Library
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+ - 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 wantobject=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 more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
+ if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
+ Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.
+
- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the
faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other
variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`.