Core and Builtins
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- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot
on a registered virtual subclass.
- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
in the same code unit.
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- Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with
the collections.Sequence API.
gc module; gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE or gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE are now enough to
print the corresponding list of objects considered by the garbage collector.
-- Issue #1580: New free format floating point representation based on
- "Floating-Point Printer Sample Code", by Robert G. Burger. For example
- repr(11./5) now returns '2.2' instead of '2.2000000000000002'.
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- Issue #1573: Improper use of the keyword-only syntax makes the parser crash.
- Issue #1564: The set implementation should special-case PyUnicode instead
of PyString.
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- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and
if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() /
PyGILState_Release() functions.
instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past
its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
-- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source
- encoding.
+- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
+ original source encoding.
- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
with %G.
- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
and times.
-- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
+- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a
+ mountpoint.
- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
- first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 bytes.
+ first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3
+ bytes.
- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end
attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members).
method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
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Extension Modules
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- Issue #1762972: Readded the reload() function as imp.reload()
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- #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a
direct EnvironmentError
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- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ
- #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows.
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- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
- Fixed a reference-counting problem in property().
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Library
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- Created new UserDict class in collections module. This one inherits from and
complies with the MutableMapping ABC.
-- Removed UserDict.DictMixin. Replaced all its uses with collections.MutableMapping.
+- Removed UserDict.DictMixin. Replaced all its uses with
+ collections.MutableMapping.
- Issue #1703: getpass() should flush after writing prompt.