.. PEP-sized items next.
-
New Features
============
os
--
-* On Windows, :func:`os.urandom` uses ``BCryptGenRandom()`` instead of ``CryptGenRandom()``
- which is deprecated.
+* On Windows, :func:`os.urandom` now uses ``BCryptGenRandom()``,
+ instead of ``CryptGenRandom()`` which is deprecated.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`44611`.)
(Contributed by Aviv Palivoda, Daniel Shahaf, and Erlend E. Aasland in
:issue:`16379`.)
+time
+----
+
+* In Unix operating systems, :func:`time.sleep` now uses the
+ ``clock_nanosleep()`` function, if available, which allows to sleep for an
+ interval specified with nanosecond precision.
+ (Contributed by Livius and Victor Stinner in :issue:`21302`.)
+
Removed
=======
and :class:`fileinput.FileInput`, deprecated since Python 3.9.
(Contributed by Hugo van Kemenade in :issue:`45132`.)
+* The following deprecated functions and methods are removed in the :mod:`gettext`
+ module: :func:`~gettext.lgettext`, :func:`~gettext.ldgettext`,
+ :func:`~gettext.lngettext` and :func:`~gettext.ldngettext`.
+
+ Function :func:`~gettext.bind_textdomain_codeset`, methods
+ :meth:`~gettext.NullTranslations.output_charset` and
+ :meth:`~gettext.NullTranslations.set_output_charset`, and the *codeset*
+ parameter of functions :func:`~gettext.translation` and
+ :func:`~gettext.install` are also removed, since they are only used for
+ the ``l*gettext()`` functions.
+ (Contributed by Dong-hee Na and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`44235`.)
+
Optimizations
=============
It is untested and undocumented and also not used by webbrowser itself.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`42255`.)
+* The behavior of returning a value from a :class:`~unittest.TestCase` and
+ :class:`~unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase` test methods (other than the
+ default ``None`` value), is now deprecated.
+
Removed
=======
* Remove the deprecated ``split()`` method of :class:`_tkinter.TkappType`.
(Contributed by Erlend E. Aasland in :issue:`38371`.)
+
Porting to Python 3.11
======================
Use the new :c:type:`PyConfig` API of the :ref:`Python Initialization Configuration
<init-config>` instead (:pep:`587`).
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`44113`.)
-
-* The following deprecated functions and methods are removed in the :mod:`gettext`
- module: :func:`~gettext.lgettext`, :func:`~gettext.ldgettext`,
- :func:`~gettext.lngettext` and :func:`~gettext.ldngettext`.
-
- Function :func:`~gettext.bind_textdomain_codeset`, methods
- :meth:`~gettext.NullTranslations.output_charset` and
- :meth:`~gettext.NullTranslations.set_output_charset`, and the *codeset*
- parameter of functions :func:`~gettext.translation` and
- :func:`~gettext.install` are also removed, since they are only used for
- the ``l*gettext()`` functions.
- (Contributed by Dong-hee Na and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`44235`.)
-
-* The behavior of returning a value from a :class:`~unittest.TestCase` and
- :class:`~unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase` test methods (other than the default ``None``
- value), is now deprecated.