From: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 01:33:40 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Merge with 3.3
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=667a03b292e881f1ab0d0dba181868200d2abaf9;p=python

Merge with 3.3
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667a03b292e881f1ab0d0dba181868200d2abaf9
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@@ -10,48 -12,79 +10,51 @@@ What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1
  Core and Builtins
  -----------------
  
 -- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square
 -  brackets.
 -
 -- Issue #17983: Raise a SyntaxError for a ``global __class__`` statement in a
 -  class body.
 -
 -- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been copied into
 -  a cell, even if the cell was cleared.
 -
 -Library
 --------
 -
 -- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly parses a string input not only when
 -  an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII.
 -
 -- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode().
 -
 -- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of
 -  service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099).
 -
 -- Issue #17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler.
 -
 -- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
 -
 -- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
 -
 -- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr().
 -
 -- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
 -  with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
 -
 -IDLE
 -----
 -
 +- Issue #17206: Py_CLEAR(), Py_DECREF(), Py_XINCREF() and Py_XDECREF() now
 +  expand their arguments once instead of multiple times.  Patch written by Illia
 +  Polosukhin.
+ - Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
+   Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan
+   
 -- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
  
 -- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
 -  Patch by Guilherme Simões.
 +- Issue #17937: Try harder to collect cyclic garbage at shutdown.
  
 -Tests
 ------
 +- Issue #12370: Prevent class bodies from interfering with the __class__
 +  closure.
  
 -- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
 -
 -Documentation
 --------------
 +- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square
 +  brackets.
  
 -- Issue #17953: Mention that you shouldn't replace sys.modules and deleting key
 -  items will cause Python to not be happy.
 +- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
  
 -- Issue #17844: Add links to encoders and decoders for bytes-to-bytes codecs.
 +- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been
 +  copied into a cell, even if the cell was cleared.
  
 -- Issue #14097: improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial.
 +- Issue #1545463: At shutdown, defer finalization of codec modules so
 +  that stderr remains usable.
  
 -- Issue #17977: The documentation for the cadefault argument's default value
 -  in urllib.request.urlopen() is fixed to match the code.
 +- Issue #7330: Implement width and precision (ex: "%5.3s") for the format
 +  string of PyUnicode_FromFormat() function, original patch written by Ysj Ray.
  
 +- Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now
 +  garbage-collected at shutdown.
  
 -What's New in Python 3.3.2?
 -===========================
 +- Issue #17094: Clear stale thread states after fork().  Note that this
 +  is a potentially disruptive change since it may release some system
 +  resources which would otherwise remain perpetually alive (e.g. database
 +  connections kept in thread-local storage).
  
 -*Release date: 13-May-2013*
 +- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
 +  the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.
  
 -Core and Builtins
 ------------------
 +- Issue #5845: Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by
 +  default, thanks to a new sys.__interactivehook__.
  
 -- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
 +- Issue #17115,17116: Module initialization now includes setting __package__ and
 +  __loader__ attributes to None.
  
 -- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
 -  the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.
 +- Issue #17853: Ensure locals of a class that shadow free variables always win
 +  over the closures.
  
  - Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding
    can't be fetched from stdin.