From: Zachary Ware Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:03:10 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Issue #18326: merge with 3.3 X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0b1~102^2^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e19e3f0b91c9186e9266e8d7ad543ff858aaf336;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue #18326: merge with 3.3 --- e19e3f0b91c9186e9266e8d7ad543ff858aaf336 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index 27c31df75d8f,2a8057ad8018..87823a2fda66 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -324,385 -249,374 +324,392 @@@ Librar limiting the call to readline(). Original patch by Michał Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola. -- Issue #18235: Fix the sysconfig variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED under AIX. - Patch by David Edelsohn. +- Issue #17087: Improved the repr for regular expression match objects. -- Issue #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms. +Tests +----- -- Issue #18776: atexit callbacks now display their full traceback when they - raise an exception. +- Issue #19664: test_userdict's repr test no longer depends on the order + of dict elements. -- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and - ``codecs.decode``. +- Issue #19440: Clean up test_capi by removing an unnecessary __future__ + import, converting from test_main to unittest.main, and running the + _testcapi module tests as subTests of a unittest TestCase method. -- Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline - emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline. - Original patch by Ronald Oussoren. +- Issue #19378: the main dis module tests are now run with both stdout + redirection *and* passing an explicit file parameter -- Issue #18919: If the close() method of a writer in the sunau or wave module - failed, second invocation of close() and destructor no more raise an - exception. +- Issue #19378: removed the not-actually-helpful assertInstructionMatches + and assertBytecodeExactlyMatches helpers from bytecode_helper -- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of - compressed streams. +- Issue #18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped. -- Issue #19158: a rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too - often. +- Issue #19439: interpreter embedding tests are now executed on Windows + (Patch by Zachary Ware) -- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes '\u' and '\U' in native strings. +- Issue #19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options. -- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats instances of set and - frozenset subclasses. +- Issue 19384: Fix test_py_compile for root user, patch by Claudiu Popa. -- Issue #19092: contextlib.ExitStack now correctly reraises exceptions - from the __exit__ callbacks of inner context managers (Patch by Hrvoje - Nikšić) ++Documentation ++------------- + -- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except - when necessary. Patch by Oscar Benjamin. ++- Issue #18326: Clarify that list.sort's arguments are keyword-only. Also, ++ attempt to reduce confusion in the glossary by not saying there are ++ different "types" of arguments and parameters. + -- Issue #18594: The fast path for collections.Counter() was never taken - due to an over-restrictive type check. And the fallback path did - not implement the same algorithm as the pure python code. +Build +----- -- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation. +- Update SQLite to 3.8.1 and xz to 5.0.5 on Windows. -- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared - is used. +- Issue #16632: Enable DEP and ASLR on Windows. -- Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module. - Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct - number of frames from multichannel stream. Au_write.writeframesraw() now - correctly updates current file position. Au_read.getnframes() now returns an - integer (as in Python 2). Au_read and Au_write now correctly works with file - object if start file position is not a zero. +- Issue #17791: Drop PREFIX and EXEC_PREFIX definitions from PC/pyconfig.h -- Issue #19053: ZipExtFile.read1() with non-zero argument no more returns empty - bytes until end of data. +- Add workaround for VS 2010 nmake clean issue. VS 2010 doesn't set up PATH + for nmake.exe correctly. -- Issue #19028: Fixed tkinter.Tkapp.merge() for non-string arguments. +- Issue #19550: Implement Windows installer changes of PEP 453 (ensurepip). -- Issue #3015: Fixed tkinter with wantobject=False. Any Tcl command call - returned empty string. +- Issue #19520: Fix compiler warning in the _sha3 module on 32bit Windows. -- Issue #18050: Fixed an incompatibility of the re module with Python 3.3.0 - binaries. +- Issue #19356: Avoid using a C variabled named "_self", it's a reserved + word in some C compilers. -- Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files - before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs - that may be accessing the maildir directory. +- Issue #15792: Correct build options on Win64. Patch by Jeremy Kloth. -- Issue #14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename - argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now - enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file must - be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable by any - other user. +- Issue #19373: Apply upstream change to Tk 8.5.15 fixing OS X 10.9 + screen refresh problem for OS X installer build. -- Issue #18873: The tokenize module now detects Python source code encoding - only in comment lines. +- Issue #19649: On OS X, the same set of file names are now installed + in bin directories for all configurations: non-framework vs framework, + and single arch vs universal builds. pythonx.y-32 is now always + installed for 64-bit/32-bit universal builds. The obsolete and + undocumented pythonw* symlinks are no longer installed anywhere. -- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch - contributed by Vajrasky Kok. +- Issue #19553: PEP 453 - "make install" and "make altinstall" now install or + upgrade pip by default, using the bundled pip provided by the new ensurepip + module. A new configure option, --with-ensurepip[=upgrade|install|no], is + available to override the default ensurepip "--upgrade" option. The option + can also be set with "make [alt]install ENSUREPIP=[upgrade|install\no]". -- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError - in the underlying iterables. +Tools/Demos +----------- -- Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL, - if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid. - Patch by Evgeny Sologubov. +- Issue #19552: pyvenv now bootstraps pip into virtual environments by + default (pass --without-pip to request the old behaviour) -- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in - the _sre module. +- Issue #19390: Argument Clinic no longer accepts malformed Python + and C ids. -- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no more produces duplicated entries even - when input list contains duplicates. +What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 4? +=================================== -- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast - 64-bit pointer to long (32 bits). +Release date: 2013-10-20 -- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode - under which the file was opened. Patch by Erik Bray. +Core and Builtins +----------------- -- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones. - Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. +- Issue #19301: Give classes and functions that are explicitly marked global a + global qualname. -- Issue #16611: http.cookie now correctly parses the 'secure' and 'httponly' - cookie flags. +- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no longer produces illegal strings. -- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now - properly handled as unsigned. +- Issue #16612: Add "Argument Clinic", a compile-time preprocessor for + C files to generate argument parsing code. (See PEP 436.) -- Issue #17702: On error, os.environb now removes suppress the except context - when raising a new KeyError with the original key. +- Issue #18810: Shift stat calls in importlib.machinery.FileFinder such that + the code is optimistic that if something exists in a directory named exactly + like the possible package being searched for that it's in actuality a + directory. -- Issue #18755: Fixed the loader used in imp to allow get_data() to be called - multiple times. +- Issue #18416: importlib.machinery.PathFinder now treats '' as the cwd and + importlib.machinery.FileFinder no longer special-cases '' to '.'. This leads + to modules imported from cwd to now possess an absolute file path for + __file__ (this does not affect modules specified by path on the CLI but it + does affect -m/runpy). It also allows FileFinder to be more consistent by not + having an edge case. -- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6. +- Issue #4555: All exported C symbols are now prefixed with either + "Py" or "_Py". -- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj - argument. +- Issue #19219: Speed up marshal.loads(), and make pyc files slightly + (5% to 10%) smaller. -- Issue #18324: set_payload now correctly handles binary input. This also - supersedes the previous fixes for #14360, #1717, and #16564. +- Issue #19221: Upgrade Unicode database to version 6.3.0. -- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large strings and tuples - in the tkinter module. +- Issue #16742: The result of the C callback PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer must + now be a string allocated by PyMem_RawMalloc() or PyMem_RawRealloc() (or NULL + if an error occurred), instead of a string allocated by PyMem_Malloc() or + PyMem_Realloc(). -- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork. - A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time - and some stack data. +- Issue #19199: Remove ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field -- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a - RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert. +- Fix macro expansion of _PyErr_OCCURRED(), and make sure to use it in at + least one place so as to avoid regressions. -- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit - platforms. Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari. +- Issue #19087: Improve bytearray allocation in order to allow cheap popping + of data at the front (slice deletion). -- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of - OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function. +- Issue #19014: memoryview.cast() is now allowed on zero-length views. -- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok. +- Issue #18690: memoryview is now automatically registered with + collections.abc.Sequence -- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke - malloc weak symbols. +- Issue #19078: memoryview now correctly supports the reversed builtin + (Patch by Claudiu Popa) -- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes - inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's - GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1 - strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and - ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI). +Library +------- -- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure - is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example, - exhausting the file descriptor limit). +- Issue #18235: Fix the sysconfig variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED under AIX. + Patch by David Edelsohn. -- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt(). +- Issue #18606: Add the new "statistics" module (PEP 450). Contributed + by Steven D'Aprano. -- Issue #19151: Fix docstring and use of _get_supported_file_loaders() to - reflect 2-tuples. +- Issue #12866: The audioop module now supports 24-bit samples. -- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get - docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo +- Issue #19254: Provide an optimized Python implementation of pbkdf2_hmac. -- Issue #18681: Fix a NameError in imp.reload() (noticed by Weizhao Li). +- Issues #19201, #19222, #19223: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation) in opening + file to bz2, gzip and lzma modules. Patches by Tim Heaney and Vajrasky Kok. -- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error - if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations. +- Fix a reference count leak in _sre. -- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine. +- Issue #19262: Initial check in of the 'asyncio' package (a.k.a. Tulip, + a.k.a. PEP 3156). There are no docs yet, and the PEP is slightly + out of date with the code. This module will have *provisional* status + in Python 3.4. -- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of - getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8. Original patch by Mateusz Lenik. +- Issue #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms. -- Issue #18599: Fix name attribute of _sha1.sha1() object. It now returns - 'SHA1' instead of 'SHA'. +- Issue #19266: Rename the new-in-3.4 ``contextlib.ignore`` context manager + to ``contextlib.suppress`` in order to be more consistent with existing + descriptions of that operation elsewhere in the language and standard + library documentation (Patch by Zero Piraeus). -- Issue #18561: Skip name in ctypes' _build_callargs() if name is NULL. +- Issue #18891: Completed the new email package (provisional) API additions + by adding new classes EmailMessage, MIMEPart, and ContentManager. -- Issue #18559: Fix NULL pointer dereference error in _pickle module +- Issue #18281: Unused stat constants removed from `tarfile`. -- Issue #18556: Check the return value of a PyUnicode_AsWideChar() call in - ctypes' U_set(). +- Issue #18468: The re.split, re.findall, and re.sub functions and the group() + and groups() methods of match object now always return a string or a bytes + object. -- Issue #18549: Eliminate dead code in socket_ntohl() +- Issue #18725: The textwrap module now supports truncating multiline text. -- Issue #18514: Fix unreachable Py_DECREF() call in PyCData_FromBaseObj() +- Issue #18776: atexit callbacks now display their full traceback when they + raise an exception. -- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 + - gcc. +- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and + ``codecs.decode``. -- Issue #18480: Add missing call to PyType_Ready to the _elementtree extension. +- Issue #19218: Rename collections.abc to _collections_abc in order to + speed up interpreter start. -- Issue #17778: Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing. (Patch by - Zachary Ware.) +- Issue #18582: Add 'pbkdf2_hmac' to the hashlib module. It implements PKCS#5 + password-based key derivation functions with HMAC as pseudorandom function. -- Issue #18431: The new email header parser now decodes RFC2047 encoded words - in structured headers. +- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of + compressed streams. -- Issue #18432: The sched module's queue method was incorrectly returning - an iterator instead of a list. +- Issue #19209: Remove import of copyreg from the os module to speed up + interpreter startup. stat_result and statvfs_result are now hard-coded to + reside in the os module. -- Issue #18044: The new email header parser was mis-parsing encoded words where - an encoded character immediately followed the '?' that follows the CTE - character, resulting in a decoding failure. They are now decoded correctly. +- Issue #19205: Don't import the 're' module in site and sysconfig module to + to speed up interpreter start. -- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process strings nested in a tuple as it - do with byte strings. +- Issue #9548: Add a minimal "_bootlocale" module that is imported by the + _io module instead of the full locale module. -- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module. Patch by Valentina - Mukhamedzhanova. +- Issue #18764: remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no + longer shadows the print function. -- Issue #18013: Fix cgi.FieldStorage to parse the W3C sample form. +- Issue #19158: a rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too + often. -- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of - closing tags. +- Issue #15805: Add contextlib.redirect_stdout(). -- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address. +- Issue #18716: Deprecate the formatter module. -- Issue #18343: faulthandler.register() now keeps the previous signal handler - when the function is called twice, so faulthandler.unregister() restores - correctly the original signal handler. +- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes '\u' and '\U' in native strings. -- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR. +- Issue #17839: base64.decodebytes and base64.encodebytes now accept any + object that exports a 1 dimensional array of bytes (this means the same + is now also true for base64_codec) -- Issue #18339: Negative ints keys in unpickler.memo dict no longer cause a - segfault inside the _pickle C extension. +- Issue #19132: The pprint module now supports compact mode. -- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems - on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ... +- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats instances of set and + frozenset subclasses. -- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use - a delimter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of - throwing an exception. +- Issue #10042: functools.total_ordering now correctly handles + NotImplemented being returned by the underlying comparison function (Patch + by Katie Miller) -- Issue #14360: encode_quopri can now be successfully used as an encoder - when constructing a MIMEApplication object. +- Issue #19092: contextlib.ExitStack now correctly reraises exceptions + from the __exit__ callbacks of inner context managers (Patch by Hrvoje + Nikšić) -- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input - string in longer than 2 gigabytes, and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain() - raises a ValueError if the password is longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl - module does not support partial write. +- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except + when necessary. Patch by Oscar Benjamin. -- Issue #18248: Fix libffi build on AIX. +- Issue #5845: In site.py, only load readline history from ~/.python_history + if no history has been read already. This avoids double writes to the + history file at shutdown. -- Issue #18259: Declare sethostname in socketmodule.c for AIX +- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation. -- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data - when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines. +- Issue #19095: SSLSocket.getpeercert() now raises ValueError when the + SSL handshake hasn't been done. -- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the - subprocess exec runs into an error. Prevent a regular multi-close of the - /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL. +- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared + is used. -- Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3. +- Issue #19030: Fixed `inspect.getmembers` and `inspect.classify_class_attrs` + to attempt activating descriptors before falling back to a __dict__ search + for faulty descriptors. `inspect.classify_class_attrs` no longer returns + Attributes whose home class is None. -- Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and - socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding, - instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode. +C API +----- -- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to - ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative - manner. +- Issue #1772673: The type of `char*` arguments now changed to `const char*`. -- Issue #18025: Fixed a segfault in io.BufferedIOBase.readinto() when raw - stream's read() returns more bytes than requested. +- Issue #16129: Added a `Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API + to allow embedding applications like Blender to force a particular + encoding and error handler for the standard IO streams (initial patch by + Bastien Montagne) -- Issue #18011: base64.b32decode() now raises a binascii.Error if there are - non-alphabet characters present in the input string to conform a docstring. - Updated the module documentation. +Tests +----- -- Issue #13772: Restored directory detection of targets in ``os.symlink`` on - Windows, which was temporarily removed in Python 3.2.3 due to an incomplete - implementation. The implementation now works even if the symlink is created - in a location other than the current directory. +- Issue #19275: Fix test_site on AMD64 Snow Leopard -- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly parses a string input not only when - an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII. +- Issue #14407: Fix unittest test discovery in test_concurrent_futures. -- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode(). +- Issue #18919: Unified and extended tests for audio modules: aifc, sunau and + wave. -- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of - service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099). +- Issue #18714: Added tests for ``pdb.find_function()``. -- Issue #17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler. +Documentation +------------- -- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module. +- Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references. -- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale. +- Issue #18972: Modernize email examples and use the argparse module in them. -- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr(). +Build +----- -- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X - with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV. +- Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010. -- Issue #18698: Ensure imp.reload() returns the module out of sys.modules. +- Issue #15663: Update OS X 10.6+ installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.15. -- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler - is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as - the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden. This restores - Distutils behavior introduced in 3.2.3 and inadvertently dropped in 3.3.0. +- Issue #14499: Fix several problems with OS X universal build support: + 1. ppc arch detection for extension module builds broke with Xcode 5 + 2. ppc arch detection in configure did not work on OS X 10.4 + 3. -sysroot and -arch flags were unnecessarily duplicated + 4. there was no obvious way to configure an intel-32 only build. -- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's - set_userptr() method. Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto. +- Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead + of OPT for special build options. By setting OPT, some compiler-specific + options like -fwrapv were overridden and thus not used, which could result + in broken interpreters when building with clang. -- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an - existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of - retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina. +What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3? +=================================== -- Issue #19400: Prevent extension module build failures with Xcode 5 on OS X - 10.8+ when using a universal Python that included a PPC architecture, - such as with a python.org 32-bit-only binary installer. +Release date: 2013-09-29 -C API ------ +Core and Builtins +----------------- -- Issue #18351: Fix various issues with a helper function in importlib used - by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() (and thus by extension - PyImport_ExecCodeModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx()). +- Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional. -IDLE ----- +- Issue #19098: Prevent overflow in the compiler when the recursion limit is set + absurdly high. -- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment - lines. +Library +------- -- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted. +- Issue #18929: `inspect.classify_class_attrs()` now correctly finds class + attributes returned by `dir()` that are located in the metaclass. -- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster. +- Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module. + Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct + number of frames from multichannel stream. Au_write.writeframesraw() now + correctly updates current file position. Au_read.getnframes() now returns an + integer (as in Python 2). Au_read and Au_write now correctly works with file + object if start file position is not a zero. -- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks - are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection - only includes complete lines. +- Issue #18594: The fast path for collections.Counter() was never taken + due to an over-restrictive type check. -- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py. - Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster. +- Issue #19053: ZipExtFile.read1() with non-zero argument no more returns empty + bytes until end of data. -- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as - changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a - test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal). +- logging: added support for Unix domain sockets to SocketHandler and + DatagramHandler. -- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File". - Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito. +- Issue #18996: TestCase.assertEqual() now more cleverly shorten differing + strings in error report. -- Remove dead imports of imp. +- Issue #19034: repr() for tkinter.Tcl_Obj now exposes string reperesentation. -- Issue #18196: Avoid displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks. +- Issue #18978: ``urllib.request.Request`` now allows the method to be + indicated on the class and no longer sets it to None in ``__init__``. -- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition. +- Issue #18626: the inspect module now offers a basic command line + introspection interface (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa) -- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next". - Original patch by Sarah K. +- Issue #3015: Fixed tkinter with wantobject=False. Any Tcl command call + returned empty string. -- Issue #18055: Move IDLE off of imp and on to importlib. +- Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files + before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs + that may be accessing the maildir directory. -- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE. - Initial patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan. - See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests. +- Issue #14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename + argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now + enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file must + be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable by any + other user. -- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows. +- Issue #18873: The tokenize module now detects Python source code encoding + only in comment lines. -- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X. - Patch by Guilherme Simões. +- Issue #17764: Enable http.server to bind to a user specified network + interface. Patch contributed by Malte Swart. -Tests ------ +- Issue #18937: Add an assertLogs() context manager to unittest.TestCase + to ensure that a block of code emits a message using the logging module. -- Issue #14407: Fix unittest test discovery in test_concurrent_futures. +- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch + contributed by Vajrasky Kok. -- Issue #18919: Unified and extended tests for audio modules: aifc, sunau and - wave. +- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError + in the underlying iterables. + +- Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL, + if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid. + Patch by Evgeny Sologubov. + +- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the + faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other + variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`. + +- Issue #1565525: New function ``traceback.clear_frames`` will clear + the local variables of all the stack frames referenced by a traceback + object. + +Tests +----- - Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary