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Python History
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This file contains the release messages for previous Python releases.
As you read on you go back to the dark ages of Python's history.
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What's New in Python 3.4.6?
===========================
Release date: 2017-01-17
There were no changes between 3.4.6rc1 and 3.4.6 final.
What's New in Python 3.4.6rc1?
==============================
Release date: 2017-01-02
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X
when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
- Issue #28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug
build.
Library
-------
- Issue #28563: Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when handle
plural form selections in the gettext module. The expression parser now
supports exact syntax supported by GNU gettext.
- In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or window.instr() is
passed a negative value.
- Issue #27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in operator.methodcaller.
- Issue #27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.
- Issue #27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.
- Issue #27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large record
lengths.
- Issue #27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the
HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates
that the script is in CGI mode.
- Issue #27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors.
Patch by Mark Williams.
Build
-----
- Issue #28248: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
Tests
-----
- Issue #27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that
changed in Expat 2.2.0.
What's New in Python 3.4.5?
===========================
Release date: 2016-06-26
Tests
-----
- Issue #26867: Ubuntu's openssl OP_NO_SSLv3 is forced on by default; fix test.
What's New in Python 3.4.5rc1?
==============================
Release date: 2016-06-11
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary
views and tuples.
- Issue #26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in
zipimporter.get_data().
Library
-------
- Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
- Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smptlib, CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team
Oststrom
- Issue #25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in ssl.enum_certificates.
- Issue #26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ** pattern in
pathlib.Path.[r]glob().
- Issue #24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with
pathlib.Path.[r]glob(). Patch by Ulrich Petri.
- Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved.
Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
- Add asyncio.timeout() context manager.
- Issue #26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method.
Patch by Марк Коренберг.
Tests
-----
- Issue #25940: Changed test_ssl to use self-signed.pythontest.net. This
avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root certificate.
What's New in Python 3.4.4?
===========================
Release date: 2015/12/20
Windows
-------
- Issue #25844: Corrected =/== typo potentially leading to crash in launcher.
What's New in Python 3.4.4rc1?
==============================
Release date: 2015/12/06
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8
cache.
- Issue #24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside
__getattr__.
- Issue #24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods
__bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of
bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and float correspondingly.
- Issue #25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code
with a null byte.
- Issue #22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now
rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.
- Issue #24802: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(), exec()
and eval() are passed bytes-like objects. These objects are not
necessarily terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed they were.
- Issue #24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when
sys.stdout.fileno() fails.
- Issue #24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from
being subclassed through multiple inheritance.
- Issue #24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
- Issue #25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no
longer formatted twice.
- Issue #25003: os.urandom() doesn't use getentropy() on Solaris because
getentropy() is blocking, whereas os.urandom() should not block. getentropy()
is supported since Solaris 11.3.
- Issue #25182: The stdprinter (used as sys.stderr before the io module is
imported at startup) now uses the backslashreplace error handler.
- Issue #24891: Fix a race condition at Python startup if the file descriptor
of stdin (0), stdout (1) or stderr (2) is closed while Python is creating
sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr objects. These attributes are now set
to None if the creation of the object failed, instead of raising an OSError
exception. Initial patch written by Marco Paolini.
- Issue #21167: NAN operations are now handled correctly when python is
compiled with ICC even if -fp-model strict is not specified.
- Issue #4395: Better testing and documentation of binary operators.
Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #24467: Fixed possible buffer over-read in bytearray. The bytearray
object now always allocates place for trailing null byte and it's buffer now
is always null-terminated.
- Issue #24115: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue(), PyObject_Not(),
PyObject_IsInstance(), PyObject_RichCompareBool() and _PyDict_Contains()
to check for and handle errors correctly.
- Issue #24257: Fixed system error in the comparison of faked
types.SimpleNamespace.
- Issue #22939: Fixed integer overflow in iterator object. Patch by
Clement Rouault.
- Issue #23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice from
the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes data.
- Issue #24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error handlers.
- Issue #23757: PySequence_Tuple() incorrectly called the concrete list API
when the data was a list subclass.
- Issue #24407: Fix crash when dict is mutated while being updated.
- Issue #24096: Make warnings.warn_explicit more robust against mutation of the
warnings.filters list.
- Issue #23996: Avoid a crash when a delegated generator raises an
unnormalized StopIteration exception. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
- Issue #24022: Fix tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code.
- Issue #23309: Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is aborted
while it is holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the main thread
tries to use the same I/O object (typically stdout or stderr). A fatal
error is emitted instead.
- Issue #22977: Fixed formatting Windows error messages on Wine.
Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #23803: Fixed str.partition() and str.rpartition() when a separator
is wider then partitioned string.
- Issue #23192: Fixed generator lambdas. Patch by Bruno Cauet.
- Issue #23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized
objects.
- Issue #24044: Fix possible null pointer dereference in list.sort in out of
memory conditions.
- Issue #21354: PyCFunction_New function is exposed by python DLL again.
Library
-------
- Issue #24903: Fix regression in number of arguments compileall accepts when
'-d' is specified. The check on the number of arguments has been dropped
completely as it never worked correctly anyway.
- Issue #25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused by
fork() failure when preexec_fn is used.
- Issue #6478: _strptime's regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone
with time.tzset().
- Issue #25177: Fixed problem with the mean of very small and very large
numbers. As a side effect, statistics.mean and statistics.variance should
be significantly faster.
- Issue #25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is false.
- Issue #10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents. Based on patch
by Marian Ganisin.
- Issue #25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when unpickling
invalid data including tuple instructions.
- Issue #25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate global
names, and search the global namespace before searching builtins.
- Issue #25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an error.
- Issue #23914: Fixed SystemError raised by unpickler on broken pickle data.
- Issue #25691: Fixed crash on deleting ElementTree.Element attributes.
- Issue #25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory
entries. Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
- Issue #25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True)
when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
- Issue #25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio.
- Issue #6973: When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do
not allow the send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do
anything as they could potentially signal a different process.
- Issue #25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().
- Issue #25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per
attribute.
- Issue #25498: Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects created
by wrapping a memoryview. This was a regression made in 3.4.3. Based
on patch by Eryksun.
- Issue #18010: Fix the pydoc web server's module search function to handle
exceptions from importing packages.
- Issue #25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b'' instead of ''
at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode.
Patch by Ryosuke Ito.
- Issue #25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating
ssl.SSLContext.
- Issue #25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
- Issue #21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common
whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace.
Based on patch by Robert Li.
- Issue #25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn't appear to be
nonblocking.
- Issue #25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed.
- Issue #25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better use of
the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch.
- Issue #25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in
pickletools.opcodes.
- Issue #23972: Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing reuseport
and reuseaddr socket options to be set prior to binding the socket.
Mirroring the existing asyncio create_server method the reuseaddr option
for datagram sockets defaults to True if the O/S is 'posix' (except if the
platform is Cygwin). Patch by Chris Laws.
- Issue #25304: Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(). This lets you
submit a coroutine to a loop from another thread, returning a
concurrent.futures.Future. By Vincent Michel.
- Issue #25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition
should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock.
- Issue #25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the
first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
- Issue #24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the
query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
- Issue #22958: Constructor and update method of weakref.WeakValueDictionary
now accept the self and the dict keyword arguments.
- Issue #22609: Constructor of collections.UserDict now accepts the self keyword
argument.
- Issue #25262. Added support for BINBYTES8 opcode in Python implementation of
unpickler. Highest 32 bits of 64-bit size for BINUNICODE8 and BINBYTES8
opcodes no longer silently ignored on 32-bit platforms in C implementation.
- Issue #25034: Fix string.Formatter problem with auto-numbering and
nested format_specs. Patch by Anthon van der Neut.
- Issue #25233: Rewrite the guts of asyncio.Queue and
asyncio.Semaphore to be more understandable and correct.
- Issue #23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning
wrong results in some cases.
- Issue #25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the
module in inconsistent state.
- Prevent overflow in _Unpickler_Read.
- Issue #25047: The XML encoding declaration written by Element Tree now
respects the letter case given by the user. This restores the ability to
write encoding names in uppercase like "UTF-8", which worked in Python 2.
- Issue #19143: platform module now reads Windows version from kernel32.dll to
avoid compatibility shims.
- Issue #23517: Fix rounding in fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods
of datetime.datetime: microseconds are now rounded to nearest with ties
going to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), instead of being rounding
towards zero (ROUND_DOWN). It's important that these methods use the same
rounding mode than datetime.timedelta to keep the property:
(datetime(1970,1,1) + timedelta(seconds=t)) == datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t).
It also the rounding mode used by round(float) for example.
- Issue #24684: socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls
PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of calling the encode() method of the
host, to handle correctly custom string with an encode() method which doesn't
return a byte string. The encoder of the IDNA codec is now called directly
instead of calling the encode() method of the string.
- Issue #24982: shutil.make_archive() with the "zip" format now adds entries
for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.
- Issue #24857: Comparing call_args to a long sequence now correctly returns a
boolean result instead of raising an exception. Patch by A Kaptur.
- Issue #25019: Fixed a crash caused by setting non-string key of expat parser.
Based on patch by John Leitch.
- Issue #24917: time_strftime() buffer over-read.
- Issue #23144: Make sure that HTMLParser.feed() returns all the data, even
when convert_charrefs is True.
- Issue #16180: Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping user
in an infinite loop. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
- Issue #21112: Fix regression in unittest.expectedFailure on subclasses.
Patch from Berker Peksag.
- Issue #24931: Instances of subclasses of namedtuples have their own __dict__
which breaks the inherited __dict__ property and breaks the _asdict() method.
Removed the __dict__ property to prevent the conflict and fixed _asdict().
- Issue #24764: cgi.FieldStorage.read_multi() now ignores the Content-Length
header in part headers. Patch written by Peter Landry and reviewed by Pierre
Quentel.
- Issue #24774: Fix docstring in http.server.test. Patch from Chiu-Hsiang Hsu.
- Issue #21159: Improve message in configparser.InterpolationMissingOptionError.
Patch from Łukasz Langa.
- Issue #23888: Handle fractional time in cookie expiry. Patch by ssh.
- Issue #23004: mock_open() now reads binary data correctly when the type of
read_data is bytes. Initial patch by Aaron Hill.
- Issue #23652: Make it possible to compile the select module against the
libc headers from the Linux Standard Base, which do not include some
EPOLL macros. Patch by Matt Frank.
- Issue #22932: Fix timezones in email.utils.formatdate.
Patch from Dmitry Shachnev.
- Issue #23779: imaplib raises TypeError if authenticator tries to abort.
Patch from Craig Holmquist.
- Issue #23319: Fix ctypes.BigEndianStructure, swap correctly bytes. Patch
written by Matthieu Gautier.
- Issue #23254: Document how to close the TCPServer listening socket.
Patch from Martin Panter.
- Issue #19450: Update Windows and OS X installer builds to use SQLite 3.8.11.
- Issue #23441: rcompleter now prints a tab character instead of displaying
possible completions for an empty word. Initial patch by Martin Sekera.
- Issue #24735: Fix invalid memory access in
itertools.combinations_with_replacement().
- Issue #17527: Add PATCH to wsgiref.validator. Patch from Luca Sbardella.
- Issue #24683: Fixed crashes in _json functions called with arguments of
inappropriate type.
- Issue #21697: shutil.copytree() now correctly handles symbolic links that
point to directories. Patch by Eduardo Seabra and Thomas Kluyver.
- Issue #24620: Random.setstate() now validates the value of state last element.
- Issue #22153: Improve unittest docs. Patch from Martin Panter and evilzero.
- Issue #24206: Fixed __eq__ and __ne__ methods of inspect classes.
- Issue #21750: mock_open.read_data can now be read from each instance, as it
could in Python 3.3.
- Issue #23247: Fix a crash in the StreamWriter.reset() of CJK codecs.
- Issue #18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely.
Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.
- Issue #24608: chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str.
- Issue #18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module.
- Issue #24259: tarfile now raises a ReadError if an archive is truncated
inside a data segment.
- Issue #24552: Fix use after free in an error case of the _pickle module.
- Issue #24514: tarfile now tolerates number fields consisting of only
whitespace.
- Issue #19176: Fixed doctype() related bugs in C implementation of ElementTree.
A deprecation warning no longer issued by XMLParser subclass with default
doctype() method. Direct call of doctype() now issues a warning. Parser's
doctype() now is not called if target's doctype() is called. Based on patch
by Martin Panter.
- Issue #20387: Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize
for tab-indented blocks.
- Issue #24456: Fixed possible buffer over-read in adpcm2lin() and lin2adpcm()
functions of the audioop module.
- Issue #24336: The contextmanager decorator now works with functions with
keyword arguments called "func" and "self". Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #24489: ensure a previously set C errno doesn't disturb cmath.polar().
- Issue #5633: Fixed timeit when the statement is a string and the setup is not.
- Issue #24326: Fixed audioop.ratecv() with non-default weightB argument.
Original patch by David Moore.
- Issue #23840: tokenize.open() now closes the temporary binary file on error
to fix a resource warning.
- Issue #24257: Fixed segmentation fault in sqlite3.Row constructor with faked
cursor type.
- Issue #22107: tempfile.gettempdir() and tempfile.mkdtemp() now try again
when a directory with the chosen name already exists on Windows as well as
on Unix. tempfile.mkstemp() now fails early if parent directory is not
valid (not exists or is a file) on Windows.
- Issue #6598: Increased time precision and random number range in
email.utils.make_msgid() to strengthen the uniqueness of the message ID.
- Issue #24091: Fixed various crashes in corner cases in C implementation of
ElementTree.
- Issue #21931: msilib.FCICreate() now raises TypeError in the case of a bad
argument instead of a ValueError with a bogus FCI error number.
Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
- Issue #23796: peek and read1 methods of BufferedReader now raise ValueError
if they called on a closed object. Patch by John Hergenroeder.
- Issue #24521: Fix possible integer overflows in the pickle module.
- Issue #22931: Allow '[' and ']' in cookie values.
- Issue #20274: Remove ignored and erroneous "kwargs" parameters from three
METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection.
- Issue #24094: Fix possible crash in json.encode with poorly behaved dict
subclasses.
- Asyncio issue 222 / PR 231 (Victor Stinner) -- fix @coroutine
functions without __name__.
- Issue #9246: On POSIX, os.getcwd() now supports paths longer than 1025 bytes.
Patch written by William Orr.
- The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a dictionary.
- Issues #24099, #24100, and #24101: Fix free-after-use bug in heapq's siftup
and siftdown functions.
- Backport collections.deque fixes from Python 3.5. Prevents reentrant badness
during deletion by deferring the decref until the container has been restored
to a consistent state.
- Issue #23008: Fixed resolving attributes with boolean value is False in pydoc.
- Fix asyncio issue 235: LifoQueue and PriorityQueue's put didn't
increment unfinished tasks (this bug was introduced in 3.4.3 when
JoinableQueue was merged with Queue).
- Issue #23908: os functions now reject paths with embedded null character
on Windows instead of silently truncate them.
- Issue #23728: binascii.crc_hqx() could return an integer outside of the range
0-0xffff for empty data.
- Issue #23811: Add missing newline to the PyCompileError error message.
Patch by Alex Shkop.
- Issue #17898: Fix exception in gettext.py when parsing certain plural forms.
- Issue #22982: Improve BOM handling when seeking to multiple positions of
a writable text file.
- Issue #23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent and more
robust at shutdown. If they need to release multiple resources, all are
released even if errors occur.
- Issue #23881: urllib.request.ftpwrapper constructor now closes the socket if
the FTP connection failed to fix a ResourceWarning.
- Issue #23400: Raise same exception on both Python 2 and 3 if sem_open is not
available. Patch by Davin Potts.
- Issue #15133: _tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports Tcl_Obj and always
returns bool. tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values (accepted bool,
int, str, and Tcl_Obj). tkinter.BooleanVar.get() now always returns bool.
- Issue #23338: Fixed formatting ctypes error messages on Cygwin.
Patch by Makoto Kato.
- Issue #16840: Tkinter now supports 64-bit integers added in Tcl 8.4 and
arbitrary precision integers added in Tcl 8.5.
- Issue #23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store the
result of sendto() instead of the C int type.
- Issue #21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.
- Issue #23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty result on
MemoryError.
- Issue #18473: Fixed 2to3 and 3to2 compatible pickle mappings. Fixed
ambiguous reverse mappings. Added many new mappings. Import mapping is no
longer applied to modules already mapped with full name mapping.
- Issue #23745: The new email header parser now handles duplicate MIME
parameter names without error, similar to how get_param behaves.
- Issue #23792: Ignore KeyboardInterrupt when the pydoc pager is active.
This mimics the behavior of the standard unix pagers, and prevents
pipepager from shutting down while the pager itself is still running.
- Issue #23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single quotes.
- Issue #21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing
writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
- Issue #23671: string.Template now allows to specify the "self" parameter as
keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows to specify the "self" and
the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments.
- Issue #21560: An attempt to write a data of wrong type no longer cause
GzipFile corruption. Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.
- Issue #23647: Increase imaplib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes.
- Issue #23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now sets
Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid 411 errors from
some web servers.
- Issue #22351: The nntplib.NNTP constructor no longer leaves the connection
and socket open until the garbage collector cleans them up. Patch by
Martin Panter.
- Issue #23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0, including
Dec 30 of previous year. Based on patch by Jim Carroll.
- Issue #23700: Iterator of NamedTemporaryFile now keeps a reference to
NamedTemporaryFile instance. Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
- Issue #22903: The fake test case created by unittest.loader when it fails
importing a test module is now picklable.
- Issue #23568: Add rdivmod support to MagicMock() objects.
Patch by Håkan Lövdahl.
- Issue #23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in cookiejar.
Patch by Demian Brecht.
- Issue #23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered() now
handle exceptions raised by an iterator. Patch by Alon Diamant and Davin
Potts.
- Issue #22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in http.client.
Original patch by Demian Brecht.
- Issue #23615: Modules bz2, tarfile and tokenize now can be reloaded with
imp.reload(). Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
- Issue #23476: In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL's X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST
flag on certificate stores when it is available.
- Issue #23576: Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached in the
SSL layer but the underlying connection hasn't been closed.
- Issue #23504: Added an __all__ to the types module.
- Issue #20204: Added the __module__ attribute to _tkinter classes.
- Issue #23521: Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta division.
* Eliminated OverflowError from timedelta * float for some floats;
* Corrected rounding in timedelta true division.
- Issue #21619: Popen objects no longer leave a zombie after exit in the with
statement if the pipe was broken. Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after
closing the window.
- Issues #814253, #9179: Warnings now are raised when group references and
conditional group references are used in lookbehind assertions in regular
expressions.
- Issue #23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores errors
consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError.
Original patch by Aleksi Torhamo.
- Issue #5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file.
flush() was not called in close() if closefd=False.
- Issue #23374: Fixed pydoc failure with non-ASCII files when stdout encoding
differs from file system encoding (e.g. on Mac OS).
- Issue #23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module's default cipher list.
- Issue #21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with empty
docstrings.
- Issue #22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dbm.dumb
module. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #23146: Fix mishandling of absolute Windows paths with forward
slashes in pathlib.
- Issue #23421: Fixed compression in tarfile CLI. Patch by wdv4758h.
- Issue #23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.
- Issue #23361: Fix possible overflow in Windows subprocess creation code.
- Issue #23801: Fix issue where cgi.FieldStorage did not always ignore the
entire preamble to a multipart body.
- Issue #23310: Fix MagicMock's initializer to work with __methods__, just
like configure_mock(). Patch by Kasia Jachim.
- asyncio: New event loop APIs: set_task_factory() and get_task_factory().
- asyncio: async() function is deprecated in favour of ensure_future().
- Issue #23898: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs() to support attributes
with overloaded __eq__ and __bool__. Patch by Mike Bayer.
- Issue #24298: Fix inspect.signature() to correctly unwrap wrappers
around bound methods.
- Issue #23572: Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with falsy
metaclasses. Patch by Ethan Furman.
IDLE
----
- Issue 15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process)
before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process).
This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.
- Issue #24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the
debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button
(15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455).
The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes.
1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait
mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit).
2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first.
- Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?' message
to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running
user program, not IDLE itself.
- Issue #24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar.
Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better
address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark.
Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.
- Issue #24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences
dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted
list. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content
about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.
- Issue #24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme.
It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background.
Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red, orange, ... .
To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the
'Save as New Custom Theme' button and enter a new name,
such as 'Custom Dark'. The custom theme will work with any IDLE
release, and can be modified.
- Issue #25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and
curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter.
'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'.
- Issue #24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in
Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection
background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now
always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs
affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger)
now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua.
Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget.
For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help.
* Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman).
* Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background.
* Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor.
* When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header
at the top of the screen.
- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor.
- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options.
Some were missing and notes were not correct.
- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change.
Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
- Issue #16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display.
The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html.
It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released.
The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Mark Roseman.
The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.
- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
- Issue #23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name.
Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi.
- Issue 24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to
platform-sensitive TkFixedFont. This should not affect current customized
font selections. If there is a problem, edit $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg
and remove 'fontxxx' entries from [Editor Window]. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the restart bar.
Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan Umer.
- Issue #13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #23184: remove unused names and imports in idlelib.
Initial patch by Al Sweigart.
Tests
-----
- Issue #25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections
into separate file test_ordered_dict.
- Issue #25099: Make test_compileall not fail when an entry on sys.path cannot
be written to (commonly seen in administrative installs on Windows).
- Issue #24751: When running regrtest with the ``-w`` command line option,
a test run is no longer marked as a failure if all tests succeed when
re-run.
- Issue #21520: test_zipfile no longer fails if the word 'bad' appears
anywhere in the name of the current directory.
- Issue #23799: Added test.support.start_threads() for running and
cleaning up multiple threads.
- Issue #22390: test.regrtest now emits a warning if temporary files or
directories are left after running a test.
- Issue #23583: Added tests for standard IO streams in IDLE.
Build
-----
- Issue #23445: pydebug builds now use "gcc -Og" where possible, to make
the resulting executable faster.
- Issue #24603: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL1.0.2d
and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2e.
C API
-----
- Issue #23998: PyImport_ReInitLock() now checks for lock allocation error
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #12067: Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter of the
language reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed types were
incorrect or ambiguous. NotImplemented is only relevant at a lower level
than the Expressions chapter. Added details of comparing range() objects,
and default behaviour and consistency suggestions for user-defined classes.
Patch from Andy Maier.
- Issue #24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in
the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip.
- Issue #24808: Update the types of some PyTypeObject fields. Patch by
Joseph Weston.
- Issue #22812: Fix unittest discovery examples.
Patch from Pam McA'Nulty.
- Issue #24129: Clarify the reference documentation for name resolution.
This includes removing the assumption that readers will be familiar with the
name resolution scheme Python used prior to the introduction of lexical
scoping for function namespaces. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
- Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
- Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan.
- Issue #24729: Correct IO tutorial to match implementation regarding
encoding parameter to open function.
- Issue #24351: Clarify what is meant by "identifier" in the context of
string.Template instances.
- Issue #22155: Add File Handlers subsection with createfilehandler to tkinter
doc. Remove obsolete example from FAQ. Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #24029: Document the name binding behavior for submodule imports.
- Issue #24077: Fix typo in man page for -I command option: -s, not -S.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #25440: Fix output of python-config --extension-suffix.
- Issue #23330: h2py now supports arbitrary filenames in #include.
- Issue #24031: make patchcheck now supports git checkouts, too.
Windows
-------
- Issue #24306: Sets component ID for launcher to match 3.5 and later
to avoid downgrading.
- Issue #25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
What's New in Python 3.4.3?
===========================
Release date: 2015-02-23
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #22735: Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving custom mro()
implementations.
- Issue #22896: Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(), PyObject_AsReadBuffer()
and PyObject_AsWriteBuffer().
- Issue #21295: Revert some changes (issue #16795) to AST line numbers and
column offsets that constituted a regression.
- Issue #21408: The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if __eq__()
returned NotImplemented. Original patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #23321: Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned
replacement string longer than malformed input data.
- Issue #23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
- Issue #20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors
is specified with non-string argument. Based on patch by Renaud Blanch.
- Issue #22335: Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff
bytes on a 32-bit platform.
- Issue #22653: Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant
dict insertion in debug mode.
- Issue #22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower,
title, swapcase, casefold).
- Issue #22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex
number by (nan+0j).
- Issue #22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace",
"xmlcharrefreplace", and "surrogatepass" error handlers.
- Issue #22520: Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode
object.
- Issue #22519: Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr.
- Issue #22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.
- Issue #23165: Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the
_Py_char2wchar function.
Library
-------
- Issue #23399: pyvenv creates relative symlinks where possible.
- Issue #23099: Closing io.BytesIO with exported buffer is rejected now to
prevent corrupting exported buffer.
- Issue #23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.
- Issue #23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.
- Issue #23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations.
- Issue #23369: Fixed possible integer overflow in
_json.encode_basestring_ascii.
- Issue #23353: Fix the exception handling of generators in
PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). At entry, save or swap the exception state even if
PyEval_EvalFrameEx() is called with throwflag=0. At exit, the exception state
is now always restored or swapped, not only if why is WHY_YIELD or
WHY_RETURN. Patch co-written with Antoine Pitrou.
- Issue #18518: timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled outside
a function or a loop (e.g. "return" or "break").
- Issue #23094: Fixed readline with frames in Python implementation of pickle.
- Issue #23268: Fixed bugs in the comparison of ipaddress classes.
- Issue #21408: Removed incorrect implementations of __ne__() which didn't
returned NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. The default
__ne__() now works correctly.
- Issue #19996: :class:`email.feedparser.FeedParser` now handles (malformed)
headers with no key rather than assuming the body has started.
- Issue #23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.
- Issue #23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.
- Issue #23250: In the http.cookies module, capitalize "HttpOnly" and "Secure"
as they are written in the standard.
- Issue #23063: In the distutils' check command, fix parsing of reST with code or
code-block directives.
- Issue #23209, #23225: selectors.BaseSelector.close() now clears its internal
reference to the selector mapping to break a reference cycle. Initial patch
written by Martin Richard.
- Issue #21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The
availability of the function is checked during the compilation. Patch written
by Bernard Spil.
- Issue #20896, #22935: The :func:`ssl.get_server_certificate` function now
uses the :data:`~ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23` protocol by default, not
:data:`~ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3`, for maximum compatibility and support platforms
where :data:`~ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3` support is disabled.
- Issue #23111: In the ftplib, make ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 the default protocol
version.
- Issue #23132: Mitigate regression in speed and clarity in functools.total_ordering.
- Issue #22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(),
instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
- Issue #23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string and
fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash.
- Issue #23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached
streams.
- Issue #19104: pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped strings.
- Issue #23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #15513: Added a __sizeof__ implementation for pickle classes.
- Issue #19858: pickletools.optimize() now aware of the MEMOIZE opcode, can
produce more compact result and no longer produces invalid output if input
data contains MEMOIZE opcodes together with PUT or BINPUT opcodes.
- Issue #22095: Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port. The port
value in the host header was set to "None". Patch by Demian Brecht.
- Issue #23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when the program
is run with pythonw.exe.
- Issue #21775: shutil.copytree(): fix crash when copying to VFAT. An exception
handler assumed that that OSError objects always have a 'winerror' attribute.
That is not the case, so the exception handler itself raised AttributeError
when run on Linux (and, presumably, any other non-Windows OS).
Patch by Greg Ward.
- Issue #1218234: Fix inspect.getsource() to load updated source of
reloaded module. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
- Issue #22959: In the constructor of http.client.HTTPSConnection, prefer the
context's check_hostname attribute over the *check_hostname* parameter.
- Issue #16043: Add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode
will return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753.
- Issue #22966: Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile is
asked to compile a source file containing multiple dots in the source file
name.
- Issue #21971: Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index.
- Issue #21032. Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails.
Original patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #22960: Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy constructor.
- Issue #22915: SAX parser now supports files opened with file descriptor or
bytes path.
- Issue #22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the
collections module now accept the self keyword argument.
- Issue #22788: Add *context* parameter to logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.
- Issue #22921: Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even if
OpenSSL doesn't support SNI.
- Issue #22894: TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be stopped
when in failfast mode, even in the absence of failures.
- Issue #22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library.
It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.
- Issue #22370: Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust.
- Issue #22841: Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler().
Patch by Ludovic.Gasc.
- Issue #22849: Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper constructor.
- Issue #12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but
different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions.
- Issue #22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian
platforms.
- Issue #22406: Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x.
Based on patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #17293: uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat.
Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns.
- Issue #22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.
- Issue #22417: Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476).
- Issue #22775: Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with protocol 2
and above. Patch by Tim Graham.
- Issue #22366: urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object
(SSLContext) as an argument which will then used be for HTTPS connection.
Patch by Alex Gaynor.
- Issue #22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in
SysLogHandler.emit().
- Issue #22665: Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to
shutil.__all__.
- Issue #17381: Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular
expressions.
- Issue #22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled
locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale.
- Issue #22759: Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(), etc.)
now return False when the underlying stat call raises NotADirectoryError.
- Issue #8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking
doesn't work. This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox
shared folders.
- Issue #18853: Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__.
- Issue #9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser
are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser.
- Issue #21991: Make email.headerregistry's header 'params' attributes
be read-only (MappingProxyType). Previously the dictionary was modifiable
but a new one was created on each access of the attribute.
- Issue #22641: In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections
is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security.
- Issue #22435: Fix a file descriptor leak when SocketServer bind fails.
- Issue #13096: Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large
values.
- Issue #11694: Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented. Patch
by Filip Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #22462: Fix pyexpat's creation of a dummy frame to make it
appear in exception tracebacks.
- Issue #21173: Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was called
with an iterator alive.
- Issue #11866: Eliminated race condition in the computation of names
for new threads.
- Issue #21905: Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when sys.modules
is mutated while iterating. Patch by Olivier Grisel.
- Issue #22219: The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories
(including empty directories) in ZIP file.
- Issue #22449: In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the
environmental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows.
- Issue #20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table.
- Issue #20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table.
- Issue #22396: On 32-bit AIX platform, don't expose os.posix_fadvise() nor
os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong.
- Issue #22517: When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its
weakrefs.
- Issue #22448: Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent
unbound memory usage. Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva.
- Issue #23009: Make sure selectors.EpollSelector.select() works when no
FD is registered.
IDLE
----
- Issue #20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph
extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog
to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog.
Patch by Tal Einat.
- Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new
information.
- Issue #3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu.
Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg.
Original patch by Tal Einat.
- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an
editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise,
from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays
an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name
is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.
- Issue #4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the
name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems
automatically add .txt when type is Text files.
- Issue #21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module.
To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle.
- Issue #23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window".
Patch by Al Sweigart.
Tests
-----
- Issue #23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.
- Issue #18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.
- Issue #19548: Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure that
statements in the updated documentation remain accurate. Patch by Martin
Panter.
- Issue #22838: All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery.
- Issue #22173: Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery.
- Issue #16000: Convert test_curses to use unittest.
- Issue #21456: Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not
present. Patch by Remi Pointel.
- Issue #22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.
- Issue #23211: Workaround test_logging failure on some OS X 10.6 systems.
- Issue #23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level
values (like 0.9.8zc).
- Issue #22289: Prevent test_urllib2net failures due to ftp connection timeout.
Build
-----
- Issue #15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the configure
script.
- Issue #22935: Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn't support
SSL 3.
- Issue #16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by
Jonathan Hosmer.
- Issue #18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.
- Issue #17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.
- Issue #17128: Use private version of OpenSSL for 3.4.3 OS X 10.5+ installer.
C API
-----
- Issue #22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has
no dynamically allocated bases.
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #19548: Update the codecs module documentation to better cover the
distinction between text encodings and other codecs, together with other
clarifications. Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #22914: Update the Python 2/3 porting HOWTO to describe a more automated
approach.
- Issue #21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC
7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.
Windows
-------
- Issue #17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources
to be in ``PCbuild\..\externals`` rather than ``PCbuild\..\..``.
- Issue #17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from
svn.python.org to build OpenSSL.
- Issue #22644: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j.
What's New in Python 3.4.2?
===========================
Release date: 2014-10-06
Library
-------
- Issue #10510: distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards
compliant CRLF line endings.
- Issue #9850: Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component. Patch by
Oleg Oshmyan.
- Issue #22427: TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice when
used in the with statement in generator.
- Issue #20912: Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS
directory attributes.
- Issue #21866: ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory
records if allowZip64 is false.
- Issue #22415: Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re
module. Removed trailing spaces in debugging output.
- Issue #22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled
AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.
- Issue #21332: Ensure that ``bufsize=1`` in subprocess.Popen() selects
line buffering, rather than block buffering. Patch by Akira Li.
What's New in Python 3.4.2rc1?
==============================
Release date: 2014-09-22
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #22258: Fix the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos.
This platform exposes the function ``ioctl(FIOCLEX)``, but calling it fails
with errno is ENOTTY: "Inappropriate ioctl for device". set_inheritable()
now falls back to the slower ``fcntl()`` (``F_GETFD`` and then ``F_SETFD``).
- Issue #21669: With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the
parser now attempts to generate more meaningful (or at least more search
engine friendly) error messages when "exec" and "print" are used as
statements.
- Issue #21642: In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written
with no space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else
False``) to be valid syntax.
- Issue #21523: Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of
some opcodes in the compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation
time issue noticeable when compiling code with a large number of "and"
and "or" operators.
Library
-------
- Issue #21091: Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment is now
a method. Since EmailMessage is provisional, we can change the API in a
maintenance release, but we use a trick to remain backward compatible with
3.4.0/1.
- Issue #21079: Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return the
correct result when the header has parameters as well as a value.
- Issue #22247: Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__.
- Issue #4180: The warnings registries are now reset when the filters
are modified.
- Issue #22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to
65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed
by Devin Cook.
- Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined
with non-standard cookie handling in some web browsers. Reported by
Sergey Bobrov.
- Issue #22384: An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program
when it is run with pythonw.exe.
- Issue #22168: Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X.
- Issue #21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null
character instead of truncate it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
- Issue #21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with
empty string or tuple argument.
- Issue #21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash
if the memory allocation fails.
- Issue #22338: Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure.
- Issue #22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in
the result of Treeview.heading().
- Issue #19524: Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an invalid
response is received. Patch by Martin Panter.
- Issue #22051: turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them.
Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(),
which is called each time a demo is run, but not on import.
- Issue #21933: Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a menu
selection or control(command) '-' or '+' or control-mousewheel.
Original patch by Lita Cho.
- Issue #21597: The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing
canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse. The code text pane can
be widened to easily view or copy the full width of the text. The canvas
can be widened on small screens. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
- Issue #18132: Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is
shrunk. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
- Issue #22216: smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit. The
most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure
during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence.
- Issue #22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait()
caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock. Patch
by Doug Zongker.
- Issue #22182: Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in
distutils.file_util.move_file. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
- The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather
than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.
- Issue #22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode.
- Issue #22191: Fix warnings.__all__.
- Issue #15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.
- Issue #22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter.
- Issue #22165: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file names.
- Issue #8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately.
Initial patch by Sam Bull.
- Issue #20729: Restored the use of lazy iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems()
in the mailbox module.
- Issue #21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when
parsing long line. Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.
- Issue #22184: The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier
and clearer error message when the user forgets the required parameters.
- Issue #17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on
AIX. Based on patch by Delhallt.
- Issue #21121: Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with
-Werror=declaration-after-statement.
- Issue #21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular
when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the
__new__() method.
- Issue #21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk.
In particular this allows to initialize images from binary data.
- Issue #17172: Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run with
subprocess. Patch by Lita Cho.
- Issue #21704: Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores
are not available. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
- Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don't fail with OverflowError
on closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works fine.
- Issue #16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores
BlockingIOError exceptions.
- Issue #22044: Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method.
Patch by Tom Flanagan.
- Issue #19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not
a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence "\033[1034h" into stdout. This
sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable
support of 8 bit characters.
- Issue #21888: plistlib's load() and loads() now work if the fmt parameter is
specified.
- Issue #21044: tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer 'name'
attribute. Based on patch by Antoine Pietri.
- Issue #21867: Prevent turtle crash due to invalid undo buffer size.
- Issue #19076: Don't pass the redundant 'file' argument to self.error().
- Issue #21942: Fixed source file viewing in pydoc's server mode on Windows.
- Issue #11259: asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError
if the number of received bytes is negative.
- Issue #12523: asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn't
get a bytes string
- Issue #21707: Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to
ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code().
- Issue #20639: calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix
again. Patch by July Tikhonov.
- Issue #21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using
Path.with_name(). Original patch by Antony Lee.
- Issue #21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure
variables when frame.clear() has been called.
- Issue #21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when ``None`` is passed
as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman.
- Issue #21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before,
it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.
- Issue #21781: ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB.
- Issue #11453: asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper
object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The
close() method can now be called twice: the second call does nothing.
- Issue #21858: Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module.
- Issue #21476: Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is
discarded after parsing, so the input file isn't unexpectedly closed.
- Issue #21729: Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure
files closing. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #21491: socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.
- Issue #21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
- Issue #19145: The times argument for itertools.repeat now handles
negative values the same way for keyword arguments as it does for
positional arguments.
- Issue #21812: turtle.shapetransform did not transform the turtle on the
first call. (Issue identified and fixed by Lita Cho.)
- Issue #21635: The difflib SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks() method
cache didn't match the actual result. The former was a list of tuples
and the latter was a list of named tuples.
- Issue #21722: The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero
return code when uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler.
- Issue #21723: asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the
maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #21326: Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop.
run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now
raise an exception if the event loop was closed.
- Issue #21774: Fixed NameError for an incorrect variable reference in the
XML Minidom code for creating processing instructions.
(Found and fixed by Claudiu Popa.)
- Issue #21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths
before checking for a CGI script at that path.
- Issue #21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
- Issue #21677: Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods.
- Issue #11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a
valid file.
- Issue #13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods
that use 'self' in the example code is generated correctly.
- Issue #21463: In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache.
- Issue #21618: The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were
inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource
limits would otherwise allow. On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd
or /dev/fd interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed.
- Issue #21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in
the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms.
- Issue #14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central
directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack
error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in
the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
- Issue #21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
- Issue #10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particular
it supports reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python
interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than
symlinking.
- Issue #14710: pkgutil.get_loader() no longer raises an exception when None is
found in sys.modules.
- Issue #14710: pkgutil.find_loader() no longer raises an exception when a
module doesn't exist.
- Issue #21481: Argparse equality and inequality tests now return
NotImplemented when comparing to an unknown type.
- Issue #8743: Fix interoperability between set objects and the
collections.Set() abstract base class.
- Issue #13355: random.triangular() no longer fails with a ZeroDivisionError
when low equals high.
- Issue #21538: The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files
when reference or offset size is not a power of two.
- Issue #21801: Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature.
- Issue #21923: Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler
due to possible uninitialized _config_vars.
- Issue #21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories,
broken by the fix for security issue #19435. Patch by Zach Byrne.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #22176: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1. This release
adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian
architectures.
Build
-----
- Issue #15661: python.org OS X installers are now distributed as signed
installer packages compatible with the Gatekeeper security feature.
- Issue #21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and
above. Patch by Zachary Turner.
- Issue #15759: "make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest" in Doc/
now display special message when and only when there are failures.
- Issue #17095: Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support.
- Issue #21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
- Issue #21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of
python --generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
IDLE
----
- Issue #17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python',
move version to end.
- Issue #14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear
when inseting or deleting lines.
- Issue #17172: Turtledemo can now be run from Idle.
Currently, the entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run.
Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho.
- Issue #21765: Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser.
- Issue #21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav
Heblikar.
- Issue #18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.
- Issue #21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
- Issue #21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav
Heblikar.
- Issue #12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key
bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is
still in progress no longer closes Idle.
- Issue #18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.
- Issue #18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.
- Issue #18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.
Tests
-----
- Issue #22166: With the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec
helping function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the
appearance of a reference leak
- Issue #22236: Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window. New root
window is created for every test class.
- Issue #20746: Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R). Patch by Xavier
de Gaye.
- Issue #22060: test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and simplified; it
now uses unittest test discovery to find its tests.
- Issue #22104: regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of tests
loaded from test modules that don't define test_main().
- Issue #22002: Added ``load_package_tests`` function to test.support and used
it to implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio, test_email,
test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools.
- Issue #21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks
to William Orr.
- Issue #21918: Converted test_tools from a module to a package containing
separate test files for each tested script.
- Issue #20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers
so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine)
does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.
- Issue #19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly
rather than silently.
- Issue #18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by
regrtest.py.
- Issue #21634: Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true
division to benchmark integers instead of floating point numbers. Set pystone
version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro.
- Issue #21605: Added tests for Tkinter images.
- Issue #21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by
Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #21777: The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are now
documented explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able to derive
the expected behaviour from the behaviour of the corresponding str methods.
Windows
-------
- Issue #21671, #22160, CVE-2014-0224: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been
updated to 1.0.1i.
- Issue #10747: Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu.
Patch by Olive Kilburn.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly
extracts ZIP files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson.
- Issue #21906: Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #21629: Fix Argument Clinic's "--converters" feature.
What's New in Python 3.4.1?
===========================
Release date: 2014-05-18
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without
argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python).
- Issue #21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive
interpreter.
- Issue #21435: In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic
trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in
internal iteration logic.
Library
-------
- Issue #10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial
shape.
- Issue #20998: Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern
with ignore case. Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
- Issue #21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if
binary mode is specified. Patch by Sam Kimbrel.
- Issue #21396: Fix TextIOWrapper(..., write_through=True) to not force a
flush() on the underlying binary stream. Patch by akira.
- Issue #21470: Do a better job seeding the random number generator by
using enough bytes to span the full state space of the Mersenne Twister.
- Issue #21398: Fix an unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation
contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.
Tests
-----
- Issue #17756: Fix test_code test when run from the installed location.
- Issue #17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.
IDLE
----
- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin
consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files
as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.
What's New in Python 3.4.1rc1?
==============================
Release date: 2014-05-05
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #21274: Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c.
- Issue #21209: Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield
from syntax.
- Issue #21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized
UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
- Issue #19537: Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k. Patch by
Andreas Schwab.
- Issue #20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number.
- Issue #20731: Properly position in source code files even if they
are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of
subclasses. Patch by Peter Ingebretson.
- Issue #12546: Allow ``\x00`` to be used as a fill character when using str, int,
float, and complex __format__ methods.
- Issue #13598: Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of
replacement fields. It now matches the behavior of str.format() in
this regard. Patches by Phil Elson and Ramchandra Apte.
Library
-------
- Issue #21088: Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0.
In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed.
- Issue #21469: Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by
checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist
prior to returning True in can_fetch().
- Issue #21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source
iterator when the slice is exhausted. Patch by Anton Afanasyev.
- Issue #9815: assertRaises now tries to clear references to local variables
in the exception's traceback.
- Issue #13204: Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter,
now it raises a TypeError.
- Issue #19385: Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always raise the
same exception.
- Issue #21207: Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or
replaced, and open it anew.
- Issue #21291: subprocess's Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that
multiple threads may be calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance
at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value.
- Issue #21127: Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass
instances (such as ``numpy.str_``).
- Issue #15002: urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and
_TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file
descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune.
- Issue #12220: mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it doesn't
support spaces in URIs instead of letting a 'split' ValueError bubble up.
- Issue #21239: patch.stopall() didn't work deterministically when the same
name was patched more than once.
- Issue #21222: Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now
works.
- Issue #21197: Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X POSIX.
- Issue #17498: Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors, violating
strict RFC conformance. Instead of losing the error code when we issue the
subsequent RSET, smtplib now returns the error code and defers raising the
SMTPServerDisconnected error until the next command is issued.
- Issue #17826: setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function created by
create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das.
- Issue #7776: Fix ``Host:`` header and reconnection when using
http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
- Issue #20968: unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division.
Patch by Johannes Baiter.
- Issue #21529 (CVE-2014-4616): Fix arbitrary memory access in
JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second parameter. Bug reported by Guido
Vranken.
- Issue #21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the
input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the
replace error handler.
- Issue #21171: Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec.
Patch by Berker Peksag.
- Issue #21172: isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping.
- Issue #21155: asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a ValueError
if path and sock are specified at the same time.
- Issue #21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter
shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.
- Issue #20145: `assertRaisesRegex` and `assertWarnsRegex` now raise a
TypeError if the second argument is not a string or compiled regex.
- Issue #21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in
:func:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile`, close the file descriptor if
:func:`io.open` fails
- Issue #21200: Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is missing.
- Issue #21013: Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for server side
sockets to provide better security by default.
- Issue #20633: Replace relative import by absolute import.
- Issue #20980: Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool.
- Issue #21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this
changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.
- Issue #20990: Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing.
- Issue #21015: SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic
curve for ECDH key exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and otherwise
default to "prime256v1".
- Issue #20995: Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to enable
better security an prioritize perfect forward secrecy.
- Issue #20884: Don't assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__.
- Issue #21499: Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests.
- Issue #20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for
base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the
initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to
not waste memory if these modules are not used.
- Issue #19157: Include the broadcast address in the usable hosts for IPv6
in ipaddress.
- Issue #11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now
prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the
environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.
- Issue #4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages
anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.
- Issue #20875: Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError.
Patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #11558: ``email.message.Message.attach`` now returns a more
useful error message if ``attach`` is called on a message for which
``is_multipart`` is False.
- Issue #20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters
as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as
deprecated aliases.
- Issue #20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules.
- Issue #20791: copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is
a bytes object. Initial patch by Peter Otten.
- Issue #19748: On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year
outsize range [1902; 2037].
- Issue #20816: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for
missing keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
- Issue #20817: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more
than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
- Issue #6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance.
(Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with
suggested wording by David Gutteridge)
- Issue #21117: Fix inspect.signature to better support functools.partial.
Due to the specifics of functools.partial implementation,
positional-or-keyword arguments passed as keyword arguments become
keyword-only.
- Issue #21209: Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug
in yield-from implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1.
- asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper
(upstream issue #163).
- Issue #21311: Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler
configurations. Patch by John Szakmeister.
- Issue #11571: Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost window
when launched on OS X.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #21276: posixmodule: Don't define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and the Hurd.
- Issue #21226: Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject
(and friends).
IDLE
----
- Issue #21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.
- Issue #21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width.
- Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for
non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.
Build
-----
- The Windows build now includes OpenSSL 1.0.1g
- Issue #21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search
in a ncursesw directory.
- Issue #15234: For BerkeleyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library and
include directories if they aren't already being searched. This avoids
an explicit runtime library dependency.
- Issue #20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build changes
in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin.
C API
-----
- Issue #20942: PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets __file__ to
match what importlib does; this affects _frozen_importlib as well as any
module loaded using imp.init_frozen().
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #17386: Expanded functionality of the ``Doc/make.bat`` script to make
it much more comparable to ``Doc/Makefile``.
- Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to
mention the ability to load the OS certificates.
- Issue #20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and
PurePath.with_suffix().
- Issue #19407: New package installation and distribution guides based on
the Python Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been retained
as legacy links from the distutils docs, as they still contain some
required reference material for tool developers that isn't recorded
anywhere else.
- Issue #19697: Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None.
Tests
-----
- Issue #18604: Consolidated checks for GUI availability. All platforms now
at least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is
requested.
- Issue #21275: Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD.
- Issue #21223: Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the extensions
are built as builtins.
- Issue #20635: Added tests for Tk geometry managers.
- Add test case for freeze.
- Issue #20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.
- Issue #21097: Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib.
- Issue #20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new
redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org:
use http://www.example.com instead.
- Issue #20668: asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file.
(Patch by Vajrasky Kok)
- Issue #21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a
copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Add support for ``yield from`` to 2to3.
- Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3.
- Issue #16047: Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in freeze.
Patch by Meador Inge.
- Issue #11824: Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.
- Issue #20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script.
Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
What's New in Python 3.4.0?
===========================
Release date: 2014-03-16
Library
-------
- Issue #20939: Fix test_geturl failure in test_urllibnet due to
new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org.
Documentation
-------------
- Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 3?
===============================================
Release date: 2014-03-09
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #20786: Fix signatures for dict.__delitem__ and
property.__delete__ builtins.
Library
-------
- Issue #20839: Don't trigger a DeprecationWarning in the still supported
pkgutil.get_loader() API when __loader__ isn't set on a module (nor
when pkgutil.find_loader() is called directly).
Build
-----
- Issue #14512: Launch pydoc -b instead of pydocgui.pyw on Windows.
- Issue #20748: Uninstalling pip does not leave behind the pyc of
the uninstaller anymore.
- Issue #20568: The Windows installer now installs the unversioned ``pip``
command in addition to the versioned ``pip3`` and ``pip3.4`` commands.
- Issue #20757: The ensurepip helper for the Windows uninstaller now skips
uninstalling pip (rather than failing) if the user has updated pip to a
different version from the one bundled with ensurepip.
- Issue #20465: Update OS X and Windows installer builds to use
SQLite 3.8.3.1.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 2?
===============================================
Release date: 2014-02-23
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #20625: Parameter names in __annotations__ were not mangled properly.
Discovered by Jonas Wielicki, patch by Yury Selivanov.
- Issue #20261: In pickle, lookup __getnewargs__ and __getnewargs_ex__ on the
type of the object.
- Issue #20619: Give the AST nodes of keyword-only arguments a column and line
number.
- Issue #20526: Revert changes of issue #19466 which introduces a regression:
don't clear anymore the state of Python threads early during the Python
shutdown.
Library
-------
- Issue #20710: The pydoc summary line no longer displays the "self" parameter
for bound methods.
- Issue #20566: Change asyncio.as_completed() to use a Queue, to
avoid O(N**2) behavior.
- Issue #20704: Implement new debug API in asyncio. Add new methods
BaseEventLoop.set_debug() and BaseEventLoop.get_debug().
Add support for setting 'asyncio.tasks._DEBUG' variable with
'PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG' environment variable.
- asyncio: Refactoring and fixes: BaseEventLoop.sock_connect() raises an
error if the address is not resolved; use __slots__ in Handle and
TimerHandle; as_completed() and wait() raise TypeError if the passed
list of Futures is a single Future; call_soon() and other 'call_*()'
functions raise TypeError if the passed callback is a coroutine
function; _ProactorBasePipeTransport uses _FlowControlMixin;
WriteTransport.set_write_buffer_size() calls _maybe_pause_protocol()
to consider pausing receiving if the watermark limits have changed;
fix _check_resolved_address() for IPv6 address; and other minor
improvements, along with multiple documentation updates.
- Issue #20684: Fix inspect.getfullargspec() to not to follow __wrapped__
chains. Make its behaviour consistent with bound methods first argument.
Patch by Nick Coghlan and Yury Selivanov.
- Issue #20681: Add new error handling API in asyncio. New APIs:
loop.set_exception_handler(), loop.default_exception_handler(), and
loop.call_exception_handler().
- Issue #20673: Implement support for UNIX Domain Sockets in asyncio.
New APIs: loop.create_unix_connection(), loop.create_unix_server(),
streams.open_unix_connection(), and streams.start_unix_server().
- Issue #20616: Add a format() method to tracemalloc.Traceback.
- Issue #19744: the ensurepip installation step now just prints a warning to
stderr rather than failing outright if SSL/TLS is unavailable. This allows
local installation of POSIX builds without SSL/TLS support.
- Issue #20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close.
Build
-----
- Issue #20641: Run MSI custom actions (pip installation, pyc compilation)
with the NoImpersonate flag, to support elevated execution (UAC).
- Issue #20221: Removed conflicting (or circular) hypot definition when
compiled with VS 2010 or above. Initial patch by Tabrez Mohammed.
- Issue #20609: Restored the ability to build 64-bit Windows binaries on
32-bit Windows, which was broken by the change in issue #19788.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1?
===============================================
Release date: 2014-02-10
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #19255: The builtins module is restored to initial value before
cleaning other modules. The sys and builtins modules are cleaned last.
- Issue #20588: Make Python-ast.c C89 compliant.
- Issue #20437: Fixed 22 potential bugs when deleting objects references.
- Issue #20500: Displaying an exception at interpreter shutdown no longer
risks triggering an assertion failure in PyObject_Str.
- Issue #20538: UTF-7 incremental decoder produced inconsistent string when
input was truncated in BASE64 section.
- Issue #20404: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence the open() builtin) now uses the
internal codec marking system added for issue #19619 to throw LookupError
for known non-text encodings at stream construction time. The existing
output type checks remain in place to deal with unmarked third party
codecs.
- Issue #17162: Add PyType_GetSlot.
- Issue #20162: Fix an alignment issue in the siphash24() hash function which
caused a crash on PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64).
Library
-------
- Issue #20530: The signatures for slot builtins have been updated
to reflect the fact that they only accept positional-only arguments.
- Issue #20517: Functions in the os module that accept two filenames
now register both filenames in the exception on failure.
- Issue #20563: The ipaddress module API is now considered stable.
- Issue #14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME
boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue. This
fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts.
- Issue #20540: Fix a performance regression (vs. Python 3.2) when layering
a multiprocessing Connection over a TCP socket. For small payloads, Nagle's
algorithm would introduce idle delays before the entire transmission of a
message.
- Issue #16983: the new email header parsing code will now decode encoded words
that are (incorrectly) surrounded by quotes, and register a defect.
- Issue #19772: email.generator no longer mutates the message object when
doing a down-transform from 8bit to 7bit CTEs.
- Issue #20536: the statistics module now correctly handle Decimal instances
with positive exponents
- Issue #18805: the netmask/hostmask parsing in ipaddress now more reliably
filters out illegal values and correctly allows any valid prefix length.
- Issue #20481: For at least Python 3.4, the statistics module will require
that all inputs for a single operation be of a single consistent type, or
else a mixed of ints and a single other consistent type. This avoids
some interoperability issues that arose with the previous approach of
coercing to a suitable common type.
- Issue #20478: the statistics module now treats collections.Counter inputs
like any other iterable.
- Issue #17369: get_filename was raising an exception if the filename
parameter's RFC2231 encoding was broken in certain ways. This was
a regression relative to python2.
- Issue #20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is
deleted, and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully. Now it
handles the 'bye' correctly.
- Issue #20531: Revert 3.4 version of fix for #19063, and apply the 3.3
version. That is, do *not* raise an error if unicode is passed to
email.message.Message.set_payload.
- Issue #20476: If a non-compat32 policy is used with any of the email parsers,
EmailMessage is now used as the factory class. The factory class should
really come from the policy; that will get fixed in 3.5.
- Issue #19920: TarFile.list() no longer fails when outputs a listing
containing non-encodable characters. Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #20515: Fix NULL pointer dereference introduced by issue #20368.
- Issue #19186: Restore namespacing of expat symbols inside the pyexpat module.
- Issue #20053: ensurepip (and hence venv) are no longer affected by the
settings in the default pip configuration file.
- Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the
debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.
- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python.
Improved error handling in variables-related commands.
- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
translation settings.
- tracemalloc: Fix slicing traces and fix slicing a traceback.
- Issue #20354: Fix an alignment issue in the tracemalloc module on 64-bit
platforms. Bug seen on 64-bit Linux when using "make profile-opt".
- Issue #17159: inspect.signature now accepts duck types of functions,
which adds support for Cython functions. Initial patch by Stefan Behnel.
- Issue #18801: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs to correctly classify
object.__new__ and object.__init__.
- Fixed cmath.isinf's name in its argument parsing code.
- Issue #20311, #20452: poll and epoll now round the timeout away from zero,
instead of rounding towards zero, in select and selectors modules:
select.epoll.poll(), selectors.PollSelector.poll() and
selectors.EpollSelector.poll(). For example, a timeout of one microsecond
(1e-6) is now rounded to one millisecondi (1e-3), instead of being rounded to
zero. However, the granularity property and asyncio's resolution feature
were removed again.
- asyncio: Some refactoring; various fixes; add write flow control to
unix pipes; Future.set_exception() instantiates the exception
argument if it is a class; improved proactor pipe transport; support
wait_for(f, None); don't log broken/disconnected pipes; use
ValueError instead of assert for forbidden subprocess_{shell,exec}
arguments; added a convenience API for subprocess management; added
StreamReader.at_eof(); properly handle duplicate coroutines/futures
in gather(), wait(), as_completed(); use a bytearray for buffering
in StreamReader; and more.
- Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.
- Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates.
- Issue #20308: inspect.signature now works on classes without user-defined
__init__ or __new__ methods.
- Issue #20372: inspect.getfile (and a bunch of other inspect functions that
use it) doesn't crash with unexpected AttributeError on classes defined in C
without __module__.
- Issue #20356: inspect.signature formatting uses '/' to separate
positional-only parameters from others.
- Issue #20223: inspect.signature now supports methods defined with
functools.partialmethods.
- Issue #19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive
is present.
- Issue #19077: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup no longer fails when
called during shutdown. Emitting resource warning in __del__ no longer fails.
Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.
- Issue #20394: Silence Coverity warning in audioop module.
- Issue #20367: Fix behavior of concurrent.futures.as_completed() for
duplicate arguments. Patch by Glenn Langford.
- Issue #8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of
codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
readline() or read(size). Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
- Issue #20105: the codec exception chaining now correctly sets the
traceback of the original exception as its __traceback__ attribute.
- Issue #17481: inspect.getfullargspec() now uses inspect.signature() API.
- Issue #15304: concurrent.futures.wait() can block forever even if
Futures have completed. Patch by Glenn Langford.
- Issue #14455: plistlib: fix serializing integers in the range
of an unsigned long long but outside of the range of signed long long for
binary plist files.
IDLE
----
- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.
Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Update the python.gif icon for the Idle classbrowser and pathbowser
from the old green snake to the new blue and yellow snakes.
- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.
Tests
-----
- Issue #20532: Tests which use _testcapi now are marked as CPython only.
- Issue #19920: Added tests for TarFile.list(). Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #19990: Added tests for the imghdr module. Based on patch by
Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #20474: Fix test_socket "unexpected success" failures on OS X 10.7+.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #20530: Argument Clinic's signature format has been revised again.
The new syntax is highly human readable while still preventing false
positives. The syntax also extends Python syntax to denote "self" and
positional-only parameters, allowing inspect.Signature objects to be
totally accurate for all supported builtins in Python 3.4.
- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now observes the C preprocessor conditional
compilation statements of the C files it parses. When a Clinic block is
inside a conditional code, it adjusts its output to match, including
automatically generating an empty methoddef macro.
- Issue #20456: Cloned functions in Argument Clinic now use the correct
name, not the name of the function they were cloned from, for text
strings inside generated code.
- Issue #20456: Fixed Argument Clinic's test suite and "--converters" feature.
- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now allows specifying different names
for a parameter in Python and C, using "as" on the parameter line.
- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now uses a simple, unique signature to
annotate text signatures in docstrings, resulting in fewer false
positives. "self" parameters are also explicitly marked, allowing
inspect.Signature() to authoritatively detect (and skip) said parameters.
- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now generates separate checksums for the
input and output sections of the block, allowing external tools to verify
that the input has not changed (and thus the output is not out-of-date).
Build
-----
- Issue #20465: Update SQLite shipped with OS X installer to 3.8.3.
C-API
-----
- Issue #20517: Added new functions allowing OSError exceptions to reference
two filenames instead of one: PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObjects() and
PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjects().
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #20488: Change wording to say importlib is *the* implementation of
import instead of just *an* implementation.
- Issue #6386: Clarify in the tutorial that specifying a symlink to execute
means the directory containing the executed script and not the symlink is
added to sys.path.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 3?
==================================
Release date: 2014-01-26
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #20189: Four additional builtin types (PyTypeObject,
PyMethodDescr_Type, _PyMethodWrapper_Type, and PyWrapperDescr_Type)
have been modified to provide introspection information for builtins.
- Issue #17825: Cursor "^" is correctly positioned for SyntaxError and
IndentationError.
- Issue #2382: SyntaxError cursor "^" is now written at correct position in most
cases when multibyte characters are in line (before "^"). This still not
works correctly with wide East Asian characters.
- Issue #18960: The first line of Python script could be executed twice when
the source encoding was specified on the second line. Now the source encoding
declaration on the second line isn't effective if the first line contains
anything except a comment. 'python -x' works now again with files with the
source encoding declarations, and can be used to make Python batch files
on Windows.
Library
-------
- asyncio: Various improvements and small changes not all covered by
issues listed below. E.g. wait_for() now cancels the inner task if
the timeout occurs; tweaked the set of exported symbols; renamed
Empty/Full to QueueEmpty/QueueFull; "with (yield from lock)" now
uses a separate context manager; readexactly() raises if not enough
data was read; PTY support tweaks.
- Issue #20311: asyncio: Add a granularity attribute to BaseEventLoop: maximum
between the resolution of the BaseEventLoop.time() method and the resolution
of the selector. The granuarility is used in the scheduler to round time and
deadline.
- Issue #20311: selectors: Add a resolution attribute to BaseSelector.
- Issue #20189: unittest.mock now no longer assumes that any object for
which it could get an inspect.Signature is a callable written in Python.
Fix courtesy of Michael Foord.
- Issue #20317: ExitStack.__exit__ could create a self-referential loop if an
exception raised by a cleanup operation already had its context set
correctly (for example, by the @contextmanager decorator). The infinite
loop this caused is now avoided by checking if the expected context is
already set before trying to fix it.
- Issue #20374: Fix build with GNU readline >= 6.3.
- Issue #20262: Warnings are raised now when duplicate names are added in the
ZIP file or too long ZIP file comment is truncated.
- Issue #20165: The unittest module no longer considers tests marked with
@expectedFailure successful if they pass.
- Issue #18574: Added missing newline in 100-Continue reply from
http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
- Issue #20270: urllib.urlparse now supports empty ports.
- Issue #20243: TarFile no longer raise ReadError when opened in write mode.
- Issue #20238: TarFile opened with external fileobj and "w:gz" mode didn't
write complete output on close.
- Issue #20245: The open functions in the tarfile module now correctly handle
empty mode.
- Issue #20242: Fixed basicConfig() format strings for the alternative
formatting styles. Thanks to kespindler for the bug report and patch.
- Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.
- Issues #20206 and #5803: Fix edge case in email.quoprimime.encode where it
truncated lines ending in a character needing encoding but no newline by
using a more efficient algorithm that doesn't have the bug.
- Issue #19082: Working xmlrpc.server and xmlrpc.client examples. Both in
modules and in documentation. Initial patch contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #20138: The wsgiref.application_uri() and wsgiref.request_uri()
functions now conform to PEP 3333 when handle non-ASCII URLs.
- Issue #19097: Raise the correct Exception when cgi.FieldStorage is given an
invalid fileobj.
- Issue #20152: Ported Python/import.c over to Argument Clinic.
- Issue #13107: argparse and optparse no longer raises an exception when output
a help on environment with too small COLUMNS. Based on patch by
Elazar Gershuni.
- Issue #20207: Always disable SSLv2 except when PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is explicitly
asked for.
- Issue #18960: The tokenize module now ignore the source encoding declaration
on the second line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
- Issue #20078: Reading malformed zipfiles no longer hangs with 100% CPU
consumption.
- Issue #20113: os.readv() and os.writev() now raise an OSError exception on
error instead of returning -1.
- Issue #19719: Make importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module(),
PathEntryFinder.find_loader(), and Loader.load_module() use PEP 451 APIs to
help with backwards-compatibility.
- Issue #20144: inspect.Signature now supports parsing simple symbolic
constants as parameter default values in __text_signature__.
- Issue #20072: Fixed multiple errors in tkinter with wantobjects is False.
- Issue #20229: Avoid plistlib deprecation warning in platform.mac_ver().
- Issue #14455: Fix some problems with the new binary plist support in plistlib.
IDLE
----
- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar.
Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson.
- Issue #18960: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second
line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
Tests
-----
- Issue #20358: Tests for curses.window.overlay and curses.window.overwrite
no longer specify min{row,col} > max{row,col}.
- Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
ifconfig executable is not available.
- Issue #19886: Use better estimated memory requirements for bigmem tests.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "file" output preset now defaults to
"{dirname}/clinic/{basename}.h".
- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "class" directive syntax has been extended
with two new required arguments: "typedef" and "type_object".
- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic: If __new__ or __init__ functions didn't use
kwargs (or args), the PyArg_NoKeywords (or PyArg_NoPositional) calls
generated are only run when the type object is an exact match.
- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic now fails if you have required parameters after
optional parameters.
- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic converters now have a new template they can
inject code into: "modifiers". Code put there is run in the parsing
function after argument parsing but before the call to the impl.
- Issue #20376: Argument Clinic now escapes backslashes in docstrings.
- Issue #20381: Argument Clinic now sanity checks the default argument when
c_default is also specified, providing a nice failure message for
disallowed values.
- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now ensures that parser functions for
__new__ are always of type newfunc, the type of the tp_new slot.
Similarly, parser functions for __init__ are now always of type initproc,
the type of tp_init.
- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the docstring for __new__
and __init__ functions if no docstring is provided in the input.
- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the "self" parameter in the
impl for @staticmethod functions.
- Issue #20294: Argument Clinic now supports argument parsing for __new__ and
__init__ functions.
- Issue #20299: Argument Clinic custom converters may now change the default
value of c_default and py_default with a class member.
- Issue #20287: Argument Clinic's output is now configurable, allowing
delaying its output or even redirecting it to a separate file.
- Issue #20226: Argument Clinic now permits simple expressions
(e.g. "sys.maxsize - 1") as default values for parameters.
- Issue #19936: Added executable bits or shebang lines to Python scripts which
requires them. Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and
benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in
source files of modules which don't provide command line interface. Fixed
shebang lines in the unittestgui and checkpip scripts.
- Issue #20268: Argument Clinic now supports cloning the parameters and
return converter of existing functions.
- Issue #20228: Argument Clinic now has special support for class special
methods.
- Issue #20214: Fixed a number of small issues and documentation errors in
Argument Clinic (see issue for details).
- Issue #20196: Fixed a bug where Argument Clinic did not generate correct
parsing code for functions with positional-only parameters where all arguments
are optional.
- Issue #18960: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now ignore the source
encoding declaration on the second line if the first line contains anything
except a comment.
- Issue #19723: The marker comments Argument Clinic uses have been changed
to improve readability.
- Issue #20157: When Argument Clinic renames a parameter because its name
collides with a C keyword, it no longer exposes that rename to PyArg_Parse.
- Issue #20141: Improved Argument Clinic's support for the PyArg_Parse "O!"
format unit.
- Issue #20144: Argument Clinic now supports simple symbolic constants
as parameter default values.
- Issue #20143: The line numbers reported in Argument Clinic errors are
now more accurate.
- Issue #20142: Py_buffer variables generated by Argument Clinic are now
initialized with a default value.
Build
-----
- Issue #12837: Silence a tautological comparison warning on OS X under Clang in
socketmodule.c.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 2?
==================================
Release date: 2014-01-05
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #17432: Drop UCS2 from names of Unicode functions in python3.def.
- Issue #19526: Exclude all new API from the stable ABI. Exceptions can be
made if a need is demonstrated.
- Issue #19969: PyBytes_FromFormatV() now raises an OverflowError if "%c"
argument is not in range [0; 255].
- Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now issue a DeprecationWarning on non-integer
input; reworded docs to clarify that an integer type should define both __int__
and __index__.
- Issue #19787: PyThread_set_key_value() now always set the value. In Python
3.3, the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current value
is a non-NULL pointer).
- Issue #14432: Remove the thread state field from the frame structure. Fix a
crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is destroyed while the
generator is still used. The issue was that a generator contains a frame, and
the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the destroyed C thread. The
crash occurs when a trace function is setup.
- Issue #19576: PyGILState_Ensure() now initializes threads. At startup, Python
has no concrete GIL. If PyGILState_Ensure() is called from a new thread for
the first time and PyEval_InitThreads() was not called yet, a GIL needs to be
created.
- Issue #17576: Deprecation warning emitted now when __int__() or __index__()
return not int instance.
- Issue #19932: Fix typo in import.h, missing whitespaces in function prototypes.
- Issue #19736: Add module-level statvfs constants defined for GNU/glibc
based systems.
- Issue #20097: Fix bad use of "self" in importlib's WindowsRegistryFinder.
- Issue #19729: In str.format(), fix recursive expansion in format spec.
- Issue #19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2
billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod.
Library
-------
- Issue #20154: Deadlock in asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly().
- Issue #16113: Remove sha3 module again.
- Issue #20111: pathlib.Path.with_suffix() now sanity checks the given suffix.
- Fix breakage in TestSuite.countTestCases() introduced by issue #11798.
- Issue #20108: Avoid parameter name clash in inspect.getcallargs().
- Issue #19918: Fix PurePath.relative_to() under Windows.
- Issue #19422: Explicitly disallow non-SOCK_STREAM sockets in the ssl
module, rather than silently let them emit clear text data.
- Issue #20046: Locale alias table no longer contains entities which can be
calculated. Generalized support of the euro modifier.
- Issue #20027: Fixed locale aliases for devanagari locales.
- Issue #20067: Tkinter variables now work when wantobjects is false.
- Issue #19020: Tkinter now uses splitlist() instead of split() in configure
methods.
- Issue #19744: ensurepip now provides a better error message when Python is
built without SSL/TLS support (pip currently requires that support to run,
even if only operating with local wheel files)
- Issue #19734: ensurepip now ignores all pip environment variables to avoid
odd behaviour based on user configuration settings
- Fix TypeError on "setup.py upload --show-response".
- Issue #20045: Fix "setup.py register --list-classifiers".
- Issue #18879: When a method is looked up on a temporary file, avoid closing
the file before the method is possibly called.
- Issue #20037: Avoid crashes when opening a text file late at interpreter
shutdown.
- Issue #19967: Thanks to the PEP 442, asyncio.Future now uses a
destructor to log uncaught exceptions, instead of the dedicated
_TracebackLogger class.
- Added a Task.current_task() class method to asyncio.
- Issue #19850: Set SA_RESTART in asyncio when registering a signal
handler to limit EINTR occurrences.
- Implemented write flow control in asyncio for proactor event loop (Windows).
- Change write buffer in asyncio use to avoid O(N**2) behavior. Make
write()/sendto() accept bytearray/memoryview.
- Issue #20034: Updated alias mapping to most recent locale.alias file
from X.org distribution using makelocalealias.py.
- Issue #5815: Fixed support for locales with modifiers. Fixed support for
locale encodings with hyphens.
- Issue #20026: Fix the sqlite module to handle correctly invalid isolation
level (wrong type).
- Issue #18829: csv.Dialect() now checks type for delimiter, escapechar and
quotechar fields. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #19855: uuid.getnode() on Unix now looks on the PATH for the
executables used to find the mac address, with /sbin and /usr/sbin as
fallbacks.
- Issue #20007: HTTPResponse.read(0) no more prematurely closes connection.
Original patch by Simon Sapin.
- Issue #19946: multiprocessing now uses runpy to initialize __main__ in
child processes when necessary, allowing it to correctly handle scripts
without suffixes and submodules that use explicit relative imports or
otherwise rely on parent modules being correctly imported prior to
execution.
- Issue #19921: When Path.mkdir() is called with parents=True, any missing
parent is created with the default permissions, ignoring the mode argument
(mimicking the POSIX "mkdir -p" command).
- Issue #19887: Improve the Path.resolve() algorithm to support certain
symlink chains.
- Issue #19912: Fixed numerous bugs in ntpath.splitunc().
- Issue #19911: ntpath.splitdrive() now correctly processes the 'İ' character
(U+0130, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE).
- Issue #19532: python -m compileall with no filename/directory arguments now
respects the -f and -q flags instead of ignoring them.
- Issue #19623: Fixed writing to unseekable files in the aifc module.
- Issue #19946: multiprocessing.spawn now raises ImportError when the module to
be used as the main module cannot be imported.
- Issue #17919: select.poll.register() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
Fixed integer overflow in the eventmask parameter.
- Issue #19063: if a Charset's body_encoding was set to None, the email
package would generate a message claiming the Content-Transfer-Encoding
was 7bit, and produce garbage output for the content. This now works.
A couple of other set_payload mishandlings of non-ASCII are also fixed.
In addition, calling set_payload with a string argument without
specifying a charset now raises an error (this is a new error in 3.4).
- Issue #15475: Add __sizeof__ implementations for itertools objects.
- Issue #19944: Fix importlib.find_spec() so it imports parents as needed
and move the function to importlib.util.
- Issue #19880: Fix a reference leak in unittest.TestCase. Explicitly break
reference cycles between frames and the _Outcome instance.
- Issue #17429: platform.linux_distribution() now decodes files from the UTF-8
encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding from the
locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19 which is
probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name. Patch
written by Toshio Kuratomi.
- Issue #19343: Expose FreeBSD-specific APIs in resource module. Original
patch by Koobs.
- Issue #19929: Call os.read with 32768 within subprocess.Popen.communicate
rather than 4096 for efficiency. A microbenchmark shows Linux and OS X
both using ~50% less cpu time this way.
- Issue #19506: Use a memoryview to avoid a data copy when piping data
to stdin within subprocess.Popen.communicate. 5-10% less cpu usage.
- Issue #19876: selectors unregister() no longer raises ValueError or OSError
if the FD is closed (as long as it was registered).
- Issue #19908: pathlib now joins relative Windows paths correctly when a drive
is present. Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.
- Issue #19296: Silence compiler warning in dbm_open
- Issue #6784: Strings from Python 2 can now be unpickled as bytes
objects by setting the encoding argument of Unpickler to be 'bytes'.
Initial patch by Merlijn van Deen.
- Issue #19839: Fix regression in bz2 module's handling of non-bzip2 data at
EOF, and analogous bug in lzma module.
- Issue #19881: Fix pickling bug where cpickle would emit bad pickle data for
large bytes string (i.e., with size greater than 2**32-1).
- Issue #19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when
no exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or
a colon does follow but no text follows the colon).
- Issue #19927: Add __eq__ to path-based loaders in importlib.
- Issue #19827: On UNIX, setblocking() and settimeout() methods of
socket.socket can now avoid a second syscall if the ioctl() function can be
used, or if the non-blocking flag of the socket is unchanged.
- Issue #19785: smtplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
indication for TLS/SSL connections.
- Issue #19784: poplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
indication for TLS/SSL connections.
- Issue #19783: nntplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
indication for TLS/SSL connections.
- Issue #19782: imaplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
indication for TLS/SSL connections.
- Issue #20123: Fix pydoc.synopsis() for "binary" modules.
- Issue #19834: Support unpickling of exceptions pickled by Python 2.
- Issue #19781: ftplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
indication for TLS/SSL connections.
- Issue #19509: Add SSLContext.check_hostname to match the peer's certificate
with server_hostname on handshake.
- Issue #15798: Fixed subprocess.Popen() to no longer fail if file
descriptor 0, 1 or 2 is closed.
- Issue #17897: Optimized unpickle prefetching.
- Issue #3693: Make the error message more helpful when the array.array()
constructor is given a str. Move the array module typecode documentation to
the docstring of the constructor.
- Issue #19088: Fixed incorrect caching of the copyreg module in
object.__reduce__() and object.__reduce_ex__().
- Issue #19698: Removed exec_module() methods from
importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter and ExtensionFileLoader.
- Issue #18864: Added a setter for ModuleSpec.has_location.
- Fixed _pickle.Unpickler to not fail when loading empty strings as
persistent IDs.
- Issue #11480: Fixed copy.copy to work with classes with custom metaclasses.
Patch by Daniel Urban.
- Issue #6477: Added support for pickling the types of built-in singletons
(i.e., Ellipsis, NotImplemented, None).
- Issue #19713: Add remaining PEP 451-related deprecations and move away
from using find_module/find_loaer/load_module.
- Issue #19708: Update pkgutil to use the new importer APIs.
- Issue #19703: Update pydoc to use the new importer APIs.
- Issue #19851: Fixed a regression in reloading sub-modules.
- ssl.create_default_context() sets OP_NO_COMPRESSION to prevent CRIME.
- Issue #19802: Add socket.SO_PRIORITY.
- Issue #11508: Fixed uuid.getnode() and uuid.uuid1() on environment with
virtual interface. Original patch by Kent Frazier.
- Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.
- Issue #19545: Avoid chained exceptions while passing stray % to
time.strptime(). Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
IDLE
----
- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.
- Issue #19481: print() of string subclass instance in IDLE no longer hangs.
- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial
shell window is present.
Tests
-----
- Issue #20055: Fix test_shutil under Windows with symlink privileges held.
Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #20070: Don't run test_urllib2net when network resources are not
enabled.
- Issue #19938: Re-enabled test_bug_1333982 in test_dis, which had been
disabled since 3.0 due to the changes in listcomp handling.
- Issue #19320: test_tcl no longer fails when wantobjects is false.
- Issue #19919: Fix flaky SSL test. connect_ex() sometimes returns
EWOULDBLOCK on Windows or VMs hosted on Windows.
- Issue #19912: Added tests for ntpath.splitunc().
- Issue #19828: Fixed test_site when the whole suite is run with -S.
- Issue #19928: Implemented a test for repr() of cell objects.
- Issue #19535: Fixed test_docxmlrpc, test_functools, test_inspect, and
test_statistics when python is run with -OO.
- Issue #19926: Removed unneeded test_main from test_abstract_numbers.
Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #19572: More skipped tests explicitly marked as skipped.
- Issue #19595, #19987: Re-enabled a long-disabled test in test_winsound.
- Issue #19588: Fixed tests in test_random that were silently skipped most
of the time. Patch by Julian Gindi.
Build
-----
- Issue #19728: Enable pip installation by default on Windows.
- Issue #16136: Remove VMS support
- Issue #18215: Add script Tools/ssl/test_multiple_versions.py to compile and
run Python's unit tests with multiple versions of OpenSSL.
- Issue #19922: define _INCLUDE__STDC_A1_SOURCE in HP-UX to include mbstate_t
for mbrtowc().
- Issue #19788: kill_python(_d).exe is now run as a PreBuildEvent on the
pythoncore sub-project. This should prevent build errors due a previous
build's python(_d).exe still running.
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #20265: Updated some parts of the Using Windows document.
- Issue #20266: Updated some parts of the Windows FAQ.
- Issue #20255: Updated the about and bugs pages.
- Issue #20253: Fixed a typo in the ipaddress docs that advertised an
illegal attribute name. Found by INADA Naoki.
- Issue #18840: Introduce the json module in the tutorial, and de-emphasize
the pickle module.
- Issue #19845: Updated the Compiling Python on Windows section.
- Issue #19795: Improved markup of True/False constants.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #19659: Added documentation for Argument Clinic.
- Issue #19976: Argument Clinic METH_NOARGS functions now always
take two parameters.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 1?
==================================
Release date: 2013-11-24
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Use the repr of a module name in more places in import, especially
exceptions.
- Issue #19619: str.encode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode now use an
internal API to throw LookupError for known non-text encodings, rather
than attempting the encoding or decoding operation and then throwing a
TypeError for an unexpected output type. (The latter mechanism remains
in place for third party non-text encodings)
- Issue #19183: Implement PEP 456 'secure and interchangeable hash algorithm'.
Python now uses SipHash24 on all major platforms.
- Issue #12892: The utf-16* and utf-32* encoders no longer allow surrogate code
points (U+D800-U+DFFF) to be encoded. The utf-32* decoders no longer decode
byte sequences that correspond to surrogate code points. The surrogatepass
error handler now works with the utf-16* and utf-32* codecs. Based on
patches by Victor Stinner and Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu.
- Issue #17806: Added keyword-argument support for "tabsize" to
str/bytes.expandtabs().
- Issue #17828: Output type errors in str.encode(), bytes.decode() and
bytearray.decode() now direct users to codecs.encode() or codecs.decode()
as appropriate.
- Issue #17828: The interpreter now attempts to chain errors that occur in
codec processing with a replacement exception of the same type that
includes the codec name in the error message. It ensures it only does this
when the creation of the replacement exception won't lose any information.
- Issue #19466: Clear the frames of daemon threads earlier during the
Python shutdown to call objects destructors. So "unclosed file" resource
warnings are now correctly emitted for daemon threads.
- Issue #19514: Deduplicate some _Py_IDENTIFIER declarations.
Patch by Andrei Dorian Duma.
- Issue #17936: Fix O(n**2) behaviour when adding or removing many subclasses
of a given type.
- Issue #19428: zipimport now handles errors when reading truncated or invalid
ZIP archive.
- Issue #18408: Add a new PyFrame_FastToLocalsWithError() function to handle
exceptions when merging fast locals into f_locals of a frame.
PyEval_GetLocals() now raises an exception and return NULL on failure.
- Issue #19369: Optimized the usage of __length_hint__().
- Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.
- Issue #19306: Add extra hints to the faulthandler module's stack
dumps that these are "upside down".
Library
-------
- Issue #3158: doctest can now find doctests in functions and methods
written in C.
- Issue #13477: Added command line interface to the tarfile module.
Original patch by Berker Peksag.
- Issue #19674: inspect.signature() now produces a correct signature
for some builtins.
- Issue #19722: Added opcode.stack_effect(), which
computes the stack effect of bytecode instructions.
- Issue #19735: Implement private function ssl._create_stdlib_context() to
create SSLContext objects in Python's stdlib module. It provides a single
configuration point and makes use of SSLContext.load_default_certs().
- Issue #16203: Add re.fullmatch() function and regex.fullmatch() method,
which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match.
Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
- Issue #13592: Improved the repr for regular expression pattern objects.
Based on patch by Hugo Lopes Tavares.
- Issue #19641: Added the audioop.byteswap() function to convert big-endian
samples to little-endian and vice versa.
- Issue #15204: Deprecated the 'U' mode in file-like objects.
- Issue #17810: Implement PEP 3154, pickle protocol 4.
- Issue #19668: Added support for the cp1125 encoding.
- Issue #19689: Add ssl.create_default_context() factory function. It creates
a new SSLContext object with secure default settings.
- Issue #19727: os.utime(..., None) is now potentially more precise
under Windows.
- Issue #17201: ZIP64 extensions now are enabled by default. Patch by
William Mallard.
- Issue #19292: Add SSLContext.load_default_certs() to load default root CA
certificates from default stores or system stores. By default the method
loads CA certs for authentication of server certs.
- Issue #19673: Add pathlib to the stdlib as a provisional module (PEP 428).
- Issue #16596: pdb in a generator now properly skips over yield and
yield from rather than stepping out of the generator into its
caller. (This is essential for stepping through asyncio coroutines.)
- Issue #17916: Added dis.Bytecode.from_traceback() and
dis.Bytecode.current_offset to easily display "current instruction"
markers in the new disassembly API (Patch by Claudiu Popa).
- Issue #19552: venv now supports bootstrapping pip into virtual environments
- Issue #17134: Finalize interface to Windows' certificate store. Cert and
CRL enumeration are now two functions. enum_certificates() also returns
purpose flags as set of OIDs.
- Issue #19555: Restore sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'), (and the distutils
equivalent) with a DeprecationWarning pointing people at $EXT_SUFFIX.
- Issue #8813: Add SSLContext.verify_flags to change the verification flags
of the context in order to enable certification revocation list (CRL)
checks or strict X509 rules.
- Issue #18294: Fix the zlib module to make it 64-bit safe.
- Issue #19682: Fix compatibility issue with old version of OpenSSL that
was introduced by Issue #18379.
- Issue #14455: plistlib now supports binary plists and has an updated API.
- Issue #19633: Fixed writing not compressed 16- and 32-bit wave files on
big-endian platforms.
- Issue #18379: SSLSocket.getpeercert() returns CA issuer AIA fields, OCSP
and CRL distribution points.
- Issue #18138: Implement cadata argument of SSLContext.load_verify_location()
to load CA certificates and CRL from memory. It supports PEM and DER
encoded strings.
- Issue #18775: Add name and block_size attribute to HMAC object. They now
provide the same API elements as non-keyed cryptographic hash functions.
- Issue #17276: MD5 as default digestmod for HMAC is deprecated. The HMAC
module supports digestmod names, e.g. hmac.HMAC('sha1').
- Issue #19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the
error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list.
- Issue #13633: Added a new convert_charrefs keyword arg to HTMLParser that,
when True, automatically converts all character references.
- Issue #2927: Added the unescape() function to the html module.
- Issue #8402: Added the escape() function to the glob module.
- Issue #17618: Add Base85 and Ascii85 encoding/decoding to the base64 module.
- Issue #19634: time.strftime("%y") now raises a ValueError on AIX when given a
year before 1900.
- Fix test.support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was compiled
on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on a system
with an OS kernel that does not support that reasonably new socket option.
- Fix compilation error under gcc of the ctypes module bundled libffi for arm.
- Issue #19448: Add private API to SSL module to lookup ASN.1 objects by OID,
NID, short name and long name.
- Issue #19282: dbm.open now supports the context management protocol. (Initial
patch by Claudiu Popa)
- Issue #8311: Added support for writing any bytes-like objects in the aifc,
sunau, and wave modules.
- Issue #5202: Added support for unseekable files in the wave module.
- Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore
~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of
distutils2 changes.
- Issue #19523: Closed FileHandler leak which occurred when delay was set.
- Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group
parameters to sdist command accidentally rolled back as part of the
distutils2 rollback.
- Issue #13674: Prevented time.strftime from crashing on Windows when given
a year before 1900 and a format of %y.
- Issue #19406: implementation of the ensurepip module (part of PEP 453).
Patch by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan.
- Issue #19544 and Issue #6286: Restore use of urllib over http allowing use
of http_proxy for Distutils upload command, a feature accidentally lost
in the rollback of distutils2.
- Issue #19544 and Issue #7457: Restore the read_pkg_file method to
distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata accidentally removed in the undo of
distutils2.
- Issue #16685: Added support for any bytes-like objects in the audioop module.
Removed support for strings.
- Issue #7171: Add Windows implementation of ``inet_ntop`` and ``inet_pton``
to socket module. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
- Issue #19261: Added support for writing 24-bit samples in the sunau module.
- Issue #1097797: Added CP273 encoding, used on IBM mainframes in
Germany and Austria. Mapping provided by Michael Bierenfeld.
- Issue #1575020: Fixed support of 24-bit wave files on big-endian platforms.
- Issue #19378: Fixed a number of cases in the dis module where the new
"file" parameter was not being honoured correctly
- Issue #19378: Removed the "dis.Bytecode.show_info" method
- Issue #19378: Renamed the "dis.Bytecode.display_code" method to
"dis.Bytecode.dis" and converted it to returning a string rather than
printing output.
- Issue #19378: the "line_offset" parameter in the new "dis.get_instructions"
API has been renamed to "first_line" (and the default value and usage
changed accordingly). This should reduce confusion with the more common use
of "offset" in the dis docs to refer to bytecode offsets.
- Issue #18678: Corrected spwd struct member names in spwd module:
sp_nam->sp_namp, and sp_pwd->sp_pwdp. The old names are kept as extra
structseq members, for backward compatibility.
- Issue #6157: Fixed tkinter.Text.debug(). tkinter.Text.bbox() now raises
TypeError instead of TclError on wrong number of arguments. Original patch
by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #10197: Rework subprocess.get[status]output to use subprocess
functionality and thus to work on Windows. Patch by Nick Coghlan
- Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of
integers instead of a string. Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #19403: contextlib.redirect_stdout is now reentrant
- Issue #19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to
the filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket.
- Issue #19480: HTMLParser now accepts all valid start-tag names as defined
by the HTML5 standard.
- Issue #15114: The html.parser module now raises a DeprecationWarning when the
strict argument of HTMLParser or the HTMLParser.error method are used.
- Issue #19410: Undo the special-casing removal of '' for
importlib.machinery.FileFinder.
- Issue #19424: Fix the warnings module to accept filename containing surrogate
characters.
- Issue #19435: Fix directory traversal attack on CGIHttpRequestHandler.
- Issue #19227: Remove pthread_atfork() handler. The handler was added to
solve #18747 but has caused issues.
- Issue #19420: Fix reference leak in module initialization code of
_hashopenssl.c
- Issue #19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions.
- Issue #19227: Try to fix deadlocks caused by re-seeding then OpenSSL
pseudo-random number generator on fork().
- Issue #16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more than
100 headers are read. Adapted from patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
- Issue #16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki
Pulliainen.
- Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki
Pulliainen.
- Issue #17997: Change behavior of ``ssl.match_hostname()`` to follow RFC 6125,
for security reasons. It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards
inside IDN fragments.
- Issue #16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to limit
line length. Patch by Emil Lind.
- Issue #19330: the unnecessary wrapper functions have been removed from the
implementations of the new contextlib.redirect_stdout and
contextlib.suppress context managers, which also ensures they provide
reasonable help() output on instances
- Issue #19393: Fix symtable.symtable function to not be confused when there are
functions or classes named "top".
- Issue #18685: Restore re performance to pre-PEP 393 levels.
- Issue #19339: telnetlib module is now using time.monotonic() when available
to compute timeout.
- Issue #19399: fix sporadic test_subprocess failure.
- Issue #13234: Fix os.listdir to work with extended paths on Windows.
Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
- Issue #19375: The site module adding a "site-python" directory to sys.path,
if it exists, is now deprecated.
- Issue #19379: Lazily import linecache in the warnings module, to make
startup with warnings faster until a warning gets printed.
- Issue #19288: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.gnu databases for string
argument. Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
- Issue #19287: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.ndbm databases for string
argument. Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
- Issue #19327: Fixed the working of regular expressions with too big charset.
- Issue #17400: New 'is_global' attribute for ipaddress to tell if an address
is allocated by IANA for global or private networks.
- Issue #19350: Increasing the test coverage of macurl2path. Patch by Colin
Williams.
- Issue #19365: Optimized the parsing of long replacement string in re.sub*()
functions.
- Issue #19352: Fix unittest discovery when a module can be reached
through several paths (e.g. under Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv).
- Issue #15207: Fix mimetypes to read from correct part of Windows registry
Original patch by Dave Chambers
- Issue #16595: Add prlimit() to resource module.
- Issue #19324: Expose Linux-specific constants in resource module.
- Load SSL's error strings in hashlib.
- Issue #18527: Upgrade internal copy of zlib to 1.2.8.
- Issue #19274: Add a filterfunc parameter to PyZipFile.writepy.
- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
Patch by Martin Matusiak.
- Issue #19413: Restore pre-3.3 reload() semantics of re-finding modules.
- Issue #18958: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing a string
that starts with a UTF-8 BOM.
- Issue #19307: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing objects
of the wrong type.
- Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
limiting the call to readline(). Original patch by Michał
Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.
- Issue #17087: Improved the repr for regular expression match objects.
Tests
-----
- Issue #19664: test_userdict's repr test no longer depends on the order
of dict elements.
- 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 #19378: the main dis module tests are now run with both stdout
redirection *and* passing an explicit file parameter
- Issue #19378: removed the not-actually-helpful assertInstructionMatches
and assertBytecodeExactlyMatches helpers from bytecode_helper
- Issue #18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped.
- Issue #19439: interpreter embedding tests are now executed on Windows
(Patch by Zachary Ware)
- Issue #19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options.
- Issue #19384: Fix test_py_compile for root user, patch by Claudiu Popa.
Documentation
-------------
- 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.
Build
-----
- Issue #19358: "make clinic" now runs the Argument Clinic preprocessor
over all CPython source files.
- Update SQLite to 3.8.1, xz to 5.0.5, and Tcl/Tk to 8.6.1 on Windows.
- Issue #16632: Enable DEP and ASLR on Windows.
- Issue #17791: Drop PREFIX and EXEC_PREFIX definitions from PC/pyconfig.h
- Add workaround for VS 2010 nmake clean issue. VS 2010 doesn't set up PATH
for nmake.exe correctly.
- Issue #19550: Implement Windows installer changes of PEP 453 (ensurepip).
- Issue #19520: Fix compiler warning in the _sha3 module on 32bit Windows.
- Issue #19356: Avoid using a C variabled named "_self", it's a reserved
word in some C compilers.
- Issue #15792: Correct build options on Win64. Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
- Issue #19373: Apply upstream change to Tk 8.5.15 fixing OS X 10.9
screen refresh problem for OS X installer build.
- 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 #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 #19551: PEP 453 - the OS X installer now installs pip by default.
- Update third-party libraries for OS X installers: xz 5.0.3 -> 5.0.5,
SQLite 3.7.13 -> 3.8.1
- Issue #15663: Revert OS X installer built-in Tcl/Tk support for 3.4.0b1.
Some third-party projects, such as Matplotlib and PIL/Pillow,
depended on being able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in
/Library/Frameworks.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #19730: Argument Clinic now supports all the existing PyArg
"format units" as legacy converters, as well as two new features:
"self converters" and the "version" directive.
- Issue #19552: pyvenv now bootstraps pip into virtual environments by
default (pass --without-pip to request the old behaviour)
- Issue #19390: Argument Clinic no longer accepts malformed Python
and C ids.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 4?
===================================
Release date: 2013-10-20
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #19301: Give classes and functions that are explicitly marked global a
global qualname.
- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no longer produces illegal strings.
- Issue #16612: Add "Argument Clinic", a compile-time preprocessor for
C files to generate argument parsing code. (See PEP 436.)
- 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 #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 #4555: All exported C symbols are now prefixed with either
"Py" or "_Py".
- Issue #19219: Speed up marshal.loads(), and make pyc files slightly
(5% to 10%) smaller.
- Issue #19221: Upgrade Unicode database to version 6.3.0.
- 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 #19199: Remove ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field
- Fix macro expansion of _PyErr_OCCURRED(), and make sure to use it in at
least one place so as to avoid regressions.
- Issue #19087: Improve bytearray allocation in order to allow cheap popping
of data at the front (slice deletion).
- Issue #19014: memoryview.cast() is now allowed on zero-length views.
- Issue #18690: memoryview is now automatically registered with
collections.abc.Sequence
- Issue #19078: memoryview now correctly supports the reversed builtin
(Patch by Claudiu Popa)
Library
-------
- Issue #17457: unittest test discovery now works with namespace packages.
Patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #18235: Fix the sysconfig variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED under AIX.
Patch by David Edelsohn.
- Issue #18606: Add the new "statistics" module (PEP 450). Contributed
by Steven D'Aprano.
- Issue #12866: The audioop module now supports 24-bit samples.
- Issue #19254: Provide an optimized Python implementation of pbkdf2_hmac.
- Issues #19201, Issue #19222, Issue #19223: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation)
in opening file to bz2, gzip and lzma modules. Patches by Tim Heaney and
Vajrasky Kok.
- Fix a reference count leak in _sre.
- 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 #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
- 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 #18891: Completed the new email package (provisional) API additions
by adding new classes EmailMessage, MIMEPart, and ContentManager.
- Issue #18281: Unused stat constants removed from `tarfile`.
- Issue #18999: Multiprocessing now supports 'contexts' with the same API
as the module, but bound to specified start methods.
- 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 #18725: The textwrap module now supports truncating multiline text.
- Issue #18776: atexit callbacks now display their full traceback when they
raise an exception.
- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and
``codecs.decode``.
- Issue #19218: Rename collections.abc to _collections_abc in order to
speed up interpreter start.
- Issue #18582: Add 'pbkdf2_hmac' to the hashlib module. It implements PKCS#5
password-based key derivation functions with HMAC as pseudorandom function.
- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of
compressed streams.
- 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 #19205: Don't import the 're' module in site and sysconfig module to
speed up interpreter start.
- Issue #9548: Add a minimal "_bootlocale" module that is imported by the
_io module instead of the full locale module.
- Issue #18764: Remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no
longer shadows the print function.
- Issue #19158: A rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
often.
- Issue #15805: Add contextlib.redirect_stdout().
- Issue #18716: Deprecate the formatter module.
- Issue #10712: 2to3 has a new "asserts" fixer that replaces deprecated names
of unittest methods (e.g. failUnlessEqual -> assertEqual).
- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes ``'\u'`` and ``'\U'`` in native strings.
- 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 #19132: The pprint module now supports compact mode.
- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats instances of set and
frozenset subclasses.
- Issue #10042: functools.total_ordering now correctly handles
NotImplemented being returned by the underlying comparison function (Patch
by Katie Miller)
- Issue #19092: contextlib.ExitStack now correctly reraises exceptions
from the __exit__ callbacks of inner context managers (Patch by Hrvoje
Nikšić)
- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except
when necessary. Patch by Oscar Benjamin.
- 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.
- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation.
- Issue #19095: SSLSocket.getpeercert() now raises ValueError when the
SSL handshake hasn't been done.
- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared
is used.
- 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.
C API
-----
- Issue #1772673: The type of `char*` arguments now changed to `const char*`.
- 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)
Tests
-----
- Issue #19275: Fix test_site on AMD64 Snow Leopard
- Issue #14407: Fix unittest test discovery in test_concurrent_futures.
- Issue #18919: Unified and extended tests for audio modules: aifc, sunau and
wave.
- Issue #18714: Added tests for ``pdb.find_function()``.
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references.
- Issue #18972: Modernize email examples and use the argparse module in them.
Build
-----
- Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010.
- Issue #15663: Update OS X 10.6+ installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.15.
- 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 #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.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3?
===================================
Release date: 2013-09-29
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional.
- Issue #19098: Prevent overflow in the compiler when the recursion limit is set
absurdly high.
Library
-------
- Issue #18929: `inspect.classify_class_attrs()` now correctly finds class
attributes returned by `dir()` that are located in the metaclass.
- 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 #18594: The fast path for collections.Counter() was never taken
due to an over-restrictive type check.
- Issue #19053: ZipExtFile.read1() with non-zero argument no more returns empty
bytes until end of data.
- logging: added support for Unix domain sockets to SocketHandler and
DatagramHandler.
- Issue #18996: TestCase.assertEqual() now more cleverly shorten differing
strings in error report.
- Issue #19034: repr() for tkinter.Tcl_Obj now exposes string representation.
- 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 #18626: the inspect module now offers a basic command line
introspection interface (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa)
- Issue #3015: Fixed tkinter with ``wantobjects=False``. Any Tcl command call
returned empty string.
- 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 #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 #18873: The tokenize module now detects Python source code encoding
only in comment lines.
- Issue #17764: Enable http.server to bind to a user specified network
interface. Patch contributed by Malte Swart.
- 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 #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError
in the underlying iterables.
- Issue #18784: The uuid module no longer attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL
if all the necessary functions have already been 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
Ware.
IDLE
----
- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment
lines.
- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #17003: Unified the size argument names in the io module with common
practice.
Build
-----
- Issue #18596: Support the use of address sanity checking in recent versions
of clang and GCC by appropriately marking known false alarms in the small
object allocator. Patch contributed by Dhiru Kholia.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #18873: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now detect Python source
code encoding only in comment lines.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2?
===================================
Release date: 2013-09-09
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #18942: sys._debugmallocstats() output was damaged on Windows.
- Issue #18571: Implementation of the PEP 446: file descriptors and file
handles are now created non-inheritable; add functions
os.get/set_inheritable(), os.get/set_handle_inheritable() and
socket.socket.get/set_inheritable().
- Issue #11619: The parser and the import machinery do not encode Unicode
filenames anymore on Windows.
- Issue #18808: Non-daemon threads are now automatically joined when
a sub-interpreter is shutdown (it would previously dump a fatal error).
- Remove support for compiling on systems without getcwd().
- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h.
- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost
of hash collisions. The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair
for each cache line retrieved.
- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor
registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead
of ignoring the error.
- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code.
- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions.
- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode.
- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins
in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust.
- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc()
fail.
- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up
expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles.
- Issue #18780: %-formatting codes %d, %i, and %u now treat int-subclasses
as int (displays value of int-subclass instead of str(int-subclass) ).
Library
-------
- Issue #18808: Thread.join() now waits for the underlying thread state to
be destroyed before returning. This prevents unpredictable aborts in
Py_EndInterpreter() when some non-daemon threads are still running.
- Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline
emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline.
- Issue #18852: Handle case of ``readline.__doc__`` being ``None`` in the new
readline activation code in ``site.py``.
- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
the _sre module.
- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no longer produces duplicate entries even
when input list contains duplicates.
- Issue #18878: sunau.open now supports the context management protocol. Based on
patches by Claudiu Popa and R. David Murray.
- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast
64-bit pointer to long (32 bits).
- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode
under which the file was opened. Patch by Erik Bray.
- Issue #16853: Add new selectors module.
- Issue #18882: Add threading.main_thread() function.
- Issue #18901: The sunau getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than
a plain tuple. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #17487: The result of the wave getparams method now is pickleable again.
Patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #18756: os.urandom() now uses a lazily-opened persistent file
descriptor, so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in
parallel from multiple threads.
- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
- Issue #17974: Switch unittest from using getopt to using argparse.
- Issue #11798: TestSuite now drops references to own tests after execution.
- Issue #16611: http.cookie now correctly parses the 'secure' and 'httponly'
cookie flags.
- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
properly handled as unsigned.
- Issue #18807: ``pyvenv`` now takes a --copies argument allowing copies
instead of symlinks even where symlinks are available and the default.
- Issue #18538: ``python -m dis`` now uses argparse for argument processing.
Patch by Michele Orrù.
- Issue #18394: Close cgi.FieldStorage's optional file.
- Issue #17702: On error, os.environb now suppresses the exception context
when raising a new KeyError with the original key.
- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.
- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
argument.
- Issue #18324: set_payload now correctly handles binary input. This also
supersedes the previous fixes for #14360, #1717, and #16564.
- Issue #18794: Add a fileno() method and a closed attribute to select.devpoll
objects.
- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large strings and tuples
in the tkinter module.
- 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 #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert.
- 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 #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
malloc weak symbols.
- 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 representation of ASN.1
strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
- Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code.
- 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 #18673: Add O_TMPFILE to os module. O_TMPFILE requires Linux kernel
3.11 or newer. It's only defined on system with 3.11 uapi headers, too.
- Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names
as promised by hashlib's documentation.
- Issue #8713: add new spawn and forkserver start methods, and new functions
get_all_start_methods, get_start_method, and set_start_method, to
multiprocessing.
- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt().
- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters
instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was
reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate
random characters.
- Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a
piece of text to a given length.
- Issue #18598: Tweak exception message for importlib.import_module() to
include the module name when a key argument is missing.
- Issue #19151: Fix docstring and use of _get_supported_file_loaders() to
reflect 2-tuples.
- Issue #19152: Add ExtensionFileLoader.get_filename().
- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo
- Fix refcounting issue with extension types in tkinter.
- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error
if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations.
- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string,
and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message.
- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur.
- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping
too many references alive for too long.
- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects. Patch by Valerie Lambert.
- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor.
- 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.
- Issue #18920: argparse's default destination for the version action (-v,
--version) has also been changed to stdout, to match the Python executable.
Tests
-----
- Issue #18623: Factor out the _SuppressCoreFiles context manager into
test.support. Patch by Valerie Lambert.
- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.
- Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test
runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore
setting for SIGINT. Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired
KeyboardInterrupt raising one during that test.
- Issue #16799: Switched from getopt to argparse style in regrtest's argument
parsing. Added more tests for regrtest's argument parsing.
- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
versions.
IDLE
----
- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existent "StringIO" module.
- Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings,
error messages and comments.
Build
-----
- Issue #1584: Provide configure options to override default search paths for
Tcl and Tk when building _tkinter.
- Issue #15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.14 is now included with the OS X 10.6+ 64-/32-bit
installer. It is no longer necessary to install a third-party version of
Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5
shipped in OS X 10.6 and later releases.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #18922: Now The Lib/smtpd.py and Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py scripts write
their version strings to stdout, and not to sderr.
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
===================================
Release date: 2013-08-03
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().
- Issue #17899: Fix rare file descriptor leak in os.listdir().
- Issue #10241: Clear extension module dict copies at interpreter shutdown.
Patch by Neil Schemenauer, minimally modified.
- Issue #9035: ismount now recognises volumes mounted below a drive root
on Windows. Original patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
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