Core and Builtins
-----------------
-
+
- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
-- Issue #7475: Added transform() and untransform() methods to both bytes
- and string types. They can be used to access those codecs providing
+- Issue #7475: Added transform() and untransform() methods to both bytes and
+ string types. They can be used to access those codecs providing
bytes-to-bytes and string-to-string mappings.
-- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is
- much larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
+- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
+ larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
-- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to
- __format__ method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more
- precise control over when decimal points are displayed.
+- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
+ method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
+ when decimal points are displayed.
-- Issue #10474: range().count() should return integers.
+- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
masking all errors.
Library
-------
-- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
- membership of non-weakrefable objects.
+- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
+ of non-weakrefable objects.
- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
-- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to
- prevent DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
+- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
+ DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
subprocess.
- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
- is held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
+- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
+ held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
-- Issue #7911: `unittest.TestCase.longMessage` defaults to True for improved
+- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
-
-- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it
- tries to guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
+
+- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
+ guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
-- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the
- 'File exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the
- specified mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
+- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
+ exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
+ mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
-- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect
- of a module import
+- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
+ a module import.
- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
-- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept
- ASCII byte sequences as input in addition to character strings.
+- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
+ sequences as input in addition to character strings.
-- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has
- been changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
+- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
+ changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
-- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
- inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
- iterator was undefined.
+- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
+ before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
+ undefined.
-- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
- __iter__ and __next__.
+- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
+ __next__.
-- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it
- a new more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
+- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
+ more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
-- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
- can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
+- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
+ be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
internal optimization. Patch by endian.
-- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by
- Rodolpho Eckhardt.
+- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
+ Eckhardt.
- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
provides clean output when called with '-h'.
-- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module.
- Patch by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
+- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
+ by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
- Issue 9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
-- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to
- complex zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect
- the sign of zero. This fixes a test failure on AIX.
+- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
+ zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
+ This fixes a test failure on AIX.
- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
Patch by Robert Collins.
-- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects,
- rather than strings.
+- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
+ than strings.
C-API
-----
- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
- extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied
- by "-W").
+ extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
+ "-W").
- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
Schemenauer.
Tests
-----
-- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from
- sys.path when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module
+- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
+ when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module
- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
`assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
-- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname
- cannot be looked up.
+- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
+ looked up.
- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
Carstensen.
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