Library
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-- Issue #17192: Restore the patch for Issue #11729 and Issue #10309
- which were omitted in 3.2.4 when updating the bundled version of
- libffi used by ctypes.
++- Issue #1159051: Back out a fix for handling corrupted gzip files that
++ broke backwards compatibility.
++
++- Issue #17915: Fix interoperability of xml.sax with file objects returned by
++ codecs.open().
++
+- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile no more continues from where
+ it left off. Patch by Michael Birtwell.
+
+- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
+ or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
+ variable. Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
+
+- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
+ platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
+
+- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
+ interpreter shutdown.
+
+- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
+
+- Issue #15902: Fix imp.load_module() accepting None as a file when loading an
+ extension module.
+
+- Issue #17802: Fix an UnboundLocalError in html.parser. Initial tests by
+ Thomas Barlow.
- Issue #15535: Fix namedtuple pickles which were picking up the OrderedDict
instead of just the underlying tuple.
Tests
-----
+- Issue #17833: Fix test_gdb failures seen on machines where debug symbols
+ for glibc are available (seen on PPC64 Linux).
+
+- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
+ Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
+
+- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
+
+- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
+ than one million bytes.
+
+- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
+ test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
+
+- Issue #12820: add tests for the xml.dom.minicompat module.
+ Patch by John Chandler and Phil Connell.
+
+- Issue #17790: test_set now works with unittest test discovery.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17789: test_random now works with unittest test discovery.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17779: test_osx_env now works with unittest test discovery.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17766: test_iterlen now works with unittest test discovery.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17690: test_time now works with unittest test discovery.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17692: test_sqlite now works with unittest test discovery.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+ - Issue #17843: Removed bz2 test data file that was triggering false-positive
+ virus warnings with certain antivirus software.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
+
+- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
+ profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
+ 4.8.
+
-What's New in Python 3.2.4?
+What's New in Python 3.3.1?
===========================
*Release date: 07-Apr-2013*