(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
+* The :class:`collections.OrderedDict` class has a new method
+ :meth:`~collections.OrderedDict.move_to_end` which takes an existing key and
+ moves it to either the beginning or end of an ordered sequence. When the
+ dictionary sequence is being used as a queue, these operations correspond to
+ "move to the front of the line" or "move to the back of the line":
+
+ >>> d = OrderedDict.fromkeys(['a', 'b', 'X', 'd', 'e'])
+ >>> list(d)
+ ['a', 'b', 'X', 'd', 'e']
+ >>> d.move_to_end('X', last=True)
+ >>> list(d)
+ ['a', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'X']
+ >>> d.move_to_end('X', last=False)
+ >>> list(d)
+ ['X', 'a', 'b', 'd', 'e']
+
* The :mod:`datetime` module has a new type :class:`~datetime.timezone` that
implements the :class:`~datetime.tzinfo` interface by returning a fixed UTC
offset and timezone name. This makes it easier to create timezone aware
(Contributed by Ezio Melotti; :issue:`9424`.)
+* The integer methods in the :mod:`random` module now do a better job of
+ producing uniform distributions. Previously, they used ``int(n*random())``
+ which had a slight bias whenever *n* was not a power of two. The methods
+ affected are :meth:`~random.Random.randrange`, :meth:`~random.Random.randint`,
+ :meth:`~random.Random.choice`, :meth:`~random.Random.shuffle` and
+ :meth:`~random.Random.sample`.
+
+ (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`9025`.)
+
* :class:`~poplib.POP3_SSL` class now accepts a *context* parameter, which is a
:class:`ssl.SSLContext` object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
instead; the new type has a well-defined interface for passing typing safety
information and a less complicated signature for calling a destructor.
- * The :func:`sys.setfilesystemencoding` function was removed because
- it had a flawed design.
+* The :func:`sys.setfilesystemencoding` function was removed because
+ it had a flawed design.
- * The :func:`random.seed` function and method now performing salting for
- string seeds. To access the previous version of *seed* in order to
- reproduce Python 3.1 sequences, set the *version* argument to *1*,
- ``random.seed(s, version=1)``.
+* The :func:`random.seed` function and method now salt string seeds with an
+ sha512 hash function. To access the previous version of *seed* in order to
+ reproduce Python 3.1 sequences, set the *version* argument to *1*,
+ ``random.seed(s, version=1)``.
* The previously deprecated :func:`string.maketrans` function has been removed
in favor of the static methods, :meth:`bytes.maketrans` and