From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 04:03:23 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: merge 3.6 (#29085)
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~1664
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e70ca463eb551fb84b767974b7345606a502390e;p=python

merge 3.6 (#29085)
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@@@ -695,91 -105,15 +695,94 @@@ Test
  - Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
    test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
  
 -Build
 +
 +What's New in Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1?
 +===============================================
 +
 +*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
 +
 +Core and Builtins
 +-----------------
 +
 +- Issue #28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
 +
 +- Issue #25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for
 +  indented blocks.  Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
 +
 +- Issue #29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate
 +  form.
 +
 +- Issue #26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded
 +  to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with
 +  os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.
 +
 +- Issue #28991:  functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy
 +  bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
 +
 +- Issue #28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and
 +  by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
 +
 +- Issue #28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by
 +  PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
 +
 +- Issue #28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been
 +  built with Py_DEBUG defined.
 +
 +- Issue #28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict.
 +  Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
 +
 +Library
 +-------
 +
++- Issue #29085: Allow random.Random.seed() to use high quality OS randomness
++  rather than the pid and time.
++
 +- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
 +
 +- Issue #29055:  Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice()
 +  by suppressing the upstream exception.
 +
 +- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
 +
 +- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
 +  WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
 +  thread.
 +
 +- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a sequence that
 +  doesn't own its elements as limits.
 +
 +- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the
 +  forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
 +  multiprocessing objects such as locks.
 +
 +- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
 +  writes the index file when it is not changed.
 +
 +- Issue #26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail
 +  now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android
 +  platforms.
 +
 +Windows
 +-------
 +
 +- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
 +
 +- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
 +
 +Tests
  -----
  
 -- Issue #28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by
 -  Masayuki Yamamoto
 +- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest
 +  command line arguments.
  
 -- Issue #29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
 +- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise
 +  PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
  
 -- Issue #23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
 +- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
 +  test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
 +
 +Build
 +-----
  
  - Issue #28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK
    macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.