Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0b3.rst

.. bpo: 44409
.. date: 2021-06-13-23-12-18
.. nonce: eW4LS-
.. release date: 2021-06-17
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix error location information for tokenizer errors raised on initialization
of the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 44396
.. date: 2021-06-11-18-17-42
.. nonce: Z9EKim
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a possible crash in the tokenizer when raising syntax errors for
unclosed strings. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 44349
.. date: 2021-06-08-22-49-06
.. nonce: xgEgeA
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix an edge case when displaying text from files with encoding in syntax
errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 44335
.. date: 2021-06-08-01-13-47
.. nonce: GQTTkl
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a regression when identifying incorrect characters in syntax errors.
Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 44304
.. date: 2021-06-05-02-34-57
.. nonce: _MAoPc
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a crash in the :mod:`sqlite3` module that happened when the garbage
collector clears :class:`sqlite.Statement` objects. Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 44305
.. date: 2021-06-03-22-51-50
.. nonce: 66dVDG
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve error message for ``try`` blocks without ``except`` or ``finally``
blocks. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 43833
.. date: 2021-04-18-18-07-33
.. nonce: oChkCi
.. section: Core and Builtins

Emit a deprecation warning if the numeric literal is immediately followed by
one of keywords: and, else, for, if, in, is, or. Raise a syntax error with
more informative message if it is immediately followed by other keyword or
identifier.

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.. bpo: 11105
.. date: 2020-06-02-13-21-14
.. nonce: wceryW
.. section: Core and Builtins

When compiling :class:`ast.AST` objects with recursive references through
:func:`compile`, the interpreter doesn't crash anymore instead it raises a
:exc:`RecursionError`.

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.. bpo: 42972
.. date: 2021-06-15-13-51-25
.. nonce: UnyYo1
.. section: Library

The _thread.RLock type now fully implement the GC protocol: add a traverse
function and the :const:`Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC` flag. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44422
.. date: 2021-06-14-23-28-17
.. nonce: BlWOgv
.. section: Library

The :func:`threading.enumerate` function now uses a reentrant lock to
prevent a hang on reentrant call. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44389
.. date: 2021-06-12-22-58-20
.. nonce: WTRnoC
.. section: Library

Fix deprecation of :data:`ssl.OP_NO_TLSv1_3`

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.. bpo: 44362
.. date: 2021-06-10-20-07-32
.. nonce: oVOMfd
.. section: Library

Improve :mod:`ssl` module's deprecation messages, error reporting, and
documentation for deprecations.

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.. bpo: 44342
.. date: 2021-06-10-15-06-47
.. nonce: qqkGlj
.. section: Library

[Enum] Change pickling from by-value to by-name.

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.. bpo: 44356
.. date: 2021-06-10-08-35-38
.. nonce: 6oDFhO
.. section: Library

[Enum] Allow multiple data-type mixins if they are all the same.

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.. bpo: 44351
.. date: 2021-06-10-07-26-12
.. nonce: rvyf2v
.. section: Library

Restore back :func:`parse_makefile` in :mod:`distutils.sysconfig` because it
behaves differently than the similar implementation in :mod:`sysconfig`.

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.. bpo: 44242
.. date: 2021-06-07-10-26-14
.. nonce: MKeMCQ
.. section: Library

Remove missing flag check from Enum creation and move into a ``verify``
decorator.

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.. bpo: 44246
.. date: 2021-05-31-11-34-56
.. nonce: yHAkF0
.. section: Library

In ``importlib.metadata``, restore compatibility in the result from
``Distribution.entry_points`` (``EntryPoints``) to honor expectations in
older implementations and issuing deprecation warnings for these cases: A.
``EntryPoints`` objects are once again mutable, allowing   for ``sort()``
and other list-based mutation operations.   Avoid deprecation warnings by
casting to a   mutable sequence (e.g.   ``list(dist.entry_points).sort()``).
B. ``EntryPoints`` results once again allow   for access by index. To avoid
deprecation warnings,   cast the result to a Sequence first   (e.g.
``tuple(dist.entry_points)[0]``).

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.. bpo: 44246
.. date: 2021-05-31-11-28-03
.. nonce: nhmt-v
.. section: Library

In importlib.metadata.entry_points, de-duplication of distributions no
longer requires loading the full metadata for PathDistribution objects,
improving entry point loading performance by ~10x.

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.. bpo: 43853
.. date: 2021-04-15-12-02-17
.. nonce: XXCVAp
.. section: Library

Improved string handling for :mod:`sqlite3` user-defined functions and
aggregates:

* It is now possible to pass strings with embedded null characters to UDFs
* Conversion failures now correctly raise :exc:`MemoryError`

Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

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.. bpo: 43318
.. date: 2021-02-25-08-32-06
.. nonce: bZJw6V
.. section: Library

Fix a bug where :mod:`pdb` does not always echo cleared breakpoints.

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.. bpo: 37022
.. date: 2020-01-25-12-58-20
.. nonce: FUZI25
.. section: Library

:mod:`pdb` now displays exceptions from ``repr()`` with its ``p`` and ``pp``
commands.

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.. bpo: 44392
.. date: 2021-06-16-18-09-49
.. nonce: 6RF1Sc
.. section: Documentation

Added a new section in the C API documentation for types used in type
hinting.  Documented ``Py_GenericAlias`` and ``Py_GenericAliasType``.

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.. bpo: 38291
.. date: 2021-06-14-09-20-37
.. nonce: VMYa_Q
.. section: Documentation

Mark ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re`` as deprecated since Python 3.8 in the
documentation. They were never properly supported by type checkers.

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.. bpo: 44322
.. date: 2021-06-06-14-12-00
.. nonce: K0PHfE
.. section: Documentation

Document that SyntaxError args have a details tuple and that details are
adjusted for errors in f-string field replacement expressions.

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.. bpo: 44363
.. date: 2021-06-10-11-19-43
.. nonce: -K9jD0
.. section: Tests

Account for address sanitizer in test_capi. test_capi now passes when run
GCC address sanitizer.

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.. bpo: 43921
.. date: 2021-06-03-03-29-34
.. nonce: nwH1FS
.. section: Tests

Fix test_ssl.test_wrong_cert_tls13(): use ``suppress_ragged_eofs=False``,
since ``read()`` can raise :exc:`ssl.SSLEOFError` on Windows. Patch by
Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 43921
.. date: 2021-06-02-17-41-42
.. nonce: xP7yZ4
.. section: Tests

Fix test_pha_required_nocert() of test_ssl: catch two more EOF cases (when
the ``recv()`` method returns an empty string). Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44381
.. date: 2021-06-10-18-08-44
.. nonce: Xpc1iX
.. section: Build

The Windows build now accepts :envvar:`EnableControlFlowGuard` set to
``guard`` to enable CFG.

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.. bpo: 40128
.. date: 2021-06-11-17-43-39
.. nonce: 7vDN3U
.. section: IDLE

Mostly fix completions on macOS when not using tcl/tk 8.6.11 (as with 3.9).
The added update_idletask call should be harmless and possibly helpful
otherwise.

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.. bpo: 33962
.. date: 2021-06-10-00-50-02
.. nonce: ikAUNg
.. section: IDLE

Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to the new Windows tab.
Patch by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy.

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.. bpo: 40468
.. date: 2021-06-08-03-04-51
.. nonce: tUCGUb
.. section: IDLE

Split the settings dialog General tab into Windows and Shell/ED tabs. Move
help sources, which extend the Help menu, to the Extensions tab. Make space
for new options and shorten the dialog. The latter makes the dialog better
fit small screens.

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.. bpo: 43795
.. date: 2021-06-15-16-28-18
.. nonce: fy0AXK
.. section: C API

The list in :ref:`stable-abi-list` now shows the public name
:c:struct:`PyFrameObject` rather than ``_frame``. The non-existing entry
``_node`` no longer appears in the list.

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.. bpo: 44378
.. date: 2021-06-10-15-22-31
.. nonce: jGYakF
.. section: C API

:c:func:`Py_IS_TYPE` no longer uses :c:func:`Py_TYPE` to avoid a compiler
warning: no longer cast ``const PyObject*`` to ``PyObject*``. Patch by
Victor Stinner.