From f03c5148cfc6873df855bd0edca2940f9a5d8fd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Deily <nad@python.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:21:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 3.6.5rc1

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diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 28f3691d88..7ed3ea08a3 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	6
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	4
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	5
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.4+"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.5rc1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index 8dc41a2c17..f37e672a68 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Dec  5 03:11:02 2017
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Mar 13 21:13:16 2018
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -483,15 +483,19 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '\n'
                      'object.__getattr__(self, name)\n'
                      '\n'
-                     '   Called when an attribute lookup has not found the '
-                     'attribute in the\n'
-                     '   usual places (i.e. it is not an instance attribute '
-                     'nor is it found\n'
-                     '   in the class tree for "self").  "name" is the '
-                     'attribute name. This\n'
-                     '   method should return the (computed) attribute value '
-                     'or raise an\n'
-                     '   "AttributeError" exception.\n'
+                     '   Called when the default attribute access fails with '
+                     'an\n'
+                     '   "AttributeError" (either "__getattribute__()" raises '
+                     'an\n'
+                     '   "AttributeError" because *name* is not an instance '
+                     'attribute or an\n'
+                     '   attribute in the class tree for "self"; or '
+                     '"__get__()" of a *name*\n'
+                     '   property raises "AttributeError").  This method '
+                     'should either\n'
+                     '   return the (computed) attribute value or raise an '
+                     '"AttributeError"\n'
+                     '   exception.\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Note that if the attribute is found through the '
                      'normal mechanism,\n'
@@ -571,6 +575,41 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '   sorts it.\n'
                      '\n'
                      '\n'
+                     'Customizing module attribute access\n'
+                     '===================================\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     'For a more fine grained customization of the module '
+                     'behavior (setting\n'
+                     'attributes, properties, etc.), one can set the '
+                     '"__class__" attribute\n'
+                     'of a module object to a subclass of "types.ModuleType". '
+                     'For example:\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '   import sys\n'
+                     '   from types import ModuleType\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '   class VerboseModule(ModuleType):\n'
+                     '       def __repr__(self):\n'
+                     "           return f'Verbose {self.__name__}'\n"
+                     '\n'
+                     '       def __setattr__(self, attr, value):\n'
+                     "           print(f'Setting {attr}...')\n"
+                     '           setattr(self, attr, value)\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '   sys.modules[__name__].__class__ = VerboseModule\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     'Note: Setting module "__class__" only affects lookups '
+                     'made using the\n'
+                     '  attribute access syntax -- directly accessing the '
+                     'module globals\n'
+                     '  (whether by code within the module, or via a reference '
+                     'to the\n'
+                     "  module's globals dictionary) is unaffected.\n"
+                     '\n'
+                     'Changed in version 3.5: "__class__" module attribute is '
+                     'now writable.\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'Implementing Descriptors\n'
                      '========================\n'
                      '\n'
@@ -742,23 +781,15 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '__slots__\n'
                      '=========\n'
                      '\n'
-                     'By default, instances of classes have a dictionary for '
-                     'attribute\n'
-                     'storage.  This wastes space for objects having very few '
-                     'instance\n'
-                     'variables.  The space consumption can become acute when '
-                     'creating large\n'
-                     'numbers of instances.\n'
+                     '*__slots__* allow us to explicitly declare data members '
+                     '(like\n'
+                     'properties) and deny the creation of *__dict__* and '
+                     '*__weakref__*\n'
+                     '(unless explicitly declared in *__slots__* or available '
+                     'in a parent.)\n'
                      '\n'
-                     'The default can be overridden by defining *__slots__* in '
-                     'a class\n'
-                     'definition. The *__slots__* declaration takes a sequence '
-                     'of instance\n'
-                     'variables and reserves just enough space in each '
-                     'instance to hold a\n'
-                     'value for each variable.  Space is saved because '
-                     '*__dict__* is not\n'
-                     'created for each instance.\n'
+                     'The space saved over using *__dict__* can be '
+                     'significant.\n'
                      '\n'
                      'object.__slots__\n'
                      '\n'
@@ -778,9 +809,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '\n'
                      '* When inheriting from a class without *__slots__*, the '
                      '*__dict__*\n'
-                     '  attribute of that class will always be accessible, so '
-                     'a *__slots__*\n'
-                     '  definition in the subclass is meaningless.\n'
+                     '  and *__weakref__* attribute of the instances will '
+                     'always be\n'
+                     '  accessible.\n'
                      '\n'
                      '* Without a *__dict__* variable, instances cannot be '
                      'assigned new\n'
@@ -814,13 +845,16 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'the class\n'
                      '  attribute would overwrite the descriptor assignment.\n'
                      '\n'
-                     '* The action of a *__slots__* declaration is limited to '
-                     'the class\n'
-                     '  where it is defined.  As a result, subclasses will '
-                     'have a *__dict__*\n'
-                     '  unless they also define *__slots__* (which must only '
-                     'contain names\n'
-                     '  of any *additional* slots).\n'
+                     '* The action of a *__slots__* declaration is not limited '
+                     'to the\n'
+                     '  class where it is defined.  *__slots__* declared in '
+                     'parents are\n'
+                     '  available in child classes. However, child subclasses '
+                     'will get a\n'
+                     '  *__dict__* and *__weakref__* unless they also define '
+                     '*__slots__*\n'
+                     '  (which should only contain names of any *additional* '
+                     'slots).\n'
                      '\n'
                      '* If a class defines a slot also defined in a base '
                      'class, the\n'
@@ -845,7 +879,15 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '\n'
                      '* *__class__* assignment works only if both classes have '
                      'the same\n'
-                     '  *__slots__*.\n',
+                     '  *__slots__*.\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '* Multiple inheritance with multiple slotted parent '
+                     'classes can be\n'
+                     '  used, but only one parent is allowed to have '
+                     'attributes created by\n'
+                     '  slots (the other bases must have empty slot layouts) - '
+                     'violations\n'
+                     '  raise "TypeError".\n',
  'attribute-references': 'Attribute references\n'
                          '********************\n'
                          '\n'
@@ -2893,63 +2935,52 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   Called when the instance is about to be destroyed.  This '
                   'is also\n'
-                  '   called a destructor.  If a base class has a "__del__()" '
-                  'method, the\n'
-                  '   derived class\'s "__del__()" method, if any, must '
-                  'explicitly call it\n'
-                  '   to ensure proper deletion of the base class part of the '
-                  'instance.\n'
-                  '   Note that it is possible (though not recommended!) for '
+                  '   called a finalizer or (improperly) a destructor.  If a '
+                  'base class\n'
+                  '   has a "__del__()" method, the derived class\'s '
+                  '"__del__()" method,\n'
+                  '   if any, must explicitly call it to ensure proper '
+                  'deletion of the\n'
+                  '   base class part of the instance.\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '   It is possible (though not recommended!) for the '
+                  '"__del__()" method\n'
+                  '   to postpone destruction of the instance by creating a '
+                  'new reference\n'
+                  '   to it.  This is called object *resurrection*.  It is\n'
+                  '   implementation-dependent whether "__del__()" is called a '
+                  'second\n'
+                  '   time when a resurrected object is about to be destroyed; '
                   'the\n'
-                  '   "__del__()" method to postpone destruction of the '
-                  'instance by\n'
-                  '   creating a new reference to it.  It may then be called '
-                  'at a later\n'
-                  '   time when this new reference is deleted.  It is not '
-                  'guaranteed that\n'
-                  '   "__del__()" methods are called for objects that still '
-                  'exist when\n'
-                  '   the interpreter exits.\n'
+                  '   current *CPython* implementation only calls it once.\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '   It is not guaranteed that "__del__()" methods are called '
+                  'for\n'
+                  '   objects that still exist when the interpreter exits.\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   Note: "del x" doesn\'t directly call "x.__del__()" --- '
                   'the former\n'
                   '     decrements the reference count for "x" by one, and the '
                   'latter is\n'
-                  '     only called when "x"\'s reference count reaches zero.  '
-                  'Some common\n'
-                  '     situations that may prevent the reference count of an '
-                  'object from\n'
-                  '     going to zero include: circular references between '
-                  'objects (e.g.,\n'
-                  '     a doubly-linked list or a tree data structure with '
-                  'parent and\n'
-                  '     child pointers); a reference to the object on the '
-                  'stack frame of\n'
-                  '     a function that caught an exception (the traceback '
-                  'stored in\n'
-                  '     "sys.exc_info()[2]" keeps the stack frame alive); or a '
+                  '     only called when "x"\'s reference count reaches zero.\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '   **CPython implementation detail:** It is possible for a '
                   'reference\n'
-                  '     to the object on the stack frame that raised an '
-                  'unhandled\n'
-                  '     exception in interactive mode (the traceback stored '
-                  'in\n'
-                  '     "sys.last_traceback" keeps the stack frame alive).  '
-                  'The first\n'
-                  '     situation can only be remedied by explicitly breaking '
-                  'the cycles;\n'
-                  '     the second can be resolved by freeing the reference to '
-                  'the\n'
-                  '     traceback object when it is no longer useful, and the '
-                  'third can\n'
-                  '     be resolved by storing "None" in "sys.last_traceback". '
-                  'Circular\n'
-                  '     references which are garbage are detected and cleaned '
-                  'up when the\n'
-                  "     cyclic garbage collector is enabled (it's on by "
-                  'default). Refer\n'
-                  '     to the documentation for the "gc" module for more '
-                  'information\n'
-                  '     about this topic.\n'
+                  '   cycle to prevent the reference count of an object from '
+                  'going to\n'
+                  '   zero.  In this case, the cycle will be later detected '
+                  'and deleted\n'
+                  '   by the *cyclic garbage collector*.  A common cause of '
+                  'reference\n'
+                  '   cycles is when an exception has been caught in a local '
+                  'variable.\n'
+                  "   The frame's locals then reference the exception, which "
+                  'references\n'
+                  '   its own traceback, which references the locals of all '
+                  'frames caught\n'
+                  '   in the traceback.\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '   See also: Documentation for the "gc" module.\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   Warning: Due to the precarious circumstances under '
                   'which\n'
@@ -2957,29 +2988,35 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'during\n'
                   '     their execution are ignored, and a warning is printed '
                   'to\n'
-                  '     "sys.stderr" instead. Also, when "__del__()" is '
-                  'invoked in\n'
-                  '     response to a module being deleted (e.g., when '
-                  'execution of the\n'
-                  '     program is done), other globals referenced by the '
+                  '     "sys.stderr" instead. In particular:\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '     * "__del__()" can be invoked when arbitrary code is '
+                  'being\n'
+                  '       executed, including from any arbitrary thread.  If '
                   '"__del__()"\n'
-                  '     method may already have been deleted or in the process '
-                  'of being\n'
-                  '     torn down (e.g. the import machinery shutting down).  '
-                  'For this\n'
-                  '     reason, "__del__()" methods should do the absolute '
-                  'minimum needed\n'
-                  '     to maintain external invariants.  Starting with '
-                  'version 1.5,\n'
-                  '     Python guarantees that globals whose name begins with '
-                  'a single\n'
-                  '     underscore are deleted from their module before other '
-                  'globals are\n'
-                  '     deleted; if no other references to such globals exist, '
-                  'this may\n'
-                  '     help in assuring that imported modules are still '
-                  'available at the\n'
-                  '     time when the "__del__()" method is called.\n'
+                  '       needs to take a lock or invoke any other blocking '
+                  'resource, it\n'
+                  '       may deadlock as the resource may already be taken by '
+                  'the code\n'
+                  '       that gets interrupted to execute "__del__()".\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '     * "__del__()" can be executed during interpreter '
+                  'shutdown.  As\n'
+                  '       a consequence, the global variables it needs to '
+                  'access\n'
+                  '       (including other modules) may already have been '
+                  'deleted or set\n'
+                  '       to "None". Python guarantees that globals whose name '
+                  'begins\n'
+                  '       with a single underscore are deleted from their '
+                  'module before\n'
+                  '       other globals are deleted; if no other references to '
+                  'such\n'
+                  '       globals exist, this may help in assuring that '
+                  'imported modules\n'
+                  '       are still available at the time when the "__del__()" '
+                  'method is\n'
+                  '       called.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'object.__repr__(self)\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -4606,9 +4643,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'conversion] [":" format_spec] "}"\n'
                   '      field_name        ::= arg_name ("." attribute_name | '
                   '"[" element_index "]")*\n'
-                  '      arg_name          ::= [identifier | integer]\n'
+                  '      arg_name          ::= [identifier | digit+]\n'
                   '      attribute_name    ::= identifier\n'
-                  '      element_index     ::= integer | index_string\n'
+                  '      element_index     ::= digit+ | index_string\n'
                   '      index_string      ::= <any source character except '
                   '"]"> +\n'
                   '      conversion        ::= "r" | "s" | "a"\n'
@@ -4767,9 +4804,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '   fill            ::= <any character>\n'
                   '   align           ::= "<" | ">" | "=" | "^"\n'
                   '   sign            ::= "+" | "-" | " "\n'
-                  '   width           ::= integer\n'
+                  '   width           ::= digit+\n'
                   '   grouping_option ::= "_" | ","\n'
-                  '   precision       ::= integer\n'
+                  '   precision       ::= digit+\n'
                   '   type            ::= "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "E" | "f" | '
                   '"F" | "g" | "G" | "n" | "o" | "s" | "x" | "X" | "%"\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -6523,13 +6560,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'object.__complex__(self)\n'
                   'object.__int__(self)\n'
                   'object.__float__(self)\n'
-                  'object.__round__(self[, n])\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   Called to implement the built-in functions "complex()", '
-                  '"int()",\n'
-                  '   "float()" and "round()".  Should return a value of the '
-                  'appropriate\n'
-                  '   type.\n'
+                  '"int()" and\n'
+                  '   "float()".  Should return a value of the appropriate '
+                  'type.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'object.__index__(self)\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -6547,7 +6582,25 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'when\n'
                   '     "__index__()" is defined "__int__()" should also be '
                   'defined, and\n'
-                  '     both should return the same value.\n',
+                  '     both should return the same value.\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  'object.__round__(self[, ndigits])\n'
+                  'object.__trunc__(self)\n'
+                  'object.__floor__(self)\n'
+                  'object.__ceil__(self)\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '   Called to implement the built-in function "round()" and '
+                  '"math"\n'
+                  '   functions "trunc()", "floor()" and "ceil()". Unless '
+                  '*ndigits* is\n'
+                  '   passed to "__round__()" all these methods should return '
+                  'the value\n'
+                  '   of the object truncated to an "Integral" (typically an '
+                  '"int").\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  '   If "__int__()" is not defined then the built-in function '
+                  '"int()"\n'
+                  '   falls back to "__trunc__()".\n',
  'objects': 'Objects, values and types\n'
             '*************************\n'
             '\n'
@@ -7548,91 +7601,87 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called when the instance is about to be destroyed.  This '
                  'is also\n'
-                 '   called a destructor.  If a base class has a "__del__()" '
-                 'method, the\n'
-                 '   derived class\'s "__del__()" method, if any, must '
-                 'explicitly call it\n'
-                 '   to ensure proper deletion of the base class part of the '
-                 'instance.\n'
-                 '   Note that it is possible (though not recommended!) for '
+                 '   called a finalizer or (improperly) a destructor.  If a '
+                 'base class\n'
+                 '   has a "__del__()" method, the derived class\'s '
+                 '"__del__()" method,\n'
+                 '   if any, must explicitly call it to ensure proper deletion '
+                 'of the\n'
+                 '   base class part of the instance.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   It is possible (though not recommended!) for the '
+                 '"__del__()" method\n'
+                 '   to postpone destruction of the instance by creating a new '
+                 'reference\n'
+                 '   to it.  This is called object *resurrection*.  It is\n'
+                 '   implementation-dependent whether "__del__()" is called a '
+                 'second\n'
+                 '   time when a resurrected object is about to be destroyed; '
                  'the\n'
-                 '   "__del__()" method to postpone destruction of the '
-                 'instance by\n'
-                 '   creating a new reference to it.  It may then be called at '
-                 'a later\n'
-                 '   time when this new reference is deleted.  It is not '
-                 'guaranteed that\n'
-                 '   "__del__()" methods are called for objects that still '
-                 'exist when\n'
-                 '   the interpreter exits.\n'
+                 '   current *CPython* implementation only calls it once.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   It is not guaranteed that "__del__()" methods are called '
+                 'for\n'
+                 '   objects that still exist when the interpreter exits.\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Note: "del x" doesn\'t directly call "x.__del__()" --- '
                  'the former\n'
                  '     decrements the reference count for "x" by one, and the '
                  'latter is\n'
-                 '     only called when "x"\'s reference count reaches zero.  '
-                 'Some common\n'
-                 '     situations that may prevent the reference count of an '
-                 'object from\n'
-                 '     going to zero include: circular references between '
-                 'objects (e.g.,\n'
-                 '     a doubly-linked list or a tree data structure with '
-                 'parent and\n'
-                 '     child pointers); a reference to the object on the stack '
-                 'frame of\n'
-                 '     a function that caught an exception (the traceback '
-                 'stored in\n'
-                 '     "sys.exc_info()[2]" keeps the stack frame alive); or a '
+                 '     only called when "x"\'s reference count reaches zero.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   **CPython implementation detail:** It is possible for a '
                  'reference\n'
-                 '     to the object on the stack frame that raised an '
-                 'unhandled\n'
-                 '     exception in interactive mode (the traceback stored in\n'
-                 '     "sys.last_traceback" keeps the stack frame alive).  The '
-                 'first\n'
-                 '     situation can only be remedied by explicitly breaking '
-                 'the cycles;\n'
-                 '     the second can be resolved by freeing the reference to '
-                 'the\n'
-                 '     traceback object when it is no longer useful, and the '
-                 'third can\n'
-                 '     be resolved by storing "None" in "sys.last_traceback". '
-                 'Circular\n'
-                 '     references which are garbage are detected and cleaned '
-                 'up when the\n'
-                 "     cyclic garbage collector is enabled (it's on by "
-                 'default). Refer\n'
-                 '     to the documentation for the "gc" module for more '
-                 'information\n'
-                 '     about this topic.\n'
+                 '   cycle to prevent the reference count of an object from '
+                 'going to\n'
+                 '   zero.  In this case, the cycle will be later detected and '
+                 'deleted\n'
+                 '   by the *cyclic garbage collector*.  A common cause of '
+                 'reference\n'
+                 '   cycles is when an exception has been caught in a local '
+                 'variable.\n'
+                 "   The frame's locals then reference the exception, which "
+                 'references\n'
+                 '   its own traceback, which references the locals of all '
+                 'frames caught\n'
+                 '   in the traceback.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   See also: Documentation for the "gc" module.\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Warning: Due to the precarious circumstances under which\n'
                  '     "__del__()" methods are invoked, exceptions that occur '
                  'during\n'
                  '     their execution are ignored, and a warning is printed '
                  'to\n'
-                 '     "sys.stderr" instead. Also, when "__del__()" is invoked '
-                 'in\n'
-                 '     response to a module being deleted (e.g., when '
-                 'execution of the\n'
-                 '     program is done), other globals referenced by the '
+                 '     "sys.stderr" instead. In particular:\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '     * "__del__()" can be invoked when arbitrary code is '
+                 'being\n'
+                 '       executed, including from any arbitrary thread.  If '
                  '"__del__()"\n'
-                 '     method may already have been deleted or in the process '
-                 'of being\n'
-                 '     torn down (e.g. the import machinery shutting down).  '
-                 'For this\n'
-                 '     reason, "__del__()" methods should do the absolute '
-                 'minimum needed\n'
-                 '     to maintain external invariants.  Starting with version '
-                 '1.5,\n'
-                 '     Python guarantees that globals whose name begins with a '
-                 'single\n'
-                 '     underscore are deleted from their module before other '
-                 'globals are\n'
-                 '     deleted; if no other references to such globals exist, '
-                 'this may\n'
-                 '     help in assuring that imported modules are still '
-                 'available at the\n'
-                 '     time when the "__del__()" method is called.\n'
+                 '       needs to take a lock or invoke any other blocking '
+                 'resource, it\n'
+                 '       may deadlock as the resource may already be taken by '
+                 'the code\n'
+                 '       that gets interrupted to execute "__del__()".\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '     * "__del__()" can be executed during interpreter '
+                 'shutdown.  As\n'
+                 '       a consequence, the global variables it needs to '
+                 'access\n'
+                 '       (including other modules) may already have been '
+                 'deleted or set\n'
+                 '       to "None". Python guarantees that globals whose name '
+                 'begins\n'
+                 '       with a single underscore are deleted from their '
+                 'module before\n'
+                 '       other globals are deleted; if no other references to '
+                 'such\n'
+                 '       globals exist, this may help in assuring that '
+                 'imported modules\n'
+                 '       are still available at the time when the "__del__()" '
+                 'method is\n'
+                 '       called.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__repr__(self)\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -7924,15 +7973,17 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__getattr__(self, name)\n'
                  '\n'
-                 '   Called when an attribute lookup has not found the '
-                 'attribute in the\n'
-                 '   usual places (i.e. it is not an instance attribute nor is '
-                 'it found\n'
-                 '   in the class tree for "self").  "name" is the attribute '
-                 'name. This\n'
-                 '   method should return the (computed) attribute value or '
-                 'raise an\n'
-                 '   "AttributeError" exception.\n'
+                 '   Called when the default attribute access fails with an\n'
+                 '   "AttributeError" (either "__getattribute__()" raises an\n'
+                 '   "AttributeError" because *name* is not an instance '
+                 'attribute or an\n'
+                 '   attribute in the class tree for "self"; or "__get__()" of '
+                 'a *name*\n'
+                 '   property raises "AttributeError").  This method should '
+                 'either\n'
+                 '   return the (computed) attribute value or raise an '
+                 '"AttributeError"\n'
+                 '   exception.\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Note that if the attribute is found through the normal '
                  'mechanism,\n'
@@ -8011,6 +8062,41 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '   sorts it.\n'
                  '\n'
                  '\n'
+                 'Customizing module attribute access\n'
+                 '-----------------------------------\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 'For a more fine grained customization of the module behavior '
+                 '(setting\n'
+                 'attributes, properties, etc.), one can set the "__class__" '
+                 'attribute\n'
+                 'of a module object to a subclass of "types.ModuleType". For '
+                 'example:\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   import sys\n'
+                 '   from types import ModuleType\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   class VerboseModule(ModuleType):\n'
+                 '       def __repr__(self):\n'
+                 "           return f'Verbose {self.__name__}'\n"
+                 '\n'
+                 '       def __setattr__(self, attr, value):\n'
+                 "           print(f'Setting {attr}...')\n"
+                 '           setattr(self, attr, value)\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   sys.modules[__name__].__class__ = VerboseModule\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 'Note: Setting module "__class__" only affects lookups made '
+                 'using the\n'
+                 '  attribute access syntax -- directly accessing the module '
+                 'globals\n'
+                 '  (whether by code within the module, or via a reference to '
+                 'the\n'
+                 "  module's globals dictionary) is unaffected.\n"
+                 '\n'
+                 'Changed in version 3.5: "__class__" module attribute is now '
+                 'writable.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'Implementing Descriptors\n'
                  '------------------------\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -8179,23 +8265,14 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '__slots__\n'
                  '---------\n'
                  '\n'
-                 'By default, instances of classes have a dictionary for '
-                 'attribute\n'
-                 'storage.  This wastes space for objects having very few '
-                 'instance\n'
-                 'variables.  The space consumption can become acute when '
-                 'creating large\n'
-                 'numbers of instances.\n'
+                 '*__slots__* allow us to explicitly declare data members '
+                 '(like\n'
+                 'properties) and deny the creation of *__dict__* and '
+                 '*__weakref__*\n'
+                 '(unless explicitly declared in *__slots__* or available in a '
+                 'parent.)\n'
                  '\n'
-                 'The default can be overridden by defining *__slots__* in a '
-                 'class\n'
-                 'definition. The *__slots__* declaration takes a sequence of '
-                 'instance\n'
-                 'variables and reserves just enough space in each instance to '
-                 'hold a\n'
-                 'value for each variable.  Space is saved because *__dict__* '
-                 'is not\n'
-                 'created for each instance.\n'
+                 'The space saved over using *__dict__* can be significant.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__slots__\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -8215,9 +8292,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '\n'
                  '* When inheriting from a class without *__slots__*, the '
                  '*__dict__*\n'
-                 '  attribute of that class will always be accessible, so a '
-                 '*__slots__*\n'
-                 '  definition in the subclass is meaningless.\n'
+                 '  and *__weakref__* attribute of the instances will always '
+                 'be\n'
+                 '  accessible.\n'
                  '\n'
                  '* Without a *__dict__* variable, instances cannot be '
                  'assigned new\n'
@@ -8249,13 +8326,16 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'class\n'
                  '  attribute would overwrite the descriptor assignment.\n'
                  '\n'
-                 '* The action of a *__slots__* declaration is limited to the '
-                 'class\n'
-                 '  where it is defined.  As a result, subclasses will have a '
-                 '*__dict__*\n'
-                 '  unless they also define *__slots__* (which must only '
-                 'contain names\n'
-                 '  of any *additional* slots).\n'
+                 '* The action of a *__slots__* declaration is not limited to '
+                 'the\n'
+                 '  class where it is defined.  *__slots__* declared in '
+                 'parents are\n'
+                 '  available in child classes. However, child subclasses will '
+                 'get a\n'
+                 '  *__dict__* and *__weakref__* unless they also define '
+                 '*__slots__*\n'
+                 '  (which should only contain names of any *additional* '
+                 'slots).\n'
                  '\n'
                  '* If a class defines a slot also defined in a base class, '
                  'the\n'
@@ -8282,6 +8362,14 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'same\n'
                  '  *__slots__*.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '* Multiple inheritance with multiple slotted parent classes '
+                 'can be\n'
+                 '  used, but only one parent is allowed to have attributes '
+                 'created by\n'
+                 '  slots (the other bases must have empty slot layouts) - '
+                 'violations\n'
+                 '  raise "TypeError".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Customizing class creation\n'
                  '==========================\n'
@@ -9049,13 +9137,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'object.__complex__(self)\n'
                  'object.__int__(self)\n'
                  'object.__float__(self)\n'
-                 'object.__round__(self[, n])\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called to implement the built-in functions "complex()", '
-                 '"int()",\n'
-                 '   "float()" and "round()".  Should return a value of the '
-                 'appropriate\n'
-                 '   type.\n'
+                 '"int()" and\n'
+                 '   "float()".  Should return a value of the appropriate '
+                 'type.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__index__(self)\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -9075,6 +9161,24 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'defined, and\n'
                  '     both should return the same value.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 'object.__round__(self[, ndigits])\n'
+                 'object.__trunc__(self)\n'
+                 'object.__floor__(self)\n'
+                 'object.__ceil__(self)\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   Called to implement the built-in function "round()" and '
+                 '"math"\n'
+                 '   functions "trunc()", "floor()" and "ceil()". Unless '
+                 '*ndigits* is\n'
+                 '   passed to "__round__()" all these methods should return '
+                 'the value\n'
+                 '   of the object truncated to an "Integral" (typically an '
+                 '"int").\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   If "__int__()" is not defined then the built-in function '
+                 '"int()"\n'
+                 '   falls back to "__trunc__()".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '\n'
                  'With Statement Context Managers\n'
                  '===============================\n'
@@ -9409,6 +9513,27 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '   formatting options that can be specified in format '
                    'strings.\n'
                    '\n'
+                   '   Note: When formatting a number ("int", "float", "float" '
+                   'and\n'
+                   '     subclasses) with the "n" type (ex: '
+                   '"\'{:n}\'.format(1234)"), the\n'
+                   '     function sets temporarily the "LC_CTYPE" locale to '
+                   'the\n'
+                   '     "LC_NUMERIC" locale to decode "decimal_point" and '
+                   '"thousands_sep"\n'
+                   '     fields of "localeconv()" if they are non-ASCII or '
+                   'longer than 1\n'
+                   '     byte, and the "LC_NUMERIC" locale is different than '
+                   'the\n'
+                   '     "LC_CTYPE" locale. This temporary change affects '
+                   'other threads.\n'
+                   '\n'
+                   '   Changed in version 3.6.5: When formatting a number with '
+                   'the "n"\n'
+                   '   type, the function sets temporarily the "LC_CTYPE" '
+                   'locale to the\n'
+                   '   "LC_NUMERIC" locale in some cases.\n'
+                   '\n'
                    'str.format_map(mapping)\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   Similar to "str.format(**mapping)", except that '
@@ -12173,18 +12298,18 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '   sequence concatenation or repetition.\n'
              '\n'
              '8. "index" raises "ValueError" when *x* is not found in *s*. '
-             'When\n'
-             '   supported, the additional arguments to the index method '
-             'allow\n'
-             '   efficient searching of subsections of the sequence. Passing '
-             'the\n'
-             '   extra arguments is roughly equivalent to using '
-             '"s[i:j].index(x)",\n'
-             '   only without copying any data and with the returned index '
-             'being\n'
-             '   relative to the start of the sequence rather than the start '
-             'of the\n'
-             '   slice.\n'
+             'Not\n'
+             '   all implementations support passing the additional arguments '
+             '*i*\n'
+             '   and *j*. These arguments allow efficient searching of '
+             'subsections\n'
+             '   of the sequence. Passing the extra arguments is roughly '
+             'equivalent\n'
+             '   to using "s[i:j].index(x)", only without copying any data and '
+             'with\n'
+             '   the returned index being relative to the start of the '
+             'sequence\n'
+             '   rather than the start of the slice.\n'
              '\n'
              '\n'
              'Immutable Sequence Types\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.5rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.5rc1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5231de1c6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.5rc1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,867 @@
+.. bpo: 33001
+.. date: 2018-03-05-10-09-51
+.. nonce: elj4Aa
+.. release date: 2018-03-13
+.. section: Security
+
+Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32981
+.. date: 2018-03-02-10-24-52
+.. nonce: O_qDyj
+.. section: Security
+
+Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking.
+These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been
+refactored. This resolves CVE-2018-1060 and CVE-2018-1061. Patch by Jamie
+Davis.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33026
+.. date: 2018-03-08-09-48-38
+.. nonce: QZA3Ba
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed jumping out of "with" block by setting f_lineno.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17288
+.. date: 2018-02-27-13-36-21
+.. nonce: Gdj24S
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Prevent jumps from 'return' and 'exception' trace events.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32889
+.. date: 2018-02-20-21-53-48
+.. nonce: J6eWy5
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
+``Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG`` to ``address_in_range``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32650
+.. date: 2018-01-28-23-01-39
+.. nonce: Bbi7ek
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next
+command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32685
+.. date: 2018-01-28-12-25-06
+.. nonce: nGctze
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improve suggestion when the Python 2 form of print statement is either
+present on the same line as the header of a compound statement or else
+terminated by a semi-colon instead of a newline. Patch by Nitish Chandra.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32583
+.. date: 2018-01-26-21-20-21
+.. nonce: Fh3fau
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write out-of-
+bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26163
+.. date: 2018-01-14-20-32-47
+.. nonce: xv9Iuv
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced
+with datasets containing many similar values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27169
+.. date: 2017-12-15-11-50-06
+.. nonce: VO84fQ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The ``__debug__`` constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes
+also bpo-22091.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32329
+.. date: 2017-12-15-00-55-35
+.. nonce: XL1O99
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+``sys.flags.hash_randomization`` is now properly set to 0 when hash
+randomization is turned off by ``PYTHONHASHSEED=0``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30416
+.. date: 2017-12-14-11-48-19
+.. nonce: hlHo_9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The optimizer is now protected from spending much time doing complex
+calculations and consuming much memory for creating large constants in
+constant folding.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18533
+.. date: 2017-12-13-16-46-23
+.. nonce: Dlk8d7
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``values()`` or ``items()`` no
+longer raises ``RecursionError``; OrderedDict similarly.  Instead, use
+``...``, as for other recursive structures.  Patch by Ben North.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32028
+.. date: 2017-12-03-22-29-13
+.. nonce: KC2w4Q
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions for
+converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls. Patch
+by Sanyam Khurana.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32137
+.. date: 2017-11-26-14-36-30
+.. nonce: Stj5nL
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of
+crashing due to a stack overflow.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33064
+.. date: 2018-03-12-19-58-25
+.. nonce: LO2KIY
+.. section: Library
+
+lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after ``*args`` and
+``**kwargs`` in function signatures.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31804
+.. date: 2018-03-11-19-03-52
+.. nonce: i8KUMp
+.. section: Library
+
+Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed
+or None at exit.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33037
+.. date: 2018-03-09-23-07-07
+.. nonce: nAJ3at
+.. section: Library
+
+Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30353
+.. date: 2018-03-08-09-54-01
+.. nonce: XdE5aM
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ctypes pass-by-value for structs on 64-bit Cygwin/MinGW.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33009
+.. date: 2018-03-06-11-54-59
+.. nonce: -Ekysb
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32969
+.. date: 2018-03-06-00-19-41
+.. nonce: rGTKa0
+.. section: Library
+
+Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding
+documentation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32713
+.. date: 2018-02-26-13-16-36
+.. nonce: 55yegW
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey
+Fuhrer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30622
+.. date: 2018-02-24-21-40-42
+.. nonce: dQjxSe
+.. section: Library
+
+The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32922
+.. date: 2018-02-23-19-12-04
+.. nonce: u-xe0B
+.. section: Library
+
+dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than
+default encoding.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32859
+.. date: 2018-02-19-17-46-31
+.. nonce: kAT-Xp
+.. section: Library
+
+In ``os.dup2``, don't check every call whether the ``dup3`` syscall exists
+or not.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21060
+.. date: 2018-02-17-19-20-19
+.. nonce: S1Z-x6
+.. section: Library
+
+Rewrite confusing message from setup.py upload from "No dist file created in
+earlier command" to the more helpful "Must create and upload files in one
+command".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32857
+.. date: 2018-02-16-14-37-14
+.. nonce: -XljAx
+.. section: Library
+
+In :mod:`tkinter`, ``after_cancel(None)`` now raises a :exc:`ValueError`
+instead of canceling the first scheduled function.  Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32852
+.. date: 2018-02-15-12-04-29
+.. nonce: HDqIxM
+.. section: Library
+
+Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32841
+.. date: 2018-02-14-00-21-24
+.. nonce: bvHDOc
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed `asyncio.Condition` issue which silently ignored cancellation after
+notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31787
+.. date: 2018-02-09-21-41-56
+.. nonce: owSZ2t
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed refleaks of ``__init__()`` methods in various modules. (Contributed by
+Oren Milman)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30157
+.. date: 2018-02-09-14-44-43
+.. nonce: lEiiAK
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last
+field is quoted.  Patch by Jake Davis.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32394
+.. date: 2018-02-08-08-18-26
+.. nonce: 6E_7X7
+.. section: Library
+
+socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN, TCP_KEEPCNT flags on older version Windows
+during run-time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32777
+.. date: 2018-02-05-21-28-28
+.. nonce: C-wIXF
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a rare but potential pre-exec child process deadlock in subprocess on
+POSIX systems when marking file descriptors inheritable on exec in the child
+process.  This bug appears to have been introduced in 3.4.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32647
+.. date: 2018-02-05-13-31-42
+.. nonce: ktmfR_
+.. section: Library
+
+The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared
+extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32734
+.. date: 2018-02-01-01-34-47
+.. nonce: gCV9AD
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed ``asyncio.Lock()`` safety issue which allowed acquiring and locking
+the same lock multiple times, without it being free. Patch by Bar Harel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32727
+.. date: 2018-01-30-17-46-18
+.. nonce: aHVsRC
+.. section: Library
+
+Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane
+Wirtel
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27931
+.. date: 2018-01-25-21-04-11
+.. nonce: e4r52t
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted
+string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32304
+.. date: 2018-01-21-16-33-53
+.. nonce: TItrNv
+.. section: Library
+
+distutils' upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending with a CR
+byte, and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the upload text
+fields.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32502
+.. date: 2018-01-20-17-15-34
+.. nonce: OXJfn7
+.. section: Library
+
+uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is
+encountered.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31848
+.. date: 2018-01-18-23-34-17
+.. nonce: M2cldy
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not
+found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32555
+.. date: 2018-01-15-17-52-47
+.. nonce: CMq2zF
+.. section: Library
+
+On FreeBSD and Solaris, os.strerror() now always decode the byte string from
+the current locale encoding, rather than using ASCII/surrogateescape in some
+cases.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32521
+.. date: 2018-01-15-12-53-13
+.. nonce: IxX4Ba
+.. section: Library
+
+The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32473
+.. date: 2018-01-10-20-37-59
+.. nonce: mP_yJG
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32521
+.. date: 2018-01-08-18-02-33
+.. nonce: Kh-KoN
+.. section: Library
+
+glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in
+nis module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32228
+.. date: 2017-12-22-16-47-41
+.. nonce: waPx3q
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure that ``truncate()`` preserves the file position (as reported by
+``tell()``) after writes longer than the buffer size.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26133
+.. date: 2017-12-21-11-08-42
+.. nonce: mt81QV
+.. section: Library
+
+Don't unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter
+shutdown.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32185
+.. date: 2017-12-20-09-25-10
+.. nonce: IL0cMt
+.. section: Library
+
+The SSL module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS extension on
+platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.2+ or inet_pton.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32323
+.. date: 2017-12-14-10-10-10
+.. nonce: ideco
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`urllib.parse.urlsplit()` does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower
+case for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32302
+.. date: 2017-12-13-22-38-08
+.. nonce: othtTr
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT
+v140.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32255
+.. date: 2017-12-12-07-29-06
+.. nonce: 2bfNmM
+.. section: Library
+
+A single empty field is now always quoted when written into a CSV file. This
+allows to distinguish an empty row from a row consisting of a single empty
+field. Patch by Licht Takeuchi.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32277
+.. date: 2017-12-11-09-53-14
+.. nonce: jkKiVC
+.. section: Library
+
+Raise ``NotImplementedError`` instead of ``SystemError`` on platforms where
+``chmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)`` is not supported.  Patch by Anthony
+Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32199
+.. date: 2017-12-04-12-23-26
+.. nonce: nGof4v
+.. section: Library
+
+The getnode() ip getter now uses 'ip link' instead of 'ip link list'.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27456
+.. date: 2017-11-02-11-57-41
+.. nonce: snzyTC
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31900
+.. date: 2017-10-30-15-55-32
+.. nonce: -S9xc4
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`locale.localeconv` function now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE``
+locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and
+``thousands_sep`` byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte,
+and the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale.
+This temporary change affects other threads.
+
+Same change for the :meth:`str.format` method when formatting a number
+(:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`float` and subclasses) with the ``n``
+type (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31802
+.. date: 2017-10-17-14-52-14
+.. nonce: sYj2Zv
+.. section: Library
+
+Importing native path module (``posixpath``, ``ntpath``) now works even if
+the ``os`` module still is not imported.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17232
+.. date: 2018-02-23-12-48-03
+.. nonce: tmuTKL
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Clarify docs for -O and -OO.  Patch by Terry Reedy.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32800
+.. date: 2018-02-10-15-16-04
+.. nonce: FyrqCk
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 8722
+.. date: 2018-02-03-06-11-37
+.. nonce: MPyVyj
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document :meth:`__getattr__` behavior when property :meth:`get` method
+raises :exc:`AttributeError`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32614
+.. date: 2018-02-02-07-41-57
+.. nonce: LSqzGw
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
+:exc:`DeprecationWarning` and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the
+deprecation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31972
+.. date: 2018-01-25-14-23-12
+.. nonce: w1m_8r
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Improve docstrings for `pathlib.PurePath` subclasses.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17799
+.. date: 2018-01-22-21-13-46
+.. nonce: rdZ-Vk
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API
+counterparts regarding which type of events are received in each function.
+Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32517
+.. date: 2018-03-09-07-05-12
+.. nonce: ugc1iW
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix failing ``test_asyncio`` on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport of
+``KqueueSelector`` loop was not being closed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32721
+.. date: 2018-01-29-21-30-44
+.. nonce: 2Bebm1
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32252
+.. date: 2017-12-11-13-31-33
+.. nonce: YnFw7J
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix faulthandler_suppress_crash_report() used to prevent core dump files
+when testing crashes. getrlimit() returns zero on success.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31518
+.. date: 2017-09-19-20-48-50
+.. nonce: KwTMMz
+.. section: Tests
+
+Debian Unstable has disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for SSLv23_METHOD(). Change
+TLS/SSL protocol of some tests to PROTOCOL_TLS or PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2 to make
+them pass on Debian.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32635
+.. date: 2018-01-23-15-33-40
+.. nonce: qHwIZy
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of
+libcrypt at the system.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33016
+.. date: 2018-03-07-01-33-33
+.. nonce: Z_Med0
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32903
+.. date: 2018-02-28-11-03-24
+.. nonce: 1SXY4t
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set
+to a UNC path.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31966
+.. date: 2018-02-19-13-54-42
+.. nonce: _Q3HPb
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32409
+.. date: 2018-02-19-10-00-57
+.. nonce: nocuDg
+.. section: Windows
+
+Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32457
+.. date: 2018-02-19-08-54-06
+.. nonce: vVP0Iz
+.. section: Windows
+
+Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32370
+.. date: 2018-02-10-15-38-19
+.. nonce: kcKuct
+.. section: Windows
+
+Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by
+Segev Finer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29248
+.. date: 2018-02-07-17-50-48
+.. nonce: Xzwj-6
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix :func:`os.readlink` on Windows, which was mistakenly treating the
+``PrintNameOffset`` field of the reparse data buffer as a number of
+characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32588
+.. date: 2018-01-18-14-56-45
+.. nonce: vHww6F
+.. section: Windows
+
+Create standalone _distutils_findvs module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32726
+.. date: 2018-03-13-21-00-20
+.. nonce: Mticyn
+.. section: macOS
+
+Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that supports
+macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only. Upgrade the supplied third-party
+libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.2n, XZ 5.2.3, and SQLite 3.22.0. The 10.9+
+installer now links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32984
+.. date: 2018-03-05-01-29-05
+.. nonce: NGjgT4
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Set ``__file__`` while running a startup file.  Like Python, IDLE optionally
+runs one startup file in the Shell window before presenting the first
+interactive input prompt.  For IDLE, ``-s`` runs a file named in
+environmental variable  :envvar:`IDLESTARTUP` or  :envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP`;
+``-r file`` runs ``file``.  Python sets ``__file__`` to the startup file
+name before running the file and unsets it before the first prompt.  IDLE
+now does the same when run normally, without the ``-n`` option.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32940
+.. date: 2018-02-24-18-20-50
+.. nonce: ZaJ1Rf
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32916
+.. date: 2018-02-23-07-32-36
+.. nonce: 4MsQ5F
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Change ``str`` to ``code`` in pyparse.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32905
+.. date: 2018-02-22-00-09-27
+.. nonce: VlXj0x
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Remove unused code in pyparse module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32874
+.. date: 2018-02-19-10-56-41
+.. nonce: 6pZ9Gv
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add tests for pyparse.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32837
+.. date: 2018-02-12-17-22-48
+.. nonce: -33QPl
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad
+idea for IDLE's system and location-independent files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32826
+.. date: 2018-02-12-11-05-22
+.. nonce: IxNZrk
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add "encoding=utf-8" to open() in IDLE's test_help_about. GUI test
+test_file_buttons() only looks at initial ascii-only lines, but failed on
+systems where open() defaults to 'ascii' because readline() internally reads
+and decodes far enough ahead to encounter a non-ascii character in
+CREDITS.txt.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32765
+.. date: 2018-02-04-17-52-54
+.. nonce: qm0eCu
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget
+list.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 24960
+.. date: 2017-12-22-09-25-51
+.. nonce: TGdAgO
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+2to3 and lib2to3 can now read pickled grammar files using pkgutil.get_data()
+rather than probing the filesystem. This lets 2to3 and lib2to3 work when run
+from a zipfile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32222
+.. date: 2017-12-07-20-51-20
+.. nonce: hPBcGT
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated
+arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29084
+.. date: 2017-12-16-09-59-35
+.. nonce: ZGJ-LJ
+.. section: C API
+
+Undocumented C API for OrderedDict has been excluded from the limited C API.
+It was added by mistake and actually never worked in the limited C API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-23-15-33-40.bpo-32635.qHwIZy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-23-15-33-40.bpo-32635.qHwIZy.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d411890f5d..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-23-15-33-40.bpo-32635.qHwIZy.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of
-libcrypt at the system.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-12-16-09-59-35.bpo-29084.ZGJ-LJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-12-16-09-59-35.bpo-29084.ZGJ-LJ.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 940f716077..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-12-16-09-59-35.bpo-29084.ZGJ-LJ.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Undocumented C API for OrderedDict has been excluded from the limited C API.
-It was added by mistake and actually never worked in the limited C API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-26-14-36-30.bpo-32137.Stj5nL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-26-14-36-30.bpo-32137.Stj5nL.rst
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index f8f4ab93c9..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-26-14-36-30.bpo-32137.Stj5nL.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of
-crashing due to a stack overflow.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-03-22-29-13.bpo-32028.KC2w4Q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-03-22-29-13.bpo-32028.KC2w4Q.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e2b2e1b35..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-03-22-29-13.bpo-32028.KC2w4Q.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions
-for converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls.
-Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-13-16-46-23.bpo-18533.Dlk8d7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-13-16-46-23.bpo-18533.Dlk8d7.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-13-16-46-23.bpo-18533.Dlk8d7.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``values()`` or ``items()`` no
-longer raises ``RecursionError``; OrderedDict similarly.  Instead, use
-``...``, as for other recursive structures.  Patch by Ben North.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-14-11-48-19.bpo-30416.hlHo_9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-14-11-48-19.bpo-30416.hlHo_9.rst
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index 8db577bfdb..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-14-11-48-19.bpo-30416.hlHo_9.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The optimizer is now protected from spending much time doing complex
-calculations and consuming much memory for creating large constants in
-constant folding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-15-00-55-35.bpo-32329.XL1O99.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-15-00-55-35.bpo-32329.XL1O99.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-15-00-55-35.bpo-32329.XL1O99.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-``sys.flags.hash_randomization`` is now properly set to 0 when hash
-randomization is turned off by ``PYTHONHASHSEED=0``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-15-11-50-06.bpo-27169.VO84fQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-15-11-50-06.bpo-27169.VO84fQ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-15-11-50-06.bpo-27169.VO84fQ.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The ``__debug__`` constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes also
-bpo-22091.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-20-32-47.bpo-26163.xv9Iuv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-20-32-47.bpo-26163.xv9Iuv.rst
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index 163b9e02c5..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-20-32-47.bpo-26163.xv9Iuv.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced
-with datasets containing many similar values.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-26-21-20-21.bpo-32583.Fh3fau.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-26-21-20-21.bpo-32583.Fh3fau.rst
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index 45f1d043f9..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-26-21-20-21.bpo-32583.Fh3fau.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write
-out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-12-25-06.bpo-32685.nGctze.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-12-25-06.bpo-32685.nGctze.rst
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index 07d7a072f6..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-12-25-06.bpo-32685.nGctze.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Improve suggestion when the Python 2 form of print statement is either
-present on the same line as the header of a compound statement or else
-terminated by a semi-colon instead of a newline. Patch by Nitish Chandra.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-23-01-39.bpo-32650.Bbi7ek.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-23-01-39.bpo-32650.Bbi7ek.rst
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index f0b9e3ff45..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-23-01-39.bpo-32650.Bbi7ek.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next
-command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-02-20-21-53-48.bpo-32889.J6eWy5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-02-20-21-53-48.bpo-32889.J6eWy5.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-02-20-21-53-48.bpo-32889.J6eWy5.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
-``Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG`` to ``address_in_range``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-02-27-13-36-21.bpo-17288.Gdj24S.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-02-27-13-36-21.bpo-17288.Gdj24S.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ce9e84c403..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-02-27-13-36-21.bpo-17288.Gdj24S.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Prevent jumps from 'return' and 'exception' trace events.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-03-08-09-48-38.bpo-33026.QZA3Ba.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-03-08-09-48-38.bpo-33026.QZA3Ba.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-03-08-09-48-38.bpo-33026.QZA3Ba.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed jumping out of "with" block by setting f_lineno.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-22-21-13-46.bpo-17799.rdZ-Vk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-22-21-13-46.bpo-17799.rdZ-Vk.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-22-21-13-46.bpo-17799.rdZ-Vk.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API counterparts
-regarding which type of events are received in each function. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-25-14-23-12.bpo-31972.w1m_8r.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-25-14-23-12.bpo-31972.w1m_8r.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-25-14-23-12.bpo-31972.w1m_8r.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve docstrings for `pathlib.PurePath` subclasses.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-02-07-41-57.bpo-32614.LSqzGw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-02-07-41-57.bpo-32614.LSqzGw.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-02-07-41-57.bpo-32614.LSqzGw.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
-:exc:`DeprecationWarning` and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the
-deprecation.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-03-06-11-37.bpo-8722.MPyVyj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-03-06-11-37.bpo-8722.MPyVyj.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-03-06-11-37.bpo-8722.MPyVyj.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Document :meth:`__getattr__` behavior when property :meth:`get` method
-raises :exc:`AttributeError`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-10-15-16-04.bpo-32800.FyrqCk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-10-15-16-04.bpo-32800.FyrqCk.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-10-15-16-04.bpo-32800.FyrqCk.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-23-12-48-03.bpo-17232.tmuTKL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-23-12-48-03.bpo-17232.tmuTKL.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-23-12-48-03.bpo-17232.tmuTKL.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Clarify docs for -O and -OO.  Patch by Terry Reedy.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-04-17-52-54.bpo-32765.qm0eCu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-04-17-52-54.bpo-32765.qm0eCu.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-04-17-52-54.bpo-32765.qm0eCu.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget list.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-12-11-05-22.bpo-32826.IxNZrk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-12-11-05-22.bpo-32826.IxNZrk.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-12-11-05-22.bpo-32826.IxNZrk.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Add "encoding=utf-8" to open() in IDLE's test_help_about.
-GUI test test_file_buttons() only looks at initial ascii-only lines,
-but failed on systems where open() defaults to 'ascii' because
-readline() internally reads and decodes far enough ahead to encounter
-a non-ascii character in CREDITS.txt.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-12-17-22-48.bpo-32837.-33QPl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-12-17-22-48.bpo-32837.-33QPl.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-12-17-22-48.bpo-32837.-33QPl.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad
-idea for IDLE's system and location-independent files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-19-10-56-41.bpo-32874.6pZ9Gv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-19-10-56-41.bpo-32874.6pZ9Gv.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-19-10-56-41.bpo-32874.6pZ9Gv.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add tests for pyparse.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-22-00-09-27.bpo-32905.VlXj0x.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-22-00-09-27.bpo-32905.VlXj0x.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-22-00-09-27.bpo-32905.VlXj0x.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove unused code in pyparse module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-23-07-32-36.bpo-32916.4MsQ5F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-23-07-32-36.bpo-32916.4MsQ5F.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-23-07-32-36.bpo-32916.4MsQ5F.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Change ``str`` to ``code`` in pyparse.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-24-18-20-50.bpo-32940.ZaJ1Rf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-24-18-20-50.bpo-32940.ZaJ1Rf.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-24-18-20-50.bpo-32940.ZaJ1Rf.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-03-05-01-29-05.bpo-32984.NGjgT4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-03-05-01-29-05.bpo-32984.NGjgT4.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-03-05-01-29-05.bpo-32984.NGjgT4.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Set ``__file__`` while running a startup file.  Like Python, IDLE optionally
-runs one startup file in the Shell window before presenting the first interactive
-input prompt.  For IDLE, ``-s`` runs a file named in environmental variable
- :envvar:`IDLESTARTUP` or  :envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP`; ``-r file`` runs
-``file``.  Python sets ``__file__`` to the startup file name before running the
-file and unsets it before the first prompt.  IDLE now does the same when run
-normally, without the ``-n`` option.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-17-14-52-14.bpo-31802.sYj2Zv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-17-14-52-14.bpo-31802.sYj2Zv.rst
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-Importing native path module (``posixpath``, ``ntpath``) now works even if
-the ``os`` module still is not imported.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-30-15-55-32.bpo-31900.-S9xc4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-30-15-55-32.bpo-31900.-S9xc4.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-30-15-55-32.bpo-31900.-S9xc4.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-The :func:`locale.localeconv` function now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE``
-locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and
-``thousands_sep`` byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and
-the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale.  This
-temporary change affects other threads.
-
-Same change for the :meth:`str.format` method when formatting a number
-(:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`float` and subclasses) with the ``n``
-type (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-11-02-11-57-41.bpo-27456.snzyTC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-11-02-11-57-41.bpo-27456.snzyTC.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-11-02-11-57-41.bpo-27456.snzyTC.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-04-12-23-26.bpo-32199.nGof4v.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-04-12-23-26.bpo-32199.nGof4v.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-04-12-23-26.bpo-32199.nGof4v.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The getnode() ip getter now uses 'ip link' instead of 'ip link list'.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-11-09-53-14.bpo-32277.jkKiVC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-11-09-53-14.bpo-32277.jkKiVC.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-11-09-53-14.bpo-32277.jkKiVC.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Raise ``NotImplementedError`` instead of ``SystemError`` on platforms where
-``chmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)`` is not supported.  Patch by Anthony
-Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-12-07-29-06.bpo-32255.2bfNmM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-12-07-29-06.bpo-32255.2bfNmM.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-12-07-29-06.bpo-32255.2bfNmM.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-A single empty field is now always quoted when written into a CSV file.
-This allows to distinguish an empty row from a row consisting of a single empty field.
-Patch by Licht Takeuchi.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT
-v140.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-14-10-10-10.bpo-32323.ideco.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-14-10-10-10.bpo-32323.ideco.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-14-10-10-10.bpo-32323.ideco.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-:func:`urllib.parse.urlsplit()` does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower case
-for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-20-09-25-10.bpo-32185.IL0cMt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-20-09-25-10.bpo-32185.IL0cMt.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-20-09-25-10.bpo-32185.IL0cMt.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The SSL module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS extension on
-platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.2+ or inet_pton.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-21-11-08-42.bpo-26133.mt81QV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-21-11-08-42.bpo-26133.mt81QV.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-21-11-08-42.bpo-26133.mt81QV.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Don't unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter shutdown.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-22-16-47-41.bpo-32228.waPx3q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-22-16-47-41.bpo-32228.waPx3q.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-22-16-47-41.bpo-32228.waPx3q.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Ensure that ``truncate()`` preserves the file position (as reported by ``tell()``) after writes longer than the buffer size.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-08-18-02-33.bpo-32521.Kh-KoN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-08-18-02-33.bpo-32521.Kh-KoN.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-08-18-02-33.bpo-32521.Kh-KoN.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in
-nis module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-10-20-37-59.bpo-32473.mP_yJG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-10-20-37-59.bpo-32473.mP_yJG.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-10-20-37-59.bpo-32473.mP_yJG.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-12-53-13.bpo-32521.IxX4Ba.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-12-53-13.bpo-32521.IxX4Ba.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-12-53-13.bpo-32521.IxX4Ba.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-17-52-47.bpo-32555.CMq2zF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-17-52-47.bpo-32555.CMq2zF.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-17-52-47.bpo-32555.CMq2zF.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-On FreeBSD and Solaris, os.strerror() now always decode the byte string from
-the current locale encoding, rather than using ASCII/surrogateescape in some
-cases.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-18-23-34-17.bpo-31848.M2cldy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-18-23-34-17.bpo-31848.M2cldy.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-18-23-34-17.bpo-31848.M2cldy.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not found.
-Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-20-17-15-34.bpo-32502.OXJfn7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-20-17-15-34.bpo-32502.OXJfn7.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-20-17-15-34.bpo-32502.OXJfn7.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is
-encountered.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-21-16-33-53.bpo-32304.TItrNv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-21-16-33-53.bpo-32304.TItrNv.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-21-16-33-53.bpo-32304.TItrNv.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-distutils' upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending with a CR byte,
-and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the upload text fields.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-21-04-11.bpo-27931.e4r52t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-21-04-11.bpo-27931.e4r52t.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-21-04-11.bpo-27931.e4r52t.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-30-17-46-18.bpo-32727.aHVsRC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-30-17-46-18.bpo-32727.aHVsRC.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-30-17-46-18.bpo-32727.aHVsRC.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-01-01-34-47.bpo-32734.gCV9AD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-01-01-34-47.bpo-32734.gCV9AD.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-01-01-34-47.bpo-32734.gCV9AD.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed ``asyncio.Lock()`` safety issue which allowed acquiring and locking
-the same lock multiple times, without it being free. Patch by Bar Harel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared
-extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-21-28-28.bpo-32777.C-wIXF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-21-28-28.bpo-32777.C-wIXF.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-21-28-28.bpo-32777.C-wIXF.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix a rare but potential pre-exec child process deadlock in subprocess on
-POSIX systems when marking file descriptors inheritable on exec in the child
-process.  This bug appears to have been introduced in 3.4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-08-08-18-26.bpo-32394.6E_7X7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-08-08-18-26.bpo-32394.6E_7X7.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN, TCP_KEEPCNT flags on older version Windows
-during run-time.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-09-14-44-43.bpo-30157.lEiiAK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-09-14-44-43.bpo-30157.lEiiAK.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-09-14-44-43.bpo-30157.lEiiAK.rst
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-Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last
-field is quoted.  Patch by Jake Davis.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-09-21-41-56.bpo-31787.owSZ2t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-09-21-41-56.bpo-31787.owSZ2t.rst
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-Fixed refleaks of ``__init__()`` methods in various modules.
-(Contributed by Oren Milman)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-14-00-21-24.bpo-32841.bvHDOc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-14-00-21-24.bpo-32841.bvHDOc.rst
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-Fixed `asyncio.Condition` issue which silently ignored cancellation after
-notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-15-12-04-29.bpo-32852.HDqIxM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-15-12-04-29.bpo-32852.HDqIxM.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-16-14-37-14.bpo-32857.-XljAx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-16-14-37-14.bpo-32857.-XljAx.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-16-14-37-14.bpo-32857.-XljAx.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-In :mod:`tkinter`, ``after_cancel(None)`` now raises a :exc:`ValueError` instead of canceling the first scheduled function.  Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-17-19-20-19.bpo-21060.S1Z-x6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-17-19-20-19.bpo-21060.S1Z-x6.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-17-19-20-19.bpo-21060.S1Z-x6.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Rewrite confusing message from setup.py upload from
-"No dist file created in earlier command" to the more helpful
-"Must create and upload files in one command".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-19-17-46-31.bpo-32859.kAT-Xp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-19-17-46-31.bpo-32859.kAT-Xp.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-19-17-46-31.bpo-32859.kAT-Xp.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-In ``os.dup2``, don't check every call whether the ``dup3`` syscall exists
-or not.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-23-19-12-04.bpo-32922.u-xe0B.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-23-19-12-04.bpo-32922.u-xe0B.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-23-19-12-04.bpo-32922.u-xe0B.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than
-default encoding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-24-21-40-42.bpo-30622.dQjxSe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-24-21-40-42.bpo-30622.dQjxSe.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-24-21-40-42.bpo-30622.dQjxSe.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-26-13-16-36.bpo-32713.55yegW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-26-13-16-36.bpo-32713.55yegW.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-26-13-16-36.bpo-32713.55yegW.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey Fuhrer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-06-00-19-41.bpo-32969.rGTKa0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-06-00-19-41.bpo-32969.rGTKa0.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-06-00-19-41.bpo-32969.rGTKa0.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding
-documentation.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-06-11-54-59.bpo-33009.-Ekysb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-06-11-54-59.bpo-33009.-Ekysb.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-06-11-54-59.bpo-33009.-Ekysb.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-08-09-54-01.bpo-30353.XdE5aM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-08-09-54-01.bpo-30353.XdE5aM.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-08-09-54-01.bpo-30353.XdE5aM.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix ctypes pass-by-value for structs on 64-bit Cygwin/MinGW.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-09-23-07-07.bpo-33037.nAJ3at.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-09-23-07-07.bpo-33037.nAJ3at.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-09-23-07-07.bpo-33037.nAJ3at.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-11-19-03-52.bpo-31804.i8KUMp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-11-19-03-52.bpo-31804.i8KUMp.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-11-19-03-52.bpo-31804.i8KUMp.rst
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-Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed
-or None at exit.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-12-19-58-25.bpo-33064.LO2KIY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-12-19-58-25.bpo-33064.LO2KIY.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-12-19-58-25.bpo-33064.LO2KIY.rst
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-lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after ``*args`` and
-``**kwargs`` in function signatures.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-03-02-10-24-52.bpo-32981.O_qDyj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-03-02-10-24-52.bpo-32981.O_qDyj.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking.
-These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been
-refactored. This resolves CVE-2018-1060 and CVE-2018-1061.
-Patch by Jamie Davis.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-03-05-10-09-51.bpo-33001.elj4Aa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-03-05-10-09-51.bpo-33001.elj4Aa.rst
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-Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2017-09-19-20-48-50.bpo-31518.KwTMMz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2017-09-19-20-48-50.bpo-31518.KwTMMz.rst
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-Debian Unstable has disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for SSLv23_METHOD(). Change
-TLS/SSL protocol of some tests to PROTOCOL_TLS or PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2 to make
-them pass on Debian.
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-Fix faulthandler_suppress_crash_report() used to prevent core dump files
-when testing crashes. getrlimit() returns zero on success.
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-Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-03-09-07-05-12.bpo-32517.ugc1iW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-03-09-07-05-12.bpo-32517.ugc1iW.rst
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-Fix failing ``test_asyncio`` on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport of
-``KqueueSelector`` loop was not being closed.
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-Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated
-arguments.
-Patch by Toby Harradine.
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-2to3 and lib2to3 can now read pickled grammar files using pkgutil.get_data()
-rather than probing the filesystem. This lets 2to3 and lib2to3 work when run
-from a zipfile.
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-Create standalone _distutils_findvs module.
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-Fix :func:`os.readlink` on Windows, which was mistakenly treating the
-``PrintNameOffset`` field of the reparse data buffer as a number of
-characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.
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-Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module.
-Patch by Segev Finer.
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-Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-02-19-10-00-57.bpo-32409.nocuDg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-02-19-10-00-57.bpo-32409.nocuDg.rst
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-Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-02-19-13-54-42.bpo-31966._Q3HPb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-02-19-13-54-42.bpo-31966._Q3HPb.rst
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-Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
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-Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set
-to a UNC path.
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-Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-03-13-21-00-20.bpo-32726.Mticyn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-03-13-21-00-20.bpo-32726.Mticyn.rst
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-Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that supports
-macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only. Upgrade the supplied third-party
-libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.2n, XZ 5.2.3, and SQLite 3.22.0. The 10.9+
-installer now links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
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-This is Python version 3.6.4
-============================
+This is Python version 3.6.5 release candidate 1
+================================================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.6
    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI
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