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What's New in Python 3.3.2?
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*Release date: 13-May-2013*
.. *Not yet released, see sections below for changes released in 3.3.1*
Core and Builtins
----------------- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.
- Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding
can't be fetched from stdin.
- Issue #17867: Raise an ImportError if __import__ is not found in __builtins__.
- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
- Issue #17413: sys.settrace callbacks were being passed a string instead of an
exception instance for the 'value' element of the arg tuple if the exception
originated from C code; now an exception instance is always provided.
- Issue #17782: Fix undefined behaviour on platforms where
``struct timespec``'s "tv_nsec" member is not a C long.
- Issue #17715: Fix segmentation fault from raising an exception in a __trunc__
method.
- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
class.
- Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from.
- Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows.
- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity output when using -v/-vv.
Library
------- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
.characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods. Original patch by Sebastian
Ortiz Vasquez.
- Issue #17732: Ignore distutils.cfg options pertaining to install paths if a
virtual environment is active.
- Issue #1159051: Back out a fix for handling corrupted gzip files that
broke backwards compatibility.
- Issue #17702: os.environ now raises KeyError with the original environment
variable name (str on UNIX), instead of using the encoded name (bytes on
UNIX).
- Issue #16163: Make the importlib based version of pkgutil.iter_importers
work for submodules. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
- Issue #16804: Fix a bug in the 'site' module that caused running
'python -S -m site' to incorrectly throw an exception.
- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
in the re module. Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
- Issue #16658: add missing return to HTTPConnection.send()
Patch by Jeff Knupp.
- Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function
has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary.
- Issue #17678: Fix DeprecationWarning in the http/cookiejar.py by changing the
usage of get_origin_req_host() to origin_req_host.
- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
- Issue #17502: Process DEFAULT values in mock side_effect that returns iterator
.
Patch by Michael Foord.
- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions while passing bad directives to
time.strptime(). Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
- Issue #17435: threading.Timer's __init__ method no longer uses mutable
default values for the args and kwargs parameters.
- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
- Issue #16550: Update the opcode descriptions of pickletools to use unsigned
integers where appropriate. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
IDLE
---- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
- Issue #13495: Avoid loading the color delegator twice in IDLE.
- Issue #17798: Allow IDLE to edit new files when specified on command line.
- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
Patch by Todd Rovito.
- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
- Issue #14783: Improve int() docstring and switch docstrings for str(),
range(), and slice() to use multi-line signatures.
- Issue #16160: Subclass support now works for types.SimpleNamespace.
- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as integer
values, by using `Py_uintptr_t` instead of `size_t`. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast `AT_FDCWD` as (int). Required on Solaris 10
(which defines `AT_FDCWD` as ``0xffd19553``), harmless on other platforms.
- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in `super()` to RuntimeErrors.
- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using `ast.parse()` in an
exception handler on code with syntax errors.
- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
subscriptable.
- Issue #15111: __import__ should let ImportError propagate when a module that
is imported as a side-effect of using fromlist tries to import a module
that cannot be found.
Library
------- Issue #17540: Added style to formatter configuration by dict.
- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: www-browser, x-www-browser,
iceweasel, iceape.
- Issue #17488: Change the subprocess.Popen bufsize parameter default value
from unbuffered (0) to buffering (-1) to match the behavior existing code
expects and match the behavior of the subprocess module in Python 2 to avoid
introducing hard to track down bugs.
- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
fileConfig().
- Issue #17508: Corrected MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() where
the target handler wasn't configured first.
- Issue #17209: curses.window.get_wch() now handles correctly KeyboardInterrupt
(CTRL+c).
- Issue #5713: smtplib now handles 421 (closing connection) error codes when
sending mail by closing the socket and reporting the 421 error code via the
exception appropriate to the command that received the error response.
- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This
specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
some more recent platforms.
Berker Peksag.
- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
email.encoders.encode_7or8bit when used with binary data.
- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no more hangs for large kappas.
- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
[0, 2*math.pi].
- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with binary output streams.
- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
symlinks on POSIX platforms.
- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
email.encoders.encode_noop when used with binary data.
- Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode, name, encoding and
newlines properties now work for unrolled files. Obsoleted and never
working on Python 3 xreadline method now removed.
- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in
avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
- Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection
is automatically closed.
- Issue #16948: Fix quoted printable body encoding for non-latin1 character
sets in the email package.
- Issue #16811: Fix folding of headers with no value in the provisional email
policies.
- Issue #17132: Update symbol for "yield from" grammar changes.
- Issue #17076: Make copying of xattrs more permissive of missing FS support.
Patch by Thomas Wouters.
- Issue #17089: Expat parser now correctly works with string input not only when
an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII. It now accepts bytes and
strings larger than 2 GiB.
- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occured when PyArg_ParseTuple
parses nested mutating sequence.
- Remove a bare print to stdout from the subprocess module that could have
happened if the child process wrote garbage to its pre-exec error pipe.
- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #16357: fix calling accept() on a SSLSocket created through
SSLContext.wrap_socket(). Original patch by Jeff McNeil.
- Issue #16409: The reporthook callback made by the legacy
urllib.request.urlretrieve API now properly supplies a constant non-zero
block_size as it did in Python 3.2 and 2.7. This matches the behavior of
urllib.request.URLopener.retrieve.
- Issue #16431: Use the type information when constructing a Decimal subtype
from a Decimal argument.
- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mki.
- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
mode when the logdir option is specified.
- Issue #16307: Fix multiprocessing.Pool.map_async not calling its callbacks.
Patch by Janne Karila.
- Issue #16250: Fix URLError invocation with proper args.
- Issue #16116: Fix include and library paths to be correct when building C
extensions in venvs.
- Issue #16245: Fix the value of a few entities in html.entities.html5.
- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
test_capi.
- Issue #13898: test_ssl no longer prints a spurious stack trace on Ubuntu.
- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
--without-doc-strings.
- Issue #16923: Fix ResourceWarnings in test_ssl.
- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
- Issue #17479: test_io now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17066: test_robotparser now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17334: test_index now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17333: test_imaplib now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17082: test_dbm* now work with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17079: test_ctypes now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17304: test_hash now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17303: test_future* now work with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #17163: test_file now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #16925: test_configparser now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #16918: test_codecs now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #16919: test_crypt now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #16910: test_bytes, test_unicode, and test_userstring now work with
unittest test discovery. Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #16905: test_warnings now works with unittest test discovery.
Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
- Issue #16898: test_bufio now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
- Issue #16888: test_array now works with unittest test discovery.
Patch by Zachary Ware.
startup.
- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
inside itself, don't mask that fact behind a generic ImportError for the
module itself.
- Issue #15293: Add GC support to the AST base node type.
- Issue #15291: Fix a memory leak where AST nodes where not properly
deallocated.
- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
importlib stack frames.
- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
"python3" under Unix, not "python".
- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
Patch by Felipe Cruz.
- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
calling str() on them.
- Issue #15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
Library
------- Issue #14590: configparser now correctly strips inline comments when delimiter
occurs earlier without preceding space.
- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects. Patch by
Ludwig Hhne.
- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
`importlib.__import__()`.
- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
(they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
`os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
module will be called in a deterministic order.
- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
the documentation.
- Issue #15315: Support VS 2010 in distutils cygwincompiler.
- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
namespace packages.
- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
ipaddress objects.
- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
provisional API status).
- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
pointing to a directory.
- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
_frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
header field in .pyc files.
- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
flush().
- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command. Patch by
Jakub Wilk.
- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer created and
renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
mailbox.
- Issue #10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
cryptographic purpose.
- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific customizations from
sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util, and distutils.unixccompiler
into a new module _osx_support.
C API
----- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of 1.
- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
`imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
Extension Modules
----------------- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
IDLE
---- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
ended with ``\``. Patch by Roger Serwy.
Tools/Demos
----------- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the $LIBPL
value.
- Move importlib.test.benchmark to Tools/importbench.
- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have been
enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within the
"py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
* C frames that are waiting on the GIL
* C frames that are garbage-collecting
* C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
Documentation
------------- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy module and
nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
- Issue #15053: Copy Python 3.3 import lock change notice to all relevant
functions in imp instead of just at the top of the relevant section.
- Issue #15288: Link to the term "loader" in notes in pkgutil about how things
won't work as expected in Python 3.3 and mark the requisite functions as
"changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
import itself.
- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
`execfile()`.
- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
Tests
----- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support. Patch
by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15284: Skip {send,recv}msg tests in test_socket when IPv6 is not
enabled. Patch by Brian Brazil.
- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled. Patch
by Brian Brazil.
Build
----- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development tools
(dpkg-dev) installed.
- Issue #15037: Build OS X installers with local copy of ncurses 5.9 libraries
to avoid curses.unget_wch bug present in older versions of ncurses such as
those shipped with OS X.
- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK. Also, for
OS X installers, ensure consistent sqlite3 behavior and feature availability
by building a local copy of libsqlite3 rather than depending on the wide range
of versions supplied with various OS X releases.
in text mode if the encoding is not specified. Don't change temporary the
locale encoding using locale.setlocale(), use the current locale encoding
instead of the user preferred encoding.
- Issue #14673: Add Eric Snow's sys.implementation implementation.
- Issue #15038: Optimize python Locks on Windows.
Library
------- Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting
math.factorial.
- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
for tkinter SimpleDialog.
- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
ASCII only str instances safely.
- Issue #15164: Change return value of platform.uname() from a
plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.
- Support Mageia Linux in the platform module.
- Issue #11678: Support Arch linux in the platform module.
- Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
(structseq objects).
- Speed up _decimal by another 10-15% by caching the thread local context
that was last accessed. In the pi benchmark (64-bit platform, prec=9),
_decimal is now only 1.5x slower than float.
- Remove the packaging module, which is not ready for prime time.
- Issue #15154: Add "dir_fd" parameter to os.rmdir, remove "rmdir"
parameter from os.remove / os.unlink.
- Issue #4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't susceptible to symlink attacks.
It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat()
- Issue #14657: The frozen instance of importlib used for bootstrap is now
also the module imported as importlib._bootstrap.
- Issue #14055: Add __sizeof__ support to _elementtree.
- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
with 'b' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
time or datetime objects.
- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
- Issue #14059: Implement multiprocessing.Barrier.
- Issue #15061: The inappropriately named hmac.secure_compare has been
renamed to hmac.compare_digest, restricted to operating on bytes inputs
only and had its documentation updated to more accurately reflect both its
intent and its limitations
- Issue #13841: Make child processes exit using sys.exit() on Windows.
- Issue #14936: curses_panel was converted to PEP 3121 and PEP 384 API.
Patch by Robin Schreiber.
- Issue #1667546: On platforms supporting tm_zone and tm_gmtoff fields
in struct tm, time.struct_time objects returned by time.gmtime(),
time.localtime() and time.strptime() functions now have tm_zone and
tm_gmtoff attributes. Original patch by Paul Boddie.
- Rename adjusted attribute to adjustable in time.get_clock_info() result.
- Issue #3518: Remove references to non-existent BaseManager.from_address()
method.
- Issue #13857: Added textwrap.indent() function (initial patch by Ezra
Berch)
- Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method.
- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
non-string argument to SystemExit.
- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
patch by mouad.
- Issue #11823: disassembly now shows argument counts on calls with keyword args
.
- Issue #14711: os.stat_float_times() has been deprecated.
- LZMAFile now accepts the modes "rb"/"wb"/"ab" as synonyms of "r"/"w"/"a".
- The bz2 and lzma modules now each contain an open() function, allowing
compressed files to readily be opened in text mode as well as binary mode.
- Issue #14835: Make plistlib output empty arrays & dicts like OS X.
Patch by Sidney San Martn.
- Issue #14744: Use the new _PyUnicodeWriter internal API to speed up
str%args and str.format(args).
- Issue #14930: Make memoryview objects weakrefable.
- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
- Issue #14857: fix regression in references to PEP 3135 implicit __class__
closure variable (Reopens issue #12370)
- Issue #14712 (PEP 405): Virtual environments. Implemented by Vinay Sajip.
- Issue #14660 (PEP 420): Namespace packages. Implemented by Eric Smith.
- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
Patch by Sven Marnach.
- Issue #9260: A finer-grained import lock. Most of the import sequence
now uses per-module locks rather than the global import lock, eliminating
well-known issues with threads and imports.
- Issue #14624: UTF-16 decoding is now 3x to 4x faster on various inputs.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
- asdl_seq and asdl_int_seq are now Py_ssize_t sized.
- Issue #14133 (PEP 415): Implement suppression of __context__ display with an
attribute on BaseException. This replaces the original mechanism of PEP 409.
- Issue #14417: Mutating a dict during lookup now restarts the lookup instead
of raising a RuntimeError (undoes issue #14205).
- Issue #14738: Speed-up UTF-8 decoding on non-ASCII data. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
in old-style string formatting.
Library
------- Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
subprocess and trace modules.
- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
- Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
- Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
for any such problems.
- Issue #14925: email now registers a defect when the parser decides that there
is a missing header/body separator line. MalformedHeaderDefect, which the
existing code would never actually generate, is deprecated.
- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
the parent window is closed before the dialog. Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #8739: Updated smtpd to support RFC 5321, and added support for the
RFC 1870 SIZE extension.
- Issue #665194: Added a localtime function to email.utils to provide an
aware local datetime for use in setting Date headers.
- Issue #12586: Added new provisional policies that implement convenient
unicode support for email headers. See What's New for details.
- Issue #14731: Refactored email Policy framework to support full backward
compatibility with Python 3.2 by default yet allow for the introduction of
new features through new policies. Note that Policy.must_be_7bit is renamed
to cte_type.
- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
- Issue #14920: Fix the help(urllib.parse) failure on locale C on terminals.
Have ascii characters in help.
- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
not go in illegal range and returns None.
- Issue #14862: Add missing names to os.__all__
- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
- Issue #13585: Added contextlib.ExitStack
- PEP 3144, Issue #14814: Added the ipaddress module
- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
Header in Cookie.py.
- Issue #14588: The types module now provide new_class() and prepare_class()
functions to support PEP 3115 compliant dynamic class creation. Patch by
Daniel Urban and Nick Coghlan.
- Issue #13152: Allow to specify a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in
textwrap. Patch by John Feuerstein.
- Issue #14721: Send the correct 'Content-length: 0' header when the body is an
empty string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
ports stricter.
- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
a bare '/'.
- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
- Issue #14386: Expose the dict_proxy internal type as types.MappingProxyType.
- Issue #13959: Make imp.reload() always use a module's __loader__ to perform
the reload.
- Issue #13959: Add imp.py and rename the built-in module to _imp, allowing for
re-implementing parts of the module in pure Python.
- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
- Have importlib take advantage of ImportError's new 'name' and 'path'
attributes.
- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
if only the comment is changed. In addition, the TypeError that results from
trying to set a non-binary value as a comment is now raised at the time
the comment is set rather than at the time the zipfile is written.
- trace.CoverageResults.is_ignored_filename() now ignores any name that starts
with "<" and ends with ">" instead of special-casing "<string>" and
"<doctest ".
- Issue #12537: The mailbox module no longer depends on knowledge of internal
implementation details of the email package Message object.
- Issue #7978: socketserver now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
- Issue #14522: Avoid duplicating socket handles in multiprocessing.connection.
Patch by sbt.
- Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
- Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_UNIX type address under
Windows. Patch by Popa Claudiu.
- Issue #802310: Generate always unique tkinter font names if not directly passe
d.
- Issue #14151: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
non-Windows platforms. Patch by Popa Claudiu.
- Issue #14493: Use gvfs-open or xdg-open in webbrowser.
Build
----- "make touch" will now touch generated files that are checked into Mercurial,
after a "hg update" which failed to bring the timestamps into the right order.
Tests
----- Issue #14026: In test_cmd_line_script, check that sys.argv is populated
correctly for the various invocation approaches (Patch by Jason Yeo)
- Issue #14032: Fix incorrect variable name in test_cmd_line_script debugging
message (Patch by Jason Yeo)
- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
a test failure in test_ssl.
- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
IDLE
---- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
Patch by Popa Claudiu.
Tools / Demos
------------- Issue #3561: The Windows installer now has an option, off by default, for
placing the Python installation into the system "Path" environment variable.
- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
It used to live in its own SVN project.
C-API
----- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
Patch by Stefan Behnel.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
===================================
*Release date: 01-Apr-2012*
Core and Builtins
----------------- Issue #1683368: object.__new__ and object.__init__ raise a TypeError if they
are passed arguments and their complementary method is not overridden.
- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
the module name that was not interned.
- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
passed strings.
- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
maintainer.
- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
accepted too.
- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
(EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
written by Charles-Francois Natali.
- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
on Windows.
- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
depending on heap usage).
- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
throws an exception.
- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
NULL).
- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
Patch by Torsten Becker.
- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
empty, instead of OverflowError.
- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
now accept a bytearray argument.
Library
------- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
fixed.
- Issue #14166: Pickler objects now have an optional ``dispatch_table``
attribute which allows to set custom per-pickler reduction functions.
Patch by sbt.
- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode
string. Patch by Guilherme Gonalves.
- Issue #13550: Remove the debug machinery from the threading module: remove
verbose arguments from all threading classes and functions.
- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak containers (WeakSet, WeakKeyDictionary,
WeakValueDictionary) to return a better approximation when some objects
are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
O(n).
- Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
Patch by Filip Gruszczynski.
- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
on Windows. Also fixed in packaging.
- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
- Issue #13641: Decoding functions in the base64 module now accept ASCII-only
unicode strings. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
- Issue #14043: Speed up importlib's _FileFinder by at least 8x, and add a
new importlib.invalidate_caches() function.
- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
- Issue #13961: Move importlib over to using os.replace() for atomic renaming.
- Do away with ambiguous level values (as suggested by PEP 328) in
importlib.__import__() by raising ValueError when level < 0.
- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
- Issue #13777: Add PF_SYSTEM sockets on OS X.
Patch by Michael Goderbauer.
- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
Patch by Suman Saha.
- Issue #1326113: distutils' and packaging's build_ext commands option now
correctly parses multiple values (separated by whitespace or commas) given
to their --libraries option.
- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES first before
sending MODE READER, and only sends it if not already in READER mode.
Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags when
strict=False.
- Issue #13930: lib2to3 now supports writing converted output files to another
directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
suffix.
- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
Kohtala.
- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES again after
authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
IV attack countermeasure.
- Issue #13847: time.localtime() and time.gmtime() now raise an OSError instead
of ValueError on failure. time.ctime() and time.asctime() now raises an
OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
registry.
- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
in the directory name.
- Issue #10278: Add time.wallclock() function, monotonic clock.
- Issue #13809: Fix regression where bz2 module wouldn't work when threads are
disabled. Original patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding ``user:password`` during Basic
Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
the executor had been shut down.
- Issue #13502: threading: Fix a race condition in Event.wait() that made it
return False when the event was set and cleared right after.
- Issue #9993: When the source and destination are on different filesystems,
and the source is a symlink, shutil.move() now recreates a symlink on the
destination instead of copying the file contents. Patch by Jonathan Niehof
and Hynek Schlawack.
- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.
- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.
- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
(except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
- Issue #12715: Add an optional symlinks argument to shutil functions
(copyfile, copymode, copystat, copy, copy2). When that parameter is
true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead acts on the
symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant). Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
- Add a flags parameter to select.epoll.
- Issue #13626: Add support for SSL Diffie-Hellman key exchange, through the
SSLContext.load_dh_params() method and the ssl.OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option.
- Issue #11006: Don't issue low level warning in subprocess when pipe2() fails.
- Issue #13620: Support for Chrome browser in webbrowser. Patch contributed
by Arnaud Calmettes.
- Issue #11829: Fix code execution holes in inspect.getattr_static for
metaclasses with metaclasses. Patch by Andreas Sthrk.
- Issue #12708: Add starmap() and starmap_async() methods (similar to
itertools.starmap()) to multiprocessing.Pool. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
- Issue #13637: "a2b" functions in the binascii module now accept ASCII-only
unicode strings.
- Issue #13634: Add support for querying and disabling SSL compression.
- Issue #13627: Add support for SSL Elliptic Curve-based Diffie-Hellman
key exchange, through the SSLContext.set_ecdh_curve() method and the
ssl.OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE option.
- Issue #13635: Add ssl.OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE, so that SSL servers
choose the cipher based on their own preferences, rather than on the
client's.
- Issue #11813: Fix inspect.getattr_static for modules. Patch by Andreas
Sthrk.
- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
Cdric Krier.
- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
redirection or an error.
- Issue #13560: os.strerror() now uses the current locale encoding instead of
UTF-8.
- Issue #8373: The filesystem path of AF_UNIX sockets now uses the filesystem
encoding and the surrogateescape error handler, rather than UTF-8. Patch
by David Watson.
- Issue #10350: Read and save errno before calling a function which might
overwrite it. Original patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
- Issue #11610: Introduce a more general way to declare abstract properties.
- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
to load a module twice.
- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
soonest (if any) and then return. Patch by Giampaolo Rodol.
- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
instead of the locale encoding.
- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
information was lost.
- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist. The packaging commands
were fixed too.
- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
the C pickle implementation.
- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
(more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
greater than FD_SETSIZE.
- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
Fix by Richard M. Tew.
- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
Watson.
- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
to be used if the private key is encrypted. Patch by Adam Simpkins.
- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
Pipe.
- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
Anthony Briggs.
- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
signal module.
- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
by Kasun Herath.
- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
Patch by Pierre Carrier.
- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
previous value of the mtime.
- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
parameter to control parameters of the secure channel. Patch by Sijin
Joseph.
- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
managers. Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
for the case.
- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
by Ysj Ray.
- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
signal mask of the calling thread.
- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
names.
tests.
- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
testcase failure in test_ssl.
- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
handling of the parent process.
- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
error twice anymore if there is only one error.
- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
run outside of a build directory.
- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
Patch by Garrett Cooper.
- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
2.8 + on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
iso2022_kr).
- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
written by Charles-Franois Natali.
- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
Andreas Sthrk.
- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
thread.
- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``. Patch by
Charles-Franois Natali.
- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
their children.
- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with
great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X.
- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
relevant, instead send method.
- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
C API function.
- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**