From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 13:32:24 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: merge 3.2 (#12878)
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~1574
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9fd5374d4e7d75bfdaa862df15d0f3fbee5b18ca;p=python

merge 3.2 (#12878)
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index 215bc849f7,514d19afed..662efe7c61
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@@@ -271,17 -28,12 +271,19 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
  -------
  
+ - Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
+ 
  - Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
  
 +- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
 +  getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
 +  read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
 +
 +- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
 +
  - Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
 -  now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
 +  now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.  The packaging commands
 +  were fixed too.
  
  - Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
    the C pickle implementation.