bpo-19610: setup() now raises TypeError for invalid types (GH-4519)
The Distribution class now explicitly raises an
exception when 'classifiers', 'keywords' and
'platforms' fields are not specified as a list.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 71e8358..514c3c2 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -298,6 +298,12 @@
therefore included in source distributions.
(Contributed by Ryan Gonzalez in :issue:`11913`.)
+:class:`distutils.core.setup` now raises a :exc:`TypeError` if
+``classifiers``, ``keywords`` and ``platforms`` fields are not specified
+as a list. However, to minimize backwards incompatibility concerns,
+``keywords`` and ``platforms`` fields still accept a comma separated string.
+(Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`19610`.)
+
http.client
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