From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:21:32 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: merge 3.5
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a4~16
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c0654d4e60a534b51db8c6e857d4a671237c2463;p=python

merge 3.5
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c0654d4e60a534b51db8c6e857d4a671237c2463
diff --cc Misc/NEWS
index 53b1838d4f,60d6c5f41b..460789c6c8
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@@ -43,21 -34,12 +43,24 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
  -------
  
 +- Issue #27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor()
 +  the ability to specify a thread name prefix.
 +
  - Issue #26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for
 -  subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.
 +  subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.  Removes the never
 +  publicly used, never documented unittest.mock.DescriptorTypes tuple.
 +
 +- Issue #26754: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects
 +  as path in compile() and similar functions is now deprecated.
 +
 +- Issue #26800: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects
 +  as paths in os functions is now deprecated.
 +
 +- Issue #27661: Added tzinfo keyword argument to datetime.combine.
  
+ - In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() is passed a negative
+   value.
+ 
  - Issue #27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large record
    lengths.