| .. bpo: 23573 |
| .. date: 9042 |
| .. nonce: ZpM4D- |
| .. release date: 2015-03-28 |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Increased performance of string search operations (str.find, str.index, |
| str.count, the in operator, str.split, str.partition) with arguments of |
| different kinds (UCS1, UCS2, UCS4). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23753 |
| .. date: 9041 |
| .. nonce: CREjLC |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Python doesn't support anymore platforms without stat() or fstat(), these |
| functions are always required. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23681 |
| .. date: 9040 |
| .. nonce: kh02TF |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| The -b option now affects comparisons of bytes with int. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23632 |
| .. date: 9039 |
| .. nonce: UVdIZY |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Memoryviews now allow tuple indexing (including for multi-dimensional |
| memoryviews). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23192 |
| .. date: 9038 |
| .. nonce: QKqdow |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Fixed generator lambdas. Patch by Bruno Cauet. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23629 |
| .. date: 9037 |
| .. nonce: r9Mt2C |
| .. section: Core and Builtins |
| |
| Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized objects. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 14260 |
| .. date: 9036 |
| .. nonce: b5M04V |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object now is |
| non-modifiable mapping. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23792 |
| .. date: 9035 |
| .. nonce: Kfm9-f |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Ignore KeyboardInterrupt when the pydoc pager is active. This mimics the |
| behavior of the standard unix pagers, and prevents pipepager from shutting |
| down while the pager itself is still running. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23775 |
| .. date: 9034 |
| .. nonce: xKGrSQ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| pprint() of OrderedDict now outputs the same representation as repr(). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23765 |
| .. date: 9033 |
| .. nonce: 2ta_C4 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Removed IsBadStringPtr calls in ctypes |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22364 |
| .. date: 9032 |
| .. nonce: ejtoKl |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Improved some re error messages using regex for hints. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23742 |
| .. date: 9031 |
| .. nonce: _EkAIa |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single quotes. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 21717 |
| .. date: 9030 |
| .. nonce: pKndpx |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The zipfile.ZipFile.open function now supports 'x' (exclusive creation) |
| mode. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 21802 |
| .. date: 9029 |
| .. nonce: ygSM2A |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing writer failed |
| in BufferedRWPair.close(). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23622 |
| .. date: 9028 |
| .. nonce: 9-ZRqj |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of ``'\'`` and ASCII |
| letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in Python 3.6. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23671 |
| .. date: 9027 |
| .. nonce: zWPm-a |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| string.Template now allows specifying the "self" parameter as a keyword |
| argument. string.Formatter now allows specifying the "self" and the |
| "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23502 |
| .. date: 9026 |
| .. nonce: AH20IQ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The pprint module now supports mapping proxies. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 17530 |
| .. date: 9025 |
| .. nonce: PUp8rL |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| pprint now wraps long bytes objects and bytearrays. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22687 |
| .. date: 9024 |
| .. nonce: zEJPd9 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fixed some corner cases in breaking words in tetxtwrap. Got rid of quadratic |
| complexity in breaking long words. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 4727 |
| .. date: 9023 |
| .. nonce: iDQSpi |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The copy module now uses pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154) and supports copying |
| of instances of classes whose __new__ method takes keyword-only arguments. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23491 |
| .. date: 9022 |
| .. nonce: P_WKrt |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Added a zipapp module to support creating executable zip file archives of |
| Python code. Registered ".pyz" and ".pyzw" extensions on Windows for these |
| archives (PEP 441). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23657 |
| .. date: 9021 |
| .. nonce: y1OaV- |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Avoid explicit checks for str in zipapp, adding support for pathlib.Path |
| objects as arguments. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23688 |
| .. date: 9020 |
| .. nonce: d6LVy3 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Added support of arbitrary bytes-like objects and avoided unnecessary |
| copying of memoryview in gzip.GzipFile.write(). Original patch by Wolfgang |
| Maier. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23252 |
| .. date: 9019 |
| .. nonce: Goi18g |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable streams. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23647 |
| .. date: 9018 |
| .. nonce: pX2qrx |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Increase imaplib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23539 |
| .. date: 9017 |
| .. nonce: 5BVUim |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now sets Content-Length |
| to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid 411 errors from some web |
| servers. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22351 |
| .. date: 9016 |
| .. nonce: agB8Y3 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The nntplib.NNTP constructor no longer leaves the connection and socket open |
| until the garbage collector cleans them up. Patch by Martin Panter. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23704 |
| .. date: 9015 |
| .. nonce: LTyyxL |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| collections.deque() objects now support methods for index(), insert(), and |
| copy(). This allows deques to be registered as a MutableSequence and it |
| improves their substitutability for lists. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23715 |
| .. date: 9014 |
| .. nonce: Yap3tU |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| :func:`signal.sigwaitinfo` and :func:`signal.sigtimedwait` are now retried |
| when interrupted by a signal not in the *sigset* parameter, if the signal |
| handler does not raise an exception. signal.sigtimedwait() recomputes the |
| timeout with a monotonic clock when it is retried. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23001 |
| .. date: 9013 |
| .. nonce: YSFnam |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Few functions in modules mmap, ossaudiodev, socket, ssl, and codecs, that |
| accepted only read-only bytes-like object now accept writable bytes-like |
| object too. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23646 |
| .. date: 9012 |
| .. nonce: Tljc1S |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| If time.sleep() is interrupted by a signal, the sleep is now retried with |
| the recomputed delay, except if the signal handler raises an exception (PEP |
| 475). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23136 |
| .. date: 9011 |
| .. nonce: 1bnpnb |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0, including Dec 30 of |
| previous year. Based on patch by Jim Carroll. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23700 |
| .. date: 9010 |
| .. nonce: VfnWwi |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Iterator of NamedTemporaryFile now keeps a reference to NamedTemporaryFile |
| instance. Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22903 |
| .. date: 9009 |
| .. nonce: 2GjTHY |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| The fake test case created by unittest.loader when it fails importing a test |
| module is now picklable. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22181 |
| .. date: 9008 |
| .. nonce: 7mnxea |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| On Linux, os.urandom() now uses the new getrandom() syscall if available, |
| syscall introduced in the Linux kernel 3.17. It is more reliable and more |
| secure, because it avoids the need of a file descriptor and waits until the |
| kernel has enough entropy. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 2211 |
| .. date: 9007 |
| .. nonce: 17Iz5U |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Updated the implementation of the http.cookies.Morsel class. Setting |
| attributes key, value and coded_value directly now is deprecated. update() |
| and setdefault() now transform and check keys. Comparing for equality now |
| takes into account attributes key, value and coded_value. copy() now returns |
| a Morsel, not a dict. repr() now contains all attributes. Optimized |
| checking keys and quoting values. Added new tests. Original patch by Demian |
| Brecht. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 18983 |
| .. date: 9006 |
| .. nonce: vF4i2S |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Allow selection of output units in timeit. Patch by Julian Gindi. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23631 |
| .. date: 9005 |
| .. nonce: GfSqNI |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fix traceback.format_list when a traceback has been mutated. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23568 |
| .. date: 9004 |
| .. nonce: ffzJc7 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Add rdivmod support to MagicMock() objects. Patch by Håkan Lövdahl. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 2052 |
| .. date: 9003 |
| .. nonce: ujNgna |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Add charset parameter to HtmlDiff.make_file(). |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23668 |
| .. date: 9002 |
| .. nonce: nF_jnN |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Support os.truncate and os.ftruncate on Windows. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23138 |
| .. date: 9001 |
| .. nonce: 4vMoMZ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in cookiejar. Patch by |
| Demian Brecht. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23051 |
| .. date: 9000 |
| .. nonce: Vi5tCZ |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered() now handle |
| exceptions raised by an iterator. Patch by Alon Diamant and Davin Potts. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23581 |
| .. date: 8999 |
| .. nonce: D4Lknl |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Add matmul support to MagicMock. Patch by Håkan Lövdahl. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23566 |
| .. date: 8998 |
| .. nonce: F6LSyk |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| enable(), register(), dump_traceback() and dump_traceback_later() functions |
| of faulthandler now accept file descriptors. Patch by Wei Wu. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22928 |
| .. date: 8997 |
| .. nonce: q2TmY0 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Disabled HTTP header injections in http.client. Original patch by Demian |
| Brecht. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23615 |
| .. date: 8996 |
| .. nonce: 5Kx9k5 |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| Modules bz2, tarfile and tokenize now can be reloaded with imp.reload(). |
| Patch by Thomas Kluyver. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23605 |
| .. date: 8995 |
| .. nonce: JUOA_X |
| .. section: Library |
| |
| os.walk() now calls os.scandir() instead of os.listdir(). The usage of |
| os.scandir() reduces the number of calls to os.stat(). Initial patch written |
| by Ben Hoyt. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23585 |
| .. date: 8994 |
| .. nonce: DTIIoI |
| .. section: Build |
| |
| make patchcheck will ensure the interpreter is built. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 23583 |
| .. date: 8993 |
| .. nonce: bY8AbM |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Added tests for standard IO streams in IDLE. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22289 |
| .. date: 8992 |
| .. nonce: ybGcC- |
| .. section: Tests |
| |
| Prevent test_urllib2net failures due to ftp connection timeout. |
| |
| .. |
| |
| .. bpo: 22826 |
| .. date: 8991 |
| .. nonce: 3bcoDL |
| .. section: Tools/Demos |
| |
| The result of open() in Tools/freeze/bkfile.py is now better compatible with |
| regular files (in particular it now supports the context management |
| protocol). |