event port and whiteout. |
| |
| |
| struct |
| ------ |
| |
| :mod:`struct` now supports the streamed unpacking of a buffer containing |
| repeated instances of a given format of data. Both a module level |
| :mod:`~struct.iter_unpack` function and a :meth:`struct.Struct.iter_unpack` |
| method on compiled formats have been added. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in |
| :issue:`17804`.) |
| |
| |
| subprocess |
| ---------- |
| |
| :func:`~subprocess.check_output` now accepts an *input* argument that can |
| be used to provide the contents of ``stdin`` for the command that is run. |
| (Contributed by Zack Weinberg in :issue:`16624`.) |
| |
| |
| sunau |
| ----- |
| |
| The :meth:`~sunau.getparams` method now returns a namedtuple rather than a |
| plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`18901`.) |
| |
| :meth:`sunau.open` now supports the context manager protocol (:issue:`18878`). |
| |
| |
| sys |
| --- |
| |
| New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks` returns the current number of |
| blocks allocated by the interpreter (in CPython with the default |
| ``--with-pymalloc`` setting, this is allocations made through the |
| :c:func:`PyObject_Malloc` API). This can be useful for tracking memory leaks, |
| especially if automated via a test suite. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou |
| in :issue:`13390`.) |
| |
| |
| traceback |
| --------- |
| |
| A new :func:`traceback.clear_frames` function takes a traceback object |
| and clears the local variables in all of the frames it references, |
| reducing the amount of memory consumed (:issue:`1565525`). |
| |
| |
| urllib |
| ------ |
| |
| :mod:`urllib.request` now supports ``data:`` URLs via the |
| :class:`~urllib.request.DataHandler` class. (Contributed by Mathias Panzenböck |
| in :issue:`16423`.) |
| |
| |
| unittest |
| -------- |
| |
| The :class:`~unittest.TestCase` class has a new method, |
| :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.subTest`, that produces a context manager whose |
| :keyword:`with` block becomes a "sub-test". This context manager allows a test |
| method to dynamically generate subtests by, say, calling the ``subTest`` |
| context manager inside a loop. A single test method can thereby produce an |
| indefinite number of separately-identified and separately-counted tests, all of |
| which will run even if one or more of them fail. For example:: |
| |
| class NumbersTest(unittest.TestCase): |
| def test_even(self): |
| for i in range(6): |
| with self.subTest(i=1): |
| self.assertEqual(i % 2, 0) |
| |
| will result in six subtests, each identified in the unittest verbose output |
| with a label consisting of the variable name ``i`` and a particular value for |
| that variable (``i=0``, ``i=1``, etc). See :ref:`subtests` for the full |
| version of this example. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16997`.) |
| |
| :func:`unittest.main` now accepts an iterable of test names for |
| *defaultTest*, where previously it only accepted a single test name as a |
| string. (Contributed by Jyrki Pulliainen in :issue:`15132`.) |
| |
| If :class:`~unittest.SkipTest` is raised during test discovery (that is, at the |
| module level in the test file), it is now reported as a skip instead of an |
| error. (Contributed by Zach Ware in :issue:`16935`.) |
| |
| :meth:`~unittest.TestLoader.discover` now sorts the discovered files to provide |
| consistent test ordering. (Contributed by Martin Melin and Jeff Ramnani in |
| :issue:`16709`.) |
| |
| |
| venv |
| ---- |
| |
| :mod:`venv` now includes activation scripts for the ``csh`` and ``fish`` |
| shells (Contributed by Andrew Svetlov in :issue:`15417`.) |
| |
| |
| wave |
| ---- |
| |
| The :meth:`~wave.getparams` method now returns a namedtuple rather than a |
| plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17487`.) |
| |
| :meth:`wave.open` now supports the context manager protocol. (Contributed |
| by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17616`.) |
| |
| |
| weakref |
| ------- |
| |
| New :class:`~weakref.WeakMethod` class simulates weak references to bound |
| methods. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`14631`.) |
| |
| New :class:`~weakref.finalize` class makes it possible to register a callback |
| to be invoked when an object is garbage collected, without needing to |
| carefully manage the lifecycle of the weak reference itself. (Contributed by |
| Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`15528`) |
| |
| |
| xml.etree |
| --------- |
| |
| A new parser, :class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLPullParser`, allows a |
| non-blocking applications to parse XML documents. An example can be |
| seen at :ref:`elementtree-pull-parsing`. (Contributed by Antoine |
| Pitrou in :issue:`17741`.) |
| |
| The :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` :func:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring` and |
| :func:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.tostringlist` functions, and the |
| :class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree` |
| :meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write` method, now have a |
| *short_empty_elements* :ref:`keyword-only parameter <keyword-only_parameter>` |
| providing control over whether elements with no content are written in |
| abbreviated (``<tag />``) or expanded (``<tag></tag>``) form. (Contributed by |
| Ariel Poliak and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`14377`.) |
| |
| |
| zipfile.PyZipfile |
| ----------------- |
| |
| Add a filter function to ignore some packages (tests for instance), |
| :meth:`~zipfile.PyZipFile.writepy`. |
| (Contributed by Christian Tismer in :issue:`19274`.) |
| |
| |
| |
| CPython Implementation Changes |
| ============================== |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pep-445: |
| |
| PEP 445: Customization of CPython Memory Allocators |
| --------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| :pep:`445` adds new C level interfaces to customize memory allocation in |
| the CPython interpreter. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`445` -- Add new APIs to customize Python memory allocators |
| PEP written and implemented by Victor Stinner. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pep-442: |
| |
| PEP 442: Safe Object Finalization |
| --------------------------------- |
| |
| :pep:`442` removes the current limitations and quirks of object finalization |
| in CPython. With it, objects with :meth:`__del__` methods, as well as |
| generators with :keyword:`finally` clauses, can be finalized when they are |
| part of a reference cycle. |
| |
| As part of this change, module globals are no longer forcibly set to |
| :const:`None` during interpreter shutdown in most cases, instead relying |
| on the normal operation of the cyclic garbage collector. This avoids a |
| whole class of interpreter-shutdown-time errors, usually involving |
| ``__del__`` methods, that have plagued Python since the cyclic GC |
| was first introduced. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`442` -- Safe object finalization |
| PEP written and implemented by Antoine Pitrou. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pep-456: |
| |
| PEP 456: Secure and Interchangeable Hash Algorithm |
| -------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| :pep:`456` follows up on earlier security fix work done on Python's hash |
| algorithm to address certain DOS attacks to which public facing APIs backed by |
| dictionary lookups may be subject. (See :issue:`14621` for the start of the |
| current round of improvements.) The PEP unifies CPython's hash code to make it |
| easier for a packager to substitute a different hash algorithm, and switches |
| Python's default implementation to a SipHash implementation on platforms that |
| have a 64 bit data type. Any performance differences in comparison with the |
| older FNV algorithm are trivial. |
| |
| The PEP adds additional fields to the :func:`sys.hash_info` struct sequence to |
| describe the hash algorithm in use by the currently executing binary. Otherwise, |
| the PEP does not alter any existing CPython APIs. |
| |
| |
| .. _whatsnew-pep-436: |
| |
| PEP 436: Argument Clinic |
| ------------------------ |
| |
| "Argument Clinic" (:pep:`436`) is now part of the CPython build process |
| and can be used to simplify the process of defining and maintaining |
| accurate signatures for builtins and standard library extension modules |
| implemented in C. |
| |
| .. note:: |
| The Argument Clinic PEP is not fully up to date with the state of the |
| implementation. This has been deemed acceptable by the release manager |
| and core development team in this case, as Argument Clinic will not |
| be made available as a public API for third party use in Python 3.4. |
| |
| .. seealso:: |
| |
| :pep:`436` -- The Argument Clinic DSL |
| PEP written and implemented by Larry Hastings. |
| |
| |
| Other Build and C API Changes |
| ----------------------------- |
| |
| * The new :c:func:`Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API |
| allows applications embedding the CPython interpreter to reliably force |
| a particular encoding and error handler for the standard streams |
| (Contributed by Bastien Montagne and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`16129`) |
| |
| * Most Python C APIs that don't mutate string arguments are now correctly |
| marked as accepting ``const char *`` rather than ``char *`` (Contributed |
| by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`1772673`). |
| |
| * New shell version of ``python-config``; can be used even when a python |
| interpreter is not available (for example, in cross compilation scenarios). |
| |
| |
| |
| Other Improvements |
| ================== |
| |
| * Tab-completion is now enabled by default in the interactive interpreter. |
| (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou and Éric Araujo in :issue:`5845`.) |
| |
| * Invoking the Python interpreter with ``--version`` now outputs the version to |
| standard output instead of standard error (:issue:`18338`). Similar changes |
| were made to :mod:`argparse` (:issue:`18920`) and other modules that have |
| script-like invocation capabilities (:issue:`18922`). |
| |
| * The CPython Windows installer now adds ``.py`` to the :envvar:`PATHEXT` |
| variable when extensions are registered, allowing users to run a python |
| script at the windows command prompt by just typing its name without the |
| ``.py`` extension. (Contributed by Paul Moore in :issue:`18569`.) |
| |
| * A new ``make`` target `coverage-report |
| <http://docs.python.org/devguide/coverage.html#measuring-coverage-of-c-code-with-gcov-and-lcov>`_ |
| will build python, run the test suite, and generate an HTML coverage report |
| for the C codebase using ``gcov`` and `lcov |
| <http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php>`_. |
| |
| * The ``-R`` option to the :ref:`python regression test suite <regrtest>` now |
| also checks for memory allocation leaks, using |
| :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()`. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in |
| :issue:`13390`). |
| |
| |
| |
| Significant Optimizations |
| ========================= |
| |
| * The UTF-32 decoder is now 3x to 4x faster. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka |
| in :issue:`14625`.) |
| |
| * The cost of hash collisions for sets is now reduced. Each hash table |
| probe now checks a series of consecutive, adjacent key/hash pairs before |
| continuing to make random probes through the hash table. This exploits |
| cache locality to make collision resolution less expensive. |
| The collision resolution scheme can be described as a hybrid of linear |
| probing and open addressing. The number of additional linear probes |
| defaults to nine. This can be changed at compile-time by defining |
| LINEAR_PROBES to be any value. Set LINEAR_PROBES=0 to turn-off |
| linear probing entirely. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in |
| :issue:`18771`.) |
| |
| * The interpreter starts about 30% faster. A couple of measures lead to the |
| speedup. The interpreter loads fewer modules on startup, e.g. the :mod:`re`, |
| :mod:`collections` and :mod:`locale` modules and their dependencies are no |
| longer imported by default. The marshal module has been improved to load |
| compiled Python code faster. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, Christian |
| Heimes and Victor Stinner in :issue:`19219`, :issue:`19218`, :issue:`19209`, |
| :issue:`19205` and :issue:`9548`) |
| |
| * :class:`bz2.BZ2File` is now as fast or faster than the Python2 version for |
| most cases. :class:`lzma.LZMAFile` has also been optimized. (Contributed by |
| Serhiy Storchaka and Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`16034`.) |
| |
| * :func:`random.getrandbits` is 20%-40% faster for small integers (the most |
| common use case). (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`16674`). |
| |
| * By taking advantage of the new storage format for strings, pickling of |
| strings is now significantly faster. (Contributed by Victor Stinner and |
| Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`15596`.) |
| |
| |
| |
| Deprecated |
| ========== |
| |
| This section covers various APIs and other features that have been deprecated |
| in Python 3.4, and will be removed in Python 3.5 or later. In most (but not |
| all) cases, using the deprecated APIs will produce a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` |
| when the interpreter is run with deprecation warnings enabled (for example, by |
| using ``-Wd``). |
| |
| |
| Deprecated Python Modules, Functions and Methods |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| * :meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.isbjunk` and |
| :meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.isbpopular` were removed: use ``x in sm.bjunk`` and |
| ``x in sm.bpopular``, where *sm* is a :class:`~difflib.SequenceMatcher` object. |
| |
| * :func:`importlib.util.module_for_loader` is pending deprecation. Using |
| :func:`importlib.util.module_to_load` and |
| :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs` allows subclasses of a loader |
| to more easily customize module loading. |
| |
| * The :mod:`imp` module is pending deprecation. To keep compatibility with |
| Python 2/3 code bases, the module's removal is currently not scheduled. |
| |
| * The :mod:`formatter` module is pending deprecation and is slated for removal |
| in Python 3.6. |
| |
| * MD5 as default digestmod for :mod:`hmac` is deprecated. Python 3.6 will |
| require an explicit digest name or constructor as *digestmod* argument. |
| |
| * The internal ``Netrc`` class in the :mod:`ftplib` module has been documented |
| as deprecated in its docstring for quite some time. It now emits a |
| :exc:`DeprecationWarning` and will be removed completely in Python 3.5. |
| |
| |
| Deprecated Functions and Types in the C API |
| ------------------------------------------- |
| |
| XXX: None so far |
| |
| |
| Deprecated Features |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * Running :ref:`idle` with the ``-n`` flag (no subprocess) is deprecated. |
| However, the feature will not be removed until :issue:`18823` is resolved. |
| |
| * The site module adding a "site-python" directory to sys.path, if it |
| exists, is deprecated (:issue:`19375`). |
| |
| |
| |
| Removed |
| ======= |
| |
| |
| Operating Systems No Longer Supported |
| ------------------------------------- |
| |
| Support for the following operating systems has been removed from the source |
| and build tools: |
| |
| * OS/2 (:issue:`16135`). |
| * Windows 2000 (changeset e52df05b496a). |
| * VMS (:issue:`16136`). |
| |
| |
| API and Feature Removals |
| ------------------------ |
| |
| The following obsolete and previously deprecated APIs and features have been |
| removed: |
| |
| * The unmaintained ``Misc/TextMate`` and ``Misc/vim`` directories have been |
| removed (see the `devguide <http://docs.python.org/devguide>`_ |
| for suggestions on what to use instead). |
| |
| * The ``SO`` makefile macro is removed (it was replaced by the |
| ``SHLIB_SUFFIX`` and ``EXT_SUFFIX`` macros) (:issue:`16754`). |
| |
| * The ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field has been removed; its value has |
| been meaningless since Python 3.2, when the "new GIL" was introduced. |
| |
| * ``PyLoader`` and ``PyPycLoader`` have been removed from :mod:`importlib`. |
| (Contributed by Taras Lyapun in :issue:`15641`.) |
| |
| * The *strict* argument to :class:`~http.client.HTTPConnection` and |
| :class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection` has been removed. HTTP 0.9-style |
| "Simple Responses" are no longer supported. |
| |
| * The deprecated :mod:`urllib.request.Request` getter and setter methods |
| ``add_data``, ``has_data``, ``get_data``, ``get_type``, ``get_host``, |
| ``get_selector``, ``set_proxy``, ``get_origin_req_host``, and |
| ``is_unverifiable`` have been removed (use direct attribute access instead). |
| |
| * Support for loading the deprecated ``TYPE_INT64`` has been removed from |
| :mod:`marshal`. (Contributed by Dan Riti in :issue:`15480`.) |
| |
| |
| Code Cleanups |
| ------------- |
| |
| * The unused and undocumented internal ``Scanner`` class has been removed from |
| the :mod:`pydoc` module. |
| |
| |
| |
| Porting to Python 3.4 |
| ===================== |
| |
| This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes |
| that may require changes to your code. |
| |
| Changes in the Python API |
| ------------------------- |
| |
| * The ABCs defined in :mod:`importlib.abc` now either raise the appropriate |
| exception or return a default value instead of raising |
| :exc:`NotImplementedError` blindly. This will only affect code calling |
| :func:`super` and falling through all the way to the ABCs. For compatibility, |
| catch both :exc:`NotImplementedError` or the appropriate exception as needed. |
| |
| * The module type now initializes the :attr:`__package__` and :attr:`__loader__` |
| attributes to ``None`` by default. To determine if these attributes were set |
| in a backwards-compatible fashion, use e.g. |
| ``getattr(module, '__loader__', None) is not None``. |
| |
| * :meth:`importlib.util.module_for_loader` now sets ``__loader__`` and |
| ``__package__`` unconditionally to properly support reloading. If this is not |
| desired then you will need to set these attributes manually. You can use |
| :func:`importlib.util.module_to_load` for module management. |
| |
| * Import now resets relevant attributes (e.g. ``__name__``, ``__loader__``, |
| ``__package__``, ``__file__``, ``__cached__``) unconditionally when reloading. |
| |
| * Frozen packages no longer set ``__path__`` to a list containing the package |
| name but an empty list instead. Determing if a module is a package should be |
| done using ``hasattr(module, '__path__')``. |
| |
| * :func:`py_compile.compile` now raises :exc:`FileExistsError` if the file path |
| it would write to is a symlink or a non-regular file. This is to act as a |
| warning that import will overwrite those files with a regular file regardless |
| of what type of file path they were originally. |
| |
| * :meth:`importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source` no longer raises |
| :exc:`ImportError` when the source code being loaded triggers a |
| :exc:`SyntaxError` or :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError`. As :exc:`ImportError` is |
| meant to be raised only when source code cannot be found but it should, it was |
| felt to be over-reaching/overloading of that meaning when the source code is |
| found but improperly structured. If you were catching ImportError before and |
| wish to continue to ignore syntax or decoding issues, catch all three |
| exceptions now. |
| |
| * :func:`functools.update_wrapper` and :func:`functools.wraps` now correctly |
| set the ``__wrapped__`` attribute to the function being wrapper, even if |
| that function also had its ``__wrapped__`` attribute set. This means |
| ``__wrapped__`` attributes now correctly link a stack of decorated |
| functions rather than every ``__wrapped__`` attribute in the chain |
| referring to the innermost function. Introspection libraries that |
| assumed the previous behaviour was intentional can use |
| :func:`inspect.unwrap` to access the first function in the chain that has |
| no ``__wrapped__`` attribute. |
| |
| * :class:`importlib.machinery.PathFinder` now passes on the current working |
| directory to objects in :data:`sys.path_hooks` for the empty string. This |
| results in :data:`sys.path_importer_cache` never containing ``''``, thus |
| iterating through :data:`sys.path_importer_cache` based on :data:`sys.path` |
| will not find all keys. A module's ``__file__`` when imported in the current |
| working directory will also now have an absolute path, including when using |
| ``-m`` with the interpreter (this does not influence when the path to a file |
| is specified on the command-line). |
| |
| * The removal of the *strict* argument to :class:`~http.client.HTTPConnection` |
| and :class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection` changes the meaning of the |
| remaining arguments if you are specifying them positionally rather than by |
| keyword. If you've been paying attention to deprecation warnings your code |
| should already be specifying any additional arguments via keywords. |
| |
| * Strings between ``from __future__ import ...`` statements now *always* raise |
| a :exc:`SyntaxError`. Previously if there was no leading docstring, an |
| interstitial string would sometimes be ignored. This brings CPython into |
| compliance with the language spec; Jython and PyPy already were. |
| (:issue:`17434`). |
| |
| |
| Changes in the C API |
| -------------------- |
| |
| * :c:func:`PyErr_SetImportError` now sets :exc:`TypeError` when its **msg** |
| argument is not set. Previously only ``NULL`` was returned with no exception |
| set. |
| |
| * The result of the :c:data:`PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer` callback must |
| now be a string allocated by :c:func:`PyMem_RawMalloc` or |
| :c:func:`PyMem_RawRealloc`, or *NULL* if an error occurred, instead of a |
| string allocated by :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` or :c:func:`PyMem_Realloc`. |
| |
| * :c:func:`PyThread_set_key_value` now always set the value. In Python |
| 3.3, the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current |
| value is a non-NULL pointer). |
| |
| * The ``f_tstate`` (thread state) field of the :c:type:`PyFrameObject` |
| structure has been removed to fix a bug: see :issue:`14432` for the |
| rationale. |
| |