#define PY_MAJOR_VERSION 3
#define PY_MINOR_VERSION 8
#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 7
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 1
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 0
/* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION "3.8.7rc1+"
+#define PY_VERSION "3.8.7"
/*--end constants--*/
/* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Dec 7 15:10:25 2020
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Dec 21 17:22:46 2020
topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
'**********************\n'
'\n'
'compatible\n'
'with an exception if it is the class or a base class of the '
'exception\n'
- 'object or a tuple containing an item compatible with the '
- 'exception.\n'
+ 'object, or a tuple containing an item that is the class or a '
+ 'base\n'
+ 'class of the exception object.\n'
'\n'
'If no except clause matches the exception, the search for an '
'exception\n'
' | | formats the result in either fixed-point '
'format or in |\n'
' | | scientific notation, depending on its '
- 'magnitude. The |\n'
- ' | | precise rules are as follows: suppose that '
- 'the result |\n'
+ 'magnitude. A |\n'
+ ' | | precision of "0" is treated as equivalent '
+ 'to a precision |\n'
+ ' | | of "1". The precise rules are as follows: '
+ 'suppose that |\n'
+ ' | | the result formatted with presentation '
+ 'type "\'e\'" and |\n'
+ ' | | precision "p-1" would have exponent '
+ '"exp". Then, if "m <= |\n'
+ ' | | exp < p", where "m" is -4 for floats and '
+ '-6 for |\n'
+ ' | | "Decimals", the number is formatted with '
+ 'presentation type |\n'
+ ' | | "\'f\'" and precision "p-1-exp". '
+ 'Otherwise, the number is |\n'
' | | formatted with presentation type "\'e\'" '
- 'and precision "p-1" |\n'
- ' | | would have exponent "exp". Then, if "m <= '
- 'exp < p", where |\n'
- ' | | "m" is -4 for floats and -6 for '
- '"Decimals", the number is |\n'
- ' | | formatted with presentation type "\'f\'" '
'and precision |\n'
- ' | | "p-1-exp". Otherwise, the number is '
- 'formatted with |\n'
- ' | | presentation type "\'e\'" and precision '
- '"p-1". In both cases |\n'
- ' | | insignificant trailing zeros are removed '
- 'from the |\n'
- ' | | significand, and the decimal point is also '
- 'removed if |\n'
- ' | | there are no remaining digits following '
- 'it, unless the |\n'
- ' | | "\'#\'" option is used. Positive and '
- 'negative infinity, |\n'
- ' | | positive and negative zero, and nans, are '
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- ' | | "inf", "-inf", "0", "-0" and "nan" '
- 'respectively, |\n'
- ' | | regardless of the precision. A precision '
- 'of "0" is |\n'
- ' | | treated as equivalent to a precision of '
- '"1". With no |\n'
- ' | | precision given, uses a precision of "6" '
- 'significant |\n'
- ' | | digits for "float", and shows all '
- 'coefficient digits for |\n'
- ' | | '
- '"Decimal". '
- '|\n'
+ ' | | "p-1". In both cases insignificant '
+ 'trailing zeros are |\n'
+ ' | | removed from the significand, and the '
+ 'decimal point is |\n'
+ ' | | also removed if there are no remaining '
+ 'digits following |\n'
+ ' | | it, unless the "\'#\'" option is used. '
+ 'With no precision |\n'
+ ' | | given, uses a precision of "6" significant '
+ 'digits for |\n'
+ ' | | "float". For "Decimal", the coefficient of '
+ 'the result is |\n'
+ ' | | formed from the coefficient digits of the '
+ 'value; |\n'
+ ' | | scientific notation is used for values '
+ 'smaller than "1e-6" |\n'
+ ' | | in absolute value and values where the '
+ 'place value of the |\n'
+ ' | | least significant digit is larger than 1, '
+ 'and fixed-point |\n'
+ ' | | notation is used otherwise. Positive and '
+ 'negative |\n'
+ ' | | infinity, positive and negative zero, and '
+ 'nans, are |\n'
+ ' | | formatted as "inf", "-inf", "0", "-0" and '
+ '"nan" |\n'
+ ' | | respectively, regardless of the '
+ 'precision. |\n'
' '
'+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
' | "\'G\'" | General format. Same as "\'g\'" except '
'percent sign. |\n'
' '
'+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
- ' | None | Similar to "\'g\'", except that '
- 'fixed-point notation, when |\n'
- ' | | used, has at least one digit past the '
- 'decimal point. The |\n'
- ' | | default precision is as high as needed to '
- 'represent the |\n'
- ' | | particular value. The overall effect is to '
- 'match the |\n'
- ' | | output of "str()" as altered by the other '
- 'format |\n'
- ' | | '
- 'modifiers. '
- '|\n'
+ ' | None | For "float" this is the same as "\'g\'", '
+ 'except that when |\n'
+ ' | | fixed-point notation is used to format the '
+ 'result, it |\n'
+ ' | | always includes at least one digit past '
+ 'the decimal point. |\n'
+ ' | | The precision used is as large as needed '
+ 'to represent the |\n'
+ ' | | given value faithfully. For "Decimal", '
+ 'this is the same |\n'
+ ' | | as either "\'g\'" or "\'G\'" depending on '
+ 'the value of |\n'
+ ' | | "context.capitals" for the current decimal '
+ 'context. The |\n'
+ ' | | overall effect is to match the output of '
+ '"str()" as |\n'
+ ' | | altered by the other format '
+ 'modifiers. |\n'
' '
'+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
'\n'
'object is “compatible” with the exception. An object is compatible\n'
'with an exception if it is the class or a base class of the '
'exception\n'
- 'object or a tuple containing an item compatible with the exception.\n'
+ 'object, or a tuple containing an item that is the class or a base\n'
+ 'class of the exception object.\n'
'\n'
'If no except clause matches the exception, the search for an '
'exception\n'
'representation\n'
' in computers.\n'
'\n'
- ' The string representations of the Numeric classes, computed by\n'
+ ' The string representations of the numeric classes, computed by\n'
' "__repr__()" and "__str__()", have the following properties:\n'
'\n'
' * They are valid numeric literals which, when passed to their '
--- /dev/null
+.. bpo: 32381
+.. date: 2020-12-04-17-17-44
+.. nonce: NY5t2S
+.. release date: 2020-12-21
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix encoding name when running a ``.pyc`` file on Windows:
+:c:func:`PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` now uses the correct encoding to decode
+the filename.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42536
+.. date: 2020-12-02-20-23-31
+.. nonce: Kx3ZOu
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Several built-in and standard library types now ensure that their internal
+result tuples are always tracked by the :term:`garbage collector <garbage
+collection>`:
+
+- :meth:`collections.OrderedDict.items() <collections.OrderedDict>`
+
+- :meth:`dict.items`
+
+- :func:`enumerate`
+
+- :func:`functools.reduce`
+
+- :func:`itertools.combinations`
+
+- :func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement`
+
+- :func:`itertools.permutations`
+
+- :func:`itertools.product`
+
+- :func:`itertools.zip_longest`
+
+- :func:`zip`
+
+Previously, they could have become untracked by a prior garbage collection.
+Patch by Brandt Bucher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42630
+.. date: 2020-12-15-17-51-27
+.. nonce: jf4jBl
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`tkinter` functions and constructors which need a default root window
+raise now :exc:`RuntimeError` with descriptive message instead of obscure
+:exc:`AttributeError` or :exc:`NameError` if it is not created yet or cannot
+be created automatically.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42644
+.. date: 2020-12-15-10-00-04
+.. nonce: XgLCNx
+.. section: Library
+
+`logging.disable` will now validate the types and value of its parameter. It
+also now accepts strings representing the levels (as does `loging.setLevel`)
+instead of only the numerical values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36541
+.. date: 2020-12-14-08-23-57
+.. nonce: qdEtZv
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed lib2to3.pgen2 to be able to parse PEP-570 positional only argument
+syntax.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42375
+.. date: 2020-11-19-04-13-53
+.. nonce: U8bp4s
+.. section: Library
+
+subprocess module update for DragonFlyBSD support.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39825
+.. date: 2020-10-20-08-28-26
+.. nonce: n6KnG0
+.. section: Library
+
+Windows: Change ``sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')`` to the expected
+full ``platform_tag.extension`` format. Previously it was hard-coded to
+``.pyd``, now it is compatible with ``distutils.sysconfig`` and will result
+in something like ``.cp38-win_amd64.pyd``. This brings windows into
+conformance with the other platforms.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39101
+.. date: 2020-10-11-21-43-03
+.. nonce: -I49Pm
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed tests using IsolatedAsyncioTestCase from hanging on BaseExceptions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41907
+.. date: 2020-10-02-10-19-49
+.. nonce: wiIEsz
+.. section: Library
+
+fix `format()` behavior for `IntFlag`
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41889
+.. date: 2020-10-01-16-17-11
+.. nonce: qLkNh8
+.. section: Library
+
+Enum: fix regression involving inheriting a multiply-inherited enum
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41891
+.. date: 2020-09-30-13-35-29
+.. nonce: pNAeYI
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure asyncio.wait_for waits for task completion
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40219
+.. date: 2020-07-13-19-43-11
+.. nonce: MUoJEP
+.. section: Library
+
+Lowered :class:`tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale` dummy widget to prevent hiding
+part of the content label.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40084
+.. date: 2020-03-29-21-32-00
+.. nonce: MCYwcv
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``Enum.__dir__``: dir(Enum.member) now includes attributes as well as
+methods.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17140
+.. date: 2020-12-16-21-06-16
+.. nonce: 1leSEg
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add documentation for the :class:`multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool` class.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42604
+.. date: 2020-12-20-02-35-28
+.. nonce: gRd89w
+.. section: Build
+
+Now all platforms use a value for the "EXT_SUFFIX" build variable derived
+from SOABI (for instance in freeBSD, "EXT_SUFFIX" is now ".cpython-310d.so"
+instead of ".so"). Previosuly only Linux, Mac and VxWorks were using a value
+for "EXT_SUFFIX" that included "SOABI".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42598
+.. date: 2020-12-13-14-43-10
+.. nonce: 7ipr5H
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix implicit function declarations in configure which could have resulted in
+incorrect configuration checks. Patch contributed by Joshua Root.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42613
+.. date: 2020-12-16-09-10-32
+.. nonce: J-jnm5
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Fix ``freeze.py`` tool to use the prope config and library directories.
+Patch by Victor Stinner.
+++ /dev/null
-Fix implicit function declarations in configure which could have resulted in
-incorrect configuration checks. Patch contributed by Joshua Root.
+++ /dev/null
-Now all platforms use a value for the "EXT_SUFFIX" build variable derived
-from SOABI (for instance in freeBSD, "EXT_SUFFIX" is now ".cpython-310d.so"
-instead of ".so"). Previosuly only Linux, Mac and VxWorks were using a value
-for "EXT_SUFFIX" that included "SOABI".
+++ /dev/null
-Several built-in and standard library types now ensure that their internal
-result tuples are always tracked by the :term:`garbage collector
-<garbage collection>`:
-
-- :meth:`collections.OrderedDict.items() <collections.OrderedDict>`
-
-- :meth:`dict.items`
-
-- :func:`enumerate`
-
-- :func:`functools.reduce`
-
-- :func:`itertools.combinations`
-
-- :func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement`
-
-- :func:`itertools.permutations`
-
-- :func:`itertools.product`
-
-- :func:`itertools.zip_longest`
-
-- :func:`zip`
-
-Previously, they could have become untracked by a prior garbage collection.
-Patch by Brandt Bucher.
+++ /dev/null
-Fix encoding name when running a ``.pyc`` file on Windows:
-:c:func:`PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` now uses the correct encoding to decode
-the filename.
+++ /dev/null
-Add documentation for the :class:`multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool` class.
+++ /dev/null
-Fix ``Enum.__dir__``: dir(Enum.member) now includes attributes as well as methods.
+++ /dev/null
-Lowered :class:`tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale` dummy widget to prevent hiding part of the content label.
+++ /dev/null
-Ensure asyncio.wait_for waits for task completion
+++ /dev/null
-Enum: fix regression involving inheriting a multiply-inherited enum
+++ /dev/null
-fix `format()` behavior for `IntFlag`
+++ /dev/null
-Fixed tests using IsolatedAsyncioTestCase from hanging on BaseExceptions.
\ No newline at end of file
+++ /dev/null
-Windows: Change ``sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')`` to the expected
-full ``platform_tag.extension`` format. Previously it was hard-coded to
-``.pyd``, now it is compatible with ``distutils.sysconfig`` and will result
-in something like ``.cp38-win_amd64.pyd``. This brings windows into
-conformance with the other platforms.
+++ /dev/null
-subprocess module update for DragonFlyBSD support.
\ No newline at end of file
+++ /dev/null
-Fixed lib2to3.pgen2 to be able to parse PEP-570 positional only argument
-syntax.
+++ /dev/null
-`logging.disable` will now validate the types and value of its parameter. It
-also now accepts strings representing the levels (as does `loging.setLevel`)
-instead of only the numerical values.
+++ /dev/null
-:mod:`tkinter` functions and constructors which need a default root window
-raise now :exc:`RuntimeError` with descriptive message instead of obscure
-:exc:`AttributeError` or :exc:`NameError` if it is not created yet or cannot
-be created automatically.
+++ /dev/null
-Fix ``freeze.py`` tool to use the prope config and library directories.
-Patch by Victor Stinner.
-This is Python version 3.8.7rc1
-===============================
+This is Python version 3.8.7
+============================
.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.8
:alt: CPython build status on Travis CI