- Issue #28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been
built with Py_DEBUG defined.
- - Issue #5322: Fixed setting __new__ to a PyCFunction inside Python code.
- Original patch by Andreas Stührk.
-- Issue #28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict.
- Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
-
-Library
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-
-- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the
- forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
- multiprocessing objects such as locks.
-
-- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
- writes the index file when it is not changed.
-
-- Issue #26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail
- now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android
- platforms.
-
-Windows
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-
-- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
-
-Tests
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-
-- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise
- PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
-
-- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
- test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
-
-Build
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-
-- Issue #20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the
- directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation
- search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
-
-- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1
-==============================================
-
-*Release date: 2016-12-06*
-
-Core and Builtins
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--
- Issue #23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn't support
zero-argument ``super()`` in methods, failing to pass the new
``__classcell__`` namespace entry up to ``type.__new__`` now results in a