From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:31:53 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: whatsnew: threading.main_thread, os.urandom persistent handle, sunau.open with.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~224
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54bf73a54af2432d25f8a286a3748bc907e19da8;p=python

whatsnew: threading.main_thread, os.urandom persistent handle, sunau.open with.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 62c85bb9c0..bf4b7e6c16 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1208,7 +1208,10 @@ sunau
 The :meth:`~sunau.getparams` method now returns a namedtuple rather than a
 plain tuple.  (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`18901`.)
 
-:meth:`sunau.open` now supports the context manager protocol (:issue:`18878`).
+:meth:`sunau.open` now supports the context manager protocol: when used in a
+:keyword:`with` block, the ``close`` method of the returned object will be
+called automatically at the end of the block.  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka
+in :issue:`18878`.)
 
 
 sys
@@ -1236,6 +1239,15 @@ specified placeholder is added (by default, ``[...]``, stored in the new
 :issue:`18585`.)
 
 
+threading
+---------
+
+The :class:`~threading.Thread` object representing the main thread can be
+obtained from the new :func:`~threading.main_thread` function.  In normal
+conditions this will be the thread from which the Python interpreter was
+started.  (Contributed by Andrew Svetlov in :issue:`18882`.)
+
+
 traceback
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@@ -1569,6 +1581,10 @@ Significant Optimizations
   ``malloc`` in ``obmalloc``.  Artificial benchmarks show about a 3% memory
   savings.
 
+* :func:`os.urandom` now uses a lazily-opened persistent file descriptor
+  so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in parallel from
+  multiple threads. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`18756`.)
+
 
 Deprecated
 ==========