Also remove bullet asterisks from IDLE entries.
.. nonce: ZLsRil
.. section: Library
-Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with -Werror=declaration-
-after-statement.
+Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with
+``-Werror=declaration-after-statement``.
..
.. nonce: DFMEgN
.. section: Library
-Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing keyword-
-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
+Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing
+keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
..
.. nonce: KAl7aO
.. section: Build
-Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python --generate-
-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
+Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python
+``--generate-posix-vars`` in pybuilddir.txt build target.
..
.. nonce: b5M04V
.. section: Library
-The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object now is non-
-modifiable mapping.
+The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object now is
+non-modifiable mapping.
..
.. nonce: aAbWbQ
.. section: Library
-Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize for tab-
-indented blocks.
+Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize for
+tab-indented blocks.
..
.. nonce: hwXwCH
.. section: Library
-SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional initial-
-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.
+SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional
+initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.
..
On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function
instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking
-to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such high-
-quality entropy.
+to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such
+high-quality entropy.
..
.. nonce: -j_BV7
.. section: IDLE
-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,
+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.
..
.. section: Library
The "urllib.request" module now percent-encodes non-ASCII bytes found in
-redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header fields with non-
-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be ASCII-
-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on patch by
+redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header fields with
+non-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be
+ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on patch by
Christian Heimes.
..
.. nonce: HDjM4s
.. section: Build
-Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when cross-
-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
+Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when
+cross-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. Patch by
Xavier de Gaye.
.. nonce: RYbEGH
.. section: Core and Builtins
-Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-
-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty
+compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
..
.. section: Core and Builtins
Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in globals or builtins
-for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed handling an error of non-
-string package name.
+for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed handling an error of
+non-string package name.
..
.. section: Build
Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required for PGO
-linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when --with-
-optimizations is enabled. Also improve our ability to find the llvm-
-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
+linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when
+``--with-optimizations`` is enabled. Also improve our ability to find the
+llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
..
.. section: Core and Builtins
The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for error handlers:
-``ignore``, ``replace``, ``surrogateescape``, ``surrogatepass``. Patch co-
-written with Serhiy Storchaka.
+``ignore``, ``replace``, ``surrogateescape``, ``surrogatepass``. Patch
+co-written with Serhiy Storchaka.
..
On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function
instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking
-to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such high-
-quality entropy.
+to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such
+high-quality entropy.
..
.. section: Library
The "urllib.request" module now percent-encodes non-ASCII bytes found in
-redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header fields with non-
-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be ASCII-
-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on patch by
+redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header fields with
+non-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be
+ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on patch by
Christian Heimes.
..
.. nonce: -j_BV7
.. section: IDLE
-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,
+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.
..
.. nonce: HDjM4s
.. section: Build
-Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when cross-
-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
+Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when
+cross-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. Patch by
Xavier de Gaye.
.. nonce: TJ779X
.. section: Library
-xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types used by Apache XML-
-RPC implementation for numerics and None.
+xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types used by Apache
+XML-RPC implementation for numerics and None.
..
.. section: Build
Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required for PGO
-linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when --with-
-optimizations is enabled. Also improve our ability to find the llvm-
-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
+linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when
+``--with-optimizations`` is enabled. Also improve our ability to find the
+llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
..
.. nonce: RYbEGH
.. section: Core and Builtins
-Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-
-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty
+compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
..
vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop
DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE-2016-0718 (Fix
regression bugs from 2.2.0's fix to CVE-2016-0718) and CVE-2012-0876
-(Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use os-
-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn't impact Python, since Python
+(Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use
+os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn't impact Python, since Python
already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
``XML_SetHashSalt()``.
Improve signal delivery.
-Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-
-unsafe functions. The tests I'm adding here fail without the rest of the
+Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling
+signal-unsafe functions. The tests I'm adding here fail without the rest of the
patch, on Linux and OS X. This means our signal delivery logic had defects
(some signals could be lost).
.. nonce: RYbEGH
.. section: Core and Builtins
-Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-
-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty
+compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
..
.. nonce: N3KI-o
.. section: Library
-os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-
-like argument.
+os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with
+bytes-like argument.
..
.. nonce: d0nRRA
.. section: Library
-multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in non-
-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took
+multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in
+non-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took
longer than the timeout.
..
.. section: Library
Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use
-WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-
-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
+WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim
+Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
..
.. nonce: CgcjEx
.. section: Library
-A format string argument for string.Formatter.format() is now positional-
-only.
+A format string argument for string.Formatter.format() is now
+positional-only.
..
.. section: Build
Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during ``make test``, ``make
-install`` and some other make targets when configured with ``--enable-
-optimizations``.
+install`` and some other make targets when configured with
+``--enable-optimizations``.
..
.. nonce: i8UzRC
.. section: Build
-Prohibit implicit C function declarations: use -Werror=implicit-function-
-declaration when possible (GCC and Clang, but it depends on the compiler
-version). Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
+Prohibit implicit C function declarations: use
+``-Werror=implicit-function-declaration`` when possible (GCC and Clang,
+but it depends on the compiler version). Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
..
effect as soon as one clicks Apply or Ok.
The affected events are '<<force-open-completions>>', '<<expand-word>>',
-'<<force-open-calltip>>', '<<flash-paren>>', '<<format-paragraph>>', '<<run-
-module>>', '<<check-module>>', and '<<zoom-height>>'. Any (global)
+'<<force-open-calltip>>', '<<flash-paren>>', '<<format-paragraph>>',
+'<<run-module>>', '<<check-module>>', and '<<zoom-height>>'. Any (global)
customizations made before 3.6.3 will not affect their keyset- specific
customization after 3.6.3. and vice versa.
expanded example give users of non-Latin characters a better idea of what
they might see in IDLE's shell and editors.
-To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are re-
-arranged. The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
+To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are
+re-arranged. The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
..
.. section: Core and Builtins
Py_Initialize() now creates the GIL. The GIL is no longer created "on
-demand" to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-
-Python thread.
+demand" to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a
+non-Python thread.
..
Build and link with private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6 for the macOS 10.6+
installer. The 10.9+ installer variant already does this. This means that
the Python 3.7 provided by the python.org macOS installers no longer need or
-use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or user-
-installed, such as ActiveTcl.
+use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or
+user-installed, such as ActiveTcl.
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