From fff596f792a0752b0e571fa57809e5752aba6353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:58:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-10381, bpo-32403: What's new entries for changes to datetime (gh-5814) (gh-5929) * Add What's New entry for addition of datetime.timezone to the C API Closes bpo-10381 * Add what's new entry for date and datetime optimizations Closes bpo-32403 (cherry picked from commit 5bd04f964b4f1bcdbd0fa36de04f087c2db07cfe) Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle --- Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index d1eeec209e..8fa39abc6a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -878,6 +878,11 @@ Optimizations start-up time by up to 10%. (Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi and INADA Naoki in :issue:`31333`) +* Significant speed improvements to alternate constructors for + :class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.datetime` by using fast-path + constructors when not constructing subclasses. (Contributed by Paul Ganssle + in :issue:`32403`) + Build and C API Changes ======================= @@ -928,6 +933,11 @@ Build and C API Changes * Support for building ``--without-threads`` is removed. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`31370`.). +* Added C API support for timezones with timezone constructors + :c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffset` and :c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffsetAndName`, + and access to the UTC singleton with :c:data:`PyDateTime_TimeZone_UTC`. + Contributed by Paul Ganssle in :issue:`10381`. + Other CPython Implementation Changes ==================================== -- 2.40.0