Fix sorting or wording of some NEWS entries.
I would have put io and ctypes fixes into Extension Modules, but I
respected the choice of Antoine or Victor and left them in Library.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 662eedc..150b5f3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
+ Andreas Stührk.
+
+- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
+ embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
+
- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
compiling them.
@@ -26,8 +32,6 @@
deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
-- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
-
- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
generator.
@@ -37,11 +41,6 @@
Library
-------
-- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
- with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
-
-- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
-
- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
@@ -51,12 +50,10 @@
a read1() method), and add an undocumented *write_through* parameter to
mandate unbuffered writes.
+- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
+
- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
-- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
-
-- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
-
- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
Linux 3.0.
@@ -67,16 +64,10 @@
- Close the call queue in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor when
shutdown() is called, without waiting for the garbage collector to kick in.
-- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
- Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
- embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
-
- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
-- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
- the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
+- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures with an endianness
+ different than that of the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
@@ -85,15 +76,15 @@
if the process has only one pipe.
- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
- Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
- of the script).
+ Python modules using a encoding different than UTF-8 (reading the coding
+ cookie of the module).
-- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
+- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
-- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
+- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
- than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
+ than UTF-8 (modules using the coding cookie).
- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
@@ -108,6 +99,16 @@
C-API
-----
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
+
+- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
+
+- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
+
+
Tests
-----
@@ -227,9 +228,6 @@
greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
was built.
-- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
- Kitada.
-
- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
variables, start with an empty environment.
@@ -296,6 +294,9 @@
Extension Modules
-----------------
+- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
+ Kitada.
+
- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
Build