Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0rc1.rst

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.. release date: 2016-12-06
.. section: Core and Builtins

Rather than silently producing a class that doesn't support zero-argument
``super()`` in methods, failing to pass the new ``__classcell__`` namespace
entry up to ``type.__new__`` now results in a ``DeprecationWarning`` and a
class that supports zero-argument ``super()``.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Modifying the class __dict__ inside the __set_name__ method of a descriptor
that is used inside that class no longer prevents calling the __set_name__
method of other descriptors.

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.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a bug in the implementation ``yield from`` when checking if the next
instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE (issue #26647).

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.. section: Library

Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are allowed again.  But
they still are deprecated and will be disabled in 3.7.

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.. section: Library

Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings(): call
warnings.showwarning() if it was overridden inside the context manager.

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.. section: Library

To assist with upgrades from 2.7, the previously documented deprecation of
``inspect.getfullargspec()`` has been reversed. This decision may be
revisited again after the Python 2.7 branch is no longer officially
supported.

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.. section: Library

Add new :data:`socket.TCP_CONGESTION` (Linux 2.6.13) and
:data:`socket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT` (Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by
Omar Sandoval.

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.. section: Library

Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an invalid state.
Original patch by Florian Höch.

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.. section: Library

Fix asyncio C Task to handle exceptions __traceback__.

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.. section: C API

PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.

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.. section: Documentation

The data model reference and the porting section in the What's New guide now
cover the additional ``__classcell__`` handling needed for custom
metaclasses to fully support PEP 487 and zero-argument ``super()``.

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.. section: Tools/Demos

Fix python-gdb.py didn't support new dict implementation.