From: Martin Panter Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 09:44:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #21313: Merge version parsing from 3.5 X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a2~96 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=58f016909e7feead26d9c6e772a96a66b6e9f970;p=python Issue #21313: Merge version parsing from 3.5 --- 58f016909e7feead26d9c6e772a96a66b6e9f970 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index 614f82ed1c,ff7190258b..93bad2aa63 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -2,179 -2,10 +2,182 @@@ Python News +++++++++++ -What's New in Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1? -=============================================== +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 2 +================================== -Release date: tba +*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX* + +Core and Builtins +----------------- + +- Issue #26983: float() now always return an instance of exact float. + The deprecation warning is emitted if __float__ returns an instance of + a strict subclass of float. In a future versions of Python this can + be an error. + +- Issue #27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized + instruction decoding. Based on patch by Demur Rumed. + +- Issue #26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode. + Patch by Demur Rumed. + +- Issue #23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets: + () = iterable. + +Library +------- + ++- Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version ++ contains truncated build information. ++ +- Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now calls ``getrandom()`` with + ``GRND_NONBLOCK`` to fall back on reading ``/dev/urandom`` if the urandom + entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley. + +- Issue #23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs + for the following modules: cgi, mailbox, mimetypes, plistlib and smtpd. + Patches by Jacek Kołodziej. + +- Issue #27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams + with a predefined zdict. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to completely + write data to the client. Previously it could do partial writes and + truncate data. Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can now handle stdout + doing partial writes, but this is deprecated. + +- Issue #21272: Use _sysconfigdata.py to initialize distutils.sysconfig. + +- Issue #19611: :mod:`inspect` now reports the implicit ``.0`` parameters + generated by the compiler for comprehension and generator expression scopes + as if they were positional-only parameters called ``implicit0``. + Patch by Jelle Zijlstra. + +- Issue #26809: Add ``__all__`` to :mod:`string`. Patch by Emanuel Barry. + +- Issue #26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores + BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() + is called in more/all circumstances. + +- signal, socket, and ssl module IntEnum constant name lookups now return a + consistent name for values having multiple names. Ex: signal.Signals(6) + now refers to itself as signal.SIGALRM rather than flipping between that + and signal.SIGIOT based on the interpreter's hash randomization seed. + +- Issue #27167: Clarify the subprocess.CalledProcessError error message text + when the child process died due to a signal. + +- Issue #25931: Don't define socketserver.Forking* names on platforms such + as Windows that do not support os.fork(). + +- Issue #21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError. + Initial patch by Claudiu Popa. + +- Issue #26526: Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser + module with a simple DFA validator. + +- Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with + PermissionError + +- Issue #18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings + and simplefilter. Based on patch by Alex Shkop. + +- Issue #23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type. + +- Issue #26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning + if the child process is still running. + +- Issue #27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster + to deserialize a lot of small objects. + +- Issue #21271: New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call. + +- Issue #25548: Showing memory address of class objects in repl. + +IDLE +---- + +- Issue #24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory + is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers. + +- Issue #27196: Stop 'ThemeChanged' warnings when running IDLE tests. + These persisted after other warnings were suppressed in #20567. + Apply Serhiy Storchaka's update_idletasks solution to four test files. + Record this additional advice in idle_test/README.txt + +- Issue #20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding + tk warning messages from tests. Apply advice to several IDLE tests. + +- Issue # 24225: Update idlelib/README.txt with new file names + and event handlers. + +- Issue #27156: Remove obsolete code not used by IDLE. Replacements: + 1. help.txt, replaced by help.html, is out-of-date and should not be used. + Its dedicated viewer has be replaced by the html viewer in help.py. + 2. 'import idlever; I = idlever.IDLE_VERSION' is the same as + 'import sys; I = version[:version.index(' ')]' + 3. After 'ob = stackviewer.VariablesTreeItem(*args)', + 'ob.keys()' == 'list(ob.object.keys). + 4. In macosc, runningAsOSXAPP == isAquaTk; idCarbonAquaTk == isCarbonTk + +- Issue #27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes. + Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function. + +- Issue #24225: Rename many idlelib/*.py and idle_test/test_*.py files. + Edit files to replace old names with new names when the old name + referred to the module rather than the class it contained. + See the issue and IDLE section in What's New in 3.6 for more. + +- Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. + Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening. + +- Issue #21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator. + Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. + +- Issue #21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog. + Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. + +- Issue #18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog. + Original patch by Westley Martínez. + +- Issue #21703: Add test for undo delegator. Patch mostly by + Saimadhav Heblikar . + +- Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks. + +- Issue #23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator. + +Tests +----- + +- Issue #25285: regrtest now uses subprocesses when the -j1 command line option + is used: each test file runs in a fresh child process. Before, the -j1 option + was ignored. + +- Issue #25285: Tools/buildbot/test.bat script now uses -j1 by default to run + each test file in fresh child process. + +Windows +------- + +- Issue #27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3. + The Windows launcher ``py.exe`` no longer prefers an installed + Python 2 version over Python 3 by default when used interactively. + +Build +----- + +- Issue #27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds. Patch + by Xavier de Gaye. + +- Issue #26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build + and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h. + + +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 1? +=================================== + +Release date: 2016-05-16 Core and Builtins -----------------