From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 03:52:54 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: merge
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a3~60
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c76aa4832b1b5c2898fe78a188835270bf7b70f6;p=python

merge
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c76aa4832b1b5c2898fe78a188835270bf7b70f6
diff --cc Misc/NEWS
index face3a934e,f74cdb19d1..8845e3df5f
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@@ -7,88 -12,58 +7,91 @@@ Projected Release date: 2013-09-2
  Core and Builtins
  -----------------
  
 -- Issue #18942: sys._debugmallocstats() output was damaged on Windows.
 +- Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional.
  
 -- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions.
 +Library
 +-------
  
 -- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc()
 -  fails.
 +- Issue #18937: Add an assertLogs() context manager to unittest.TestCase
 +  to ensure that a block of code emits a message using the logging module.
  
 -- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().
 +- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
 +  contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
  
 -- Issue #17899: Fix rare file descriptor leak in os.listdir().
++- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError
++  in the underlying iterables.
+ 
 -- Issue #18552: Check return value of PyArena_AddPyObject() in
 -  obj2ast_object().
 +- Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
 +  if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
 +  Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.
  
 -- Issue #18560: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sum().
 +- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the
 +  faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other
 +  variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`.
  
 -- Issue #15905: Fix theoretical buffer overflow in handling of sys.argv[0],
 -  prefix and exec_prefix if the operation system does not obey MAXPATHLEN.
 +Tests
 +-----
  
 -- Issue #18344: Fix potential ref-leaks in _bufferedreader_read_all().
 +- Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when
 +  test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary
 +  Ware.
  
 -- Issue #17872: Fix a segfault in marshal.load() when input stream returns
 -  more bytes than requested.
 +IDLE
 +----
  
 -- Issue #18426: Fix NULL pointer dereference in C extension import when
 -  PyModule_GetDef() returns an error.
 +- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
  
 -- Issue #18328: Reorder ops in PyThreadState_Delete*() functions. Now the
 -  tstate is first removed from TLS and then deallocated.
  
 -- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
 -  OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.
 +What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2?
 +===================================
  
 -- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
 -  and complex.__format__().
 +Release date: 2013-09-09
  
 -- Issue #18183: Fix various unicode operations on strings with large unicode
 -  codepoints.
 +Core and Builtins
 +-----------------
  
 -- Issue #18180: Fix ref leak in _PyImport_GetDynLoadWindows().
 +- Issue #18942: sys._debugmallocstats() output was damaged on Windows.
  
 -- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
 -  encoding now always contains an encoding name.
 +- Issue #18571: Implementation of the PEP 446: file descriptors and file
 +  handles are now created non-inheritable; add functions
 +  os.get/set_inheritable(), os.get/set_handle_inheritable() and
 +  socket.socket.get/set_inheritable().
  
 -- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square
 -  brackets.
 +- Issue #11619: The parser and the import machinery do not encode Unicode
 +  filenames anymore on Windows.
  
 -- Issue #17983: Raise a SyntaxError for a ``global __class__`` statement in a
 -  class body.
 +- Issue #18808: Non-daemon threads are now automatically joined when
 +  a sub-interpreter is shutdown (it would previously dump a fatal error).
  
 -- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been copied into
 -  a cell, even if the cell was cleared.
 +- Remove supporting for compiling on systems without getcwd().
 +
 +- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h.
 +
 +- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost
 +  of hash collisions.  The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair
 +  for each cache line retrieved.
 +
 +- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor
 +  registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead
 +  of ignoring the error.
 +
 +- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code.
 +
 +- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions.
 +
 +- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode.
 +
 +- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins
 +  in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust.
 +
 +- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc()
 +  fail.
 +
 +- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up
 +  expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles.
 +
 +- Issue #18780: %-formatting codes %d, %i, and %u now treat int-subclasses
 +  as int (displays value of int-subclass instead of str(int-subclass) ).
  
  Library
  -------