Changelog¶
Python next¶
Release date: XXXX-XX-XX
Security¶
bpo-37461: Fix an inifite loop when parsing specially crafted email headers. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-37467: Fix
sys.excepthook()
andPyErr_Display()
if a filename is a bytes string. For example, for a SyntaxError exception where the filename attribute is a bytes string.bpo-37417:
bytearray.extend()
now correctly handles errors that arise during iteration. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
Library¶
bpo-37664: Update wheels bundled with ensurepip (pip 19.2.1 and setuptools 41.0.1)
bpo-37491: Fix
IndexError
when parsing email headers with unexpectedly ending bare-quoted string value. Patch by Abhilash Raj.bpo-37579: Return
NotImplemented
in Python implementation of__eq__
fortimedelta
andtime
when the other object being compared is not of the same type to match C implementation. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-21478: Record calls to parent when autospecced object is attached to a mock using
unittest.mock.attach_mock()
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-37421: Fix
multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir()
finalizer: clear also the ‘tempdir’ configuration of the current process, so next call toget_temp_dir()
will create a new temporary directory, rather than reusing the removed temporary directory.bpo-37420:
os.sched_setaffinity()
now correctly handles errors that arise during iteration over itsmask
argument. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-29412: Fix IndexError in parsing a header value ending unexpectedly. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
bpo-27860: Fix
IPv4Interface
andIPv6Interface
didn’t accept string mask when the argument is tuple.bpo-33972: Email with single part but content-type set to
multipart/*
doesn’t raise AttributeError anymore.bpo-37163:
dataclasses.replace()
now supports the field named “obj”.bpo-36564: Fix infinite loop in email header folding logic that would be triggered when an email policy’s max_line_length is not long enough to include the required markup and any values in the message. Patch by Paul Ganssle
bpo-4963: Fixed non-deterministic behavior related to mimetypes extension mapping and module reinitialization.
Documentation¶
bpo-32910: Remove implementation-specific behaviour of how venv’s Deactivate works.
bpo-37284: Add a brief note to indicate that any new
sys.implementation
required attributes must go through the PEP process.bpo-30088: Documented that
mailbox.Maildir
constructor doesn’t attempt to verify the maildir folder layout correctness. Patch by Sviatoslav Sydorenko.bpo-37487: Fix PyList_GetItem index description to include 0.
bpo-37478: Added possible exceptions to the description of os.chdir().
Tests¶
bpo-37335: Improve locale coercion tests by using codec lookup instead of more fragile replace().
bpo-37411: Fix test_wsgiref.testEnviron() to no longer depend on the environment variables (don’t fail if “X” variable is set).
bpo-37400: Fix test_os.test_chown(): use os.getgroups() rather than grp.getgrall() to get groups. Rename also the test to test_chown_gid().
bpo-37359: Add –cleanup option to python3 -m test to remove
test_python_*
directories of previous failed jobs. Add “make cleantest” to runpython3 -m test --cleanup
.bpo-37362: test_gdb no longer fails if it gets an “unexpected” message on stderr: it now ignores stderr. The purpose of test_gdb is to test that python-gdb.py commands work as expected, not to test gdb.
bpo-34347: Fix
test_utf8_mode.test_cmd_line
for AIX. Patch by M. Felt
Windows¶
bpo-10945: Officially drop support for creating bdist_wininst installers on non-Windows systems.
IDLE¶
bpo-37692: Improve highlight config sample with example shell interaction and better labels for shell elements.
bpo-37628: Settings dialog no longer expands with font size.
bpo-37627: Initialize the Customize Run dialog with the command line arguments most recently entered before. The user can optionally edit before submitting them.
bpo-33610: Fix code context not showing the correct context when first toggled on.
bpo-37530: Optimize code context to reduce unneeded background activity. Font and highlight changes now occur along with text changes instead of after a random delay.
bpo-27452: Cleanup
config.py
by inliningRemoveFile
and simplifying the handling offile
inCreateConfigHandlers
.bpo-37325: Fix tab focus traversal order for help source and custom run dialogs.
bpo-17535: Add optional line numbers for IDLE editor windows. Windows open without line numbers unless set otherwise in the General tab of the configuration dialog.
bpo-26806: To compensate for stack frames added by IDLE and avoid possible problems with low recursion limits, add 30 to limits in the user code execution process. Subtract 30 when reporting recursion limits to make this addition mostly transparent.
bpo-36390: Gather Format menu functions into format.py. Combine paragraph.py, rstrip.py, and format methods from editor.py.
Python 3.7.4 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2019-07-02
Security¶
bpo-37463: ssl.match_hostname() no longer accepts IPv4 addresses with additional text after the address and only quad-dotted notation without trailing whitespaces. Some inet_aton() implementations ignore whitespace and all data after whitespace, e.g. ‘127.0.0.1 whatever’.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24214: Improved support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 and UTF-16 incremental decoders.
Library¶
bpo-37440: http.client now enables TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication for default context or if a cert_file is passed to HTTPSConnection.
bpo-37437: Update vendorized expat version to 2.2.7.
bpo-37428: SSLContext.post_handshake_auth = True no longer sets SSL_VERIFY_POST_HANDSHAKE verify flag for client connections. Although the option is documented as ignored for clients, OpenSSL implicitly enables cert chain validation when the flag is set.
bpo-32627: Fix compile error when
_uuid
headers conflicting included.
Windows¶
bpo-37369: Fixes path for
sys.executable
when running from the Microsoft Store.bpo-35360: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.28.0.
Python 3.7.4 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2019-06-18
Security¶
bpo-35907: CVE-2019-9948: Avoid file reading by disallowing
local-file://
andlocal_file://
URL schemes inURLopener().open()
andURLopener().retrieve()
ofurllib.request
.bpo-36742: Fixes mishandling of pre-normalization characters in urlsplit().
bpo-30458: Address CVE-2019-9740 by disallowing URL paths with embedded whitespace or control characters through into the underlying http client request. Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause an http.client.InvalidURL exception to be raised.
bpo-33529: Prevent fold function used in email header encoding from entering infinite loop when there are too many non-ASCII characters in a header.
bpo-35755:
shutil.which()
now usesos.confstr("CS_PATH")
if available and if thePATH
environment variable is not set. Remove also the current directory fromposixpath.defpath
. On Unix,shutil.which()
and thesubprocess
module no longer search the executable in the current directory if thePATH
environment variable is not set.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-37269: Fix a bug in the peephole optimizer that was not treating correctly constant conditions with binary operators. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37219: Remove errorneous optimization for empty set differences.
bpo-26423: Fix possible overflow in
wrap_lenfunc()
whensizeof(long) < sizeof(Py_ssize_t)
(e.g., 64-bit Windows).bpo-36829:
PyErr_WriteUnraisable()
now displays the exception even if displaying the traceback failed. Moreover, hold a strong reference tosys.stderr
while using it. Document that an exception must be set when callingPyErr_WriteUnraisable()
.bpo-36907: Fix a crash when calling a C function with a keyword dict (
f(**kwargs)
) and changing the dictkwargs
while that function is running.bpo-36946: Fix possible signed integer overflow when handling slices.
bpo-27987:
PyGC_Head
structure is aligned tolong double
. This is needed to ensure GC-ed objects are aligned properly. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-1875: A
SyntaxError
is now raised if a code blocks that will be optimized away (e.g. if conditions that are always false) contains syntax errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo. (Reverted in 3.7.4 final by bpo-37500.)bpo-28866: Avoid caching attributes of classes which type defines mro() to avoid a hard cache invalidation problem.
bpo-27639: Correct return type for UserList slicing operations. Patch by Michael Blahay, Erick Cervantes, and vaultah
bpo-32849: Fix Python Initialization code on FreeBSD to detect properly when stdin file descriptor (fd 0) is invalid.
bpo-27987: pymalloc returns memory blocks aligned by 16 bytes, instead of 8 bytes, on 64-bit platforms to conform x86-64 ABI. Recent compilers assume this alignment more often. Patch by Inada Naoki.
bpo-36504: Fix signed integer overflow in _ctypes.c’s
PyCArrayType_new()
.bpo-20844: Fix running script with encoding cookie and LF line ending may fail on Windows.
bpo-24214: Fixed support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 incremental decoder.
bpo-36459: Fix a possible double
PyMem_FREE()
due to tokenizer.c’stok_nextc()
.bpo-36433: Fixed TypeError message in classmethoddescr_call.
bpo-36430: Fix a possible reference leak in
itertools.count()
.bpo-36440: Include node names in
ParserError
messages, instead of numeric IDs. Patch by A. Skrobov.bpo-36421: Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c’s
PyCArrayType_new()
.bpo-36256: Fix bug in parsermodule when parsing a state in a DFA that has two or more arcs with labels of the same type. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-36236: At Python initialization, the current directory is no longer prepended to
sys.path
if it has been removed.bpo-36262: Fix an unlikely memory leak on conversion from string to float in the function
_Py_dg_strtod()
used byfloat(str)
,complex(str)
,pickle.load()
,marshal.load()
, etc.bpo-36218: Fix a segfault occuring when sorting a list of heterogeneous values. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre and Elliot Gorokhovsky.
bpo-36035: Added fix for broken symlinks in combination with pathlib
bpo-18372: Add missing
PyObject_GC_Track()
calls in thepickle
module. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34408: Prevent a null pointer dereference and resource leakage in
PyInterpreterState_New()
.
Library¶
bpo-37280: Use threadpool for reading from file for sendfile fallback mode.
bpo-37279: Fix asyncio sendfile support when sendfile sends extra data in fallback mode.
bpo-19865:
ctypes.create_unicode_buffer()
now also supports non-BMP characters on platforms with 16-bitwchar_t
(for example, Windows and AIX).bpo-35922: Fix
RobotFileParser.crawl_delay()
andRobotFileParser.request_rate()
to returnNone
rather than raiseAttributeError
when no relevant rule is defined in the robots.txt file. Patch by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-36607: Eliminate
RuntimeError
raised byasyncio.all_tasks()
if internal tasks weak set is changed by another thread during iteration.bpo-36402: Fix a race condition at Python shutdown when waiting for threads. Wait until the Python thread state of all non-daemon threads get deleted (join all non-daemon threads), rather than just wait until non-daemon Python threads complete.
bpo-34886: Fix an unintended ValueError from
subprocess.run()
when checking for conflictinginput
andstdin
orcapture_output
andstdout
orstderr
args when they were explicitly provided but withNone
values within a passed in**kwargs
dict rather than as passed directly by name. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-37173: The exception message for
inspect.getfile()
now correctly reports the passed class rather than the builtins module.bpo-12639:
msilib.Directory.start_component()
no longer fails if keyfile is notNone
.bpo-36520: Lengthy email headers with UTF-8 characters are now properly encoded when they are folded. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
bpo-37054: Fix destructor
_pyio.BytesIO
and_pyio.TextIOWrapper
: initialize their_buffer
attribute as soon as possible (in the class body), because it’s used by__del__()
which callsclose()
.bpo-30835: Fixed a bug in email parsing where a message with invalid bytes in content-transfer-encoding of a multipart message can cause an AttributeError. Patch by Andrew Donnellan.
bpo-37035: Don’t log OSError based exceptions if a fatal error has occurred in asyncio transport. Peer can generate almost any OSError, user cannot avoid these exceptions by fixing own code. Errors are still propagated to user code, it’s just logging them is pointless and pollute asyncio logs.
bpo-37008: Add support for calling
next()
with the mock resulting fromunittest.mock.mock_open()
bpo-27737: Allow whitespace only header encoding in
email.header
- by Batuhan Taskayabpo-36969: PDB command
args
now display keyword only arguments. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-36983: Add missing names to
typing.__all__
:ChainMap
,ForwardRef
,OrderedDict
- by Anthony Sottile.bpo-21315: Email headers containing RFC2047 encoded words are parsed despite the missing whitespace, and a defect registered. Also missing trailing whitespace after encoded words is now registered as a defect.
bpo-33524: Fix the folding of email header when the max_line_length is 0 or None and the header contains non-ascii characters. Contributed by Licht Takeuchi (@Licht-T).
bpo-24564:
shutil.copystat()
now ignoreserrno.EINVAL
onos.setxattr()
which may occur when copying files on filesystems without extended attributes support.Original patch by Giampaolo Rodola, updated by Ying Wang.
bpo-36845: Added validation of integer prefixes to the construction of IP networks and interfaces in the ipaddress module.
bpo-35545: Fix asyncio discarding IPv6 scopes when ensuring hostname resolutions internally
bpo-35070: posix.getgrouplist() now works correctly when the user belongs to NGROUPS_MAX supplemental groups. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
bpo-24538: In
shutil.copystat()
, first copy extended file attributes and then file permissions, since extended attributes can only be set on the destination while it is still writeable.bpo-33110: Handle exceptions raised by functions added by concurrent.futures add_done_callback correctly when the Future has already completed.
bpo-26903: Limit
max_workers
inProcessPoolExecutor
to 61 to work around a WaitForMultipleObjects limitation.bpo-36813: Fix
QueueListener
to callqueue.task_done()
upon stopping. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-36734: Fix compilation of
faulthandler.c
on HP-UX. Initializestack_t current_stack
to zero usingmemset()
.bpo-29183: Fix double exceptions in
wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler
by calling itsclose()
method only when no exception is raised.bpo-36650: The C version of functools.lru_cache() was treating calls with an empty
**kwargs
dictionary as being distinct from calls with no keywords at all. This did not result in an incorrect answer, but it did trigger an unexpected cache miss.bpo-28552: Fix
distutils.sysconfig
ifsys.executable
isNone
or an empty string: useos.getcwd()
to initializeproject_base
. Fix also the distutils build command: don’t usesys.executable
if it isNone
or an empty string.bpo-35755:
shutil.which()
anddistutils.spawn.find_executable()
now useos.confstr("CS_PATH")
if available instead ofos.defpath
, if thePATH
environment variable is not set. Moreover, don’t useos.confstr("CS_PATH")
noros.defpath
if thePATH
environment variable is set to an empty string.bpo-36613: Fix
asyncio
wait() not removing callback if exceptionbpo-36598: Fix
isinstance
check for Mock objects with spec when the code is executed under tracing. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-36533: Reinitialize logging.Handler locks in forked child processes instead of attempting to acquire them all in the parent before forking only to be released in the child process. The acquire/release pattern was leading to deadlocks in code that has implemented any form of chained logging handlers that depend upon one another as the lock acquision order cannot be guaranteed.
bpo-36522: If debuglevel is set to >0 in
http.client
, print all values for headers with multiple values for the same header name. Patch by Matt Houglum.bpo-36492: Arbitrary keyword arguments (even with names “self” and “func”) can now be passed to some functions which should accept arbitrary keyword arguments and pass them to other function (for example partialmethod(), TestCase.addCleanup() and Profile.runcall()) if the required arguments are passed as positional arguments.
bpo-36434: Errors during writing to a ZIP file no longer prevent to properly close it.
bpo-34745: Fix
asyncio
ssl memory issues caused by circular referencesbpo-36321: collections.namedtuple() misspelled the name of an attribute. To be consistent with typing.NamedTuple, the attribute name should have been “_field_defaults” instead of “_fields_defaults”. For backwards compatibility, both spellings are now created. The misspelled version may be removed in the future.
bpo-36272:
logging
does not silently ignore RecursionError anymore. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-36235: Fix
CFLAGS
incustomize_compiler()
ofdistutils.sysconfig
: when theCFLAGS
environment variable is defined, don’t overrideCFLAGS
variable with theOPT
variable anymore. Initial patch written by David Malcolm.bpo-35125: Asyncio: Remove inner callback on outer cancellation in shield
bpo-35802: Clean up code which checked presence of
os.stat
/os.lstat
/os.chmod
which are always present. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-23078: Add support for
classmethod()
andstaticmethod()
tounittest.mock.create_autospec()
. Initial patch by Felipe Ochoa.bpo-35721: Fix
asyncio.SelectorEventLoop.subprocess_exec()
leaks file descriptors ifPopen
fails and called withstdin=subprocess.PIPE
. Patch by Niklas Fiekas.bpo-35726: QueueHandler.prepare() now makes a copy of the record before modifying and enqueueing it, to avoid affecting other handlers in the chain.
bpo-31855:
unittest.mock.mock_open()
results now respects the argument of read([size]). Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35082: Don’t return deleted attributes when calling dir on a
unittest.mock.Mock
.bpo-34547:
wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler
now handles abrupt client connection terminations gracefully. Patch by Petter Strandmark.bpo-34424: Fix serialization of messages containing encoded strings when the policy.linesep is set to a multi-character string. Patch by Jens Troeger.
bpo-33361: Fix a bug in
codecs.StreamRecoder
where seeking might leave old data in a buffer and break subsequent read calls. Patch by Ammar Askar.bpo-31922:
asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.create_datagram_endpoint()
: Do not connect UDP socket when broadcast is allowed. This allows to receive replies after a UDP broadcast.bpo-22102: Added support for ZIP files with disks set to 0. Such files are commonly created by builtin tools on Windows when use ZIP64 extension. Patch by Francisco Facioni.
bpo-27141: Added a
__copy__()
tocollections.UserList
andcollections.UserDict
in order to correctly implement shallow copying of the objects. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-31829:
\r
,\0
and\x1a
(end-of-file on Windows) are now escaped in protocol 0 pickles of Unicode strings. This allows to load them without loss from files open in text mode in Python 2.bpo-31292: Fix
setup.py check --restructuredtext
for files containinginclude
directives.bpo-23395:
_thread.interrupt_main()
now avoids setting the Python error status if theSIGINT
signal is ignored or not handled by Python.
Documentation¶
bpo-34903: Documented that in
datetime.datetime.strptime()
, the leading zero in some two-digit formats is optional. Patch by Mike Gleen.bpo-36984: Improve version added references in
typing
module - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-36868: What’s new now mentions SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name instead of SSLContext.host_flags.
bpo-36783: Added C API Documentation for Time_FromTimeAndFold and PyDateTime_FromDateAndTimeAndFold as per PEP 495. Patch by Edison Abahurire.
bpo-30840: Document relative imports
bpo-36523: Add docstring for io.IOBase.writelines().
bpo-36425: New documentation translation: Simplified Chinese.
bpo-36157: Added Documention for PyInterpreterState_Main().
bpo-36138: Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars.
bpo-22865: Add detail to the documentation on the
pty.spawn
function.bpo-35581: @typing.type_check_only now allows type stubs to mark functions and classes not available during runtime.
bpo-35564: Explicitly set master_doc variable in conf.py for compliance with Sphinx 2.0
bpo-10536: Enhance the gettext docs. Patch by Éric Araujo
bpo-32995: Added the context variable in glossary.
bpo-33832: Add glossary entry for ‘magic method’.
bpo-33482: Make
codecs.StreamRecoder.writelines
take a list of bytes.bpo-25735: Added documentation for func factorial to indicate that returns integer values
Tests¶
bpo-35998: Avoid TimeoutError in test_asyncio: test_start_tls_server_1()
bpo-37153:
test_venv.test_mutiprocessing()
now explicitly callspool.terminate()
to wait until the pool completes.bpo-37081: Test with OpenSSL 1.1.1c
bpo-36915: The main regrtest process now always removes all temporary directories of worker processes even if they crash or if they are killed on KeyboardInterrupt (CTRL+c).
bpo-36719: “python3 -m test -jN …” now continues the execution of next tests when a worker process crash (CHILD_ERROR state). Previously, the test suite stopped immediately. Use –failfast to stop at the first error.
bpo-36816: Update Lib/test/selfsigned_pythontestdotnet.pem to match self-signed.pythontest.net’s new TLS certificate.
bpo-35925: Skip httplib and nntplib networking tests when they would otherwise fail due to a modern OS or distro with a default OpenSSL policy of rejecting connections to servers with weak certificates.
bpo-36719: regrtest now always detects uncollectable objects. Previously, the check was only enabled by
--findleaks
. The check now also works with-jN/--multiprocess N
.--findleaks
becomes a deprecated alias to--fail-env-changed
.bpo-36725: When using mulitprocessing mode (-jN), regrtest now better reports errors if a worker process fails, and it exits immediately on a worker thread failure or when interrupted.
bpo-36454: Change test_time.test_monotonic() to test only the lower bound of elapsed time after a sleep command rather than the upper bound. This prevents unnecessary test failures on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-36629: Fix
test_imap4_host_default_value()
oftest_imaplib
: catch alsoerrno.ENETUNREACH
error.bpo-36611: Fix
test_sys.test_getallocatedblocks()
whentracemalloc
is enabled.bpo-36560: Fix reference leak hunting in regrtest: compute also deltas (of reference count, allocated memory blocks, file descriptor count) during warmup, to ensure that everything is initialized before starting to hunt reference leaks.
bpo-36565: Fix reference hunting (
python3 -m test -R 3:3
) when Python has no built-in abc module.bpo-36436: Fix
_testcapi.pymem_buffer_overflow()
: handle memory allocation failure.
Build¶
Windows¶
bpo-34631: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in Windows installer
bpo-37267: On Windows,
os.dup()
no longer creates an inheritable fd when handling a character file.bpo-36779: Ensure
time.tzname
is correct on Windows when the active code page is set to CP_UTF7 or CP_UTF8.bpo-36965: include of STATUS_CONTROL_C_EXIT without depending on MSC compiler
bpo-36649: Remove trailing spaces for registry keys when installed via the Store.
bpo-34144: Fixed activate.bat to correctly update codepage when chcp.com returns dots in output. Patch by Lorenz Mende.
bpo-35941: enum_certificates function of the ssl module now returns certificates from all available certificate stores inside windows in a query instead of returning only certificates from the system wide certificate store. This includes certificates from these certificate stores: local machine, local machine enterprise, local machine group policy, current user, current user group policy, services, users. ssl.enum_crls() function is changed in the same way to return all certificate revocation lists inside the windows certificate revocation list stores.
bpo-36441: Fixes creating a venv when debug binaries are installed.
bpo-36312: Fixed decoders for the following code pages: 50220, 50221, 50222, 50225, 50227, 50229, 57002 through 57011, 65000 and 42.
bpo-36010: Add the venv standard library module to the nuget distribution for Windows.
bpo-34060: Report system load when running test suite on Windows. Patch by Ammar Askar. Based on prior work by Jeremy Kloth.
macOS¶
bpo-35360: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.28.0.
bpo-34631: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in macOS installer.
bpo-36231: Support building Python on macOS without /usr/include installed. As of macOS 10.14, system header files are only available within an SDK provided by either the Command Line Tools or the Xcode app.
bpo-34602: Avoid failures setting macOS stack resource limit with resource.setrlimit. This reverts an earlier fix for bpo-18075 which forced a non-default stack size when building the interpreter executable on macOS.
IDLE¶
bpo-37321: Both subprocess connection error messages now refer to the ‘Startup failure’ section of the IDLE doc.
bpo-37177: Properly ‘attach’ search dialogs to their main window so that they behave like other dialogs and do not get hidden behind their main window.
bpo-37039: Adjust “Zoom Height” to individual screens by momemtarily maximizing the window on first use with a particular screen. Changing screen settings may invalidate the saved height. While a window is maximized, “Zoom Height” has no effect.
bpo-35763: Make calltip reminder about ‘/’ meaning positional-only less obtrusive by only adding it when there is room on the first line.
bpo-5680: Add ‘Run… Customized’ to the Run menu to run a module with customized settings. Any ‘command line arguments’ entered are added to sys.argv. One can suppress the normal Shell main module restart.
bpo-35610: Replace now redundant .context_use_ps1 with .prompt_last_line. This finishes change started in bpo-31858.
bpo-37038: Make idlelib.run runnable; add test clause.
bpo-36958: Print any argument other than None or int passed to SystemExit or sys.exit().
bpo-13102: When saving a file, call os.fsync() so bits are flushed to e.g. USB drive.
bpo-36429: Fix starting IDLE with pyshell. Add idlelib.pyshell alias at top; remove pyshell alias at bottom. Remove obsolete __name__==’__main__’ command.
bpo-36405: Use dict unpacking in idlelib.
bpo-36396: Remove fgBg param of idlelib.config.GetHighlight(). This param was only used twice and changed the return type.
bpo-23205: For the grep module, add tests for findfiles, refactor findfiles to be a module-level function, and refactor findfiles to use os.walk.
bpo-23216: Add docstrings to IDLE search modules.
bpo-30348: Increase test coverage of idlelib.autocomplete by 30%.
bpo-32411: In browser.py, remove extraneous sorting by line number since dictionary was created in line number order.
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
bpo-28805: The
METH_FASTCALL
calling convention has been documented.bpo-37170: Fix the cast on error in
PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask()
.bpo-36389: Change the value of
CLEANBYTE
,DEADDYTE
andFORBIDDENBYTE
internal constants used by debug hooks on Python memory allocators (PyMem_SetupDebugHooks()
function). Byte patterns0xCB
,0xDB
and0xFB
have been replaced with0xCD
,0xDD
and0xFD
to use the same values than Windows CRT debugmalloc()
andfree()
.
Python 3.7.3 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2019-03-12
Security¶
bpo-36216: Changes urlsplit() to raise ValueError when the URL contains characters that decompose under IDNA encoding (NFKC-normalization) into characters that affect how the URL is parsed.
bpo-35746: [CVE-2019-5010] Fix a NULL pointer deref in ssl module. The cert parser did not handle CRL distribution points with empty DP or URI correctly. A malicious or buggy certificate can result into segfault. Vulnerability (TALOS-2018-0758) reported by Colin Read and Nicolas Edet of Cisco.
bpo-35121: Don’t send cookies of domain A without Domain attribute to domain B when domain A is a suffix match of domain B while using a cookiejar with
http.cookiejar.DefaultCookiePolicy
policy. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-35942: The error message emitted when returning invalid types from
__fspath__
in interfaces that allow passingPathLike
objects has been improved and now it does explain the origin of the error.bpo-35992: Fix
__class_getitem__()
not being called on a class with a custom non-subscriptable metaclass.bpo-35991: Fix a potential double free in Modules/_randommodule.c.
bpo-35961: Fix a crash in slice_richcompare(): use strong references rather than stolen references for the two temporary internal tuples.
bpo-31506: Clarify the errors reported when
object.__new__
andobject.__init__
receive more than one argument. Contributed by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-35720: Fixed a minor memory leak in pymain_parse_cmdline_impl function in Modules/main.c
bpo-35623: Fix a crash when sorting very long lists. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-35214: clang Memory Sanitizer build instrumentation was added to work around false positives from posix, socket, time, test_io, and test_faulthandler.
bpo-35560: Fix an assertion error in
format()
in debug build for floating point formatting with “n” format, zero padding and small width. Release build is not impacted. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-35552: Format characters
%s
and%V
inPyUnicode_FromFormat()
and%s
inPyBytes_FromFormat()
no longer read memory past the limit if precision is specified.bpo-35504: Fix segfaults and
SystemError
s when deleting certain attributes. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33989: Fix a possible crash in
list.sort()
when sorting objects withob_type->tp_richcompare == NULL
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
Library¶
bpo-35931: The
pdb
debug
command now gracefully handles all exceptions.bpo-36251: Fix format strings used for stderrprinter and re.Match reprs. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-35807: Update ensurepip to install pip 19.0.3 and setuptools 40.8.0.
bpo-36179: Fix two unlikely reference leaks in _hashopenssl. The leaks only occur in out-of-memory cases.
bpo-35178: Ensure custom
warnings.formatwarning()
function can receiveline
as positional argument. Based on patch by Tashrif Billah.bpo-36106: Resolve potential name clash with libm’s sinpi(). Patch by Dmitrii Pasechnik.
bpo-35512:
unittest.mock.patch.dict()
used as a decorator with string target resolves the target during function call instead of during decorator construction. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-36091: Clean up reference to async generator in Lib/types. Patch by Henry Chen.
bpo-35899: Enum has been fixed to correctly handle empty strings and strings with non-Latin characters (ie. ‘α’, ‘א’) without crashing. Original patch contributed by Maxwell. Assisted by Stéphane Wirtel.
bpo-35918: Removed broken
has_key
method from multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.dict. Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35960: Fix
dataclasses.field()
throwing away empty mapping objects passed as metadata.bpo-35847: RISC-V needed the CTYPES_PASS_BY_REF_HACK. Fixes ctypes Structure test_pass_by_value.
bpo-35780: Fix lru_cache() errors arising in recursive, reentrant, or multi-threaded code. These errors could result in orphan links and in the cache being trapped in a state with fewer than the specified maximum number of links. Fix handling of negative maxsize which should have been treated as zero. Fix errors in toggling the “full” status flag. Fix misordering of links when errors are encountered. Sync-up the C code and pure Python code for the space saving path in functions with a single positional argument. In this common case, the space overhead of an lru cache entry is reduced by almost half. Fix counting of cache misses. In error cases, the miss count was out of sync with the actual number of times the underlying user function was called.
bpo-23846:
asyncio.ProactorEventLoop
now catches and logs send errors when the self-pipe is full.bpo-34323:
asyncio
: EnhanceIocpProactor.close()
log: wait 1 second before the first log, then log every second. Log also the number of seconds sinceclose()
was called.bpo-34294: re module, fix wrong capturing groups in rare cases.
re.search()
,re.findall()
,re.sub()
and other functions that scan through string looking for a match, should reset capturing groups between two match attempts. Patch by Ma Lin.bpo-35717: Fix KeyError exception raised when using enums and compile. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
bpo-35699: Fixed detection of Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 in distutils
bpo-32710: Fix memory leaks in asyncio ProactorEventLoop on overlapped operation failure.
bpo-32710: Fix a memory leak in asyncio in the ProactorEventLoop when
ReadFile()
orWSASend()
overlapped operation fail immediately: release the internal buffer.bpo-35682: Fix
asyncio.ProactorEventLoop.sendfile()
: don’t attempt to set the result of an internal future if it’s already done.bpo-35283: Add a pending deprecated warning for the
threading.Thread.isAlive()
method. Patch by Dong-hee Na.bpo-35643: Fixed a SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence in Modules/_sha3/cleanup.py. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.
bpo-35615:
weakref
: Fix a RuntimeError when copying a WeakKeyDictionary or a WeakValueDictionary, due to some keys or values disappearing while iterating.bpo-28503: The
crypt
module now internally uses thecrypt_r()
library function instead ofcrypt()
when available.bpo-35121: Don’t set cookie for a request when the request path is a prefix match of the cookie’s path attribute but doesn’t end with “/”. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-35585: Speed-up building enums by value, e.g. http.HTTPStatus(200).
bpo-21478: Calls to a child function created with
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
should propagate to the parent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-35513:
TextTestRunner
ofunittest.runner
now usestime.perf_counter()
rather thantime.time()
to measure the execution time of a test:time.time()
can go backwards, whereastime.perf_counter()
is monotonic.bpo-35502: Fixed reference leaks in
xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder
in case of unfinished building of the tree (in particular when an error was raised during parsing XML).bpo-31446: Copy command line that was passed to CreateProcessW since this function can change the content of the input buffer.
bpo-20239: Allow repeated assignment deletion of
unittest.mock.Mock
attributes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-17185: Set
__signature__
on mock forinspect
to get signature. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-10496:
check_environ()
ofdistutils.utils
now catchesKeyError
on callingpwd.getpwuid()
: don’t create theHOME
environment variable in this case.bpo-35066: Previously, calling the strftime() method on a datetime object with a trailing ‘%’ in the format string would result in an exception. However, this only occured when the datetime C module was being used; the python implementation did not match this behavior. Datetime is now PEP-399 compliant, and will not throw an exception on a trailing ‘%’.
bpo-24746: Avoid stripping trailing whitespace in doctest fancy diff. Orignial patch by R. David Murray & Jairo Trad. Enhanced by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-35198: Fix C++ extension compilation on AIX
bpo-28441: On Cygwin and MinGW, ensure that
sys.executable
always includes the full filename in the path, including the.exe
suffix (unless it is a symbolic link).bpo-34572: Fix C implementation of pickle.loads to use importlib’s locking mechanisms, and thereby avoid using partially-loaded modules. Patch by Tim Burgess.
bpo-33687: Fix the call to
os.chmod()
foruu.decode()
if a mode is given or decoded. Patch by Timo Furrer.bpo-32146: Document the interaction between frozen executables and the spawn and forkserver start methods in multiprocessing.
Documentation¶
bpo-36083: Fix formatting of –check-hash-based-pycs options in the manpage Synopsis.
bpo-34764: Improve example of iter() with 2nd sentinel argument.
bpo-21314: A new entry was added to the Core Language Section of the Programming FAQ, which explaines the usage of slash(/) in the signature of a function. Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou
bpo-22062: Update documentation and docstrings for pathlib. Original patch by Mike Short.
Tests¶
bpo-36234: test_posix.PosixUidGidTests: add tests for invalid uid/gid type (str). Initial patch written by David Malcolm.
bpo-29571: Fix
test_re.test_locale_flag()
: uselocale.getpreferredencoding()
rather thanlocale.getlocale()
to get the locale encoding. With some locales,locale.getlocale()
returns the wrong encoding. On Windows, set temporarily theLC_CTYPE
locale to the user preferred encoding to ensure that it uses the ANSI code page, to be consistent withlocale.getpreferredencoding()
.bpo-36123: Fix race condition in test_socket.
bpo-27313: Avoid test_ttk_guionly ComboboxTest failure with macOS Cocoa Tk.
bpo-36019: Add test.support.TEST_HTTP_URL and replace references of http://www.example.com by this new constant. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.
bpo-36037: Fix test_ssl for strict OpenSSL configuration like RHEL8 strict crypto policy. Use older TLS version for minimum TLS version of the server SSL context if needed, to test TLS version older than default minimum TLS version.
bpo-35505: Make test_imap4_host_default_value independent on whether the local IMAP server is running.
bpo-35917: multiprocessing: provide unit tests for SyncManager and SharedMemoryManager classes + all the shareable types which are supposed to be supported by them. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
bpo-35772: Fix sparse file tests of test_tarfile on ppc64 with the tmpfs filesystem. Fix the function testing if the filesystem supports sparse files: create a file which contains data and “holes”, instead of creating a file which contains no data. tmpfs effective block size is a page size (tmpfs lives in the page cache). RHEL uses 64 KiB pages on aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, only s390x and x86_64 use 4 KiB pages, whereas the test punch holes of 4 KiB.
bpo-35045: Make ssl tests less strict and also accept TLSv1 as system default. The changes unbreaks test_min_max_version on Fedora 29.
bpo-31731: Fix a race condition in
check_interrupted_write()
of test_io: create directly the thread with SIGALRM signal blocked, rather than blocking the signal later from the thread. Previously, it was possible that the thread gets the signal before the signal is blocked.bpo-35424: Fix test_multiprocessing_main_handling: use
multiprocessing.Pool
with a context manager and then explicitly join the pool.bpo-35519: Rename
test.bisect
module totest.bisect_cmd
to avoid conflict withbisect
module when running directly a test like./python Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
.bpo-35513: Replace
time.time()
withtime.monotonic()
in tests to measure time delta.bpo-34279:
test.support.run_unittest()
no longer raiseTestDidNotRun
if the test result contains skipped tests. The exception is now only raised if no test have been run and no test have been skipped.bpo-35412: Add testcase to
test_future4
: check unicode literal.bpo-26704: Added test demonstrating double-patching of an instance method. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
Build¶
bpo-34691: The _contextvars module is now built into the core Python library on Windows.
bpo-35683: Improved Azure Pipelines build steps and now verifying layouts correctly
bpo-35642: Remove asynciomodule.c from pythoncore.vcxproj
bpo-35550: Fix incorrect Solaris #ifdef checks to look for __sun && __SVR4 instead of sun when compiling.
Windows¶
bpo-24643: Fix name collisions due to
#define timezone _timezone
in PC/pyconfig.h.bpo-35692:
pathlib
no longer raises when checking file and directory existence on drives that are not readybpo-35872: Uses the base Python executable when invoking venv in a virtual environment
bpo-35873: Prevents venv paths being inherited by child processes
bpo-35299: Fix sysconfig detection of the source directory and distutils handling of pyconfig.h during PGO profiling
bpo-32560: The
py
launcher now forwards itsSTARTUPINFO
structure to child processes.bpo-35854: Fix EnvBuilder and –symlinks in venv on Windows
bpo-35811: Avoid propagating venv settings when launching via py.exe
bpo-35797: Fix default executable used by the multiprocessing module
bpo-29734: Fix handle leaks in os.stat on Windows.
bpo-35596: Use unchecked PYCs for the embeddable distro to avoid zipimport restrictions.
bpo-35596: Fix vcruntime140.dll being added to embeddable distro multiple times.
bpo-35402: Update Windows build to use Tcl and Tk 8.6.9
bpo-33316: PyThread_release_lock always fails
bpo-1104: Correctly handle string length in
msilib.SummaryInfo.GetProperty()
to prevent it from truncating the last character.
IDLE¶
bpo-36176: Fix IDLE autocomplete & calltip popup colors. Prevent conflicts with Linux dark themes (and slightly darken calltip background).
bpo-36152: Remove colorizer.ColorDelegator.close_when_done and the corresponding argument of .close(). In IDLE, both have always been None or False since 2007.
bpo-32129: Avoid blurry IDLE application icon on macOS with Tk 8.6. Patch by Kevin Walzer.
bpo-24310: IDLE – Document settings dialog font tab sample.
bpo-36096: Refactor class variables to instance variables in colorizer.
bpo-35833: Revise IDLE doc for control codes sent to Shell. Add a code example block.
bpo-35770: IDLE macosx deletes Options => Configure IDLE. It previously deleted Window => Zoom Height by mistake. (Zoom Height is now on the Options menu). On Mac, the settings dialog is accessed via Preferences on the IDLE menu.
bpo-35769: Change IDLE’s new file name from ‘Untitled’ to ‘untitled’
bpo-35689: Add docstrings and unittests for colorizer.py.
bpo-35660: Fix imports in idlelib.window.
bpo-35641: Proper format
calltip
when the function has no docstring.bpo-33987: Use ttk Frame for ttk widgets.
bpo-34055: Fix erroneous ‘smart’ indents and newlines in IDLE Shell.
bpo-35591: Find Selection now works when selection not found.
bpo-35196: Speed up squeezer line counting.
bpo-35598: Update config_key: use PEP 8 names and ttk widgets, make some objects global, and add tests.
bpo-28097: Add Previous/Next History entries to Shell menu.
bpo-35208: Squeezer now properly counts wrapped lines before newlines.
bpo-35555: Gray out Code Context menu entry when it’s not applicable.
bpo-35521: Document the IDLE editor code context feature. Add some internal references within the IDLE doc.
bpo-22703: The Code Context menu label now toggles between Show/Hide Code Context. The Zoom Height menu now toggles between Zoom/Restore Height. Zoom Height has moved from the Window menu to the Options menu.
C API¶
bpo-33817: Fixed
_PyBytes_Resize()
for empty bytes objects.
Python 3.7.2 final¶
Release date: 2018-12-23
Build¶
bpo-35499:
make profile-opt
no longer replacesCFLAGS_NODIST
withCFLAGS
. It now adds profile-guided optimization (PGO) flags toCFLAGS_NODIST
: existingCFLAGS_NODIST
flags are kept.bpo-35257: Avoid leaking the linker flags from Link Time Optimizations (LTO) into distutils when compiling C extensions.
C API¶
bpo-35259: Conditionally declare
Py_FinalizeEx()
(new in 3.6) based on Py_LIMITED_API. Patch by Arthur Neufeld.
Python 3.7.2 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-12-11
Security¶
bpo-34812: The
-I
command line option (run Python in isolated mode) is now also copied by themultiprocessing
anddistutils
modules when spawning child processes. Previously, only-E
and-s
options (enabled by-I
) were copied.bpo-34791: The xml.sax and xml.dom.domreg no longer use environment variables to override parser implementations when sys.flags.ignore_environment is set by -E or -I arguments.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-35444: Fixed error handling in pickling methods when fail to look up builtin “getattr”.
bpo-35436: Fix various issues with memory allocation error handling. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-35357: Internal attributes’ names of unittest.mock._Call and unittest.mock.MagicProxy (name, parent & from_kall) are now prefixed with _mock_ in order to prevent clashes with widely used object attributes. Fixed minor typo in test function name.
bpo-35372: Fixed the code page decoder for input longer than 2 GiB containing undecodable bytes.
bpo-35336: Fix PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=1 environment variable: only coerce the C locale if the LC_CTYPE locale is “C”.
bpo-33954: For
str.format()
,float.__format__()
andcomplex.__format__()
methods for non-ASCII decimal point when using the “n” formatter.bpo-35269: Fix a possible segfault involving a newly-created coroutine. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-35214: Fixed an out of bounds memory access when parsing a truncated unicode escape sequence at the end of a string such as
'\N'
. It would read one byte beyond the end of the memory allocation.bpo-35214: The interpreter and extension modules have had annotations added so that they work properly under clang’s Memory Sanitizer. A new configure flag –with-memory-sanitizer has been added to make test builds of this nature easier to perform.
bpo-35193: Fix an off by one error in the bytecode peephole optimizer where it could read bytes beyond the end of bounds of an array when removing unreachable code. This bug was present in every release of Python 3.6 and 3.7 until now.
bpo-29341: Clarify in the docstrings of
os
methods that path-like objects are also accepted as input parameters.bpo-35050:
socket
: Fix off-by-one bug in length check forAF_ALG
name and type.bpo-34974:
bytes
andbytearray
constructors no longer convert unexpected exceptions (e.g.MemoryError
andKeyboardInterrupt
) toTypeError
.bpo-34973: Fixed crash in
bytes()
when thelist
argument is mutated while it is iterated.bpo-34824: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in Modules/_ssl.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-1621: Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior (C undefined behavior) when performing set hash table resizing.
Library¶
bpo-35052: Fix xml.dom.minidom cloneNode() on a document with an entity: pass the correct arguments to the user data handler of an entity.
bpo-35330: When a
Mock
instance was used to wrap an object, ifside_effect
is used in one of the mocks of it methods, don’t call the original implementation and return the result of using the side effect the same way that it is done with return_value.bpo-34172: Revert the fix for this issue previously released in 3.7.1 pending further investigation: Fix a reference issue inside multiprocessing.Pool that caused the pool to remain alive if it was deleted without being closed or terminated explicitly.
bpo-10496:
posixpath.expanduser()
now returns the input path unchanged if theHOME
environment variable is not set and the current user has no home directory (if the current user identifier doesn’t exist in the password database). This change fix thesite
module if the current user doesn’t exist in the password database (if the user has no home directory).bpo-35310: Fix a bug in
select.select()
where, in some cases, the file descriptor sequences were returned unmodified after a signal interruption, even though the file descriptors might not be ready yet.select.select()
will now always return empty lists if a timeout has occurred. Patch by Oran Avraham.bpo-35380: Enable TCP_NODELAY on Windows for proactor asyncio event loop.
bpo-35341: Add generic version of
collections.OrderedDict
to thetyping
module. Patch by Ismo Toijala.bpo-35371: Fixed possible crash in
os.utime()
on Windows when pass incorrect arguments.bpo-27903: Fix
ResourceWarning
inplatform.dist()
on SuSE and Caldera OpenLinux. Patch by Ville Skyttä.bpo-35308: Fix regression in
webbrowser
where default browsers may be preferred over browsers in theBROWSER
environment variable.bpo-28604:
locale.localeconv()
now sets temporarily theLC_CTYPE
locale to theLC_MONETARY
locale if the two locales are different and monetary strings are non-ASCII. This temporary change affects other threads.bpo-35277: Update ensurepip to install pip 18.1 and setuptools 40.6.2.
bpo-35226: Recursively check arguments when testing for equality of
unittest.mock.call
objects and add note that tracking of parameters used to create ancestors of mocks inmock_calls
is not possible.bpo-29564: The warnings module now suggests to enable tracemalloc if the source is specified, the tracemalloc module is available, but tracemalloc is not tracing memory allocations.
bpo-35189: Modify the following fnctl function to retry if interrupted by a signal (EINTR): flock, lockf, fnctl
bpo-35062: Fix incorrect parsing of
_io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder
’s translate argument.bpo-35079: Improve difflib.SequenceManager.get_matching_blocks doc by adding ‘non-overlapping’ and changing ‘!=’ to ‘<’.
bpo-35017:
socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever()
now exits immediately if it’sshutdown()
method is called while it is polling for new events.bpo-31047: Fix
ntpath.abspath
regression where it didn’t remove a trailing separator on Windows. Patch by Tim Graham.bpo-34794: Fixed a leak in Tkinter when pass the Python wrapper around Tcl_Obj back to Tcl/Tk.
bpo-35008: Fixed references leaks when call the
__setstate__()
method ofxml.etree.ElementTree.Element
in the C implementation for already initialized element.bpo-23420: Verify the value for the parameter ‘-s’ of the cProfile CLI. Patch by Robert Kuska
bpo-33947: dataclasses now handle recursive reprs without raising RecursionError.
bpo-16965: The 2to3
execfile
fixer now opens the file with mode'rb'
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34966:
pydoc
now supports aliases not only to methods defined in the end class, but also to inherited methods. The docstring is not duplicated for aliases.bpo-34941: Methods
find()
,findtext()
andfindall()
of theElement
class in thexml.etree.ElementTree
module are now able to find children which are instances ofElement
subclasses.bpo-34936: Fix
TclError
intkinter.Spinbox.selection_element()
. Patch by Juliette Monsel.bpo-34866: Adding
max_num_fields
tocgi.FieldStorage
to make DOS attacks harder by limiting the number ofMiniFieldStorage
objects created byFieldStorage
.bpo-34022: The
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable no longer overrides the value of the invalidation_mode argument topy_compile.compile()
, and determines its default value instead.bpo-34738: ZIP files created by
distutils
will now include entries for directories.bpo-31177: Fix bug that prevented using
reset_mock
on mock instances with deleted attributesbpo-34536:
Enum._missing_
: raiseValueError
if None returned andTypeError
if non-member is returned.bpo-34604: Fix possible mojibake in the error message of
pwd.getpwnam
andgrp.getgrnam
using string representation because of invisible characters or trailing whitespaces. Patch by William Grzybowski.bpo-34574: OrderedDict iterators are not exhausted during pickling anymore. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
bpo-34052:
sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate()
,sqlite3.Connection.create_function()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler()
methods raises TypeError when unhashable objects are passed as callable. These methods now don’t pass such objects to SQLite API. Previous behavior could lead to segfaults. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-29877: compileall: import ProcessPoolExecutor only when needed, preventing hangs on low resource platforms
bpo-22005: Implemented unpickling instances of
datetime
,date
andtime
pickled by Python 2.encoding='latin1'
should be used for successful decoding.
Documentation¶
bpo-35089: Remove mention of
typing.io
andtyping.re
. Their types should be imported fromtyping
directly.bpo-35038: Fix the documentation about an unexisting
f_restricted
attribute in the frame object. Patch by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-35044: Fix the documentation with the role
exc
for the appropriated exception. Patch by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-35035: Rename documentation for
email.utils
toemail.utils.rst
.bpo-34967: Use app.add_object_type() instead of the deprecated Sphinx function app.description_unit()
bpo-11233: Create availability directive for documentation. Original patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-33594: Document
getargspec
,from_function
andfrom_builtin
as deprecated in their respective docstring, and include version since deprecation in DeprecationWarning message.bpo-32613: Update the faq/windows.html to use the py command from PEP 397 instead of python.
Tests¶
bpo-33725: test_multiprocessing_fork may crash on recent versions of macOS. Until the issue is resolved, skip the test on macOS.
bpo-35352: Modify test_asyncio to use the certificate set from the test directory.
bpo-35317: Fix
mktime()
overflow error intest_email
: runtest_localtime_daylight_true_dst_true()
andtest_localtime_daylight_false_dst_true()
with a specific timezone.bpo-21263: After several reports that test_gdb does not work properly on macOS and since gdb is not shipped by default anymore, test_gdb is now skipped on macOS when LLVM Clang has been used to compile Python. Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou
bpo-34279: regrtest issue a warning when no tests have been executed in a particular test file. Also, a new final result state is issued if no test have been executed across all test files. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Build¶
bpo-35296: The Windows installer (MSI) now also install internal header files (
Include/internal/
subdirectory).bpo-35351: When building Python with clang and LTO, LTO flags are no longer passed into CFLAGS to build third-party C extensions through distutils.
bpo-35139: Fix a compiler error when statically linking
pyexpat
inModules/Setup
.bpo-35011: Restores the use of pyexpatns.h to isolate our embedded copy of the expat C library so that its symbols do not conflict at link or dynamic loading time with an embedding application or other extension modules with their own version of libexpat.
bpo-28015: Have –with-lto works correctly with clang.
bpo-33015: Fix an undefined behaviour in the pthread implementation of
PyThread_start_new_thread()
: add a function wrapper to always returnNULL
.
Windows¶
bpo-35401: Updates Windows build to OpenSSL 1.1.0j
bpo-34977: venv on Windows will now use a python.exe redirector rather than copying the actual binaries from the base environment.
bpo-34977: Adds support for building a Windows App Store package
bpo-35067: Remove _distutils_findvs module and use vswhere.exe instead.
bpo-34532: Fixes exit code of list version arguments for py.exe.
bpo-32890: Fix usage of GetLastError() instead of errno in os.execve() and os.truncate().
macOS¶
bpo-35402: Update macOS installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.6.9.1. [NOTE: This change was reverted for the released python.org 3.7.2 macOS installers due to regressions found in Tk 8.6.9.1. For now, the installers provide Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.]
bpo-35401: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0j.
bpo-35025: Properly guard the use of the
CLOCK_GETTIME
et al. macros intimemodule
on macOS.bpo-24658: On macOS, fix reading from and writing into a file with a size larger than 2 GiB.
IDLE¶
bpo-35213: Where appropriate, use ‘macOS’ in idlelib.
bpo-34864: On macOS, warn if the system preference “Prefer tabs when opening documents” is set to “Always”.
bpo-34864: Document two IDLE on MacOS issues. The System Preferences Dock “prefer tabs always” setting disables some IDLE features. Menus are a bit different than as described for Windows and Linux.
bpo-35202: Remove unused imports from lib/idlelib
bpo-33000: Document that IDLE’s shell has no line limit. A program that runs indefinitely can overfill memory.
bpo-23220: Explain how IDLE’s Shell displays output.
bpo-35099: Improve the doc about IDLE running user code. The section is renamed from “IDLE – console differences” is renamed “Running user code”. It mostly covers the implications of using custom sys.stdxxx objects.
bpo-35097: Add IDLE doc subsection explaining editor windows. Topics include opening, title and status bar, .py* extension, and running.
bpo-35093: Document the IDLE document viewer in the IDLE doc. Add a paragraph in “Help and preferences”, “Help sources” subsection.
bpo-35088: Update idlelib.help.copy_string docstring. We now use git and backporting instead of hg and forward merging.
bpo-35087: Update idlelib help files for the current doc build. The main change is the elimination of chapter-section numbers.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-34989: python-gdb.py now handles errors on computing the line number of a Python frame.
C API¶
bpo-35322: Fix memory leak in
PyUnicode_EncodeLocale()
andPyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault()
on error handling.bpo-35296:
make install
now also installs the internal API:Include/internal/*.h
header files.bpo-34725: Adds _Py_SetProgramFullPath so embedders may override sys.executable
Python 3.7.1 final¶
Release date: 2018-10-20
Python 3.7.1 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2018-10-13
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-34879: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in bytesobject.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-34854: Fixed a crash in compiling string annotations containing a lambda with a keyword-only argument that doesn’t have a default value.
bpo-34320: Fix
dict(od)
didn’t copy iteration order of OrderedDict.
Library¶
bpo-34769: Fix for async generators not finalizing when event loop is in debug mode and garbage collector runs in another thread.
bpo-34922: Fixed integer overflow in the
digest()
andhexdigest()
methods for the SHAKE algorithm in thehashlib
module.bpo-34909: Enum: fix grandchildren subclassing when parent mixed with concrete data types.
bpo-34900: Fixed
unittest.TestCase.debug()
when used to call test methods with subtests. Patch by Bruno Oliveira.bpo-34871: Fix inspect module polluted
sys.modules
when parsing__text_signature__
of callable.bpo-34872: Fix self-cancellation in C implementation of asyncio.Task
bpo-34819: Use a monotonic clock to compute timeouts in
Executor.map()
andas_completed()
, in order to prevent timeouts from deviating when the system clock is adjusted.bpo-34521: Use
socket.CMSG_SPACE()
to calculate ancillary data size instead ofsocket.CMSG_LEN()
inmultiprocessing.reduction.recvfds()
as RFC 3542 requires the use of the former for portable applications.bpo-34334: In
QueueHandler
, clearexc_text
fromLogRecord
to prevent traceback from being written twice.bpo-6721: Acquire the logging module’s commonly used internal locks while fork()ing to avoid deadlocks in the child process.
bpo-34172: Fix a reference issue inside multiprocessing.Pool that caused the pool to remain alive if it was deleted without being closed or terminated explicitly.
Documentation¶
bpo-32174: chm document displays non-ASCII charaters properly on some MBCS Windows systems.
macOS¶
C API¶
bpo-34910: Ensure that
PyObject_Print()
always returns-1
on error. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
Python 3.7.1 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-09-26
Security¶
bpo-17239: The xml.sax and xml.dom.minidom parsers no longer processes external entities by default. External DTD and ENTITY declarations no longer load files or create network connections.
bpo-34623: CVE-2018-14647: The C accelerated _elementtree module now initializes hash randomization salt from _Py_HashSecret instead of libexpat’s default CSPRNG.
bpo-34405: Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.0i for Windows builds.
bpo-33871: Fixed sending the part of the file in
os.sendfile()
on macOS. Using the trailers argument could cause sending more bytes from the input file than was specified.bpo-32533: Fixed thread-safety of error handling in _ssl.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-34783: Fix a crash with musl libc (on Alpine Linux) when the script filename specified on the command line doesn’t exist.
bpo-34762: Fix contextvars C API to use PyObject* pointer types.
bpo-34735: Fix a memory leak in Modules/timemodule.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-34588: Fix an off-by-one in the recursive call pruning feature of traceback formatting.
bpo-34485: Standard streams like sys.stdout now use the “surrogateescape” error handler, instead of “strict”, on the POSIX locale (when the C locale is not coerced and the UTF-8 Mode is disabled).
bpo-34485: Fix the error handler of standard streams like sys.stdout: PYTHONIOENCODING=”:” is now ignored instead of setting the error handler to “strict”.
bpo-34527: On FreeBSD, Py_DecodeLocale() and Py_EncodeLocale() now also forces the ASCII encoding if the LC_CTYPE locale is “POSIX”, not only if the LC_CTYPE locale is “C”.
bpo-34527: The UTF-8 Mode is now also enabled by the “POSIX” locale, not only by the “C” locale.
bpo-34400: Fix undefined behavior in parsetok.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-34377: Update valgrind suppression list to use
_PyObject_Free
/_PyObject_Realloc
instead ofPyObject_Free
/PyObject_Realloc
.bpo-34170: -X dev: it is now possible to override the memory allocator using PYTHONMALLOC even if the developer mode is enabled.
bpo-34126: Fix crashes when profiling certain invalid calls of unbound methods. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.
bpo-24618: Fixed reading invalid memory when create the code object with too small varnames tuple or too large argument counts.
bpo-34068: In
io.IOBase.close()
, ensure that theclosed
attribute is not set with a live exception. Patch by Zackery Spytz and Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-34087: Fix buffer overflow while converting unicode to numeric values.
bpo-34080: Fixed a memory leak in the compiler when it raised some uncommon errors during tokenizing.
bpo-34066: Disabled interruption by Ctrl-C between calling
open()
and entering a with block inwith open()
.bpo-34042: Fix dict.copy() to maintain correct total refcount (as reported by sys.gettotalrefcount()).
bpo-33985: Implement contextvars.ContextVar.name attribute.
bpo-33956: Update vendored Expat library copy to version 2.2.5.
bpo-24596: Decref the module object in
PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()
before callingPyErr_Print()
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33451: Close directly executed pyc files before calling
PyEval_EvalCode()
.bpo-33824: Fix “LC_ALL=C python3.7 -V”: reset properly the command line parser when the encoding changes after reading the Python configuration.
bpo-25750: Fix rare Python crash due to bad refcounting in
type_getattro()
if a descriptor deletes itself from the class. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.bpo-31902: Fix the
col_offset
attribute for ast nodesast.AsyncFor
,ast.AsyncFunctionDef
, andast.AsyncWith
. Previously,col_offset
pointed to the keyword afterasync
.bpo-25862: Fix assertion failures in the
tell()
method ofio.TextIOWrapper
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-31577: Fix a crash in
os.utime()
in case of a bad ns argument. Patch by Oren Milman.
Library¶
bpo-29577: Support multiple mixin classes when creating Enums.
bpo-34670: Add SSLContext.post_handshake_auth and SSLSocket.verify_client_post_handshake for TLS 1.3’s post handshake authentication feature.
bpo-34658: Fix a rare interpreter unhandled exception state SystemError only seen when using subprocess with a preexec_fn while an after_parent handler has been registered with os.register_at_fork and the fork system call fails.
bpo-34652: Ensure
os.lchmod()
is never defined on Linux.bpo-34363: dataclasses.asdict() and .astuple() now handle namedtuples correctly.
bpo-34625: Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.6.
bpo-34621: Fix un/pickling compatbility of uuid.UUID objects with older versions of Python (<3.7).
bpo-32270: The subprocess module no longer mistakenly closes redirected fds even when they were in pass_fds when outside of the default {0, 1, 2} set.
bpo-34610: Fixed iterator of
multiprocessing.managers.DictProxy
.bpo-34421: Fix distutils logging for non-ASCII strings. This caused installation issues on Windows.
bpo-34604: Fix possible mojibake in the error message of
pwd.getpwnam
andgrp.getgrnam
. Patch by William Grzybowski.bpo-34530:
distutils.spawn.find_executable()
now falls back onos.defpath
if thePATH
environment variable is not set.bpo-34282: Fix enum members getting shadowed by parent attributes.
bpo-34563: On Windows, fix multiprocessing.Connection for very large read: fix _winapi.PeekNamedPipe() and _winapi.ReadFile() for read larger than INT_MAX (usually 2^31-1).
bpo-34558: Correct typo in Lib/ctypes/_aix.py
bpo-34515: Fix parsing non-ASCII identifiers in
lib2to3.pgen2.tokenize
(PEP 3131).bpo-13312: Avoids a possible integer underflow (undefined behavior) in the time module’s year handling code when passed a very low negative year value.
bpo-34472: Improved compatibility for streamed files in
zipfile
. Previously an optional signature was not being written and certain ZIP applications were not supported. Patch by Silas Sewell.bpo-34454: Fix the .fromisoformat() methods of datetime types crashing when given unicode with non-UTF-8-encodable code points. Specifically, datetime.fromisoformat() now accepts surrogate unicode code points used as the separator. Report and tests by Alexey Izbyshev, patch by Paul Ganssle.
bpo-6700: Fix inspect.getsourcelines for module level frames/tracebacks. Patch by Vladimir Matveev.
bpo-34171: Running the
trace
module no longer creates thetrace.cover
file.bpo-34441: Fix crash when an
ABC
-derived class with invalid__subclasses__
is passed as the second argument toissubclass()
. Patch by Alexey Izbyshev.bpo-34341: Appending to the ZIP archive with the ZIP64 extension no longer grows the size of extra fields of existing entries.
bpo-34333: Fix %-formatting in
pathlib.PurePath.with_suffix()
when formatting an error message.bpo-18540: The
imaplib.IMAP4
andimaplib.IMAP4_SSL
classes now resolve to the local host IP correctly when the default value of host parameter (''
) is used.bpo-34246:
smtplib.SMTP.send_message()
no longer modifies the content of the mail_options argument. Patch by Pablo S. Blum de Aguiar.bpo-31047: Fix
ntpath.abspath
for invalid paths on windows. Patch by Franz Woellert.bpo-34263: asyncio’s event loop will not pass timeouts longer than one day to epoll/select etc.
bpo-34035: Fix several AttributeError in zipfile seek() methods. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.
bpo-32215: Fix performance regression in
sqlite3
when a DML statement appeared in a different line than the rest of the SQL query.bpo-34251: Restore
msilib.Win64
to preserve backwards compatibility since it’s already used bydistutils
’bdist_msi
command.bpo-19891: Ignore errors caused by missing / non-writable homedir while writing history during exit of an interactive session. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-34213: Allow frozen dataclasses to have a field named “object”. Previously this conflicted with an internal use of “object”.
bpo-21446: The
reload
fixer now usesimportlib.reload()
instead of deprecatedimp.reload()
.bpo-940286: pydoc’s
Helper.showtopic()
method now prints the cross references of a topic correctly.bpo-34164:
base64.b32decode()
could raise UnboundLocalError or OverflowError for incorrect padding. Now it always raisesbase64.Error
in these cases.bpo-34108: Remove extraneous CR in 2to3 refactor.
bpo-27494: Reverted bpo-27494. 2to3 rejects now a trailing comma in generator expressions.
bpo-33967: functools.singledispatch now raises TypeError instead of IndexError when no positional arguments are passed.
bpo-34056: Ensure the loader shim created by
imp.load_module
always returns bytes from itsget_data()
function. This fixes usingimp.load_module
with PEP 552 hash-based pycs.bpo-34054: The multiprocessing module now uses the monotonic clock
time.monotonic()
instead of the system clocktime.time()
to implement timeout.bpo-34044:
subprocess.Popen
now copies the startupinfo argument to leave it unchanged: it will modify the copy, so that the sameSTARTUPINFO
object can be used multiple times.bpo-34010: Fixed a performance regression for reading streams with tarfile. The buffered read should use a list, instead of appending to a bytes object.
bpo-34019: webbrowser: Correct the arguments passed to Opera Browser when opening a new URL using the
webbrowser
module. Patch by Bumsik Kim.bpo-33978: Closed existing logging handlers before reconfiguration via fileConfig and dictConfig. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-14117: Make minor tweaks to turtledemo. The ‘wikipedia’ example is now ‘rosette’, decribing what it draws. The ‘penrose’ print output is reduced. The‘1024’ output of ‘tree’ is eliminated.
bpo-33974: Fixed passing lists and tuples of strings containing special characters
"
,\
,{
,}
and\n
as options tottk
widgets.bpo-27500: Fix getaddrinfo to resolve IPv6 addresses correctly.
bpo-24567: Improve random.choices() to handle subnormal input weights that could occasionally trigger an IndexError.
bpo-33871: Fixed integer overflow in
os.readv()
,os.writev()
,os.preadv()
andos.pwritev()
and inos.sendfile()
with headers or trailers arguments (on BSD-based OSes and macOS).bpo-33899: Tokenize module now implicitly emits a NEWLINE when provided with input that does not have a trailing new line. This behavior now matches what the C tokenizer does internally. Contributed by Ammar Askar.
bpo-33916: bz2 and lzma: When Decompressor.__init__() is called twice, free the old lock to not leak memory.
bpo-32568: Make select.epoll() and its documentation consistent regarding sizehint and flags.
bpo-33833: Fixed bug in asyncio where ProactorSocketTransport logs AssertionError if force closed during write.
bpo-33663: Convert content length to string before putting to header.
bpo-26544: Fixed implementation of
platform.libc_ver()
. It almost always returned version ‘2.9’ for glibc.bpo-33805: Improve error message of dataclasses.replace() when an InitVar is not specified
bpo-27397: Make email module properly handle invalid-length base64 strings.
bpo-33476: Fix _header_value_parser.py when address group is missing final ‘;’. Contributed by Enrique Perez-Terron
bpo-31014: Fixed creating a controller for
webbrowser
when a user specifies a path to an entry in the BROWSER environment variable. Based on patch by John Still.bpo-33365: Print the header values besides the header keys instead just the header keys if debuglevel is set to >0 in
http.client
. Patch by Marco Strigl.bpo-32933:
unittest.mock.mock_open()
now supports iteration over the file contents. Patch by Tony Flury.bpo-33336:
imaplib
now allowsMOVE
command inIMAP4.uid()
(RFC 6851: IMAP MOVE Extension) and potentially as a name of supported method ofIMAP4
object.bpo-31608: Raise a
TypeError
instead of crashing if acollections.deque
subclass returns a non-deque from__new__
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-29456: Fix bugs in hangul normalization: u1176, u11a7 and u11c3
Documentation¶
bpo-34790: Document how passing coroutines to asyncio.wait() can be confusing.
bpo-28617: Fixed info in the stdtypes docs concerning the types that support membership tests.
bpo-34065: Fix wrongly written basicConfig documentation markup syntax
bpo-33460: replaced ellipsis with correct error codes in tutorial chapter 3.
bpo-33847: Add ‘@’ operator entry to index.
Tests¶
bpo-34537: Fix
test_gdb.test_strings()
whenLC_ALL=C
and GDB was compiled with Python 3.6 or earlier.bpo-34587: test_socket: Remove RDSTest.testCongestion(). The test tries to fill the receiver’s socket buffer and expects an error. But the RDS protocol doesn’t require that. Moreover, the Linux implementation of RDS expects that the producer of the messages reduces its rate, it’s not the role of the receiver to trigger an error. The test fails on Fedora 28 by design, so just remove it.
bpo-34661: Fix test_shutil if unzip doesn’t support -t.
bpo-34200: Fixed non-deterministic flakiness of test_pkg by not using the scary test.support.module_cleanup() logic to save and restore sys.modules contents between test cases.
bpo-34594: Fix usage of hardcoded
errno
values in the tests.bpo-34542: Use 3072 RSA keys and SHA-256 signature for test certs and keys.
bpo-11193: Remove special condition for AIX in
test_subprocess.test_undecodable_env
bpo-34490: On AIX with AF_UNIX family sockets getsockname() does not provide ‘sockname’, so skip calls to transport.get_extra_info(‘sockname’)
bpo-34391: Fix ftplib test for TLS 1.3 by reading from data socket.
bpo-34399: Update all RSA keys and DH params to use at least 2048 bits.
bpo-33746: Fix test_unittest when run in verbose mode.
bpo-33901: Fix test_dbm_gnu on macOS with gdbm 1.15: add a larger value to make sure that the file size changes.
bpo-33873: Fix a bug in
regrtest
that caused an extra test to run if –huntrleaks/-R was used. Exit with error in case that invalid parameters are specified to –huntrleaks/-R (at least one warmup run and one repetition must be used).bpo-32663: Making sure the
SMTPUTF8SimTests
class of tests gets run in test_smtplib.py.
Build¶
bpo-34710: Fixed SSL module build with OpenSSL & pedantic CFLAGS.
bpo-34582: Add JUnit XML output for regression tests and update Azure DevOps builds.
bpo-34555: Fix for case where it was not possible to have both
HAVE_LINUX_VM_SOCKETS_H
andHAVE_SOCKADDR_ALG
be undefined.bpo-34121: Fix detection of C11 atomic support on clang.
bpo-30345: Add -g to LDFLAGS when compiling with LTO to get debug symbols.
bpo-33648: The –with-c-locale-warning configuration flag has been removed. It has had no effect for about a year.
Windows¶
bpo-34770: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in pyshellext.cpp.
bpo-34603: Fix returning structs from functions produced by MSVC
bpo-34581: Guard MSVC-specific code in socketmodule.c with
#ifdef _MSC_VER
.bpo-34062: Fixed the ‘–list’ and ‘–list-paths’ arguments for the py.exe launcher
bpo-34225: Ensure INCLUDE and LIB directories do not end with a backslash.
bpo-34006: Revert line length limit for Windows help docs. The line-length limit is not needed because the pages appear in a separate app rather than on a browser tab. It can also interact badly with the DPI setting.
bpo-31546: Restore running PyOS_InputHook while waiting for user input at the prompt. The restores integration of interactive GUI windows (such as Matplotlib figures) with the prompt on Windows.
bpo-30237: Output error when ReadConsole is canceled by CancelSynchronousIo instead of crashing.
bpo-29097: Fix bug where
datetime.fromtimestamp()
erronously throws anOSError
on Windows for values between 0 and 86400. Patch by Ammar Askar.
macOS¶
bpo-34370: Have macOS 10.9+ installer builds for 3.7.1rc and 3.6.7rc use a development snapshot of Tk 8.6 (post-8.6.8) to mitigate certain scroller issues seen with IDLE and tkinter apps.
bpo-34405: Update to OpenSSL 1.1.0i for macOS installer builds.
bpo-33635: In macOS stat on some file descriptors (/dev/fd/3 f.e) will result in bad file descriptor OSError. Guard against this exception was added in is_dir, is_file and similar methods. DirEntry.is_dir can also throw this exception so _RecursiveWildcardSelector._iterate_directories was also extended with the same error ignoring pattern.
bpo-31903: In
_scproxy
, drop the GIL when calling intoSystemConfiguration
to avoid deadlocks.
IDLE¶
bpo-34548: Use configured color theme for read-only text views.
bpo-1529353: Enable “squeezing” of long outputs in the shell, to avoid performance degradation and to clean up the history without losing it. Squeezed outputs may be copied, viewed in a separate window, and “unsqueezed”.
bpo-34047: Fixed mousewheel scrolling direction on macOS.
bpo-34275: Make IDLE calltips always visible on Mac. Some MacOS-tk combinations need .update_idletasks(). Patch by Kevin Walzer.
bpo-34120: Fix unresponsiveness after closing certain windows and dialogs.
bpo-33975: Avoid small type when running htests. Since part of the purpose of human-viewed tests is to determine that widgets look right, it is important that they look the same for testing as when running IDLE.
bpo-33905: Add test for idlelib.stackview.StackBrowser.
bpo-33924: Change mainmenu.menudefs key ‘windows’ to ‘window’. Every other menudef key is lowercase version of main menu entry.
bpo-33906: Rename idlelib.windows as window Match Window on the main menu and remove last plural module name.
bpo-33917: Fix and document idlelib/idle_test/template.py. The revised file compiles, runs, and tests OK. idle_test/README.txt explains how to use it to create new IDLE test files.
bpo-33904: IDLE: In rstrip, rename class RstripExtension as Rstrip
bpo-33907: For consistency and clarity, rename an IDLE module and classes. Module calltips and its class CallTips are now calltip and Calltip. In module calltip_w, class CallTip is now CalltipWindow.
bpo-33856: Add “help” in the welcome message of IDLE
bpo-33839: IDLE: refactor ToolTip and CallTip and add documentation and tests
bpo-33855: Minimally test all IDLE modules. Add missing files, import module, instantiate classes, and check coverage. Check existing files.
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
bpo-34247: Fix Py_Initialize() regression introduced in 3.7.0: read environment variables like PYTHONOPTIMIZE.
bpo-23927: Fixed
SystemError
inPyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
when thew*
format unit is used for optional parameter.bpo-34008: Py_Main() can again be called after Py_Initialize(), as in Python 3.6.
Python 3.7.0 final¶
Release date: 2018-06-27
Library¶
bpo-33851: Fix
ast.get_docstring()
for a node that lacks a docstring.
Python 3.7.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-06-12
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33803: Fix a crash in hamt.c caused by enabling GC tracking for an object that hadn’t all of its fields set to NULL.
bpo-33706: Fix a crash in Python initialization when parsing the command line options. Thanks Christoph Gohlke for the bug report and the fix!
bpo-30654: Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter shutdown even when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by Philipp Kerling.
bpo-31849: Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.
Library¶
bpo-30167: Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.
bpo-33812: Datetime instance d with non-None tzinfo, but with d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) returning None is now treated as naive by the astimezone() method.
bpo-30805: Avoid race condition with debug logging
bpo-33694: asyncio: Fix a race condition causing data loss on pause_reading()/resume_reading() when using the ProactorEventLoop.
bpo-32493: Correct test for
uuid_enc_be
availability inconfigure.ac
. Patch by Michael Felt.bpo-33792: Add asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy and asyncio.WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy.
bpo-33778: Update
unicodedata
’s database to Unicode version 11.0.0.bpo-33770: improve base64 exception message for encoded inputs of invalid length
bpo-33769: asyncio/start_tls: Fix error message; cancel callbacks in case of an unhandled error; mark SSLTransport as closed if it is aborted.
bpo-33767: The concatenation (
+
) and repetition (*
) sequence operations now raiseTypeError
instead ofSystemError
when performed onmmap.mmap
objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33734: asyncio/ssl: Fix AttributeError, increase default handshake timeout
bpo-11874: Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus assertion errors from custom metavar strings.
bpo-33582: Emit a deprecation warning for inspect.formatargspec
Documentation¶
bpo-33409: Clarified the relationship between PEP 538’s PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE and PEP 540’s PYTHONUTF8 mode.
bpo-33736: Improve the documentation of
asyncio.open_connection()
,asyncio.start_server()
and their UNIX socket counterparts.bpo-31432: Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.
Build¶
bpo-5755: Move
-Wstrict-prototypes
option toCFLAGS_NODIST
fromOPT
. This option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in C++.
IDLE¶
bpo-33656: On Windows, add API call saying that tk scales for DPI. On Windows 8.1+ or 10, with DPI compatibility properties of the Python binary unchanged, and a monitor resolution greater than 96 DPI, this should make text and lines sharper. It should otherwise have no effect.
bpo-33768: Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window.
bpo-33763: IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget.
bpo-33664: Scroll IDLE editor text by lines. Previously, the mouse wheel and scrollbar slider moved text by a fixed number of pixels, resulting in partial lines at the top of the editor box. The change also applies to the shell and grep output windows, but not to read-only text views.
bpo-33679: Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context. Use the Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes or add settings to custom themes.
bpo-33642: Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context. If there is no current context, show a single blank line.
Python 3.7.0 beta 5¶
Release date: 2018-05-30
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33622: Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object with the
__del__
method or referenced by it into thegc.garbage
list.PyGC_Collect()
can now be called when an exception is set and preserves it.bpo-33509: Fix module_globals parameter of warnings.warn_explicit(): don’t crash if module_globals is not a dict.
bpo-20104: The new
os.posix_spawn
added in 3.7.0b1 was removed as we are still working on what the API should look like. Expect this in 3.8 instead.bpo-33475: Fixed miscellaneous bugs in converting annotations to strings and optimized parentheses in the string representation.
bpo-33391: Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().
bpo-28055: Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer.
bpo-32911: Due to unexpected compatibility issues discovered during downstream beta testing, reverted bpo-29463.
docstring
field is removed from Module, ClassDef, FunctionDef, and AsyncFunctionDef ast nodes which was added in 3.7a1. Docstring expression is restored as a first statement in their body. Based on patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-21983: Fix a crash in
ctypes.cast()
in case the type argument is a ctypes structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman.
Library¶
bpo-32751: When cancelling the task due to a timeout,
asyncio.wait_for()
will now wait until the cancellation is complete.bpo-32684: Fix gather to propagate cancellation of itself even with return_exceptions.
bpo-33654: Support protocol type switching in SSLTransport.set_protocol().
bpo-33674: Pause the transport as early as possible to further reduce the risk of data_received() being called before connection_made().
bpo-33674: Fix a race condition in SSLProtocol.connection_made() of asyncio.sslproto: start immediately the handshake instead of using call_soon(). Previously, data_received() could be called before the handshake started, causing the handshake to hang or fail.
bpo-31647: Fixed bug where calling write_eof() on a _SelectorSocketTransport after it’s already closed raises AttributeError.
bpo-32610: Make asyncio.all_tasks() return only pending tasks.
bpo-32410: Avoid blocking on file IO in sendfile fallback code
bpo-33469: Fix RuntimeError after closing loop that used run_in_executor
bpo-33672: Fix Task.__repr__ crash with Cython’s bogus coroutines
bpo-33654: Fix transport.set_protocol() to support switching between asyncio.Protocol and asyncio.BufferedProtocol. Fix loop.start_tls() to work with asyncio.BufferedProtocols.
bpo-33652: Pickles of type variables and subscripted generics are now future-proof and compatible with older Python versions.
bpo-32493: Fixed
uuid.uuid1()
on FreeBSD.bpo-33618: Finalize and document preliminary and experimental TLS 1.3 support with OpenSSL 1.1.1
bpo-33623: Fix possible SIGSGV when asyncio.Future is created in __del__
bpo-30877: Fixed a bug in the Python implementation of the JSON decoder that prevented the cache of parsed strings from clearing after finishing the decoding. Based on patch by c-fos.
bpo-33570: Change TLS 1.3 cipher suite settings for compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6 and newer. OpenSSL 1.1.1 will have TLS 1.3 ciphers enabled by default.
bpo-28556: Do not simplify arguments to
typing.Union
. NowUnion[Manager, Employee]
is not simplified toEmployee
at runtime. Such simplification previously caused several bugs and limited possibilities for introspection.bpo-33540: Add a new
block_on_close
class attribute toForkingMixIn
andThreadingMixIn
classes ofsocketserver
.bpo-33548: tempfile._candidate_tempdir_list should consider common TEMP locations
bpo-33109: argparse subparsers are once again not required by default, reverting the change in behavior introduced by bpo-26510 in 3.7.0a2.
bpo-33536: dataclasses.make_dataclass now checks for invalid field names and duplicate fields. Also, added a check for invalid field specifications.
bpo-33542: Prevent
uuid.get_node
from using a DUID instead of a MAC on Windows. Patch by Zvi Effronbpo-26819: Fix race condition with
ReadTransport.resume_reading
in Windows proactor event loop.Fix failure in
typing.get_type_hints()
when ClassVar was provided as a string forward reference.bpo-33505: Optimize asyncio.ensure_future() by reordering if checks: 1.17x faster.
bpo-33497: Add errors param to cgi.parse_multipart and make an encoding in FieldStorage use the given errors (needed for Twisted). Patch by Amber Brown.
bpo-33495: Change dataclasses.Fields repr to use the repr of each of its members, instead of str. This makes it more clear what each field actually represents. This is especially true for the ‘type’ member.
bpo-33453: Fix dataclasses to work if using literal string type annotations or if using PEP 563 “Postponed Evaluation of Annotations”. Only specific string prefixes are detected for both ClassVar (“ClassVar” and “typing.ClassVar”) and InitVar (“InitVar” and “dataclasses.InitVar”).
bpo-28556: Minor fixes in typing module: add annotations to
NamedTuple.__new__
, pass*args
and**kwds
inGeneric.__new__
. Original PRs by Paulius Šarka and Chad Dombrova.bpo-20087: Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales.
bpo-33422: Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino.
bpo-28167: The function
platform.linux_distribution
andplatform.dist
now trigger aDeprecationWarning
and have been marked for removal in Python 3.8bpo-33197: Update error message when constructing invalid inspect.Parameters Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-33263: Fix FD leak in
_SelectorSocketTransport
Patch by Vlad Starostin.bpo-32861: The urllib.robotparser’s
__str__
representation now includes wildcard entries and the “Crawl-delay” and “Request-rate” fields. Patch by Michael Lazar.bpo-32257: The ssl module now contains OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION constant, available with OpenSSL 1.1.0h or 1.1.1.
bpo-16865: Support arrays >=2GiB in
ctypes
. Patch by Segev Finer.
Documentation¶
bpo-23859: Document that
asyncio.wait()
does not cancel its futures on timeout.bpo-32436: Document PEP 567 changes to asyncio.
bpo-33604: Update HMAC md5 default to a DeprecationWarning, bump removal to 3.8.
bpo-33503: Fix broken pypi link
bpo-33421: Add missing documentation for
typing.AsyncContextManager
.
Tests¶
Build¶
bpo-33614: Ensures module definition files for the stable ABI on Windows are correctly regenerated.
bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython
bpo-33012: Add
-Wno-cast-function-type
for gcc 8 for silencing warnings about function casts like casting to PyCFunction in method definition lists.
Python 3.7.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2018-05-02
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33363: Raise a SyntaxError for
async with
andasync for
statements outside of async functions.bpo-33128: Fix a bug that causes PathFinder to appear twice on sys.meta_path. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
bpo-33312: Fixed clang ubsan (undefined behavior sanitizer) warnings in dictobject.c by adjusting how the internal struct _dictkeysobject shared keys structure is declared.
bpo-33231: Fix potential memory leak in
normalizestring()
.bpo-33205: Change dict growth function from
round_up_to_power_2(used*2+hashtable_size/2)
toround_up_to_power_2(used*3)
. Previously, dict is shrinked only whenused == 0
. Now dict has more chance to be shrinked.bpo-29922: Improved error messages in ‘async with’ when
__aenter__()
or__aexit__()
return non-awaitable object.bpo-33199: Fix
ma_version_tag
in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying from key-sharing dict.
Library¶
bpo-33281: Fix ctypes.util.find_library regression on macOS.
bpo-33383: Fixed crash in the get() method of the
dbm.ndbm
database object when it is called with a single argument.bpo-33329: Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs
bpo-991266: Fix quoting of the
Comment
attribute ofhttp.cookies.SimpleCookie
.bpo-33131: Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.
bpo-33308: Fixed a crash in the
parser
module when converting an ST object to a tree of tuples or lists withline_info=False
andcol_info=True
.bpo-33266: lib2to3 now recognizes
rf'...'
strings.bpo-11594: Ensure line-endings are respected when using lib2to3.
bpo-33254: Have
importlib.resources.contents()
andimportlib.abc.ResourceReader.contents()
return an iterable instead of an iterator.bpo-33256: Fix display of
<module>
call in the html produced bycgitb.html()
. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.bpo-33185: Fixed regression when running pydoc with the
-m
switch. (The regression was introduced in 3.7.0b3 by the resolution of bpo-33053)This fix also changed pydoc to add
os.getcwd()
tosys.path
when necessary, rather than adding"."
.bpo-33169: Delete entries of
None
insys.path_importer_cache
whenimportlib.machinery.invalidate_caches()
is called.bpo-33217: Deprecate looking up non-Enum objects in Enum classes and Enum members (will raise
TypeError
in 3.8+).bpo-33203:
random.Random.choice()
now raisesIndexError
for empty sequences consistently even when called from subclasses without agetrandbits()
implementation.bpo-33224: Update difflib.mdiff() for PEP 479. Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a generator into a return-statement.
bpo-33209: End framing at the end of C implementation of
pickle.Pickler.dump()
.bpo-20104: Improved error handling and fixed a reference leak in
os.posix_spawn()
.bpo-33175: In dataclasses, Field.__set_name__ now looks up the __set_name__ special method on the class, not the instance, of the default value.
bpo-33097: Raise RuntimeError when
executor.submit
is called during interpreter shutdown.bpo-31908: Fix output of cover files for
trace
module command-line tool. Previously emitted cover files only when--missing
option was used. Patch by Michael Selik.
Documentation¶
bpo-33378: Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/
bpo-33276: Clarify that the
__path__
attribute on modules cannot be just any value.bpo-33201: Modernize documentation for writing C extension types.
bpo-33195: Deprecate
Py_UNICODE
usage inc-api/arg
document.Py_UNICODE
related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the document.bpo-8243: Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when writing outside a window, or pad.
bpo-32337: Update documentation related with
dict
order.
Tests¶
bpo-33358: Fix
test_embed.test_pre_initialization_sys_options()
when the interpreter is built with--enable-shared
.
Build¶
bpo-33394: Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed macros on the command line.
bpo-33393: Update config.guess and config.sub files.
bpo-33377: Add new triplets for mips r6 and riscv variants (used in extension suffixes).
bpo-32232: By default, modules configured in
Modules/Setup
are no longer built with-DPy_BUILD_CORE
. Instead, modules that specifically need that preprocessor definition include it in their individual entries.bpo-33182: The embedding tests can once again be built with clang 6.0
IDLE¶
bpo-21474: Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL.
bpo-33204: IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A ‘u’ string prefix cannot be paired with either ‘r’ or ‘f’. Consistently color as much of the prefix, starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-33189: pygettext.py now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string expressions.
bpo-31920: Fixed handling directories as arguments in the
pygettext
script. Based on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.bpo-29673: Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros.
bpo-31583: Fix 2to3 for using with –add-suffix option but without –output-dir option for relative path to files in current directory.
Python 3.7.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2018-03-29
Security¶
bpo-33136: Harden ssl module against LibreSSL CVE-2018-8970. X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() is called with an explicit namelen. A new test ensures that NULL bytes are not allowed.
bpo-33001: Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
bpo-32981: 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.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33053: When using the -m switch, sys.path[0] is now explicitly expanded as the starting working directory, rather than being left as the empty path (which allows imports from the current working directory at the time of the import)
bpo-33018: Improve consistency of errors raised by
issubclass()
when called with a non-class and an abstract base class as the first and second arguments, respectively. Patch by Josh Bronson.bpo-33041: Fixed jumping when the function contains an
async for
loop.bpo-33026: Fixed jumping out of “with” block by setting f_lineno.
bpo-33005: Fix a crash on fork when using a custom memory allocator (ex: using PYTHONMALLOC env var). _PyGILState_Reinit() and _PyInterpreterState_Enable() now use the default RAW memory allocator to allocate a new interpreters mutex on fork.
bpo-17288: Prevent jumps from ‘return’ and ‘exception’ trace events.
bpo-32836: Don’t use temporary variables in cases of list/dict/set comprehensions
Library¶
bpo-33141: Have Field objects pass through __set_name__ to their default values, if they have their own __set_name__.
bpo-33096: Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false boolean value. Note iid=0 and iid=False would be same. Patch by Garvit Khatri.
bpo-32873: Treat type variables and special typing forms as immutable by copy and pickle. This fixes several minor issues and inconsistencies, and improves backwards compatibility with Python 3.6.
bpo-33134: When computing dataclass’s __hash__, use the lookup table to contain the function which returns the __hash__ value. This is an improvement over looking up a string, and then testing that string to see what to do.
bpo-33127: The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.
bpo-32505: Raise TypeError if a member variable of a dataclass is of type Field, but doesn’t have a type annotation.
bpo-33078: Fix the failure on OSX caused by the tests relying on sem_getvalue
bpo-33116: Add ‘Field’ to dataclasses.__all__.
bpo-32896: Fix an error where subclassing a dataclass with a field that uses a default_factory would generate an incorrect class.
bpo-33100: Dataclasses: If a field has a default value that’s a MemberDescriptorType, then it’s from that field being in __slots__, not an actual default value.
bpo-32953: If a non-dataclass inherits from a frozen dataclass, allow attributes to be added to the derived class. Only attributes from the frozen dataclass cannot be assigned to. Require all dataclasses in a hierarchy to be either all frozen or all non-frozen.
bpo-33061: Add missing
NoReturn
to__all__
in typing.pybpo-33078: Fix the size handling in multiprocessing.Queue when a pickling error occurs.
bpo-33064: lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after
*args
and**kwargs
in function signatures.bpo-33056: FIX properly close leaking fds in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
bpo-33021: Release the GIL during fstat() calls, avoiding hang of all threads when calling mmap.mmap(), os.urandom(), and random.seed(). Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-31804: Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed or None at exit.
bpo-33037: Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
bpo-27683: Fix a regression in
ipaddress
that result ofhosts()
is empty when the network is constructed by a tuple containing an integer mask and only 1 bit left for addresses.bpo-32999: Fix C implementation of
ABC.__subclasscheck__(cls, subclass)
crashed whensubclass
is not a type object.bpo-33009: Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
bpo-32969: Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding documentation.
bpo-32056: Improved exceptions raised for invalid number of channels and sample width when read an audio file in modules
aifc
,wave
andsunau
.bpo-32844: Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess if another low descriptor is closed.
bpo-32857: In
tkinter
,after_cancel(None)
now raises aValueError
instead of canceling the first scheduled function. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-31639: http.server now exposes a ThreadedHTTPServer class and uses it when the module is run with
-m
to cope with web browsers pre-opening sockets.bpo-27645:
sqlite3.Connection
now exposes abackup
method, if the underlying SQLite library is at version 3.6.11 or higher. Patch by Lele Gaifax.
Documentation¶
bpo-33126: Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous().
bpo-27212: Modify documentation for the
islice()
recipe to consume initial values up to the start index.bpo-28247: Update
zipapp
documentation to describe how to make standalone applications.bpo-18802: Documentation changes for ipaddress. Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag.
bpo-27428: Update documentation to clarify that
WindowsRegistryFinder
implementsMetaPathFinder
. (Patch by Himanshu Lakhara)
Tests¶
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-32726: Build and link with private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6 for the macOS 10.6+ installer. The 10.9+ installer variant already does this. This means that the Python 3.7 provided by the python.org macOS installers no longer need or use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or user-installed, such as ActiveTcl.
IDLE¶
bpo-32984: 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 variableIDLESTARTUP
orPYTHONSTARTUP
;-r file
runsfile
. 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: Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
Python 3.7.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2018-02-27
Security¶
bpo-28414: The ssl module now allows users to perform their own IDN en/decoding when using SNI.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32889: Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG
toaddress_in_range
.bpo-31356: Remove the new API added in bpo-31356 (gc.ensure_disabled() context manager).
bpo-32305: For namespace packages, ensure that both
__file__
and__spec__.origin
are set to None.bpo-32303: Make sure
__spec__.loader
matches__loader__
for namespace packages.bpo-32711: Fix the warning messages for Python/ast_unparse.c. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-32583: Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
Library¶
bpo-32960: For dataclasses, disallow inheriting frozen from non-frozen classes, and also disallow inheriting non-frozen from frozen classes. This restriction will be relaxed at a future date.
bpo-32713: Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey Fuhrer.
bpo-32951: Direct instantiation of SSLSocket and SSLObject objects is now prohibited. The constructors were never documented, tested, or designed as public constructors. Users were suppose to use ssl.wrap_socket() or SSLContext.
bpo-32929: Remove the tri-state parameter “hash”, and add the boolean “unsafe_hash”. If unsafe_hash is True, add a __hash__ function, but if a __hash__ exists, raise TypeError. If unsafe_hash is False, add a __hash__ based on the values of eq= and frozen=. The unsafe_hash=False behavior is the same as the old hash=None behavior. unsafe_hash=False is the default, just as hash=None used to be.
bpo-32947: Add OP_ENABLE_MIDDLEBOX_COMPAT and test workaround for TLSv1.3 for future compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1.
bpo-30622: The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
bpo-32922: dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than default encoding.
bpo-32859: In
os.dup2
, don’t check every call whether thedup3
syscall exists or not.bpo-32556: nt._getfinalpathname, nt._getvolumepathname and nt._getdiskusage now correctly convert from bytes.
bpo-25988: Emit a
DeprecationWarning
when using or importing an ABC directly fromcollections
rather than fromcollections.abc
.bpo-21060: 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-32852: Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
bpo-31333:
_abc
module is added. It is a speedup module with C implementations for various functions and methods inabc
. Creating an ABC subclass and callingisinstance
orissubclass
with an ABC subclass are up to 1.5x faster. In addition, this makes Python start-up up to 10% faster.Note that the new implementation hides internal registry and caches, previously accessible via private attributes
_abc_registry
,_abc_cache
, and_abc_negative_cache
. There are three debugging helper methods that can be used instead_dump_registry
,_abc_registry_clear
, and_abc_caches_clear
.bpo-32841: Fixed
asyncio.Condition
issue which silently ignored cancellation after notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-32819: ssl.match_hostname() has been simplified and no longer depends on re and ipaddress module for wildcard and IP addresses. Error reporting for invalid wildcards has been improved.
bpo-32394: socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN,TCP_KEEPCNT,TCP_KEEPIDLE,TCP_KEEPINTVL flags on older version Windows during run-time.
bpo-31787: Fixed refleaks of
__init__()
methods in various modules. (Contributed by Oren Milman)bpo-30157: Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last field is quoted. Patch by Jake Davis.
bpo-32792: collections.ChainMap() preserves the order of the underlying mappings.
bpo-32775:
fnmatch.translate()
no longer produces patterns which contain set operations. Sets starting with ‘[‘ or containing ‘–’, ‘&&’, ‘~~’ or ‘||’ will be interpreted differently in regular expressions in future versions. Currently they emit warnings. fnmatch.translate() now avoids producing patterns containing such sets by accident.bpo-32622: Implement native fast sendfile for Windows proactor event loop.
bpo-32777: 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: 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-32741: Implement
asyncio.TimerHandle.when()
method.bpo-32691: Use mod_spec.parent when running modules with pdb
bpo-32734: 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: Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-31453: Add TLSVersion constants and SSLContext.maximum_version / minimum_version attributes. The new API wraps OpenSSL 1.1 https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html feature.
bpo-24334: Internal implementation details of ssl module were cleaned up. The SSLSocket has one less layer of indirection. Owner and session information are now handled by the SSLSocket and SSLObject constructor. Channel binding implementation has been simplified.
bpo-31848: Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-32585: Add Ttk spinbox widget to
tkinter.ttk
. Patch by Alan D Moore.bpo-32221: Various functions returning tuple containing IPv6 addresses now omit
%scope
part since the same information is already encoded in scopeid tuple item. Especially this speeds upsocket.recvfrom()
when it receives multicast packet since useless resolving of network interface name is omitted.bpo-30693: The TarFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
bpo-30693: The ZipFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
Documentation¶
bpo-28124: The ssl module function ssl.wrap_socket() has been de-emphasized and deprecated in favor of the more secure and efficient SSLContext.wrap_socket() method.
bpo-17232: Clarify docs for -O and -OO. Patch by Terry Reedy.
bpo-32436: Add documentation for the contextvars module (PEP 567).
bpo-32800: Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
bpo-11015: Update
test.support
documentation.bpo-8722: Document
__getattr__()
behavior when propertyget()
method raisesAttributeError
.bpo-32614: Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
DeprecationWarning
and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the deprecation.bpo-31972: Improve docstrings for
pathlib.PurePath
subclasses.
Windows¶
bpo-32901: Update Tcl and Tk versions to 8.6.8
bpo-31966: Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
bpo-32409: Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
bpo-32457: Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
bpo-32370: Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by Segev Finer.
bpo-29248: Fix
os.readlink()
on Windows, which was mistakenly treating thePrintNameOffset
field of the reparse data buffer as a number of characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.
IDLE¶
bpo-32916: Change
str
tocode
in pyparse.bpo-32905: Remove unused code in pyparse module.
bpo-32874: Add tests for pyparse.
bpo-32837: Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad idea for IDLE’s system and location-independent files.
bpo-32826: 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: Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget list.
Python 3.7.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2018-01-30
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32703: Fix coroutine’s ResourceWarning when there’s an active error set when it’s being finalized.
bpo-32650: Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-28685: Optimize list.sort() and sorted() by using type specialized comparisons when possible.
bpo-32685: 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-32697: Python now explicitly preserves the definition order of keyword-only parameters. It’s always preserved their order, but this behavior was never guaranteed before; this behavior is now guaranteed and tested.
bpo-32690: The locals() dictionary now displays in the lexical order that variables were defined. Previously, the order was reversed.
bpo-32677: Add
.isascii()
method tostr
,bytes
andbytearray
. It can be used to test that string contains only ASCII characters.bpo-32670: Enforce PEP 479 for all code.
This means that manually raising a StopIteration exception from a generator is prohibited for all code, regardless of whether ‘from __future__ import generator_stop’ was used or not.
bpo-32591: Added built-in support for tracking the origin of coroutine objects; see sys.set_coroutine_origin_tracking_depth and CoroutineType.cr_origin. This replaces the asyncio debug mode’s use of coroutine wrapping for native coroutine objects.
bpo-31368: Expose preadv and pwritev system calls in the os module. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-32544:
hasattr(obj, name)
andgetattr(obj, name, default)
are about 4 times faster than before whenname
is not found andobj
doesn’t override__getattr__
or__getattribute__
.bpo-26163: Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced with datasets containing many similar values.
bpo-32550: Remove the STORE_ANNOTATION bytecode.
bpo-20104: Expose posix_spawn as a low level API in the os module. (removed before 3.7.0rc1)
bpo-24340: Fixed estimation of the code stack size.
bpo-18533:
repr()
on a dict containing its ownvalues()
oritems()
no longer raisesRecursionError
; OrderedDict similarly. Instead, use...
, as for other recursive structures. Patch by Ben North.bpo-20891: Py_Initialize() now creates the GIL. The GIL is no longer created “on demand” to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python thread.
bpo-32028: 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-31179: Make dict.copy() up to 5.5 times faster.
bpo-31113: Get rid of recursion in the compiler for normal control flow.
Library¶
bpo-25988: Deprecate exposing the contents of collections.abc in the regular collections module.
bpo-31429: The default cipher suite selection of the ssl module now uses a blacklist approach rather than a hard-coded whitelist. Python no longer re-enables ciphers that have been blocked by OpenSSL security update. Default cipher suite selection can be configured on compile time.
bpo-30306: contextlib.contextmanager now releases the arguments passed to the underlying generator as soon as the context manager is entered. Previously it would keep them alive for as long as the context manager was alive, even when not being used as a function decorator. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
bpo-21417: Added support for setting the compression level for zipfile.ZipFile.
bpo-32251: Implement asyncio.BufferedProtocol (provisional API).
bpo-32513: In dataclasses, allow easier overriding of dunder methods without specifying decorator parameters.
bpo-32660:
termios
makes availableFIONREAD
,FIONCLEX
,FIOCLEX
,FIOASYNC
andFIONBIO
also under Solaris/derivatives.bpo-27931: Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-32659: Under Solaris and derivatives,
os.stat_result
provides a st_fstype attribute.bpo-32662: Implement Server.start_serving(), Server.serve_forever(), and Server.is_serving() methods. Add ‘start_serving’ keyword parameter to loop.create_server() and loop.create_unix_server().
bpo-32391: Implement
asyncio.StreamWriter.wait_closed()
andasyncio.StreamWriter.is_closing()
methodsbpo-32643: Make Task._step, Task._wakeup and Future._schedule_callbacks methods private.
bpo-32630: Refactor decimal module to use contextvars to store decimal context.
bpo-32622: Add
asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.sendfile()
method.bpo-32304: 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: uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is encountered.
bpo-32596:
concurrent.futures
importsThreadPoolExecutor
andProcessPoolExecutor
lazily (using PEP 562). It makesimport asyncio
about 15% faster because asyncio uses onlyThreadPoolExecutor
by default.bpo-31801: Add
_ignore_
toEnum
so temporary variables can be used during class construction without being turned into members.bpo-32576: Use queue.SimpleQueue() in places where it can be invoked from a weakref callback.
bpo-32574: Fix memory leak in asyncio.Queue, when the queue has limited size and it is full, the cancelation of queue.put() can cause a memory leak. Patch by: José Melero.
bpo-32521: The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
bpo-32467: collections.abc.ValuesView now inherits from collections.abc.Collection.
bpo-32473: Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
bpo-32102: New argument
capture_output
for subprocess.runbpo-32521: glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in nis module.
bpo-32493: UUID module fixes build for FreeBSD/OpenBSD
bpo-32503: Pickling with protocol 4 no longer creates too small frames.
bpo-29237: Create enum for pstats sorting options
bpo-32454: Add close(fd) function to the socket module.
bpo-25942: The subprocess module is now more graceful when handling a Ctrl-C KeyboardInterrupt during subprocess.call, subprocess.run, or a Popen context manager. It now waits a short amount of time for the child (presumed to have also gotten the SIGINT) to exit, before continuing the KeyboardInterrupt exception handling. This still includes a SIGKILL in the call() and run() APIs, but at least the child had a chance first.
bpo-32433: The hmac module now has hmac.digest(), which provides an optimized HMAC digest.
bpo-28134: Sockets now auto-detect family, type and protocol from file descriptor by default.
bpo-32404: Fix bug where
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp()
did not call __new__ indatetime.datetime
subclasses.bpo-32403: Improved speed of
datetime.date
anddatetime.datetime
alternate constructors.bpo-32228: Ensure that
truncate()
preserves the file position (as reported bytell()
) after writes longer than the buffer size.bpo-32410: Implement
loop.sock_sendfile
for asyncio event loop.bpo-22908: Added seek and tell to the ZipExtFile class. This only works if the file object used to open the zipfile is seekable.
bpo-32373: Add socket.getblocking() method.
bpo-32248: Add
importlib.resources
andimportlib.abc.ResourceReader
as the unified API for reading resources contained within packages. Loaders wishing to support resource reading must implement theget_resource_reader()
method. File-based and zipimport-based loaders both implement these APIs.importlib.abc.ResourceLoader
is deprecated in favor of these new APIs.bpo-32320: collections.namedtuple() now supports default values.
bpo-29302: Add contextlib.AsyncExitStack. Patch by Alexander Mohr and Ilya Kulakov.
bpo-31961: Removed in Python 3.7.0b2. The args argument of subprocess.Popen can now be a path-like object. If args is given as a sequence, it’s first element can now be a path-like object as well.
bpo-31900: The
locale.localeconv()
function now sets temporarily theLC_CTYPE
locale to theLC_NUMERIC
locale to decodedecimal_point
andthousands_sep
byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and theLC_NUMERIC
locale is different than theLC_CTYPE
locale. This temporary change affects other threads.Same change for the
str.format()
method when formatting a number (int
,float
,float
and subclasses) with then
type (ex:'{:n}'.format(1234)
).bpo-31853: Use super().method instead of socket.method in SSLSocket. They were there most likely for legacy reasons.
bpo-31399: The ssl module now uses OpenSSL’s X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() and X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_ip() API to verify hostname and IP addresses. Subject common name fallback can be disabled with SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name.
bpo-14976: Add a queue.SimpleQueue class, an unbounded FIFO queue with a reentrant C implementation of put().
Documentation¶
bpo-32724: Add references to some commands in the documentation of Pdb. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-32649: Complete the C API documentation, profiling and tracing part with the newly added per-opcode events.
bpo-17799: 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.
Tests¶
bpo-32721: Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
bpo-28414: Add test cases for IDNA 2003 and 2008 host names. IDNA 2003 internationalized host names are working since bpo-31399 has landed. IDNA 2008 are still broken.
bpo-32604: Add a new “_xxsubinterpreters” extension module that exposes the existing subinterpreter C-API and a new cross-interpreter data sharing mechanism. The module is primarily intended for more thorough testing of the existing subinterpreter support.
Note that the _xxsubinterpreters module has been removed in 3.7.0rc1.
bpo-32602: Add test certs and test for ECDSA cert and EC/RSA dual mode.
bpo-32549: On Travis CI, Python now Compiles and uses a local copy of OpenSSL 1.1.0g for testing.
Build¶
bpo-32635: Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of libcrypt at the system.
bpo-32598: Use autoconf to detect OpenSSL libs, headers and supported features. The ax_check_openssl M4 macro uses pkg-config to locate OpenSSL and falls back to manual search.
bpo-32593: Drop support of FreeBSD 9 and older.
bpo-29708: If the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable is set,py_compile
will always create hash-based.pyc
files.
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-32726: 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 1.1.0g and to SQLite 3.22.0. The 10.9+ installer now links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.
bpo-28440: No longer add /Library/Python/3.x/site-packages to sys.path for macOS framework builds to avoid future conflicts.
Python 3.7.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2018-01-08
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31975: The default warning filter list now starts with a “default::DeprecationWarning:__main__” entry, so deprecation warnings are once again shown by default in single-file scripts and at the interactive prompt.
bpo-32226:
__class_getitem__
is now an automatic class method.bpo-32399: Add AIX uuid library support for RFC4122 using uuid_create() in libc.a
bpo-32390: Fix the compilation failure on AIX after the f_fsid field has been added to the object returned by os.statvfs() (bpo-32143). Original patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-32379: Make MRO computation faster when a class inherits from a single base.
bpo-32259: The error message of a TypeError raised when unpack non-iterable is now more specific.
bpo-27169: The
__debug__
constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes also bpo-22091.bpo-32329: The
-R
option now turns on hash randomization when thePYTHONHASHSEED
environment variable is set to0
. Previously, the option was ignored. Moreover,sys.flags.hash_randomization
is now properly set to 0 when hash randomization is turned off byPYTHONHASHSEED=0
.bpo-30416: The optimizer is now protected from spending much time doing complex calculations and consuming much memory for creating large constants in constant folding. Increased limits for constants that can be produced in constant folding.
bpo-32282: Fix an unnecessary ifdef in the include of VersionHelpers.h in socketmodule on Windows.
bpo-30579: Implement TracebackType.__new__ to allow Python-level creation of traceback objects, and make TracebackType.tb_next mutable.
bpo-32260: Don’t byte swap the input keys to the SipHash algorithm on big-endian platforms. This should ensure siphash gives consistent results across platforms.
bpo-31506: Improve the error message logic for object.__new__ and object.__init__. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-20361:
-b
and-bb
now inject'default::BytesWarning'
anderror::BytesWarning
entries intosys.warnoptions
, ensuring that they take precedence over any other warning filters configured via the-W
option or thePYTHONWARNINGS
environment variable.bpo-32230:
-X dev
now injects a'default'
entry into sys.warnoptions, ensuring that it behaves identically to actually passing-Wdefault
at the command line.bpo-29240: Add a new UTF-8 mode: implementation of the PEP 540.
bpo-32226: PEP 560: Add support for
__mro_entries__
and__class_getitem__
. Implemented by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-32225: PEP 562: Add support for module
__getattr__
and__dir__
. Implemented by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-31901: The
atexit
module now has its callback stored per interpreter.bpo-31650: Implement PEP 552 (Deterministic pycs). Python now supports invalidating bytecode cache files bashed on a source content hash rather than source last-modified time.
bpo-29469: Move constant folding from bytecode layer to AST layer. Original patch by Eugene Toder.
Library¶
bpo-32506: Now that dict is defined as keeping insertion order, drop OrderedDict and just use plain dict.
bpo-32279: Add params to dataclasses.make_dataclasses(): init, repr, eq, order, hash, and frozen. Pass them through to dataclass().
bpo-32278: Make type information optional on dataclasses.make_dataclass(). If omitted, the string ‘typing.Any’ is used.
bpo-32499: Add dataclasses.is_dataclass(obj), which returns True if obj is a dataclass or an instance of one.
bpo-32468: Improve frame repr() to mention filename, code name and current line number.
bpo-23749: asyncio: Implement loop.start_tls()
bpo-32441: Return the new file descriptor (i.e., the second argument) from
os.dup2
. Previously,None
was always returned.bpo-32422:
functools.lru_cache
uses less memory (3 words for each cached key) and takes about 1/3 time for cyclic GC.bpo-31721: Prevent Python crash from happening when Future._log_traceback is set to True manually. Now it can only be set to False, or a ValueError is raised.
bpo-32415: asyncio: Add Task.get_loop() and Future.get_loop()
bpo-26133: Don’t unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter shutdown.
bpo-32363: Make asyncio.Task.set_exception() and set_result() raise NotImplementedError. Task._step() and Future.__await__() raise proper exceptions when they are in an invalid state, instead of raising an AssertionError.
bpo-32357: Optimize asyncio.iscoroutine() and loop.create_task() for non-native coroutines (e.g. async/await compiled with Cython).
‘loop.create_task(python_coroutine)’ used to be 20% faster than ‘loop.create_task(cython_coroutine)’. Now, the latter is as fast.
bpo-32356: asyncio.transport.resume_reading() and pause_reading() are now idempotent. New transport.is_reading() method is added.
bpo-32355: Optimize asyncio.gather(); now up to 15% faster.
bpo-32351: Use fastpath in asyncio.sleep if delay<0 (2x boost)
bpo-32348: Optimize asyncio.Future schedule/add/remove callback. The optimization shows 3-6% performance improvements of async/await code.
bpo-32331: Fix socket.settimeout() and socket.setblocking() to keep socket.type as is. Fix socket.socket() constructor to reset any bit flags applied to socket’s type. This change only affects OSes that have SOCK_NONBLOCK and/or SOCK_CLOEXEC.
bpo-32248: Add
importlib.abc.ResourceReader
as an ABC for loaders to provide a unified API for reading resources contained within packages. Also addimportlib.resources
as the port ofimportlib_resources
.bpo-32311: Implement asyncio.create_task(coro) shortcut
bpo-32327: Convert asyncio functions that were documented as coroutines to coroutines. Affected functions: loop.sock_sendall, loop.sock_recv, loop.sock_accept, loop.getaddrinfo, loop.getnameinfo.
bpo-32323:
urllib.parse.urlsplit()
does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower case for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.bpo-32302: Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT v140.
bpo-29711: Fix
stop_serving
in asyncio proactor loop kill all listening serversbpo-32308:
re.sub()
now replaces empty matches adjacent to a previous non-empty match.bpo-29970: Abort asyncio SSLProtocol connection if handshake not complete within 10s
bpo-32314: Implement asyncio.run().
bpo-17852: Revert incorrect fix based on misunderstanding of _Py_PyAtExit() semantics.
bpo-32296: Implement asyncio._get_running_loop() and get_event_loop() in C. This makes them 4x faster.
bpo-32250: Implement
asyncio.current_task()
andasyncio.all_tasks()
. Add helpers intended to be used by alternative task implementations:asyncio._register_task
,asyncio._enter_task
,asyncio._leave_task
andasyncio._unregister_task
. Deprecateasyncio.Task.current_task()
andasyncio.Task.all_tasks()
.bpo-32255: 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: Raise
NotImplementedError
instead ofSystemError
on platforms wherechmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)
is not supported. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-30050: New argument warn_on_full_buffer to signal.set_wakeup_fd lets you control whether Python prints a warning on stderr when the wakeup fd buffer overflows.
bpo-29137: The
fpectl
library has been removed. It was never enabled by default, never worked correctly on x86-64, and it changed the Python ABI in ways that caused unexpected breakage of C extensions.bpo-32273: Move asyncio.test_utils to test.test_asyncio.
bpo-32272: Remove asyncio.async() function.
bpo-32269: Add asyncio.get_running_loop() function.
bpo-32265: All class and static methods of builtin types now are correctly classified by inspect.classify_class_attrs() and grouped in pydoc ouput. Added types.ClassMethodDescriptorType for unbound class methods of builtin types.
bpo-32253: Deprecate
yield from lock
,await lock
,with (yield from lock)
andwith await lock
for asyncio synchronization primitives.bpo-22589: Changed MIME type of .bmp from ‘image/x-ms-bmp’ to ‘image/bmp’
bpo-32193: Convert asyncio to use async/await syntax. Old styled
yield from
is still supported too.bpo-32206: Add support to run modules with pdb
bpo-32227:
functools.singledispatch
now supports registering implementations using type annotations.bpo-15873: Added new alternate constructors
datetime.datetime.fromisoformat()
,datetime.time.fromisoformat()
anddatetime.date.fromisoformat()
as the inverse operation of each classes’s respectiveisoformat
methods.bpo-32199: The getnode() ip getter now uses ‘ip link’ instead of ‘ip link list’.
bpo-32143: os.statvfs() includes the f_fsid field from statvfs(2)
bpo-26439: Fix ctypes.util.find_library() for AIX by implementing ctypes._aix.find_library() Patch by: Michael Felt
bpo-31993: The pickler now uses less memory when serializing large bytes and str objects into a file. Pickles created with protocol 4 will require less memory for unpickling large bytes and str objects.
bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31778: ast.literal_eval() is now more strict. Addition and subtraction of arbitrary numbers no longer allowed.
bpo-31802: Importing native path module (
posixpath
,ntpath
) now works even if theos
module still is not imported.bpo-30241: Add contextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-31699: Fix deadlocks in
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
when task arguments or results cause pickling or unpickling errors. This should make sure that calls to theProcessPoolExecutor
API always eventually return.bpo-15216:
TextIOWrapper.reconfigure()
supports changing encoding, errors, and newline.
Tests¶
Windows¶
bpo-19764: Implement support for
subprocess.Popen(close_fds=True)
on Windows. Patch by Segev Finer.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-24960: 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.
C API¶
bpo-32030: Py_Initialize() doesn’t reset the memory allocators to default if the
PYTHONMALLOC
environment variable is not set.bpo-29084: 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.
bpo-32264: Moved the pygetopt.h header into internal/, since it has no public APIs.
bpo-32241:
Py_SetProgramName()
andPy_SetPythonHome()
now take theconst wchar *
arguments instead ofwchar *
.
Python 3.7.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2017-12-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32176: co_flags.CO_NOFREE is now always set correctly by the code object constructor based on freevars and cellvars, rather than needing to be set correctly by the caller. This ensures it will be cleared automatically when additional cell references are injected into a modified code object and function.
bpo-10544: Yield expressions are now deprecated in comprehensions and generator expressions. They are still permitted in the definition of the outermost iterable, as that is evaluated directly in the enclosing scope.
bpo-32137: The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of crashing due to a stack overflow.
bpo-32096: Revert memory allocator changes in the C API: move structures back from _PyRuntime to Objects/obmalloc.c. The memory allocators are once again initialized statically, and so PyMem_RawMalloc() and Py_DecodeLocale() can be called before _PyRuntime_Initialize().
bpo-32043: Add a new “developer mode”: new “-X dev” command line option to enable debug checks at runtime.
bpo-32023: SyntaxError is now correctly raised when a generator expression without parenthesis is used instead of an inheritance list in a class definition. The duplication of the parentheses can be omitted only on calls.
bpo-32012: SyntaxError is now correctly raised when a generator expression without parenthesis is passed as an argument, but followed by a trailing comma. A generator expression always needs to be directly inside a set of parentheses and cannot have a comma on either side.
bpo-28180: A new internal
_Py_SetLocaleFromEnv(category)
helper function has been added in order to improve the consistency of behaviour across differentlibc
implementations (e.g. Android doesn’t support setting the locale from the environment by default).bpo-31949: Fixed several issues in printing tracebacks (PyTraceBack_Print()).
Setting sys.tracebacklimit to 0 or less now suppresses printing tracebacks.
Setting sys.tracebacklimit to None now causes using the default limit.
Setting sys.tracebacklimit to an integer larger than LONG_MAX now means using the limit LONG_MAX rather than the default limit.
Fixed integer overflows in the case of more than 2**31 traceback items on Windows.
Fixed output errors handling.
bpo-30696: Fix the interactive interpreter looping endlessly when no memory.
bpo-20047: Bytearray methods partition() and rpartition() now accept only bytes-like objects as separator, as documented. In particular they now raise TypeError rather of returning a bogus result when an integer is passed as a separator.
bpo-21720: BytesWarning no longer emitted when the fromlist argument of
__import__()
or the__all__
attribute of the module contain bytes instances.bpo-31845: Environment variables are once more read correctly at interpreter startup.
bpo-28936: Ensure that lexically first syntax error involving a parameter and
global
ornonlocal
is detected first at a given scope. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-31825: Fixed OverflowError in the ‘unicode-escape’ codec and in codecs.escape_decode() when decode an escaped non-ascii byte.
bpo-31618: The per-frame tracing logic added in 3.7a1 has been altered so that
frame->f_lineno
is updated before either"line"
or"opcode"
events are emitted. Previously, opcode events were emitted first, and therefore would occasionally see stale line numbers on the frame. The behavior of this feature has changed slightly as a result: when bothf_trace_lines
andf_trace_opcodes
are enabled, line events now occur first.bpo-28603: Print the full context/cause chain of exceptions on interpreter exit, even if an exception in the chain is unhashable or compares equal to later ones. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-31786: Fix timeout rounding in the select module to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-31781: Prevent crashes when calling methods of an uninitialized
zipimport.zipimporter
object. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30399: Standard repr() of BaseException with a single argument no longer contains redundant trailing comma.
bpo-31626: Fixed a bug in debug memory allocator. There was a write to freed memory after shrinking a memory block.
bpo-30817:
PyErr_PrintEx()
clears now the ignored exception that may be raised by_PySys_SetObjectId()
, for example when no memory.
Library¶
bpo-28556: Two minor fixes for
typing
module: allow shallow copying instances of generic classes, improve interaction of__init_subclass__
with generics. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-32214: PEP 557, Data Classes. Provides a decorator which adds boilerplate methods to classes which use type annotations so specify fields.
bpo-27240: The header folding algorithm for the new email policies has been rewritten, which also fixes bpo-30788, bpo-31831, and bpo-32182. In particular, RFC2231 folding is now done correctly.
bpo-32186: io.FileIO.readall() and io.FileIO.read() now release the GIL when getting the file size. Fixed hang of all threads with inaccessible NFS server. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-321010: Add
sys.flags.dev_mode
flagbpo-32154: The
asyncio.windows_utils.socketpair()
function has been removed: use directlysocket.socketpair()
which is available on all platforms since Python 3.5 (before, it wasn’t available on Windows).asyncio.windows_utils.socketpair()
was just an alias tosocket.socketpair
on Python 3.5 and newer.bpo-32089: warnings: In development (-X dev) and debug mode (pydebug build), use the “default” action for ResourceWarning, rather than the “always” action, in the default warnings filters.
bpo-32107:
uuid.getnode()
now preferentially returns universally administered MAC addresses if available, over locally administered MAC addresses. This makes a better guarantee for global uniqueness of UUIDs returned fromuuid.uuid1()
. If only locally administered MAC addresses are available, the first such one found is returned.bpo-23033: Wildcard is now supported in hostname when it is one and only character in the left most segment of hostname in second argument of
ssl.match_hostname()
. Patch by Mandeep Singh.bpo-12239: Make
msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()
returnNone
when the value of property isVT_EMPTY
. Initial patch by Mark Mc Mahon.bpo-28334: Use
os.path.expanduser()
to find the~/.netrc
file innetrc.netrc
. If it does not exist,FileNotFoundError
is raised. Patch by Dimitri Merejkowsky.bpo-32121: Made
tracemalloc.Traceback
behave more like the traceback module, sorting the frames from oldest to most recent.Traceback.format()
now accepts negative limit, truncating the result to theabs(limit)
oldest frames. To get the old behaviour, one can use the new most_recent_first argument toTraceback.format()
. (Patch by Jesse Bakker.)bpo-31325: Fix wrong usage of
collections.namedtuple()
in theRobotFileParser.parse()
method.Initial patch by Robin Wellner.
bpo-12382:
msilib.OpenDatabase()
now raises a better exception message when it couldn’t open or create an MSI file. Initial patch by William Tisäter.bpo-19610:
setup()
now warns about invalid types for some fields.The
distutils.dist.Distribution
class now warns whenclassifiers
,keywords
andplatforms
fields are not specified as a list or a string.bpo-32071: Added the
-k
command-line option topython -m unittest
to run only tests that match the given pattern(s).bpo-10049: Added nullcontext no-op context manager to contextlib. This provides a simpler and faster alternative to ExitStack() when handling optional context managers.
bpo-28684: The new test.support.skip_unless_bind_unix_socket() decorator is used here to skip asyncio tests that fail because the platform lacks a functional bind() function for unix domain sockets (as it is the case for non root users on the recent Android versions that run now SELinux in enforcing mode).
bpo-32110:
codecs.StreamReader.read(n)
now returns not more than n characters/bytes for non-negative n. This makes it compatible withread()
methods of other file-like objects.bpo-27535: The warnings module doesn’t leak memory anymore in the hidden warnings registry for the “ignore” action of warnings filters. warn_explicit() function doesn’t add the warning key to the registry anymore for the “ignore” action.
bpo-32088: warnings: When Python is build is debug mode (
Py_DEBUG
),DeprecationWarning
,PendingDeprecationWarning
andImportWarning
warnings are now displayed by default.bpo-1647489: Fixed searching regular expression patterns that could match an empty string. Non-empty string can now be correctly found after matching an empty string.
bpo-25054: Added support of splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string.
bpo-32072: Fixed issues with binary plists:
Fixed saving bytearrays.
Identical objects will be saved only once.
Equal references will be load as identical objects.
Added support for saving and loading recursive data structures.
bpo-32069: Drop legacy SSL transport from asyncio, ssl.MemoryBIO is always used anyway.
bpo-32066: asyncio: Support pathlib.Path in create_unix_connection; sock arg should be optional
bpo-32046: Updates 2to3 to convert from operator.isCallable(obj) to callable(obj). Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-32018: inspect.signature should follow PEP 8, if the parameter has an annotation and a default value. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-32025: Add time.thread_time() and time.thread_time_ns()
bpo-32037: Integers that fit in a signed 32-bit integer will be now pickled with protocol 0 using the INT opcode. This will decrease the size of a pickle, speed up pickling and unpickling, and make these integers be unpickled as int instances in Python 2.
bpo-32034: Make asyncio.IncompleteReadError and LimitOverrunError pickleable.
bpo-32015: Fixed the looping of asyncio in the case of reconnection the socket during waiting async read/write from/to the socket.
bpo-32011: Restored support of loading marshal files with the TYPE_INT64 code. These files can be produced in Python 2.7.
bpo-28369: Enhance add_reader/writer check that socket is not used by some transport. Before, only cases when add_reader/writer were called with an int FD were supported. Now the check is implemented correctly for all file-like objects.
bpo-31976: Fix race condition when flushing a file is slow, which can cause a segfault if closing the file from another thread.
bpo-31985: Formally deprecated aifc.openfp, sunau.openfp, and wave.openfp. Since change 7bc817d5ba917528e8bd07ec461c635291e7b06a in 1993, openfp in each of the three modules had been pointing to that module’s open function as a matter of backwards compatibility, though it had been both untested and undocumented.
bpo-21862: cProfile command line now accepts
-m module_name
as an alternative to script path. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-31970: Reduce performance overhead of asyncio debug mode.
bpo-31843: database argument of sqlite3.connect() now accepts a path-like object, instead of just a string.
bpo-31945: Add Configurable blocksize to
HTTPConnection
andHTTPSConnection
for improved upload throughput. Patch by Nir Soffer.bpo-31943: Add a
cancelled()
method toasyncio.Handle
. Patch by Marat Sharafutdinov.bpo-9678: Fixed determining the MAC address in the uuid module:
Using ifconfig on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Using arp on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Based on patch by Takayuki Shimizukawa.
bpo-30057: Fix potential missed signal in signal.signal().
bpo-31933: Fix Blake2 params leaf_size and node_offset on big endian platforms. Patch by Jack O’Connor.
bpo-21423: Add an initializer argument to {Process,Thread}PoolExecutor
bpo-31927: Fixed compilation of the socket module on NetBSD 8. Fixed assertion failure or reading arbitrary data when parse a AF_BLUETOOTH address on NetBSD and DragonFly BSD.
bpo-27666: Fixed stack corruption in curses.box() and curses.ungetmouse() when the size of types chtype or mmask_t is less than the size of C long. curses.box() now accepts characters as arguments. Based on patch by Steve Fink.
bpo-31917: Add 3 new clock identifiers:
time.CLOCK_BOOTTIME
,time.CLOCK_PROF
andtime.CLOCK_UPTIME
.bpo-31897: plistlib now catches more errors when read binary plists and raises InvalidFileException instead of unexpected exceptions.
bpo-25720: Fix the method for checking pad state of curses WINDOW. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
bpo-31893: Fixed the layout of the kqueue_event structure on OpenBSD and NetBSD. Fixed the comparison of the kqueue_event objects.
bpo-31891: Fixed building the curses module on NetBSD.
bpo-31884: added required constants to subprocess module for setting priority on windows
bpo-28281: Remove year (1-9999) limits on the Calendar.weekday() function.
Patch by Mark Gollahon.
bpo-31702: crypt.mksalt() now allows to specify the number of rounds for SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashing.
bpo-30639:
inspect.getfile()
no longer computes the repr of unknown objects to display in an error message, to protect against badly behaved custom reprs.bpo-30768: Fix the pthread+semaphore implementation of PyThread_acquire_lock_timed() when called with timeout > 0 and intr_flag=0: recompute the timeout if sem_timedwait() is interrupted by a signal (EINTR). See also the PEP 475.
bpo-31854: Add
mmap.ACCESS_DEFAULT
constant.bpo-31834: Use optimized code for BLAKE2 only with SSSE3+. The pure SSE2 implementation is slower than the pure C reference implementation.
bpo-28292: Calendar.itermonthdates() will now consistently raise an exception when a date falls outside of the 0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31 range. To support applications that cannot tolerate such exceptions, the new methods itermonthdays3() and itermonthdays4() are added. The new methods return tuples and are not restricted by the range supported by datetime.date.
bpo-28564: The shutil.rmtree() function has been sped up to 20–40%. This was done using the os.scandir() function.
bpo-28416: Instances of pickle.Pickler subclass with the persistent_id() method and pickle.Unpickler subclass with the persistent_load() method no longer create reference cycles.
bpo-31653: Don’t release the GIL if we can acquire a multiprocessing semaphore immediately.
bpo-28326: Fix multiprocessing.Process when stdout and/or stderr is closed or None.
bpo-20825: Add
subnet_of
andsuperset_of
containment tests toipaddress.IPv6Network
andipaddress.IPv4Network
. Patch by Michel Albert and Cheryl Sabella.bpo-31827: Remove the os.stat_float_times() function. It was introduced in Python 2.3 for backward compatibility with Python 2.2, and was deprecated since Python 3.1.
bpo-31756: Add a
subprocess.Popen(text=False)
keyword argument tosubprocess
functions to be more explicit about when the library should attempt to decode outputs into text. Patch by Andrew Clegg.bpo-31819: Add AbstractEventLoop.sock_recv_into().
bpo-31457: If nested log adapters are used, the inner
process()
methods are no longer omitted.bpo-31457: The
manager
property on LoggerAdapter objects is now properly settable.bpo-31806: Fix timeout rounding in time.sleep(), threading.Lock.acquire() and socket.socket.settimeout() to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-31803: time.clock() and time.get_clock_info(‘clock’) now emit a DeprecationWarning warning.
bpo-31800: Extended support for parsing UTC offsets. strptime ‘%z’ can now parse the output generated by datetime.isoformat, including seconds and microseconds.
bpo-28603: traceback: Fix a TypeError that occurred during printing of exception tracebacks when either the current exception or an exception in its context/cause chain is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-30541: Add new function to seal a mock and prevent the automatically creation of child mocks. Patch by Mario Corchero.
bpo-31784: Implement the PEP 564, add new 6 new functions with nanosecond resolution to the
time
module:clock_gettime_ns()
,clock_settime_ns()
,monotonic_ns()
,perf_counter_ns()
,process_time_ns()
,time_ns()
.bpo-30143: 2to3 now generates a code that uses abstract collection classes from collections.abc rather than collections.
bpo-31770: Prevent a crash when calling the
__init__()
method of asqlite3.Cursor
object more than once. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31764: Prevent a crash in
sqlite3.Cursor.close()
in case theCursor
object is uninitialized. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31752: Fix possible crash in timedelta constructor called with custom integers.
bpo-31620: an empty asyncio.Queue now doesn’t leak memory when queue.get pollers timeout
bpo-31690: Allow the flags re.ASCII, re.LOCALE, and re.UNICODE to be used as group flags for regular expressions.
bpo-30349: FutureWarning is now emitted if a regular expression contains character set constructs that will change semantically in the future (nested sets and set operations).
bpo-31664: Added support for the Blowfish hashing in the crypt module.
bpo-31632: Fix method set_protocol() of class _SSLProtocolTransport in asyncio module. This method was previously modifying a wrong reference to the protocol.
bpo-15037: Added a workaround for getkey() in curses for ncurses 5.7 and earlier.
bpo-31307: Allow use of bytes objects for arguments to
configparser.ConfigParser.read()
. Patch by Vincent Michel.bpo-31334: Fix
poll.poll([timeout])
in theselect
module for arbitrary negative timeouts on all OSes where it can only be a non-negative integer or -1. Patch by Riccardo Coccioli.bpo-31310: multiprocessing’s semaphore tracker should be launched again if crashed.
bpo-31308: Make multiprocessing’s forkserver process immune to Ctrl-C and other user interruptions. If it crashes, restart it when necessary.
bpo-31245: Added support for AF_UNIX socket in asyncio
create_datagram_endpoint
.bpo-30553: Add HTTP/2 status code 421 (Misdirected Request) to
http.HTTPStatus
. Patch by Vitor Pereira.
Tests¶
bpo-31380: Skip test_httpservers test_undecodable_file on macOS: fails on APFS.
bpo-31705: Skip test_socket.test_sha256() on Linux kernel older than 4.5. The test fails with ENOKEY on kernel 3.10 (on ppc64le). A fix was merged into the kernel 4.5.
bpo-32138: Skip on Android test_faulthandler tests that raise SIGSEGV and remove the test.support.requires_android_level decorator.
bpo-32136: The runtime embedding tests have been split out from
Lib/test/test_capi.py
into a newLib/test/test_embed.py
file.bpo-28668: test.support.requires_multiprocessing_queue is removed. Skip tests with test.support.import_module(‘multiprocessing.synchronize’) instead when the semaphore implementation is broken or missing.
bpo-32126: Skip test_get_event_loop_new_process in test.test_asyncio.test_events when sem_open() is not functional.
bpo-31174: Fix test_tools.test_unparse: DirectoryTestCase now stores the names sample to always test the same files. It prevents false alarms when hunting reference leaks.
Build¶
bpo-28538: Revert the previous changes, the if_nameindex structure is defined by Unified Headers.
bpo-28762: Revert the last commit, the F_LOCK macro is defined by Android Unified Headers.
bpo-29040: Support building Android with Unified Headers. The first NDK release to support Unified Headers is android-ndk-r14.
bpo-32059:
detect_modules()
insetup.py
now also searches the sysroot paths when cross-compiling.bpo-31957: Fixes Windows SDK version detection when building for Windows.
bpo-31609: Fixes quotes in PCbuild/clean.bat
bpo-31934: Abort the build when building out of a not clean source tree.
bpo-31926: Fixed Argument Clinic sometimes causing compilation errors when there was more than one function and/or method in a .c file with the same name.
bpo-28791: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-28791: Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-28643: Record profile-opt build progress with stamp files.
bpo-31866: Finish removing support for AtheOS.
Windows¶
bpo-1102: Return
None
whenView.Fetch()
returnsERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS
instead of raisingMSIError
.Initial patch by Anthony Tuininga.
bpo-31944: Fixes Modify button in Apps and Features dialog.
bpo-20486: Implement the
Database.Close()
method to help closing MSI database objects.bpo-31857: Make the behavior of USE_STACKCHECK deterministic in a multi-threaded environment.
IDLE¶
bpo-32207: Improve tk event exception tracebacks in IDLE. When tk event handling is driven by IDLE’s run loop, a confusing and distracting queue.EMPTY traceback context is no longer added to tk event exception tracebacks. The traceback is now the same as when event handling is driven by user code. Patch based on a suggestion by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-32164: Delete unused file idlelib/tabbedpages.py. Use of TabbedPageSet in configdialog was replaced by ttk.Notebook.
bpo-32100: IDLE: Fix old and new bugs in pathbrowser; improve tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31858: IDLE – Restrict shell prompt manipulation to the shell. Editor and output windows only see an empty last prompt line. This simplifies the code and fixes a minor bug when newline is inserted. Sys.ps1, if present, is read on Shell start-up, but is not set or changed.
bpo-31860: The font sample in the IDLE configuration dialog is now editable. Changes persist while IDLE remains open
bpo-31836: Test_code_module now passes if run after test_idle, which sets ps1.
The code module uses sys.ps1 if present or sets it to ‘>>> ‘ if not. Test_code_module now properly tests both behaviors. Ditto for ps2.
bpo-28603: Fix a TypeError that caused a shell restart when printing a traceback that includes an exception that is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-13802: Use non-Latin characters in the IDLE’s Font settings sample. Even if one selects a font that defines a limited subset of the unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, tcl/tk will use other fonts that define a character. The expanded example give users of non-Latin characters a better idea of what they might see in IDLE’s shell and editors.
To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are re-arranged. The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-32159: Remove CVS and Subversion tools: remove svneol.py and treesync.py scripts. CPython migrated from CVS to Subversion, to Mercurial, and then to Git. CVS and Subversion are no longer used to develop CPython.
bpo-30722: Make redemo work with Python 3.6 and newer versions.
Also, remove the
LOCALE
option since it doesn’t work with string patterns in Python 3.Patch by Christoph Sarnowski.
C API¶
bpo-20891: Fix PyGILState_Ensure(). When PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python thread before PyEval_InitThreads(), only call PyEval_InitThreads() after calling PyThreadState_New() to fix a crash.
bpo-32125: The
Py_UseClassExceptionsFlag
flag has been removed. It was deprecated and wasn’t used anymore since Python 2.0.bpo-25612: Move the current exception state from the frame object to the co-routine. This simplifies the interpreter and fixes a couple of obscure bugs caused by having swap exception state when entering or exiting a generator.
bpo-23699: Add Py_RETURN_RICHCOMPARE macro to reduce boilerplate code in rich comparison functions.
bpo-30697: The
PyExc_RecursionErrorInst
singleton is removed andPyErr_NormalizeException()
does not use it anymore. This singleton is persistent and its members being never cleared may cause a segfault during finalization of the interpreter. See also bpo-22898.
Python 3.7.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2017-10-16
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31558:
gc.freeze()
is a new API that allows for moving all objects currently tracked by the garbage collector to a permanent generation, effectively removing them from future collection events. This can be used to protect those objects from having their PyGC_Head mutated. In effect, this enables great copy-on-write stability at fork().bpo-31642: Restored blocking “from package import module” by setting sys.modules[“package.module”] to None.
bpo-31708: Allow use of asynchronous generator expressions in synchronous functions.
bpo-31709: Drop support of asynchronous __aiter__.
bpo-30404: The -u option now makes the stdout and stderr streams unbuffered rather than line-buffered.
bpo-31619: Fixed a ValueError when convert a string with large number of underscores to integer with binary base.
bpo-31602: Fix an assertion failure in
zipimporter.get_source()
in case of a badzlib.decompress()
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31592: Fixed an assertion failure in Python parser in case of a bad
unicodedata.normalize()
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31588: Raise a
TypeError
with a helpful error message when class creation fails due to a metaclass with a bad__prepare__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31574: Importlib was instrumented with two dtrace probes to profile import timing.
bpo-31566: Fix an assertion failure in
_warnings.warn()
in case of a bad__name__
global. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31506: Improved the error message logic for object.__new__ and object.__init__.
bpo-31505: Fix an assertion failure in
json
, in case_json.make_encoder()
received a badencoder()
argument. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31492: Fix assertion failures in case of failing to import from a module with a bad
__name__
attribute, and in case of failing to access an attribute of such a module. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31478: Fix an assertion failure in
_random.Random.seed()
in case the argument has a bad__abs__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31336: Speed up class creation by 10-20% by reducing the overhead in the necessary special method lookups. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-31415: Add
-X importtime
option to show how long each import takes. It can be used to optimize application’s startup time. Support thePYTHONPROFILEIMPORTTIME
as an equivalent way to enable this.bpo-31410: Optimized calling wrapper and classmethod descriptors.
bpo-31353: PEP 553 - Add a new built-in called
breakpoint()
which callssys.breakpointhook()
. By default this importspdb
and callspdb.set_trace()
, but users may overridesys.breakpointhook()
to call whatever debugger they want. The original value of the hook is saved insys.__breakpointhook__
.bpo-17852: Maintain a list of open buffered files, flush them before exiting the interpreter. Based on a patch from Armin Rigo.
bpo-31315: Fix an assertion failure in imp.create_dynamic(), when spec.name is not a string. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31311: Fix a crash in the
__setstate__()
method ofctypes._CData
, in case of a bad__dict__
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31293: Fix crashes in true division and multiplication of a timedelta object by a float with a bad as_integer_ratio() method. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31285: Fix an assertion failure in
warnings.warn_explicit
, when the return value of the received loader’s get_source() has a bad splitlines() method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30406: Make
async
andawait
proper keywords, as specified in PEP 492.
Library¶
bpo-30058: Fixed buffer overflow in select.kqueue.control().
bpo-31672:
idpattern
instring.Template
matched some non-ASCII characters. Now it uses-i
regular expression local flag to avoid non-ASCII characters.bpo-31701: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now ignores MSC and COM exceptions.
bpo-31728: Prevent crashes in
_elementtree
due to unsafe cleanup ofElement.text
andElement.tail
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31671: Now
re.compile()
converts passed RegexFlag to normal int object before compiling. bm_regex_compile benchmark shows 14% performance improvements.bpo-30397: The types of compiled regular objects and match objects are now exposed as
re.Pattern
andre.Match
. This adds information in pydoc output for the re module.bpo-31675: Fixed memory leaks in Tkinter’s methods splitlist() and split() when pass a string larger than 2 GiB.
bpo-31673: Fixed typo in the name of Tkinter’s method adderrorinfo().
bpo-31648: Improvements to path predicates in ElementTree:
Allow whitespace around predicate parts, i.e. “[a = ‘text’]” instead of requiring the less readable “[a=’text’]”.
Add support for text comparison of the current node, like “[.=’text’]”.
Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-30806: Fix the string representation of a netrc object.
bpo-31638: Add optional argument
compressed
tozipapp.create_archive
, and add option--compress
to the command line interface ofzipapp
.bpo-25351: Avoid venv activate failures with undefined variables
bpo-20519: Avoid ctypes use (if possible) and improve import time for uuid.
bpo-28293: The regular expression cache is no longer completely dumped when it is full.
bpo-31596: Added pthread_getcpuclockid() to the time module
bpo-27494: Make 2to3 accept a trailing comma in generator expressions. For example,
set(x for x in [],)
is now allowed.bpo-30347: Stop crashes when concurrently iterate over itertools.groupby() iterators.
bpo-30346: An iterator produced by itertools.groupby() iterator now becomes exhausted after advancing the groupby iterator.
bpo-31556: Cancel asyncio.wait_for future faster if timeout <= 0
bpo-31540: Allow passing a context object in
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
constructor. Also, free job resources inconcurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
earlier to improve memory usage when a worker waits for new jobs.bpo-31516:
threading.current_thread()
should not return a dummy thread at shutdown.bpo-31525: In the sqlite module, require the sqlite3_prepare_v2 API. Thus, the sqlite module now requires sqlite version at least 3.3.9.
bpo-26510: argparse subparsers are now required by default. This matches behaviour in Python 2. For optional subparsers, use the new parameter
add_subparsers(required=False)
. Patch by Anthony Sottile. (As of 3.7.0rc1, the default was changed to not required as had been the case since Python 3.3.)bpo-27541: Reprs of subclasses of some collection and iterator classes (
bytearray
,array.array
,collections.deque
,collections.defaultdict
,itertools.count
,itertools.repeat
) now contain actual type name insteads of hardcoded name of the base class.bpo-31351: python -m ensurepip now exits with non-zero exit code if pip bootstrapping has failed.
bpo-31389:
pdb.set_trace()
now takes an optional keyword-only argumentheader
. If given, this is printed to the console just before debugging begins.
Documentation¶
Build¶
bpo-31696: Improve compiler version information in
sys.version
when Python is built with Clang.bpo-31625: Stop using ranlib on static libraries. Instead, we assume ar supports the ‘s’ flag.
bpo-31624: Remove support for BSD/OS.
bpo-22140: Prevent double substitution of prefix in python-config.sh.
bpo-31569: Correct PCBuild/ case to PCbuild/ in build scripts and documentation.
bpo-31536: Avoid wholesale rebuild after
make regen-all
if nothing changed.
IDLE¶
bpo-31460: Simplify the API of IDLE’s Module Browser.
Passing a widget instead of an flist with a root widget opens the option of creating a browser frame that is only part of a window. Passing a full file name instead of pieces assumed to come from a .py file opens the possibility of browsing python files that do not end in .py.
bpo-31649: IDLE - Make _htest, _utest parameters keyword only.
bpo-31559: Remove test order dependence in idle_test.test_browser.
bpo-31459: Rename IDLE’s module browser from Class Browser to Module Browser. The original module-level class and method browser became a module browser, with the addition of module-level functions, years ago. Nested classes and functions were added yesterday. For back-compatibility, the virtual event <<open-class-browser>>, which appears on the Keys tab of the Settings dialog, is not changed. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31500: Default fonts now are scaled on HiDPI displays.
bpo-1612262: IDLE module browser now shows nested classes and functions. Original patches for code and tests by Guilherme Polo and Cheryl Sabella, respectively.
C API¶
bpo-28280: Make
PyMapping_Keys()
,PyMapping_Values()
andPyMapping_Items()
always return alist
(rather than alist
or atuple
). Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31532: Fix memory corruption due to allocator mix in getpath.c between Py_GetPath() and Py_SetPath()
bpo-25658: Implement PEP 539 for Thread Specific Storage (TSS) API: it is a new Thread Local Storage (TLS) API to CPython which would supersede use of the existing TLS API within the CPython interpreter, while deprecating the existing API. PEP written by Erik M. Bray, patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
Python 3.7.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2017-09-19
Security¶
bpo-29781: SSLObject.version() now correctly returns None when handshake over BIO has not been performed yet.
bpo-29505: Add fuzz tests for float(str), int(str), unicode(str); for oss-fuzz.
bpo-30947: Upgrade libexpat embedded copy from version 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 to get security fixes.
bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command arguments.
bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE-2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0’s fix to CVE-2016-0718) and CVE-2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn’t impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
XML_SetHashSalt()
.bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For example,
splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')
now correctly returns the127.0.0.1
host, instead of treating@evil.com
as the host in an authentication (login@host
).bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of CVE-2016-0718 and CVE-2016-4472. See https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31490: Fix an assertion failure in
ctypes
class definition, in case the class has an attribute whose name is specified in_anonymous_
but not in_fields_
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31471: Fix an assertion failure in
subprocess.Popen()
on Windows, in case the env argument has a bad keys() method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31418: Fix an assertion failure in
PyErr_WriteUnraisable()
in case of an exception with a bad__module__
attribute. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31416: Fix assertion failures in case of a bad warnings.filters or warnings.defaultaction. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28411: Change direct usage of PyInterpreterState.modules to PyImport_GetModuleDict(). Also introduce more uniformity in other code that deals with sys.modules. This helps reduce complications when working on sys.modules.
bpo-28411: Switch to the abstract API when dealing with
PyInterpreterState.modules
. This allows later support for all dict subclasses and other Mapping implementations. Also add aPyImport_GetModule()
function to reduce a bunch of duplicated code.bpo-31411: Raise a TypeError instead of SystemError in case warnings.onceregistry is not a dictionary. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31344: For finer control of tracing behaviour when testing the interpreter, two new frame attributes have been added to control the emission of particular trace events:
f_trace_lines
(True
by default) to turn off per-line trace events; andf_trace_opcodes
(False
by default) to turn on per-opcode trace events.bpo-31373: Fix several possible instances of undefined behavior due to floating-point demotions.
bpo-30465: Location information (
lineno
andcol_offset
) in f-strings is now (mostly) correct. This fixes tools like flake8 from showing warnings on the wrong line (typically the first line of the file).bpo-30860: Consolidate CPython’s global runtime state under a single struct. This improves discoverability of the runtime state.
bpo-31347: Fix possible undefined behavior in _PyObject_FastCall_Prepend.
bpo-31343: Include sys/sysmacros.h for major(), minor(), and makedev(). GNU C libray plans to remove the functions from sys/types.h.
bpo-31291: Fix an assertion failure in
zipimport.zipimporter.get_data
on Windows, when the return value ofpathname.replace('/','\\')
isn’t a string. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31271: Fix an assertion failure in the write() method of
io.TextIOWrapper
, when the encoder doesn’t return a bytes object. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31243: Fix a crash in some methods of
io.TextIOWrapper
, when the decoder’s state is invalid. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30721:
print
now shows correct usage hint for using Python 2 redirection syntax. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-31070: Fix a race condition in importlib _get_module_lock().
bpo-30747: Add a non-dummy implementation of _Py_atomic_store and _Py_atomic_load on MSVC.
bpo-31095: Fix potential crash during GC caused by
tp_dealloc
which doesn’t callPyObject_GC_UnTrack()
.bpo-31071: Avoid masking original TypeError in call with * unpacking when other arguments are passed.
bpo-30978: str.format_map() now passes key lookup exceptions through. Previously any exception was replaced with a KeyError exception.
bpo-30808: Use _Py_atomic API for concurrency-sensitive signal state.
bpo-30876: Relative import from unloaded package now reimports the package instead of failing with SystemError. Relative import from non-package now fails with ImportError rather than SystemError.
bpo-30703: Improve signal delivery.
Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-unsafe functions. The tests I’m adding here fail without the rest of the patch, on Linux and OS X. This means our signal delivery logic had defects (some signals could be lost).
bpo-30765: Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked not to block.
bpo-31161: Make sure the ‘Missing parentheses’ syntax error message is only applied to SyntaxError, not to subclasses. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-30814: Fixed a race condition when import a submodule from a package.
bpo-30736: The internal unicodedata database has been upgraded to Unicode 10.0.
bpo-30604: Move co_extra_freefuncs from per-thread to per-interpreter to avoid crashes.
bpo-30597:
print
now shows expected input in custom error message when used as a Python 2 statement. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-30682: Removed a too-strict assertion that failed for certain f-strings, such as eval(“f’\n’”) and eval(“f’\r’”).
bpo-30501: The compiler now produces more optimal code for complex condition expressions in the “if”, “while” and “assert” statement, the “if” expression, and generator expressions and comprehensions.
bpo-28180: Implement PEP 538 (legacy C locale coercion). This means that when a suitable coercion target locale is available, both the core interpreter and locale-aware C extensions will assume the use of UTF-8 as the default text encoding, rather than ASCII.
bpo-30486: Allows setting cell values for __closure__. Patch by Lisa Roach.
bpo-30537: itertools.islice now accepts integer-like objects (having an __index__ method) as start, stop, and slice arguments
bpo-25324: Tokens needed for parsing in Python moved to C.
COMMENT
,NL
andENCODING
. This way the tokens and tok_names in the token module don’t get changed when you import the tokenize module.bpo-29104: Fixed parsing backslashes in f-strings.
bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell.
bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-30039: If a KeyboardInterrupt happens when the interpreter is in the middle of resuming a chain of nested ‘yield from’ or ‘await’ calls, it’s now correctly delivered to the innermost frame.
bpo-28974:
object.__format__(x, '')
is now equivalent tostr(x)
rather thanformat(str(self), '')
.bpo-30024: Circular imports involving absolute imports with binding a submodule to a name are now supported.
bpo-12414: sys.getsizeof() on a code object now returns the sizes which includes the code struct and sizes of objects which it references. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-29839: len() now raises ValueError rather than OverflowError if __len__() returned a large negative integer.
bpo-11913: README.rst is now included in the list of distutils standard READMEs and therefore included in source distributions.
bpo-29914: Fixed default implementations of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__(). object.__reduce__() no longer takes arguments, object.__reduce_ex__() now requires one argument.
bpo-29949: Fix memory usage regression of set and frozenset object.
bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque when pass indices of wrong type.
bpo-29816: Shift operation now has less opportunity to raise OverflowError. ValueError always is raised rather than OverflowError for negative counts. Shifting zero with non-negative count always returns zero.
bpo-24821: Fixed the slowing down to 25 times in the searching of some unlucky Unicode characters.
bpo-29102: Add a unique ID to PyInterpreterState. This makes it easier to identify each subinterpreter.
bpo-29894: The deprecation warning is emitted if __complex__ returns an instance of a strict subclass of complex. In a future versions of Python this can be an error.
bpo-29859: Show correct error messages when any of the pthread_* calls in thread_pthread.h fails.
bpo-29849: Fix a memory leak when an ImportError is raised during from import.
bpo-28856: Fix an oversight that %b format for bytes should support objects follow the buffer protocol.
bpo-29723: The
sys.path[0]
initialization change for bpo-29139 caused a regression by revealing an inconsistency in how sys.path is initialized when executing__main__
from a zipfile, directory, or other import location. The interpreter now consistently avoids ever adding the import location’s parent directory tosys.path
, and ensures no othersys.path
entries are inadvertently modified when inserting the import location named on the command line.bpo-29568: Escaped percent “%%” in the format string for classic string formatting no longer allows any characters between two percents.
bpo-29714: Fix a regression that bytes format may fail when containing zero bytes inside.
bpo-29695: bool(), float(), list() and tuple() no longer take keyword arguments. The first argument of int() can now be passes only as positional argument.
bpo-28893: Set correct __cause__ for errors about invalid awaitables returned from __aiter__ and __anext__.
bpo-28876:
bool(range)
works even iflen(range)
raisesOverflowError
.bpo-29683: Fixes to memory allocation in _PyCode_SetExtra. Patch by Brian Coleman.
bpo-29684: Fix minor regression of PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords. It should raise TypeError when kwargs is not a dict. But it might cause segv when args=NULL and kwargs is not a dict.
bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-29607: Fix stack_effect computation for CALL_FUNCTION_EX. Patch by Matthieu Dartiailh.
bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref objects.
bpo-29463: Add
docstring
field to Module, ClassDef, FunctionDef, and AsyncFunctionDef ast nodes. docstring is not first stmt in their body anymore. It affectsco_firstlineno
andco_lnotab
of code object for module and class. (Reverted in bpo-32911.)bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.
bpo-29546: Set the ‘path’ and ‘name’ attribute on ImportError for
from ... import ...
.bpo-29546: Improve from-import error message with location
bpo-29478: If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, it is no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc.
bpo-29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].
bpo-29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be emitted at compile time.
bpo-29327: Fixed a crash when pass the iterable keyword argument to sorted().
bpo-29034: Fix memory leak and use-after-free in os module (path_converter).
bpo-29159: Fix regression in bytes(x) when x.__index__() raises Exception.
bpo-29049: Call _PyObject_GC_TRACK() lazily when calling Python function. Calling function is up to 5% faster.
bpo-28927: bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex() now ignore all ASCII whitespace, not only spaces. Patch by Robert Xiao.
bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate form.
bpo-18896: Python function can now have more than 255 parameters. collections.namedtuple() now supports tuples with more than 255 elements.
bpo-28596: The preferred encoding is UTF-8 on Android. Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-22257: Clean up interpreter startup (see PEP 432).
bpo-26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.
bpo-28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
bpo-28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr() must not convert combined table into split table. Patch written by INADA Naoki.
bpo-28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
bpo-28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been built with Py_DEBUG defined.
bpo-23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn’t support zero-argument
super()
in methods, failing to pass the new__classcell__
namespace entry up totype.__new__
now results in aDeprecationWarning
and a class that supports zero-argumentsuper()
.bpo-28797: Modifying the class __dict__ inside the __set_name__ method of a descriptor that is used inside that class no longer prevents calling the __set_name__ method of other descriptors.
bpo-28799: Remove the
PyEval_GetCallStats()
function and deprecate the untested and undocumentedsys.callstats()
function. Remove theCALL_PROFILE
special build: use thesys.setprofile()
function,cProfile
orprofile
to profile function calls.bpo-12844: More than 255 arguments can now be passed to a function.
bpo-28782: Fix a bug in the implementation
yield from
when checking if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE (bpo-26647).bpo-28774: Fix error position of the unicode error in ASCII and Latin1 encoders when a string returned by the error handler contains multiple non-encodable characters (non-ASCII for the ASCII codec, characters out of the U+0000-U+00FF range for Latin1).
bpo-28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict. Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
bpo-28532: Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.
bpo-27100: The with-statement now checks for __enter__ before it checks for __exit__. This gives less confusing error messages when both methods are missing. Patch by Jonathan Ellington.
bpo-28746: Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on platforms that do not have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.
bpo-26920: Fix not getting the locale’s charset upon initializing the interpreter, on platforms that do not have langinfo.
bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28665: Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.
bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
bpo-28621: Sped up converting int to float by reusing faster bits counting implementation. Patch by Adrian Wielgosik.
bpo-28580: Optimize iterating split table values. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28583: PyDict_SetDefault didn’t combine split table when needed. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28128: Deprecation warning for invalid str and byte escape sequences now prints better information about where the error occurs. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka and Eric Smith.
bpo-28509: dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large memory.
bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug build.
bpo-28517: Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that caused keeping unreachable code.
bpo-28214: Improved exception reporting for problematic __set_name__ attributes.
bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
bpo-28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
bpo-26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future. Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator type now is disallowed. Calling iter() on range instance is the only way. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas Koep.
bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
bpo-28201: Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when hashes have same lower bits.
bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
bpo-28289: ImportError.__init__ now resets not specified attributes.
bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword args.
bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message. Patch by Soumya Sharma.
bpo-28086: Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed unscathed to the C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact tuple.
bpo-28214: Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the instance.
bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
bpo-28192: Don’t import readline in isolated mode.
bpo-27441: Remove some redundant assignments to ob_size in longobject.c. Thanks Oren Milman.
bpo-27222: Clean up redundant code in long_rshift function. Thanks Oren Milman.
Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.
bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport’s compile_source(). zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
bpo-28126: Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly optimize memcpy().
bpo-28120: Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a “pending key” (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are used as variable/attribute/class/function name.
bpo-26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.
bpo-28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.
bpo-26110: Speed-up method calls: add LOAD_METHOD and CALL_METHOD opcodes.
Library¶
bpo-31499: xml.etree: Fix a crash when a parser is part of a reference cycle.
bpo-31482:
random.seed()
now works with bytes in version=1bpo-28556: typing.get_type_hints now finds the right globalns for classes and modules by default (when no
globalns
was specified by the caller).bpo-28556: Speed improvements to the
typing
module. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi and Mitar.bpo-31544: The C accelerator module of ElementTree ignored exceptions raised when looking up TreeBuilder target methods in XMLParser().
bpo-31234: socket.create_connection() now fixes manually a reference cycle: clear the variable storing the last exception on success.
bpo-31457: LoggerAdapter objects can now be nested.
bpo-31431: SSLContext.check_hostname now automatically sets SSLContext.verify_mode to ssl.CERT_REQUIRED instead of failing with a ValueError.
bpo-31233: socketserver.ThreadingMixIn now keeps a list of non-daemonic threads to wait until all these threads complete in server_close().
bpo-28638: Changed the implementation strategy for collections.namedtuple() to substantially reduce the use of exec() in favor of precomputed methods. As a result, the verbose parameter and _source attribute are no longer supported. The benefits include 1) having a smaller memory footprint for applications using multiple named tuples, 2) faster creation of the named tuple class (approx 4x to 6x depending on how it is measured), and 3) minor speed-ups for instance creation using __new__, _make, and _replace. (The primary patch contributor is Jelle Zijlstra with further improvements by INADA Naoki, Serhiy Storchaka, and Raymond Hettinger.)
bpo-31400: Improves SSL error handling to avoid losing error numbers.
bpo-27629: Make return types of SSLContext.wrap_bio() and SSLContext.wrap_socket() customizable.
bpo-28958: ssl.SSLContext() now uses OpenSSL error information when a context cannot be instantiated.
bpo-28182: The SSL module now raises SSLCertVerificationError when OpenSSL fails to verify the peer’s certificate. The exception contains more information about the error.
bpo-27340: SSLSocket.sendall() now uses memoryview to create slices of data. This fixes support for all bytes-like object. It is also more efficient and avoids costly copies.
bpo-14191: A new function
argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_intermixed_args
provides the ability to parse command lines where there user intermixes options and positional arguments.bpo-31178: Fix string concatenation bug in rare error path in the subprocess module
bpo-31350: Micro-optimize
asyncio._get_running_loop()
to become up to 10% faster.bpo-31170: expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of partial characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115): https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115
bpo-29136: Add TLS 1.3 cipher suites and OP_NO_TLSv1_3.
bpo-1198569:
string.Template
subclasses can optionally definebraceidpattern
if they want to specify different placeholder patterns inside and outside the braces. If None (the default) it falls back toidpattern
.bpo-31326: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.shutdown() now explicitly closes the call queue. Moreover, shutdown(wait=True) now also join the call queue thread, to prevent leaking a dangling thread.
bpo-27144: The
map()
andas_completed()
iterators inconcurrent.futures
now avoid keeping a reference to yielded objects.bpo-31281: Fix
fileinput.FileInput(files, inplace=True)
whenfiles
containpathlib.Path
objects.bpo-10746: Fix ctypes producing wrong PEP 3118 type codes for integer types.
bpo-27584:
AF_VSOCK
has been added to the socket interface which allows communication between virtual machines and their host.bpo-22536: The subprocess module now sets the filename when FileNotFoundError is raised on POSIX systems due to the executable or cwd not being found.
bpo-29741: Update some methods in the _pyio module to also accept integer types. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31249: concurrent.futures: WorkItem.run() used by ThreadPoolExecutor now breaks a reference cycle between an exception object and the WorkItem object.
bpo-31247: xmlrpc.server now explicitly breaks reference cycles when using sys.exc_info() in code handling exceptions.
bpo-23835: configparser: reading defaults in the
ConfigParser()
constructor is now usingread_dict()
, making its behavior consistent with the rest of the parser. Non-string keys and values in the defaults dictionary are now being implicitly converted to strings. Patch by James Tocknell.bpo-31238: pydoc: the stop() method of the private ServerThread class now waits until DocServer.serve_until_quit() completes and then explicitly sets its docserver attribute to None to break a reference cycle.
bpo-5001: Many asserts in
multiprocessing
are now more informative, and some error types have been changed to more specific ones.bpo-31109: Convert zipimport to use Argument Clinic.
bpo-30102: The ssl and hashlib modules now call OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf() on OpenSSL < 1.1.0. The function detects CPU features and enables optimizations on some CPU architectures such as POWER8. Patch is based on research from Gustavo Serra Scalet.
bpo-18966: Non-daemonic threads created by a multiprocessing.Process are now joined on child exit.
bpo-31183:
dis
now works with asynchronous generator and coroutine objects. Patch by George Collins based on diagnosis by Luciano Ramalho.bpo-5001: There are a number of uninformative asserts in the
multiprocessing
module, as noted in issue 5001. This change fixes two of the most potentially problematic ones, since they are in error-reporting code, in themultiprocessing.managers.convert_to_error
function. (It also makes more informative a ValueError message.) The only potentially problematic change is that the AssertionError is now a TypeError; however, this should also help distinguish it from an AssertionError being reported by the function/its caller (such as in issue 31169). - Patch by Allen W. Smith (drallensmith on github).bpo-31185: Fixed miscellaneous errors in asyncio speedup module.
bpo-31151: socketserver.ForkingMixIn.server_close() now waits until all child processes completed to prevent leaking zombie processes.
bpo-31072: Add an
include_file
parameter tozipapp.create_archive()
bpo-24700: Optimize array.array comparison. It is now from 10x up to 70x faster when comparing arrays holding values of the same integer type.
bpo-31135: ttk: fix the destroy() method of LabeledScale and OptionMenu classes. Call the parent destroy() method even if the used attribute doesn’t exist. The LabeledScale.destroy() method now also explicitly clears label and scale attributes to help the garbage collector to destroy all widgets.
bpo-31107: Fix
copyreg._slotnames()
mangled attribute calculation for classes whose name begins with an underscore. Patch by Shane Harvey.bpo-31080: Allow
logging.config.fileConfig
to accept kwargs and/or args.bpo-30897:
pathlib.Path
objects now include anis_mount()
method (only implemented on POSIX). This is similar toos.path.ismount(p)
. Patch by Cooper Ry Lees.bpo-31061: Fixed a crash when using asyncio and threads.
bpo-30987: Added support for CAN ISO-TP protocol in the socket module.
bpo-30522: Added a
setStream
method tologging.StreamHandler
to allow the stream to be set after creation.bpo-30502: Fix handling of long oids in ssl. Based on patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-5288: Support tzinfo objects with sub-minute offsets.
bpo-30919: Fix shared memory performance regression in multiprocessing in 3.x.
Shared memory used anonymous memory mappings in 2.x, while 3.x mmaps actual files. Try to be careful to do as little disk I/O as possible.
bpo-26732: Fix too many fds in processes started with the “forkserver” method.
A child process would inherit as many fds as the number of still-running children.
bpo-29403: Fix
unittest.mock
’s autospec to not fail on method-bound builtin functions. Patch by Aaron Gallagher.bpo-30961: Fix decrementing a borrowed reference in tracemalloc.
bpo-19896: Fix multiprocessing.sharedctypes to recognize typecodes
'q'
and'Q'
.bpo-30946: Remove obsolete code in readline module for platforms where GNU readline is older than 2.1 or where select() is not available.
bpo-25684: Change
ttk.OptionMenu
radiobuttons to be unique across instances ofOptionMenu
.bpo-30886: Fix multiprocessing.Queue.join_thread(): it now waits until the thread completes, even if the thread was started by the same process which created the queue.
bpo-29854: Fix segfault in readline when using readline’s history-size option. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-30794: Added multiprocessing.Process.kill method to terminate using the SIGKILL signal on Unix.
bpo-30319: socket.close() now ignores ECONNRESET error.
bpo-30828: Fix out of bounds write in
asyncio.CFuture.remove_done_callback()
.bpo-30302: Use keywords in the
repr
ofdatetime.timedelta
.bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value.
Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval, therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.
bpo-30441: Fix bug when modifying os.environ while iterating over it
bpo-29585: Avoid importing
sysconfig
fromsite
to improve startup speed. Python startup is about 5% faster on Linux and 30% faster on macOS.bpo-29293: Add missing parameter “n” on multiprocessing.Condition.notify().
The doc claims multiprocessing.Condition behaves like threading.Condition, but its notify() method lacked the optional “n” argument (to specify the number of sleepers to wake up) that threading.Condition.notify() accepts.
bpo-30532: Fix email header value parser dropping folding white space in certain cases.
bpo-30596: Add a
close()
method tomultiprocessing.Process
.bpo-9146: Fix a segmentation fault in _hashopenssl when standard hash functions such as md5 are not available in the linked OpenSSL library. As in some special FIPS-140 build environments.
bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
bpo-30119: ftplib.FTP.putline() now throws ValueError on commands that contains CR or LF. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-30879: os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-like argument.
bpo-30746: Prohibited the ‘=’ character in environment variable names in
os.putenv()
andos.spawn*()
.bpo-30664: The description of a unittest subtest now preserves the order of keyword arguments of TestCase.subTest().
bpo-21071: struct.Struct.format type is now
str
instead ofbytes
.bpo-29212: Fix concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor threads to have a non repr() based thread name by default when no thread_name_prefix is supplied. They will now identify themselves as “ThreadPoolExecutor-y_n”.
bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. They now always return bytes.
bpo-30616: Functional API of enum allows to create empty enums. Patched by Dong-hee Na
bpo-30038: Fix race condition between signal delivery and wakeup file descriptor. Patch by Nathaniel Smith.
bpo-23894: lib2to3 now recognizes
rb'...'
andf'...'
strings.bpo-24744: pkgutil.walk_packages function now raises ValueError if path is a string. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-24484: Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup.
bpo-30589: Fix multiprocessing.Process.exitcode to return the opposite of the signal number when the process is killed by a signal (instead of 255) when using the “forkserver” method.
bpo-28994: The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback registered by atexit.
bpo-30508: Don’t log exceptions if Task/Future “cancel()” method was called.
bpo-30645: Fix path calculation in
imp.load_package()
, fixing it for cases when a package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by Alexandru Ardelean.bpo-11822: The dis.dis() function now is able to disassemble nested code objects.
bpo-30624: selectors does not take KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit into account, leaving a fd in a bad state in case of error. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-30595: multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in non-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took longer than the timeout.
bpo-28556: Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add support for ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra and Ivan Levkivskyi
bpo-30605: re.compile() no longer raises a BytesWarning when compiling a bytes instance with misplaced inline modifier. Patch by Roy Williams.
bpo-29870: Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer.
bpo-29743: Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. Patch by Nikolay Kim
bpo-27585: Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. Patch by Mathieu Sornay.
bpo-30014: modify() method of poll(), epoll() and devpoll() based classes of selectors module is around 10% faster. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe.
bpo-30463: Addded empty __slots__ to abc.ABC. This allows subclassers to deny __dict__ and __weakref__ creation. Patch by Aaron Hall.
bpo-30520: Loggers are now pickleable.
bpo-30557: faulthandler now correctly filters and displays exception codes on Windows
bpo-30526: Add TextIOWrapper.reconfigure() and a TextIOWrapper.write_through attribute.
bpo-30245: Fix possible overflow when organize struct.pack_into error message. Patch by Yuan Liu.
bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6 addresses.
bpo-16500: Allow registering at-fork handlers.
bpo-30470: Deprecate invalid ctypes call protection on Windows. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main loop on exception.
bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-30436: importlib.find_spec() raises ModuleNotFoundError instead of AttributeError if the specified parent module is not a package (i.e. lacks a __path__ attribute).
bpo-30301: Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under spawn and forkserver start methods.
bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.
bpo-30329: imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error occurs sometimes on SSL connections.
bpo-29196: Removed previously deprecated in Python 2.4 classes Plist, Dict and _InternalDict in the plistlib module. Dict values in the result of functions readPlist() and readPlistFromBytes() are now normal dicts. You no longer can use attribute access to access items of these dictionaries.
bpo-9850: The
macpath
is now deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.8.bpo-30299: Compiling regular expression in debug mode on CPython now displays the compiled bytecode in human readable form.
bpo-30048: Fixed
Task.cancel()
can be ignored when the task is running coroutine and the coroutine returned without any moreawait
.bpo-30266: contextlib.AbstractContextManager now supports anti-registration by setting __enter__ = None or __exit__ = None, following the pattern introduced in bpo-25958. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-30340: Enhanced regular expressions optimization. This increased the performance of matching some patterns up to 25 times.
bpo-30298: Weaken the condition of deprecation warnings for inline modifiers. Now allowed several subsequential inline modifiers at the start of the pattern (e.g.
'(?i)(?s)...'
). In verbose mode whitespaces and comments now are allowed before and between inline modifiers (e.g.'(?x) (?i) (?s)...'
).bpo-30285: Optimized case-insensitive matching and searching of regular expressions.
bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-29979: rewrite cgi.parse_multipart, reusing the FieldStorage class and making its results consistent with those of FieldStorage for multipart/form-data requests. Patch by Pierre Quentel.
bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json’s scanner and encoder. Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods.
bpo-30215: Compiled regular expression objects with the re.LOCALE flag no longer depend on the locale at compile time. Only the locale at matching time affects the result of matching.
bpo-30185: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process when Ctrl-C is received.
bpo-30103: binascii.b2a_uu() and uu.encode() now support using
'`'
as zero instead of space.bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux.
bpo-30228: The seek() and tell() methods of io.FileIO now set the internal seekable attribute to avoid one syscall on open() (in buffered or text mode).
bpo-30190: unittest’s assertAlmostEqual and assertNotAlmostEqual provide a better message in case of failure which includes the difference between left and right arguments. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola’)
bpo-30101: Add support for curses.A_ITALIC.
bpo-29822: inspect.isabstract() now works during __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.
bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson.
bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module.
bpo-22352: Column widths in the output of dis.dis() are now adjusted for large line numbers and instruction offsets.
bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when readline() or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size().
bpo-30218: Fix PathLike support for shutil.unpack_archive. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-10076: Compiled regular expression and match objects in the re module now support copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy() (they are considered atomic).
bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it’s closed first when hint is present.
bpo-29694: Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags parents=True. Patch by Armin Rigo.
bpo-29692: Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar.
bpo-26187: Test that sqlite3 trace callback is not called multiple times when schema is changing. Indirectly fixed by switching to use sqlite3_prepare_v2() in bpo-9303. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-30017: Allowed calling the close() method of the zip entry writer object multiple times. Writing to a closed writer now always produces a ValueError.
bpo-29998: Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path attributes.
bpo-29995: re.escape() now escapes only regex special characters.
bpo-29962: Add math.remainder operation, implementing remainder as specified in IEEE 754.
bpo-29649: Improve struct.pack_into() exception messages for problems with the buffer size and offset. Patch by Andrew Nester.
bpo-29654: Support If-Modified-Since HTTP header (browser cache). Patch by Pierre Quentel.
bpo-29931: Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. Patch by Sanjay Sundaresan.
bpo-29953: Fixed memory leaks in the replace() method of datetime and time objects when pass out of bound fold argument.
bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of empty iterables.
bpo-10030: Sped up reading encrypted ZIP files by 2 times.
bpo-29204: Element.getiterator() and the html parameter of XMLParser() were deprecated only in the documentation (since Python 3.2 and 3.4 correspondintly). Now using them emits a deprecation warning.
bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong types.
bpo-25996: Added support of file descriptors in os.scandir() on Unix. os.fwalk() is sped up by 2 times by using os.scandir().
bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.
bpo-29901: The zipapp module now supports general path-like objects, not just pathlib.Path.
bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
bpo-19930: The mode argument of os.makedirs() no longer affects the file permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories.
bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. Patch by Christophe Zeitouny.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert.
bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes “encoding” or “errors” of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
bpo-28692: Using non-integer value for selecting a plural form in gettext is now deprecated.
bpo-26121: Use C library implementation for math functions erf() and erfc().
bpo-29619: os.stat() and os.DirEntry.inode() now convert inode (st_ino) using unsigned integers.
bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array ‘Q’, ‘L’ and ‘I’ from accepting big intables (objects that have __int__) as elements.
bpo-29645: Speed up importing the webbrowser module. webbrowser.register() is now thread-safe.
bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external paths.
bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
bpo-28682: Added support for bytes paths in os.fwalk().
bpo-29728: Add new
socket.TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT
(Linux 3.12) constant. Patch by Nathaniel J. Smith.bpo-29623: Allow use of path-like object as a single argument in ConfigParser.read(). Patch by David Ellis.
bpo-9303: Migrate sqlite3 module to _v2 API. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-28963: Fix out of bound iteration in asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback implemented in C.
bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all pipes are closed.
bpo-29271: Fix Task.current_task and Task.all_tasks implemented in C to accept None argument as their pure Python implementation.
bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes.
bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. Patch by Petr Motejlek.
bpo-7769: Method register_function() of xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher and its subclasses can now be used as a decorator.
bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
bpo-28624: Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen() accepts PathLike objects. Patch by Sayan Chowdhury.
bpo-28518: Start a transaction implicitly before a DML statement. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. Patch by Nikolay Kim.
bpo-16285: urllib.parse.quote is now based on RFC 3986 and hence includes ‘~’ in the set of characters that is not quoted by default. Patch by Christian Theune and Ratnadeep Debnath.
bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects a partial object after creation.
bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
bpo-22807: Add uuid.SafeUUID and uuid.UUID.is_safe to relay information from the platform about whether generated UUIDs are generated with a multiprocessing safe method.
bpo-29576: Improve some deprecations in importlib. Some deprecated methods now emit DeprecationWarnings and have better descriptive messages.
bpo-29534: Fixed different behaviour of Decimal.from_float() for _decimal and _pydecimal. Thanks Andrew Nester.
bpo-10379: locale.format_string now supports the ‘monetary’ keyword argument, and locale.format is deprecated.
bpo-29851: importlib.reload() now raises ModuleNotFoundError if the module lacks a spec.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.
bpo-29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.
bpo-29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
bpo-29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object. Based on patch by WGH.
bpo-29377: Add WrapperDescriptorType, MethodWrapperType, and MethodDescriptorType built-in types to types module. Original patch by Manuel Krebber.
bpo-29218: Unused install_misc command is now removed. It has been documented as unused since 2000. Patch by Eric N. Vander Weele.
bpo-29368: The extend() method is now called instead of the append() method when unpickle collections.deque and other list-like objects. This can speed up unpickling to 2 times.
bpo-29338: The help of a builtin or extension class now includes the constructor signature if __text_signature__ is provided for the class.
bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
bpo-29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking spaces.
bpo-28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.
bpo-29197: Removed deprecated function ntpath.splitunc().
bpo-29210: Removed support of deprecated argument “exclude” in tarfile.TarFile.add().
bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.
bpo-29192: Removed deprecated features in the http.cookies module.
bpo-29193: A format string argument for string.Formatter.format() is now positional-only.
bpo-29195: Removed support of deprecated undocumented keyword arguments in methods of regular expression objects.
bpo-28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.
bpo-20804: The unittest.mock.sentinel attributes now preserve their identity when they are copied or pickled.
bpo-29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
bpo-28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don’t ignore the name parameter anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
bpo-15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of a context. Patch by Sam Breese.
bpo-28985: Update authorizer constants in sqlite3 module. Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
bpo-29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows
bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative integers.
bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
bpo-28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
bpo-28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another thread.
bpo-20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a sequence that doesn’t own its elements as limits.
bpo-16255: subprocess.Popen uses /system/bin/sh on Android as the shell, instead of /bin/sh.
bpo-28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some multiprocessing objects such as locks.
bpo-26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android platforms.
bpo-28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer writes the index file when it is not changed. A deprecation warning is now emitted if the index file is missed and recreated in the ‘r’ and ‘w’ modes (will be an error in future Python releases).
bpo-27030: Unknown escapes consisting of
'\'
and an ASCII letter in re.sub() replacement templates regular expressions now are errors.bpo-28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings(): call warnings.showwarning() if it was overridden inside the context manager.
bpo-27172: To assist with upgrades from 2.7, the previously documented deprecation of
inspect.getfullargspec()
has been reversed. This decision may be revisited again after the Python 2.7 branch is no longer officially supported.bpo-28740: Add sys.getandroidapilevel(): return the build time API version of Android as an integer. Function only available on Android.
bpo-26273: Add new
socket.TCP_CONGESTION
(Linux 2.6.13) andsocket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
(Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by Omar Sandoval.bpo-28752: Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.
bpo-28727: Regular expression patterns, _sre.SRE_Pattern objects created by re.compile(), become comparable (only x==y and x!=y operators). This change should fix the bpo-18383: don’t duplicate warning filters when the warnings module is reloaded (thing usually only done in unit tests).
bpo-20572: Remove the subprocess.Popen.wait endtime parameter. It was deprecated in 3.4 and undocumented prior to that.
bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
bpo-28548: In the “http.server” module, parse the protocol version if possible, to avoid using HTTP 0.9 in some error responses.
bpo-19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist. Patch by Vajrasky Kok
bpo-28563: Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when handle plural form selections in the gettext module. The expression parser now supports exact syntax supported by GNU gettext.
bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when the garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by Sebastian Cufre.
bpo-27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if given empty data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle.
bpo-28549: Fixed segfault in curses’s addch() with ncurses6.
bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode “r” or “r:” now tries to open a tar file with compression before trying to open it without compression. Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
bpo-23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived browsers. Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.
bpo-24241: The webbrowser in an X environment now prefers using the default browser directly. Also, the webbrowser register() function now has a documented ‘preferred’ argument, to specify browsers to be returned by get() with no arguments. Patch by David Steele
bpo-27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and tkinter.Scale caused by representing the scale as float value internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar.prweek() no longer prints a space after a weeks’s calendar. calendar.TextCalendar.pryear() no longer prints redundant newline after a year’s calendar. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar.prmonth() no longer prints a space at the start of new line after printing a month’s calendar. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces. Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
bpo-28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
bpo-28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn’t accept non-None value is passed to it.send(val).
bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the “!” prefix for readability.
bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin a workaround to Tix library bug.
bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry “./” to ZIP archive.
bpo-25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in the string. Error message for invalid group reference now includes the group index and the position of the reference. Based on patch by SilentGhost.
bpo-28469: timeit now uses the sequence 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50,… instead of 1, 10, 100,… for autoranging.
bpo-28115: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now uses argparse. Added support of long options.
bpo-18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
bpo-28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn’t work on Windows.
bpo-23214: In the “io” module, the argument to BufferedReader and BytesIO’s read1() methods is now optional and can be -1, matching the BufferedIOBase specification.
bpo-28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is disabled.
bpo-28240: timeit: remove
-c/--clock
and-t/--time
command line options which were deprecated since Python 3.3.bpo-28240: timeit now repeats the benchmarks 5 times instead of only 3 to make benchmarks more reliable.
bpo-28240: timeit autorange now uses a single loop iteration if the benchmark takes less than 10 seconds, instead of 10 iterations. “python3 -m timeit -s ‘import time’ ‘time.sleep(1)’” now takes 4 seconds instead of 40 seconds.
Distutils.sdist now looks for README and setup.py files with case sensitivity. This behavior matches that found in Setuptools 6.0 and later. See setuptools 100 for rationale.
bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT handlers.
bpo-27998: Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-28317: The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.
bpo-28380: unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support assert_called, assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.
bpo-28229: lzma module now supports pathlib.
bpo-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
bpo-28225: bz2 module now supports pathlib. Initial patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-28227: gzip now supports pathlib. Patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-28332: Deprecated silent truncations in socket.htons and socket.ntohs. Original patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-27358: Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error message when passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.
bpo-28257: Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as a var-positional argument. Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.
bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-28228: imghdr now supports pathlib.
bpo-28226: compileall now supports pathlib.
bpo-28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
bpo-28148: Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time module.
Introduced platform independent _PyTime_localtime API that is similar to POSIX localtime_r, but available on all platforms. Patch by Ed Schouten.
bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and 9999-12.
Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that they don’t call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date under/overflow.
bpo-28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. Original patch by John Leitch.
bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-18844: random.choices() now has k as a keyword-only argument to improve the readability of common cases and come into line with the signature used in other languages.
bpo-18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by Madison May.
bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module. Added the master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.
bpo-27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception messages like “Exception: None”. This fixes a regression introduced in 3.5a2.
bpo-25651: Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
bpo-27778: Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is interrupted by a signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.
bpo-28200: Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix path_converter() function).
bpo-25400: RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for crawl_delay and request_rate. Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.
bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
bpo-28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of os.stat(). Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-22493: Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of regular expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern. Patch by Tim Graham.
bpo-25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when an empty bytestring is passed.
bpo-28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.
bpo-25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.
bpo-28114: Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
bpo-27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. Patch by Kevin Conway.
bpo-28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn’t properly supported. Patch by Seth Michael Larson.
bpo-26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. Patch by iceboy.
bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.
bpo-28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
bpo-27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. Patch by Mark Williams.
bpo-28325: Remove vestigial MacOS 9 macurl2path module and its tests.
bpo-28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no loop attached. Patch by Vincent Michel.
bpo-28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport’s FD is used with add_reader, add_writer, etc.
bpo-28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
bpo-28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
bpo-28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
bpo-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch.
bpo-29581: ABCMeta.__new__ now accepts
**kwargs
, allowing abstract base classes to use keyword parameters in __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.bpo-25532: inspect.unwrap() will now only try to unwrap an object sys.getrecursionlimit() times, to protect against objects which create a new object on every attribute access.
bpo-30177: path.resolve(strict=False) no longer cuts the path after the first element not present in the filesystem. Patch by Antoine Pietri.
Documentation¶
bpo-31294: Fix incomplete code snippet in the ZeroMQSocketListener and ZeroMQSocketHandler examples and adapt them to Python 3.
bpo-21649: Add RFC 7525 and Mozilla server side TLS links to SSL documentation.
bpo-31128: Allow the pydoc server to bind to arbitrary hostnames.
bpo-30803: Clarify doc on truth value testing. Original patch by Peter Thomassen.
bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation.
bpo-30052: the link targets for
bytes()
andbytearray()
are now their respective type definitions, rather than the corresponding builtin function entries. Use bytes and bytearray to reference the latter.In order to ensure this and future cross-reference updates are applied automatically, the daily documentation builds now disable the default output caching features in Sphinx.
bpo-26985: Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation.
bpo-19824: Improve the documentation for, and links to, template strings by emphasizing their utility for internationalization, and by clarifying some usage constraints. (See also: bpo-20314, bpo-12518)
bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement.
bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
bpo-23722: The data model reference and the porting section in the 3.6 What’s New guide now cover the additional
__classcell__
handling needed for custom metaclasses to fully support PEP 487 and zero-argumentsuper()
.bpo-28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
Tests¶
bpo-29639: test.support.HOST is now “localhost”, a new HOSTv4 constant has been added for your
127.0.0.1
needs, similar to the existing HOSTv6 constant.bpo-31320: Silence traceback in test_ssl
bpo-31346: Prefer PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT and PROTOCOL_TLS_SERVER protocols for SSLContext.
bpo-25674: Remove sha256.tbs-internet.com ssl test
bpo-30715: Address ALPN callback changes for OpenSSL 1.1.0f. The latest version behaves like OpenSSL 1.0.2 and no longer aborts handshake.
bpo-30822: regrtest: Exclude tzdata from regrtest –all. When running the test suite using –use=all / -u all, exclude tzdata since it makes test_datetime too slow (15-20 min on some buildbots) which then times out on some buildbots. Fix also regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u extralargefile to run test_zipfile64.
bpo-30695: Add the
set_nomemory(start, stop)
andremove_mem_hooks()
functions to the _testcapi module.bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz.
bpo-30197: Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the test.support module. They now work when delete replaced attribute or item inside the with statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None if it doesn’t exist) now will be assigned to the target of the “as” clause, if there is one.
bpo-24932: Use proper command line parsing in _testembed
bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest command line arguments.
bpo-28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
bpo-26936: Fix the test_socket failures on Android - getservbyname(), getservbyport() and getaddrinfo() are broken on some Android API levels.
bpo-28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or unreadable directories.
bpo-23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.
bpo-26944: Fix test_posix for Android where ‘id -G’ is entirely wrong or missing the effective gid.
bpo-28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
bpo-28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.
bpo-26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
Build¶
bpo-31354: Allow –with-lto to be used on all builds, not just
make profile-opt
.bpo-31370: Remove support for building –without-threads.
This option is not really useful anymore in the 21st century. Removing lots of conditional paths allows us to simplify the code base, including in difficult to maintain low-level internal code.
bpo-31341: Per PEP 11, support for the IRIX operating system was removed.
bpo-30854: Fix compile error when compiling –without-threads. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
bpo-30687: Locate msbuild.exe on Windows when building rather than vcvarsall.bat
bpo-20210: Support the disabled marker in Setup files. Extension modules listed after this marker are not built at all, neither by the Makefile nor by setup.py.
bpo-29941: Add
--with-assertions
configure flag to explicitly enable Cassert()
checks. Defaults to off.--with-pydebug
implies--with-assertions
.bpo-28787: Fix out-of-tree builds of Python when configured with
--with--dtrace
.bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during
make test
,make install
and some other make targets when configured with--enable-optimizations
.bpo-23404: Don’t regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace
make touch
withmake regen-all
.bpo-29643: Fix
--enable-optimization
didn’t work.bpo-27593: sys.version and the platform module python_build(), python_branch(), and python_revision() functions now use git information rather than hg when building from a repo.
bpo-29572: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.
bpo-27659: Prohibit implicit C function declarations: use
-Werror=implicit-function-declaration
when possible (GCC and Clang, but it depends on the compiler version). Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.bpo-29384: Remove old Be OS helper scripts.
bpo-26851: Set Android compilation and link flags.
bpo-28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto
bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
bpo-28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.
bpo-28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because if_nameindex() is available on Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not defined.
bpo-20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
bpo-28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
bpo-10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and Michael Haubenwallner.
bpo-26359: Rename –with-optimiations to –enable-optimizations.
bpo-28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
bpo-28208: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite 3.14.2.
bpo-28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
bpo-21124: Fix building the _struct module on Cygwin by passing
NULL
instead of&PyType_Type
to PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.bpo-13756: Fix building extensions modules on Cygwin. Patch by Roumen Petrov, based on original patch by Jason Tishler.
bpo-21085: Add configure check for siginfo_t.si_band, which Cygwin does not provide. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto with review and rebase by Erik Bray.
bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
bpo-27979: A full copy of libffi is no longer bundled for use when building _ctypes on non-OSX UNIX platforms. An installed copy of libffi is now required when building _ctypes on such platforms.
bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the source tree.
bpo-28676: Prevent missing ‘getentropy’ declaration warning on macOS. Patch by Gareth Rees.
Windows¶
bpo-31392: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 1.1.0f
bpo-30389: Adds detection of Visual Studio 2017 to distutils on Windows.
bpo-31358: zlib is no longer bundled in the CPython source, instead it is downloaded on demand just like bz2, lzma, OpenSSL, Tcl/Tk, and SQLite.
bpo-31340: Change to building with MSVC v141 (included with Visual Studio 2017)
bpo-30581: os.cpu_count() now returns the correct number of processors on Windows when the number of logical processors is greater than 64.
bpo-30916: Pre-build OpenSSL, Tcl and Tk and include the binaries in the build.
bpo-30731: Add a missing xmlns to python.manifest so that it matches the schema.
bpo-30291: Allow requiring 64-bit interpreters from py.exe using -64 suffix. Contributed by Steve (Gadget) Barnes.
bpo-30362: Adds list options (-0, -0p) to py.exe launcher. Contributed by Steve Barnes.
bpo-23451: Fix socket deprecation warnings in socketmodule.c. Patch by Segev Finer.
bpo-30450: The build process on Windows no longer depends on Subversion, instead pulling external code from GitHub via a Python script. If Python 3.6 is not found on the system (via
py -3.6
), NuGet is used to download a copy of 32-bit Python.bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer.
bpo-25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default
bpo-28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c
bpo-28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.
bpo-28333: Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
bpo-28161: Opening CON for write access fails
bpo-28162: WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with Ctrl+Z
bpo-28163: WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to _open_osfhandle
bpo-28164: _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths
bpo-28137: Renames Windows path file to ._pth
bpo-28138: Windows ._pth file should allow import site
IDLE¶
bpo-31493: IDLE code context – fix code update and font update timers.
Canceling timers prevents a warning message when test_idle completes.
bpo-31488: IDLE - Update non-key options in former extension classes. When applying configdialog changes, call .reload for each feature class. Change ParenMatch so updated options affect existing instances attached to existing editor windows.
bpo-31477: IDLE - Improve rstrip entry in doc. Strip trailing whitespace strips more than blank spaces. Multiline string literals are not skipped.
bpo-31480: IDLE - make tests pass with zzdummy extension disabled by default.
bpo-31421: Document how IDLE runs tkinter programs. IDLE calls tcl/tk update in the background in order to make live
interaction and experimentation with tkinter applications much easier.
bpo-31414: IDLE – fix tk entry box tests by deleting first. Adding to an int entry is not the same as deleting and inserting because int(‘’) will fail.
bpo-31051: Rearrange IDLE configdialog GenPage into Window, Editor, and Help sections.
bpo-30617: IDLE - Add docstrings and tests for outwin subclass of editor.
Move some data and functions from the class to module level. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31287: IDLE - Do not modify tkinter.message in test_configdialog.
bpo-27099: Convert IDLE’s built-in ‘extensions’ to regular features.
About 10 IDLE features were implemented as supposedly optional extensions. Their different behavior could be confusing or worse for users and not good for maintenance. Hence the conversion.
The main difference for users is that user configurable key bindings for builtin features are now handled uniformly. Now, editing a binding in a keyset only affects its value in the keyset. All bindings are defined together in the system-specific default keysets in config-extensions.def. All custom keysets are saved as a whole in config-extension.cfg. All take effect as soon as one clicks Apply or Ok.
The affected events are ‘<<force-open-completions>>’, ‘<<expand-word>>’, ‘<<force-open-calltip>>’, ‘<<flash-paren>>’, ‘<<format-paragraph>>’, ‘<<run-module>>’, ‘<<check-module>>’, and ‘<<zoom-height>>’. Any (global) customizations made before 3.6.3 will not affect their keyset-specific customization after 3.6.3. and vice versa.
Initial patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-31206: IDLE: Factor HighPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31001: Add tests for configdialog highlight tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31205: IDLE: Factor KeysPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31130: IDLE – stop leaks in test_configdialog. Initial patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31002: Add tests for configdialog keys tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-19903: IDLE: Calltips use
inspect.signature
instead ofinspect.getfullargspec
. This improves calltips for builtins converted to use Argument Clinic. Patch by Louie Lu.bpo-31083: IDLE - Add an outline of a TabPage class in configdialog. Update existing classes to match outline. Initial patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31050: Factor GenPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31004: IDLE - Factor FontPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog.
Slightly modified tests continue to pass. Fix General tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30781: IDLE - Use ttk widgets in ConfigDialog. Patches by Terry Jan Reedy and Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31060: IDLE - Finish rearranging methods of ConfigDialog Grouping methods pertaining to each tab and the buttons will aid writing tests and improving the tabs and will enable splitting the groups into classes.
bpo-30853: IDLE – Factor a VarTrace class out of ConfigDialog.
Instance tracers manages pairs consisting of a tk variable and a callback function. When tracing is turned on, setting the variable calls the function. Test coverage for the new class is 100%.
bpo-31003: IDLE: Add more tests for General tab.
bpo-30993: IDLE - Improve configdialog font page and tests.
In configdialog: Document causal pathways in create_font_tab docstring. Simplify some attribute names. Move set_samples calls to var_changed_font (idea from Cheryl Sabella). Move related functions to positions after the create widgets function.
In test_configdialog: Fix test_font_set so not order dependent. Fix renamed test_indent_scale so it tests the widget. Adjust tests for movement of set_samples call. Add tests for load functions. Put all font tests in one class and tab indent tests in another. Except for two lines, these tests completely cover the related functions.
bpo-30981: IDLE – Add more configdialog font page tests.
bpo-28523: IDLE: replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’ in configdialog.
bpo-30917: Add tests for idlelib.config.IdleConf. Increase coverage from 46% to 96%. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30934: Document coverage details for idlelib tests.
Add section to idlelib/idle-test/README.txt.
Include check that branches are taken both ways.
Exclude IDLE-specific code that does not run during unit tests.
bpo-30913: IDLE: Document ConfigDialog tk Vars, methods, and widgets in docstrings This will facilitate improving the dialog and splitting up the class. Original patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30899: IDLE: Add tests for ConfigParser subclasses in config. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30881: IDLE: Add docstrings to browser.py. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30851: IDLE: Remove unused variables in configdialog. One is a duplicate, one is set but cannot be altered by users. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30870: IDLE: In Settings dialog, select font with Up, Down keys as well as mouse. Initial patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-8231: IDLE: call config.IdleConf.GetUserCfgDir only once.
bpo-30779: IDLE: Factor ConfigChanges class from configdialog, put in config; test. * In config, put dump test code in a function; run it and unittest in ‘if __name__ == ‘__main__’. * Add class config.ConfigChanges based on changes_class_v4.py on bpo issue. * Add class test_config.ChangesTest, partly using configdialog_tests_v1.py. * Revise configdialog to use ConfigChanges; see tracker msg297804. * Revise test_configdialog to match configdialog changes. * Remove configdialog functions unused or moved to ConfigChanges. Cheryl Sabella contributed parts of the patch.
bpo-30777: IDLE: configdialog - Add docstrings and fix comments. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30495: IDLE: Improve textview with docstrings, PEP8 names, and more tests. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30723: IDLE: Make several improvements to parenmatch. Add ‘parens’ style to highlight both opener and closer. Make ‘default’ style, which is not default, a synonym for ‘opener’. Make time-delay work the same with all styles. Add help for config dialog extensions tab, including help for parenmatch. Add new tests. Original patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-30674: IDLE: add docstrings to grep module. Patch by Cheryl Sabella
bpo-21519: IDLE’s basic custom key entry dialog now detects duplicates properly. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-29910: IDLE no longer deletes a character after commenting out a region by a key shortcut. Add
return 'break'
for this and other potential conflicts between IDLE and default key bindings.bpo-30728: Review and change idlelib.configdialog names. Lowercase method and attribute names. Replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’, expand overly cryptic names, delete unneeded underscores. Replace
import *
with specific imports. Patches by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-6739: IDLE: Verify user-entered key sequences by trying to bind them with tk. Add tests for all 3 validation functions. Original patch by G Polo. Tests added by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-15786: Fix several problems with IDLE’s autocompletion box. The following should now work: clicking on selection box items; using the scrollbar; selecting an item by hitting Return. Hangs on MacOSX should no longer happen. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-25514: Add doc subsubsection about IDLE failure to start. Popup no-connection message directs users to this section.
bpo-30642: Fix reference leaks in IDLE tests. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30495: Add docstrings for textview.py and use PEP8 names. Patches by Cheryl Sabella and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30290: Help-about: use pep8 names and add tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu, Cheryl Sabella, and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30303: Add _utest option to textview; add new tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-29071: IDLE colors f-string prefixes (but not invalid ur prefixes).
bpo-28572: Add 10% to coverage of IDLE’s test_configdialog. Update and augment description of the configuration system.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-30983: gdb integration commands (py-bt, etc.) work on optimized shared builds now, too. PEP 523 introduced _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault which inlines PyEval_EvalFrameEx on non-debug shared builds. This broke the ability to use py-bt, py-up, and a few other Python-specific gdb integrations. The problem is fixed by only looking for _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault frames in python-gdb.py. Original patch by Bruno “Polaco” Penteado.
bpo-29748: Added the slice index converter in Argument Clinic.
bpo-24037: Argument Clinic now uses the converter
bool(accept={int})
rather thanint
for semantical booleans. This avoids repeating the default value for Python and C and will help in converting tobool
in future.bpo-29367: python-gdb.py now supports also
method-wrapper
(wrapperobject
) objects.bpo-28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn’t support new dict implementation.
bpo-15369: The pybench and pystone microbenchmark have been removed from Tools. Please use the new Python benchmark suite https://github.com/python/performance which is more reliable and includes a portable version of pybench working on Python 2 and Python 3.
bpo-28102: The zipfile module CLI now prints usage to stderr. Patch by Stephen J. Turnbull.
C API¶
bpo-31338: Added the
Py_UNREACHABLE()
macro for code paths which are never expected to be reached. This and a few other useful macros are now documented in the C API manual.bpo-30832: Remove own implementation for thread-local storage.
CPython has provided the own implementation for thread-local storage (TLS) on Python/thread.c, it’s used in the case which a platform has not supplied native TLS. However, currently all supported platforms (Windows and pthreads) have provided native TLS and defined the Py_HAVE_NATIVE_TLS macro with unconditional in any case.
bpo-30708: PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() now raises a ValueError if the second argument is NULL and the wchar_t* string contains null characters.
bpo-16500: Deprecate PyOS_AfterFork() and add PyOS_BeforeFork(), PyOS_AfterFork_Parent() and PyOS_AfterFork_Child().
bpo-6532: The type of results of PyThread_start_new_thread() and PyThread_get_thread_ident(), and the id parameter of PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc() changed from “long” to “unsigned long”.
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is deprecated and replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is not set or set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or 0x03060100 or higher. Added functions PySlice_Unpack() and PySlice_AdjustIndices().
bpo-29083: Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API. PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
bpo-28769: The result of PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize() and PyUnicode_AsUTF8() is now of type
const char *
rather ofchar *
.bpo-29058: All stable API extensions added after Python 3.2 are now available only when Py_LIMITED_API is set to the PY_VERSION_HEX value of the minimum Python version supporting this API.
bpo-28822: The index parameters start and end of PyUnicode_FindChar() are now adjusted to behave like
str[start:end]
.bpo-28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.
bpo-28761: The fields name and doc of structures PyMemberDef, PyGetSetDef, PyStructSequence_Field, PyStructSequence_Desc, and wrapperbase are now of type
const char *
rather ofchar *
.bpo-28748: Private variable _Py_PackageContext is now of type
const char *
rather ofchar *
.bpo-19569: Compiler warnings are now emitted if use most of deprecated functions.
bpo-28426: Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
Python 3.6.6 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-06-11
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33786: Fix asynchronous generators to handle GeneratorExit in athrow() correctly
bpo-30654: Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter shutdown even when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by Philipp Kerling.
bpo-33622: Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object with the
__del__
method or referenced by it into thegc.garbage
list.PyGC_Collect()
can now be called when an exception is set and preserves it.bpo-31849: Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.
bpo-33391: Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().
bpo-28055: Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer.
bpo-33231: Fix potential memory leak in
normalizestring()
.bpo-29922: Improved error messages in ‘async with’ when
__aenter__()
or__aexit__()
return non-awaitable object.bpo-33199: Fix
ma_version_tag
in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying from key-sharing dict.bpo-33041: Fixed jumping when the function contains an
async for
loop.bpo-32282: Fix an unnecessary ifdef in the include of VersionHelpers.h in socketmodule on Windows.
bpo-21983: Fix a crash in
ctypes.cast()
in case the type argument is a ctypes structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman.
Library¶
bpo-30167: Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.
bpo-33812: Datetime instance d with non-None tzinfo, but with d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) returning None is now treated as naive by the astimezone() method.
bpo-30805: Avoid race condition with debug logging
bpo-33767: The concatenation (
+
) and repetition (*
) sequence operations now raiseTypeError
instead ofSystemError
when performed onmmap.mmap
objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-32684: Fix gather to propagate cancellation of itself even with return_exceptions.
bpo-33674: Fix a race condition in SSLProtocol.connection_made() of asyncio.sslproto: start immediately the handshake instead of using call_soon(). Previously, data_received() could be called before the handshake started, causing the handshake to hang or fail.
bpo-31647: Fixed bug where calling write_eof() on a _SelectorSocketTransport after it’s already closed raises AttributeError.
bpo-33672: Fix Task.__repr__ crash with Cython’s bogus coroutines
bpo-33469: Fix RuntimeError after closing loop that used run_in_executor
bpo-11874: Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus assertion errors from custom metavar strings.
bpo-30877: Fixed a bug in the Python implementation of the JSON decoder that prevented the cache of parsed strings from clearing after finishing the decoding. Based on patch by c-fos.
bpo-33548: tempfile._candidate_tempdir_list should consider common TEMP locations
bpo-33542: Prevent
uuid.get_node
from using a DUID instead of a MAC on Windows. Patch by Zvi Effronbpo-26819: Fix race condition with
ReadTransport.resume_reading
in Windows proactor event loop.bpo-28556: Minor fixes in typing module: add annotations to
NamedTuple.__new__
, pass*args
and**kwds
inGeneric.__new__
. Original PRs by Paulius Šarka and Chad Dombrova.bpo-20087: Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales.
bpo-33422: Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino.
bpo-33197: Update error message when constructing invalid inspect.Parameters Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-33383: Fixed crash in the get() method of the
dbm.ndbm
database object when it is called with a single argument.bpo-33329: Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs
bpo-991266: Fix quoting of the
Comment
attribute ofhttp.cookies.SimpleCookie
.bpo-33131: Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.
bpo-33308: Fixed a crash in the
parser
module when converting an ST object to a tree of tuples or lists withline_info=False
andcol_info=True
.bpo-33263: Fix FD leak in
_SelectorSocketTransport
Patch by Vlad Starostin.bpo-33256: Fix display of
<module>
call in the html produced bycgitb.html()
. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.bpo-33203:
random.Random.choice()
now raisesIndexError
for empty sequences consistently even when called from subclasses without agetrandbits()
implementation.bpo-33224: Update difflib.mdiff() for PEP 479. Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a generator into a return-statement.
bpo-33209: End framing at the end of C implementation of
pickle.Pickler.dump()
.bpo-32861: The urllib.robotparser’s
__str__
representation now includes wildcard entries and the “Crawl-delay” and “Request-rate” fields. Patch by Michael Lazar.bpo-33096: Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false boolean value. Note iid=0 and iid=False would be same. Patch by Garvit Khatri.
bpo-33127: The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.
bpo-33021: Release the GIL during fstat() calls, avoiding hang of all threads when calling mmap.mmap(), os.urandom(), and random.seed(). Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-27683: Fix a regression in
ipaddress
that result ofhosts()
is empty when the network is constructed by a tuple containing an integer mask and only 1 bit left for addresses.bpo-32844: Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess if another low descriptor is closed.
bpo-31908: Fix output of cover files for
trace
module command-line tool. Previously emitted cover files only when--missing
option was used. Patch by Michael Selik.bpo-31457: If nested log adapters are used, the inner
process()
methods are no longer omitted.bpo-16865: Support arrays >=2GiB in
ctypes
. Patch by Segev Finer.bpo-31238: pydoc: the stop() method of the private ServerThread class now waits until DocServer.serve_until_quit() completes and then explicitly sets its docserver attribute to None to break a reference cycle.
Documentation¶
bpo-33503: Fix broken pypi link
bpo-33421: Add missing documentation for
typing.AsyncContextManager
.bpo-33378: Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/
bpo-33276: Clarify that the
__path__
attribute on modules cannot be just any value.bpo-33201: Modernize documentation for writing C extension types.
bpo-33195: Deprecate
Py_UNICODE
usage inc-api/arg
document.Py_UNICODE
related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the document.bpo-33126: Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous().
bpo-27212: Modify documentation for the
islice()
recipe to consume initial values up to the start index.bpo-28247: Update
zipapp
documentation to describe how to make standalone applications.bpo-18802: Documentation changes for ipaddress. Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag.
bpo-27428: Update documentation to clarify that
WindowsRegistryFinder
implementsMetaPathFinder
. (Patch by Himanshu Lakhara)bpo-8243: Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when writing outside a window, or pad.
bpo-31432: Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.
Tests¶
Build¶
bpo-5755: Move
-Wstrict-prototypes
option toCFLAGS_NODIST
fromOPT
. This option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in C++.bpo-33614: Ensures module definition files for the stable ABI on Windows are correctly regenerated.
bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython
bpo-33012: Add
-Wno-cast-function-type
for gcc 8 for silencing warnings about function casts like casting to PyCFunction in method definition lists.bpo-33394: Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed macros on the command line.
IDLE¶
bpo-33656: On Windows, add API call saying that tk scales for DPI. On Windows 8.1+ or 10, with DPI compatibility properties of the Python binary unchanged, and a monitor resolution greater than 96 DPI, this should make text and lines sharper. It should otherwise have no effect.
bpo-33768: Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window.
bpo-33763: IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget.
bpo-33664: Scroll IDLE editor text by lines. Previously, the mouse wheel and scrollbar slider moved text by a fixed number of pixels, resulting in partial lines at the top of the editor box. The change also applies to the shell and grep output windows, but not to read-only text views.
bpo-33679: Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context. Use the Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes or add settings to custom themes.
bpo-33642: Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context. If there is no current context, show a single blank line.
bpo-33628: IDLE: Cleanup codecontext.py and its test.
bpo-33564: IDLE’s code context now recognizes async as a block opener.
bpo-29706: IDLE now colors async and await as keywords in 3.6. They become full keywords in 3.7.
bpo-21474: Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL.
bpo-33204: IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A ‘u’ string prefix cannot be paired with either ‘r’ or ‘f’. Consistently color as much of the prefix, starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test.
bpo-32831: Add docstrings and tests for codecontext.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-33189: pygettext.py now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string expressions.
bpo-31920: Fixed handling directories as arguments in the
pygettext
script. Based on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.bpo-29673: Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros.
bpo-32885: Add an
-n
flag forTools/scripts/pathfix.py
to disable automatic backup creation (files with~
suffix).bpo-31583: Fix 2to3 for using with –add-suffix option but without –output-dir option for relative path to files in current directory.
Python 3.6.5 final¶
Release date: 2018-03-28
Python 3.6.5 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-03-13
Security¶
bpo-33001: Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
bpo-32981: 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.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33026: Fixed jumping out of “with” block by setting f_lineno.
bpo-17288: Prevent jumps from ‘return’ and ‘exception’ trace events.
bpo-32889: Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG
toaddress_in_range
.bpo-32650: Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-32685: 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: Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
bpo-26163: Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced with datasets containing many similar values.
bpo-27169: The
__debug__
constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes also bpo-22091.bpo-32329:
sys.flags.hash_randomization
is now properly set to 0 when hash randomization is turned off byPYTHONHASHSEED=0
.bpo-30416: 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:
repr()
on a dict containing its ownvalues()
oritems()
no longer raisesRecursionError
; OrderedDict similarly. Instead, use...
, as for other recursive structures. Patch by Ben North.bpo-32028: 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: The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of crashing due to a stack overflow.
Library¶
bpo-33064: lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after
*args
and**kwargs
in function signatures.bpo-31804: Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed or None at exit.
bpo-33037: Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
bpo-30353: Fix ctypes pass-by-value for structs on 64-bit Cygwin/MinGW.
bpo-33009: Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
bpo-32969: Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding documentation.
bpo-32713: Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey Fuhrer.
bpo-30622: The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
bpo-32922: dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than default encoding.
bpo-32859: In
os.dup2
, don’t check every call whether thedup3
syscall exists or not.bpo-21060: 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: In
tkinter
,after_cancel(None)
now raises aValueError
instead of canceling the first scheduled function. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-32852: Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
bpo-32841: Fixed
asyncio.Condition
issue which silently ignored cancellation after notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-31787: Fixed refleaks of
__init__()
methods in various modules. (Contributed by Oren Milman)bpo-30157: Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last field is quoted. Patch by Jake Davis.
bpo-32394: socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN, TCP_KEEPCNT flags on older version Windows during run-time.
bpo-32777: 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: 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: 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: Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-27931: Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-32304: 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: uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is encountered.
bpo-31848: Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-32555: 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: The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
bpo-32473: Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
bpo-32521: glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in nis module.
bpo-32228: Ensure that
truncate()
preserves the file position (as reported bytell()
) after writes longer than the buffer size.bpo-26133: Don’t unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter shutdown.
bpo-32185: The SSL module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS extension on platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.2+ or inet_pton.
bpo-32323:
urllib.parse.urlsplit()
does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower case for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.bpo-32302: Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT v140.
bpo-32255: 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: Raise
NotImplementedError
instead ofSystemError
on platforms wherechmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)
is not supported. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-32199: The getnode() ip getter now uses ‘ip link’ instead of ‘ip link list’.
bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31900: The
locale.localeconv()
function now sets temporarily theLC_CTYPE
locale to theLC_NUMERIC
locale to decodedecimal_point
andthousands_sep
byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and theLC_NUMERIC
locale is different than theLC_CTYPE
locale. This temporary change affects other threads.Same change for the
str.format()
method when formatting a number (int
,float
,float
and subclasses) with then
type (ex:'{:n}'.format(1234)
).bpo-31802: Importing native path module (
posixpath
,ntpath
) now works even if theos
module still is not imported.
Documentation¶
bpo-17232: Clarify docs for -O and -OO. Patch by Terry Reedy.
bpo-32800: Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
bpo-8722: Document
__getattr__()
behavior when propertyget()
method raisesAttributeError
.bpo-32614: Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
DeprecationWarning
and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the deprecation.bpo-31972: Improve docstrings for
pathlib.PurePath
subclasses.bpo-17799: 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.
Tests¶
bpo-32517: Fix failing
test_asyncio
on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport ofKqueueSelector
loop was not being closed.bpo-32721: Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
bpo-32252: Fix faulthandler_suppress_crash_report() used to prevent core dump files when testing crashes. getrlimit() returns zero on success.
bpo-31518: 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.
Build¶
bpo-32635: Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of libcrypt at the system.
Windows¶
bpo-33016: Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname
bpo-32903: Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set to a UNC path.
bpo-31966: Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
bpo-32409: Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
bpo-32457: Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
bpo-32370: Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by Segev Finer.
bpo-29248: Fix
os.readlink()
on Windows, which was mistakenly treating thePrintNameOffset
field of the reparse data buffer as a number of characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.bpo-32588: Create standalone _distutils_findvs module.
macOS¶
bpo-32726: 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.
IDLE¶
bpo-32984: 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 variableIDLESTARTUP
orPYTHONSTARTUP
;-r file
runsfile
. 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: Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
bpo-32916: Change
str
tocode
in pyparse.bpo-32905: Remove unused code in pyparse module.
bpo-32874: Add tests for pyparse.
bpo-32837: Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad idea for IDLE’s system and location-independent files.
bpo-32826: 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: Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget list.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-24960: 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: Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.
Python 3.6.4 final¶
Release date: 2017-12-18
There were no new code changes in version 3.6.4 since v3.6.4rc1.
Python 3.6.4 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-12-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32176: co_flags.CO_NOFREE is now always set correctly by the code object constructor based on freevars and cellvars, rather than needing to be set correctly by the caller. This ensures it will be cleared automatically when additional cell references are injected into a modified code object and function.
bpo-31949: Fixed several issues in printing tracebacks (PyTraceBack_Print()).
Setting sys.tracebacklimit to 0 or less now suppresses printing tracebacks.
Setting sys.tracebacklimit to None now causes using the default limit.
Setting sys.tracebacklimit to an integer larger than LONG_MAX now means using the limit LONG_MAX rather than the default limit.
Fixed integer overflows in the case of more than 2**31 traceback items on Windows.
Fixed output errors handling.
bpo-30696: Fix the interactive interpreter looping endlessly when no memory.
bpo-20047: Bytearray methods partition() and rpartition() now accept only bytes-like objects as separator, as documented. In particular they now raise TypeError rather of returning a bogus result when an integer is passed as a separator.
bpo-31852: Fix a segmentation fault caused by a combination of the async soft keyword and continuation lines.
bpo-21720: BytesWarning no longer emitted when the fromlist argument of
__import__()
or the__all__
attribute of the module contain bytes instances.bpo-31825: Fixed OverflowError in the ‘unicode-escape’ codec and in codecs.escape_decode() when decode an escaped non-ascii byte.
bpo-28603: Print the full context/cause chain of exceptions on interpreter exit, even if an exception in the chain is unhashable or compares equal to later ones. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-31786: Fix timeout rounding in the select module to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-31642: Restored blocking “from package import module” by setting sys.modules[“package.module”] to None.
bpo-31626: Fixed a bug in debug memory allocator. There was a write to freed memory after shrinking a memory block.
bpo-31619: Fixed a ValueError when convert a string with large number of underscores to integer with binary base.
bpo-31592: Fixed an assertion failure in Python parser in case of a bad
unicodedata.normalize()
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31588: Raise a
TypeError
with a helpful error message when class creation fails due to a metaclass with a bad__prepare__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31566: Fix an assertion failure in
_warnings.warn()
in case of a bad__name__
global. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31505: Fix an assertion failure in
json
, in case_json.make_encoder()
received a badencoder()
argument. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31492: Fix assertion failures in case of failing to import from a module with a bad
__name__
attribute, and in case of failing to access an attribute of such a module. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31490: Fix an assertion failure in
ctypes
class definition, in case the class has an attribute whose name is specified in_anonymous_
but not in_fields_
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31478: Fix an assertion failure in
_random.Random.seed()
in case the argument has a bad__abs__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31315: Fix an assertion failure in imp.create_dynamic(), when spec.name is not a string. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31311: Fix a crash in the
__setstate__()
method ofctypes._CData
, in case of a bad__dict__
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31293: Fix crashes in true division and multiplication of a timedelta object by a float with a bad as_integer_ratio() method. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31285: Fix an assertion failure in
warnings.warn_explicit
, when the return value of the received loader’s get_source() has a bad splitlines() method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30817:
PyErr_PrintEx()
clears now the ignored exception that may be raised by_PySys_SetObjectId()
, for example when no memory.
Library¶
bpo-28556: Two minor fixes for
typing
module: allow shallow copying instances of generic classes, improve interaction of__init_subclass__
with generics. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-27240: The header folding algorithm for the new email policies has been rewritten, which also fixes bpo-30788, bpo-31831, and bpo-32182. In particular, RFC2231 folding is now done correctly.
bpo-32186: io.FileIO.readall() and io.FileIO.read() now release the GIL when getting the file size. Fixed hang of all threads with inaccessible NFS server. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-12239: Make
msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()
returnNone
when the value of property isVT_EMPTY
. Initial patch by Mark Mc Mahon.bpo-31325: Fix wrong usage of
collections.namedtuple()
in theRobotFileParser.parse()
method.Initial patch by Robin Wellner.
bpo-12382:
msilib.OpenDatabase()
now raises a better exception message when it couldn’t open or create an MSI file. Initial patch by William Tisäter.bpo-32110:
codecs.StreamReader.read(n)
now returns not more than n characters/bytes for non-negative n. This makes it compatible withread()
methods of other file-like objects.bpo-32072: Fixed issues with binary plists:
Fixed saving bytearrays.
Identical objects will be saved only once.
Equal references will be load as identical objects.
Added support for saving and loading recursive data structures.
bpo-32034: Make asyncio.IncompleteReadError and LimitOverrunError pickleable.
bpo-32015: Fixed the looping of asyncio in the case of reconnection the socket during waiting async read/write from/to the socket.
bpo-32011: Restored support of loading marshal files with the TYPE_INT64 code. These files can be produced in Python 2.7.
bpo-31970: Reduce performance overhead of asyncio debug mode.
bpo-9678: Fixed determining the MAC address in the uuid module:
Using ifconfig on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Using arp on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Based on patch by Takayuki Shimizukawa.
bpo-30057: Fix potential missed signal in signal.signal().
bpo-31933: Fix Blake2 params leaf_size and node_offset on big endian platforms. Patch by Jack O’Connor.
bpo-31927: Fixed compilation of the socket module on NetBSD 8. Fixed assertion failure or reading arbitrary data when parse a AF_BLUETOOTH address on NetBSD and DragonFly BSD.
bpo-27666: Fixed stack corruption in curses.box() and curses.ungetmouse() when the size of types chtype or mmask_t is less than the size of C long. curses.box() now accepts characters as arguments. Based on patch by Steve Fink.
bpo-31897: plistlib now catches more errors when read binary plists and raises InvalidFileException instead of unexpected exceptions.
bpo-25720: Fix the method for checking pad state of curses WINDOW. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
bpo-31893: Fixed the layout of the kqueue_event structure on OpenBSD and NetBSD. Fixed the comparison of the kqueue_event objects.
bpo-31891: Fixed building the curses module on NetBSD.
bpo-28416: Instances of pickle.Pickler subclass with the persistent_id() method and pickle.Unpickler subclass with the persistent_load() method no longer create reference cycles.
bpo-28326: Fix multiprocessing.Process when stdout and/or stderr is closed or None.
bpo-31457: If nested log adapters are used, the inner
process()
methods are no longer omitted.bpo-31457: The
manager
property on LoggerAdapter objects is now properly settable.bpo-31806: Fix timeout rounding in time.sleep(), threading.Lock.acquire() and socket.socket.settimeout() to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-28603: traceback: Fix a TypeError that occurred during printing of exception tracebacks when either the current exception or an exception in its context/cause chain is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-30058: Fixed buffer overflow in select.kqueue.control().
bpo-31770: Prevent a crash when calling the
__init__()
method of asqlite3.Cursor
object more than once. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31672:
idpattern
instring.Template
matched some non-ASCII characters. Now it uses-i
regular expression local flag to avoid non-ASCII characters.bpo-31764: Prevent a crash in
sqlite3.Cursor.close()
in case theCursor
object is uninitialized. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31752: Fix possible crash in timedelta constructor called with custom integers.
bpo-31701: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now ignores MSC and COM exceptions.
bpo-31728: Prevent crashes in
_elementtree
due to unsafe cleanup ofElement.text
andElement.tail
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31620: an empty asyncio.Queue now doesn’t leak memory when queue.get pollers timeout
bpo-31632: Fix method set_protocol() of class _SSLProtocolTransport in asyncio module. This method was previously modifying a wrong reference to the protocol.
bpo-31675: Fixed memory leaks in Tkinter’s methods splitlist() and split() when pass a string larger than 2 GiB.
bpo-31673: Fixed typo in the name of Tkinter’s method adderrorinfo().
bpo-30806: Fix the string representation of a netrc object.
bpo-15037: Added a workaround for getkey() in curses for ncurses 5.7 and earlier.
bpo-25351: Avoid venv activate failures with undefined variables
bpo-25532: inspect.unwrap() will now only try to unwrap an object sys.getrecursionlimit() times, to protect against objects which create a new object on every attribute access.
bpo-30347: Stop crashes when concurrently iterate over itertools.groupby() iterators.
bpo-31516:
threading.current_thread()
should not return a dummy thread at shutdown.bpo-31351: python -m ensurepip now exits with non-zero exit code if pip bootstrapping has failed.
bpo-31482:
random.seed()
now works with bytes in version=1bpo-31334: Fix
poll.poll([timeout])
in theselect
module for arbitrary negative timeouts on all OSes where it can only be a non-negative integer or -1. Patch by Riccardo Coccioli.bpo-31310: multiprocessing’s semaphore tracker should be launched again if crashed.
bpo-31308: Make multiprocessing’s forkserver process immune to Ctrl-C and other user interruptions. If it crashes, restart it when necessary.
Documentation¶
bpo-32105: Added asyncio.BaseEventLoop.connect_accepted_socket versionadded marker.
bpo-31537: Fix incorrect usage of
get_history_length
in readline documentation example code. Patch by Brad Smith.bpo-30085: The operator functions without double underscores are preferred for clarity. The one with underscores are only kept for back-compatibility.
Tests¶
bpo-31380: Skip test_httpservers test_undecodable_file on macOS: fails on APFS.
bpo-31705: Skip test_socket.test_sha256() on Linux kernel older than 4.5. The test fails with ENOKEY on kernel 3.10 (on ppc64le). A fix was merged into the kernel 4.5.
bpo-31174: Fix test_tools.test_unparse: DirectoryTestCase now stores the names sample to always test the same files. It prevents false alarms when hunting reference leaks.
bpo-30695: Add the
set_nomemory(start, stop)
andremove_mem_hooks()
functions to the _testcapi module.
Build¶
bpo-32059:
detect_modules()
insetup.py
now also searches the sysroot paths when cross-compiling.bpo-31957: Fixes Windows SDK version detection when building for Windows.
bpo-31609: Fixes quotes in PCbuild/clean.bat
bpo-31934: Abort the build when building out of a not clean source tree.
bpo-31926: Fixed Argument Clinic sometimes causing compilation errors when there was more than one function and/or method in a .c file with the same name.
bpo-28791: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-28791: Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-22140: Prevent double substitution of prefix in python-config.sh.
bpo-31536: Avoid wholesale rebuild after
make regen-all
if nothing changed.
Windows¶
IDLE¶
bpo-32207: Improve tk event exception tracebacks in IDLE. When tk event handling is driven by IDLE’s run loop, a confusing and distracting queue.EMPTY traceback context is no longer added to tk event exception tracebacks. The traceback is now the same as when event handling is driven by user code. Patch based on a suggestion by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-32164: Delete unused file idlelib/tabbedpages.py. Use of TabbedPageSet in configdialog was replaced by ttk.Notebook.
bpo-32100: IDLE: Fix old and new bugs in pathbrowser; improve tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31858: IDLE – Restrict shell prompt manipulation to the shell. Editor and output windows only see an empty last prompt line. This simplifies the code and fixes a minor bug when newline is inserted. Sys.ps1, if present, is read on Shell start-up, but is not set or changed.
bpo-31860: The font sample in the IDLE configuration dialog is now editable. Changes persist while IDLE remains open
bpo-31836: Test_code_module now passes if run after test_idle, which sets ps1.
The code module uses sys.ps1 if present or sets it to ‘>>> ‘ if not. Test_code_module now properly tests both behaviors. Ditto for ps2.
bpo-28603: Fix a TypeError that caused a shell restart when printing a traceback that includes an exception that is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-13802: Use non-Latin characters in the IDLE’s Font settings sample. Even if one selects a font that defines a limited subset of the unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, tcl/tk will use other fonts that define a character. The expanded example give users of non-Latin characters a better idea of what they might see in IDLE’s shell and editors. To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are re-arranged. The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
bpo-31460: Simplify the API of IDLE’s Module Browser.
Passing a widget instead of an flist with a root widget opens the option of creating a browser frame that is only part of a window. Passing a full file name instead of pieces assumed to come from a .py file opens the possibility of browsing python files that do not end in .py.
bpo-31649: IDLE - Make _htest, _utest parameters keyword only.
bpo-31559: Remove test order dependence in idle_test.test_browser.
bpo-31459: Rename IDLE’s module browser from Class Browser to Module Browser. The original module-level class and method browser became a module browser, with the addition of module-level functions, years ago. Nested classes and functions were added yesterday. For back-compatibility, the virtual event <<open-class-browser>>, which appears on the Keys tab of the Settings dialog, is not changed. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31500: Default fonts now are scaled on HiDPI displays.
bpo-1612262: IDLE module browser now shows nested classes and functions. Original patches for code and tests by Guilherme Polo and Cheryl Sabella, respectively.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-30722: Make redemo work with Python 3.6 and newer versions.
Also, remove the
LOCALE
option since it doesn’t work with string patterns in Python 3.Patch by Christoph Sarnowski.
C API¶
bpo-20891: Fix PyGILState_Ensure(). When PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python thread before PyEval_InitThreads(), only call PyEval_InitThreads() after calling PyThreadState_New() to fix a crash.
bpo-31532: Fix memory corruption due to allocator mix in getpath.c between Py_GetPath() and Py_SetPath()
bpo-30697: The
PyExc_RecursionErrorInst
singleton is removed andPyErr_NormalizeException()
does not use it anymore. This singleton is persistent and its members being never cleared may cause a segfault during finalization of the interpreter. See also bpo-22898.
Python 3.6.3 final¶
Release date: 2017-10-03
Library¶
bpo-31641: Re-allow arbitrary iterables in
concurrent.futures.as_completed()
. Fixes regression in 3.6.3rc1.
Python 3.6.3 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-09-18
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31471: Fix an assertion failure in
subprocess.Popen()
on Windows, in case the env argument has a bad keys() method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31418: Fix an assertion failure in
PyErr_WriteUnraisable()
in case of an exception with a bad__module__
attribute. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31416: Fix assertion failures in case of a bad warnings.filters or warnings.defaultaction. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31411: Raise a TypeError instead of SystemError in case warnings.onceregistry is not a dictionary. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31373: Fix several possible instances of undefined behavior due to floating-point demotions.
bpo-30465: Location information (
lineno
andcol_offset
) in f-strings is now (mostly) correct. This fixes tools like flake8 from showing warnings on the wrong line (typically the first line of the file).bpo-31343: Include sys/sysmacros.h for major(), minor(), and makedev(). GNU C libray plans to remove the functions from sys/types.h.
bpo-31291: Fix an assertion failure in
zipimport.zipimporter.get_data
on Windows, when the return value ofpathname.replace('/','\\')
isn’t a string. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31271: Fix an assertion failure in the write() method of
io.TextIOWrapper
, when the encoder doesn’t return a bytes object. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31243: Fix a crash in some methods of
io.TextIOWrapper
, when the decoder’s state is invalid. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30721:
print
now shows correct usage hint for using Python 2 redirection syntax. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-31070: Fix a race condition in importlib _get_module_lock().
bpo-31095: Fix potential crash during GC caused by
tp_dealloc
which doesn’t callPyObject_GC_UnTrack()
.bpo-31071: Avoid masking original TypeError in call with * unpacking when other arguments are passed.
bpo-30978: str.format_map() now passes key lookup exceptions through. Previously any exception was replaced with a KeyError exception.
bpo-30808: Use _Py_atomic API for concurrency-sensitive signal state.
bpo-30876: Relative import from unloaded package now reimports the package instead of failing with SystemError. Relative import from non-package now fails with ImportError rather than SystemError.
bpo-30703: Improve signal delivery.
Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-unsafe functions. The tests I’m adding here fail without the rest of the patch, on Linux and OS X. This means our signal delivery logic had defects (some signals could be lost).
bpo-30765: Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked not to block.
bpo-31161: Make sure the ‘Missing parentheses’ syntax error message is only applied to SyntaxError, not to subclasses. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-30814: Fixed a race condition when import a submodule from a package.
bpo-30597:
print
now shows expected input in custom error message when used as a Python 2 statement. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
Library¶
bpo-31499: xml.etree: Fix a crash when a parser is part of a reference cycle.
bpo-28556: typing.get_type_hints now finds the right globalns for classes and modules by default (when no
globalns
was specified by the caller).bpo-28556: Speed improvements to the
typing
module. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi and Mitar.bpo-31544: The C accelerator module of ElementTree ignored exceptions raised when looking up TreeBuilder target methods in XMLParser().
bpo-31234: socket.create_connection() now fixes manually a reference cycle: clear the variable storing the last exception on success.
bpo-31457: LoggerAdapter objects can now be nested.
bpo-31400: Improves SSL error handling to avoid losing error numbers.
bpo-28958: ssl.SSLContext() now uses OpenSSL error information when a context cannot be instantiated.
bpo-27340: SSLSocket.sendall() now uses memoryview to create slices of data. This fixes support for all bytes-like object. It is also more efficient and avoids costly copies.
bpo-31178: Fix string concatenation bug in rare error path in the subprocess module
bpo-31350: Micro-optimize
asyncio._get_running_loop()
to become up to 10% faster.bpo-31170: expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of partial characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115): https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115
bpo-29136: Add TLS 1.3 cipher suites and OP_NO_TLSv1_3.
bpo-29212: Fix concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor threads to have a non repr() based thread name by default when no thread_name_prefix is supplied. They will now identify themselves as “ThreadPoolExecutor-y_n”.
bpo-9146: Fix a segmentation fault in _hashopenssl when standard hash functions such as md5 are not available in the linked OpenSSL library. As in some special FIPS-140 build environments.
bpo-27144: The
map()
andas_completed()
iterators inconcurrent.futures
now avoid keeping a reference to yielded objects.bpo-10746: Fix ctypes producing wrong PEP 3118 type codes for integer types.
bpo-22536: The subprocess module now sets the filename when FileNotFoundError is raised on POSIX systems due to the executable or cwd not being found.
bpo-31249: concurrent.futures: WorkItem.run() used by ThreadPoolExecutor now breaks a reference cycle between an exception object and the WorkItem object.
bpo-31247: xmlrpc.server now explicitly breaks reference cycles when using sys.exc_info() in code handling exceptions.
bpo-30102: The ssl and hashlib modules now call OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf() on OpenSSL < 1.1.0. The function detects CPU features and enables optimizations on some CPU architectures such as POWER8. Patch is based on research from Gustavo Serra Scalet.
bpo-31185: Fixed miscellaneous errors in asyncio speedup module.
bpo-31135: ttk: fix the destroy() method of LabeledScale and OptionMenu classes. Call the parent destroy() method even if the used attribute doesn’t exist. The LabeledScale.destroy() method now also explicitly clears label and scale attributes to help the garbage collector to destroy all widgets.
bpo-31107: Fix
copyreg._slotnames()
mangled attribute calculation for classes whose name begins with an underscore. Patch by Shane Harvey.bpo-31061: Fixed a crash when using asyncio and threads.
bpo-30502: Fix handling of long oids in ssl. Based on patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-30119: ftplib.FTP.putline() now throws ValueError on commands that contains CR or LF. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-30595: multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in non-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took longer than the timeout.
bpo-29403: Fix
unittest.mock
’s autospec to not fail on method-bound builtin functions. Patch by Aaron Gallagher.bpo-30961: Fix decrementing a borrowed reference in tracemalloc.
bpo-25684: Change
ttk.OptionMenu
radiobuttons to be unique across instances ofOptionMenu
.bpo-30886: Fix multiprocessing.Queue.join_thread(): it now waits until the thread completes, even if the thread was started by the same process which created the queue.
bpo-29854: Fix segfault in readline when using readline’s history-size option. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-30319: socket.close() now ignores ECONNRESET error.
bpo-30828: Fix out of bounds write in
asyncio.CFuture.remove_done_callback()
.bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value.
Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval, therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.
bpo-30441: Fix bug when modifying os.environ while iterating over it
bpo-30532: Fix email header value parser dropping folding white space in certain cases.
bpo-30879: os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-like argument.
bpo-30746: Prohibited the ‘=’ character in environment variable names in
os.putenv()
andos.spawn*()
.bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. They now always return bytes.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
bpo-31320: Silence traceback in test_ssl
bpo-25674: Remove sha256.tbs-internet.com ssl test
bpo-30715: Address ALPN callback changes for OpenSSL 1.1.0f. The latest version behaves like OpenSSL 1.0.2 and no longer aborts handshake.
bpo-30822: regrtest: Exclude tzdata from regrtest –all. When running the test suite using –use=all / -u all, exclude tzdata since it makes test_datetime too slow (15-20 min on some buildbots) which then times out on some buildbots. Fix also regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u extralargefile to run test_zipfile64.
Windows¶
bpo-30389: Adds detection of Visual Studio 2017 to distutils on Windows.
bpo-31340: Change to building with MSVC v141 (included with Visual Studio 2017)
bpo-30581: os.cpu_count() now returns the correct number of processors on Windows when the number of logical processors is greater than 64.
bpo-30731: Add a missing xmlns to python.manifest so that it matches the schema.
IDLE¶
bpo-31493: IDLE code context – fix code update and font update timers.
Canceling timers prevents a warning message when test_idle completes.
bpo-31488: IDLE - Update non-key options in former extension classes. When applying configdialog changes, call .reload for each feature class. Change ParenMatch so updated options affect existing instances attached to existing editor windows.
bpo-31477: IDLE - Improve rstrip entry in doc. Strip trailing whitespace strips more than blank spaces. Multiline string literals are not skipped.
bpo-31480: IDLE - make tests pass with zzdummy extension disabled by default.
bpo-31421: Document how IDLE runs tkinter programs. IDLE calls tcl/tk update in the background in order to make live
interaction and experimentation with tkinter applications much easier.
bpo-31414: IDLE – fix tk entry box tests by deleting first. Adding to an int entry is not the same as deleting and inserting because int(‘’) will fail.
bpo-31051: Rearrange IDLE configdialog GenPage into Window, Editor, and Help sections.
bpo-30617: IDLE - Add docstrings and tests for outwin subclass of editor.
Move some data and functions from the class to module level. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31287: IDLE - Do not modify tkinter.message in test_configdialog.
bpo-27099: Convert IDLE’s built-in ‘extensions’ to regular features.
About 10 IDLE features were implemented as supposedly optional extensions. Their different behavior could be confusing or worse for users and not good for maintenance. Hence the conversion.
The main difference for users is that user configurable key bindings for builtin features are now handled uniformly. Now, editing a binding in a keyset only affects its value in the keyset. All bindings are defined together in the system-specific default keysets in config-extensions.def. All custom keysets are saved as a whole in config-extension.cfg. All take effect as soon as one clicks Apply or Ok.
The affected events are ‘<<force-open-completions>>’, ‘<<expand-word>>’, ‘<<force-open-calltip>>’, ‘<<flash-paren>>’, ‘<<format-paragraph>>’, ‘<<run-module>>’, ‘<<check-module>>’, and ‘<<zoom-height>>’. Any (global) customizations made before 3.6.3 will not affect their keyset-specific customization after 3.6.3. and vice versa. Initial patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-31206: IDLE: Factor HighPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31001: Add tests for configdialog highlight tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31205: IDLE: Factor KeysPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31130: IDLE – stop leaks in test_configdialog. Initial patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31002: Add tests for configdialog keys tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-19903: IDLE: Calltips use
inspect.signature
instead ofinspect.getfullargspec
. This improves calltips for builtins converted to use Argument Clinic. Patch by Louie Lu.bpo-31083: IDLE - Add an outline of a TabPage class in configdialog. Update existing classes to match outline. Initial patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31050: Factor GenPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31004: IDLE - Factor FontPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog.
Slightly modified tests continue to pass. Fix General tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30781: IDLE - Use ttk widgets in ConfigDialog. Patches by Terry Jan Reedy and Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31060: IDLE - Finish rearranging methods of ConfigDialog Grouping methods pertaining to each tab and the buttons will aid writing tests and improving the tabs and will enable splitting the groups into classes.
bpo-30853: IDLE – Factor a VarTrace class out of ConfigDialog.
Instance tracers manages pairs consisting of a tk variable and a callback function. When tracing is turned on, setting the variable calls the function. Test coverage for the new class is 100%.
bpo-31003: IDLE: Add more tests for General tab.
bpo-30993: IDLE - Improve configdialog font page and tests.
In configdialog: Document causal pathways in create_font_tab docstring. Simplify some attribute names. Move set_samples calls to var_changed_font (idea from Cheryl Sabella). Move related functions to positions after the create widgets function.
In test_configdialog: Fix test_font_set so not order dependent. Fix renamed test_indent_scale so it tests the widget. Adjust tests for movement of set_samples call. Add tests for load functions. Put all font tests in one class and tab indent tests in another. Except for two lines, these tests completely cover the related functions.
bpo-30981: IDLE – Add more configdialog font page tests.
bpo-28523: IDLE: replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’ in configdialog.
bpo-30917: Add tests for idlelib.config.IdleConf. Increase coverage from 46% to 96%. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30934: Document coverage details for idlelib tests.
Add section to idlelib/idle-test/README.txt.
Include check that branches are taken both ways.
Exclude IDLE-specific code that does not run during unit tests.
bpo-30913: IDLE: Document ConfigDialog tk Vars, methods, and widgets in docstrings This will facilitate improving the dialog and splitting up the class. Original patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30899: IDLE: Add tests for ConfigParser subclasses in config. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30881: IDLE: Add docstrings to browser.py. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30851: IDLE: Remove unused variables in configdialog. One is a duplicate, one is set but cannot be altered by users. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30870: IDLE: In Settings dialog, select font with Up, Down keys as well as mouse. Initial patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-8231: IDLE: call config.IdleConf.GetUserCfgDir only once.
bpo-30779: IDLE: Factor ConfigChanges class from configdialog, put in config; test. * In config, put dump test code in a function; run it and unittest in ‘if __name__ == ‘__main__’. * Add class config.ConfigChanges based on changes_class_v4.py on bpo issue. * Add class test_config.ChangesTest, partly using configdialog_tests_v1.py. * Revise configdialog to use ConfigChanges; see tracker msg297804. * Revise test_configdialog to match configdialog changes. * Remove configdialog functions unused or moved to ConfigChanges. Cheryl Sabella contributed parts of the patch.
bpo-30777: IDLE: configdialog - Add docstrings and fix comments. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30495: IDLE: Improve textview with docstrings, PEP8 names, and more tests. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30723: IDLE: Make several improvements to parenmatch. Add ‘parens’ style to highlight both opener and closer. Make ‘default’ style, which is not default, a synonym for ‘opener’. Make time-delay work the same with all styles. Add help for config dialog extensions tab, including help for parenmatch. Add new tests. Original patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-30674: IDLE: add docstrings to grep module. Patch by Cheryl Sabella
bpo-21519: IDLE’s basic custom key entry dialog now detects duplicates properly. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-29910: IDLE no longer deletes a character after commenting out a region by a key shortcut. Add
return 'break'
for this and other potential conflicts between IDLE and default key bindings.bpo-30728: Review and change idlelib.configdialog names. Lowercase method and attribute names. Replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’, expand overly cryptic names, delete unneeded underscores. Replace
import *
with specific imports. Patches by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-6739: IDLE: Verify user-entered key sequences by trying to bind them with tk. Add tests for all 3 validation functions. Original patch by G Polo. Tests added by Cheryl Sabella.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-30983: gdb integration commands (py-bt, etc.) work on optimized shared builds now, too. PEP 523 introduced _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault which inlines PyEval_EvalFrameEx on non-debug shared builds. This broke the ability to use py-bt, py-up, and a few other Python-specific gdb integrations. The problem is fixed by only looking for _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault frames in python-gdb.py. Original patch by Bruno “Polaco” Penteado.
Python 3.6.2 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2017-07-07
Security¶
bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command arguments.
bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE-2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0’s fix to CVE-2016-0718) and CVE-2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn’t impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
XML_SetHashSalt()
.bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For example,
splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')
now correctly returns the127.0.0.1
host, instead of treating@evil.com
as the host in an authentication (login@host
).
Python 3.6.2 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-06-17
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-30682: Removed a too-strict assertion that failed for certain f-strings, such as eval(“f’\n’”) and eval(“f’\r’”).
bpo-30604: Move co_extra_freefuncs to not be per-thread to avoid crashes
bpo-29104: Fixed parsing backslashes in f-strings.
bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell.
bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-30039: If a KeyboardInterrupt happens when the interpreter is in the middle of resuming a chain of nested ‘yield from’ or ‘await’ calls, it’s now correctly delivered to the innermost frame.
bpo-12414: sys.getsizeof() on a code object now returns the sizes which includes the code struct and sizes of objects which it references. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-29949: Fix memory usage regression of set and frozenset object.
bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque when pass indices of wrong type.
bpo-29859: Show correct error messages when any of the pthread_* calls in thread_pthread.h fails.
bpo-28876:
bool(range)
works even iflen(range)
raisesOverflowError
.bpo-29600: Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration.
bpo-28856: Fix an oversight that %b format for bytes should support objects follow the buffer protocol.
bpo-29714: Fix a regression that bytes format may fail when containing zero bytes inside.
bpo-29478: If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, it is no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc.
Library¶
bpo-30616: Functional API of enum allows to create empty enums. Patched by Dong-hee Na
bpo-30038: Fix race condition between signal delivery and wakeup file descriptor. Patch by Nathaniel Smith.
bpo-23894: lib2to3 now recognizes
rb'...'
andf'...'
strings.bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.
bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-30645: Fix path calculation in imp.load_package(), fixing it for cases when a package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by Alexandru Ardelean.
bpo-29931: Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. Patch by Sanjay Sundaresan.
bpo-30605: re.compile() no longer raises a BytesWarning when compiling a bytes instance with misplaced inline modifier. Patch by Roy Williams.
Security¶
bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of CVE-2016-0718 and CVE-2016-4472. See https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
Library¶
bpo-24484: Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup (#2159)
bpo-28994: The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback registered by atexit.
bpo-30508: Don’t log exceptions if Task/Future “cancel()” method was called.
bpo-28556: Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add support for ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra and Ivan Levkivskyi
bpo-29870: Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer.
bpo-29743: Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. Patch by Nikolay Kim
bpo-27585: Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. Patch by Mathieu Sornay.
bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe.
bpo-29822: inspect.isabstract() now works during __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.
bpo-29581: ABCMeta.__new__ now accepts
**kwargs
, allowing abstract base classes to use keyword parameters in __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.bpo-30557: faulthandler now correctly filters and displays exception codes on Windows
bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6 addresses.
bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson.
bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main loop on exception.
bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-30301: Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under spawn and forkserver start methods.
bpo-30329: imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error occurs sometimes on SSL connections.
bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.
bpo-30048: Fixed
Task.cancel()
can be ignored when the task is running coroutine and the coroutine returned without any moreawait
.bpo-30266: contextlib.AbstractContextManager now supports anti-registration by setting __enter__ = None or __exit__ = None, following the pattern introduced in bpo-25958. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-30298: Weaken the condition of deprecation warnings for inline modifiers. Now allowed several subsequential inline modifiers at the start of the pattern (e.g.
'(?i)(?s)...'
). In verbose mode whitespaces and comments now are allowed before and between inline modifiers (e.g.'(?x) (?i) (?s)...'
).bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-26293: Change resulted because of zipfile breakage. (See also: bpo-29094)
bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json’s scanner and encoder. Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods.
bpo-30185: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process when Ctrl-C is received.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux.
bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module.
bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when readline() or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size().
bpo-30017: Allowed calling the close() method of the zip entry writer object multiple times. Writing to a closed writer now always produces a ValueError.
bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it’s closed first when hint is present.
bpo-29694: Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags parents=True. Patch by Armin Rigo.
bpo-29692: Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar.
bpo-29998: Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path attributes.
bpo-29953: Fixed memory leaks in the replace() method of datetime and time objects when pass out of bound fold argument.
bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of empty iterables.
bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong types.
bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. Patch by Christophe Zeitouny.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert.
bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. Patch by Nikolay Kim.
bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes “encoding” or “errors” of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array ‘Q’, ‘L’ and ‘I’ from accepting big intables (objects that have __int__) as elements. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external paths.
bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. Patch by Petr Motejlek.
bpo-30177: path.resolve(strict=False) no longer cuts the path after the first element not present in the filesystem. Patch by Antoine Pietri.
IDLE¶
bpo-15786: Fix several problems with IDLE’s autocompletion box. The following should now work: clicking on selection box items; using the scrollbar; selecting an item by hitting Return. Hangs on MacOSX should no longer happen. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-25514: Add doc subsubsection about IDLE failure to start. Popup no-connection message directs users to this section.
bpo-30642: Fix reference leaks in IDLE tests. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30495: Add docstrings for textview.py and use PEP8 names. Patches by Cheryl Sabella and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30290: Help-about: use pep8 names and add tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu, Cheryl Sabella, and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30303: Add _utest option to textview; add new tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
C API¶
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() no longer replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is not set.
Build¶
bpo-29941: Add
--with-assertions
configure flag to explicitly enable Cassert()
checks. Defaults to off.--with-pydebug
implies--with-assertions
.bpo-28787: Fix out-of-tree builds of Python when configured with
--with--dtrace
.bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during
make test
,make install
and some other make targets when configured with--enable-optimizations
.bpo-23404: Don’t regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace
make touch
withmake regen-all
.bpo-29643: Fix
--enable-optimization
didn’t work.
Documentation¶
bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation.
bpo-30052: the link targets for
bytes()
andbytearray()
are now their respective type definitions, rather than the corresponding builtin function entries. Use bytes and bytearray to reference the latter.In order to ensure this and future cross-reference updates are applied automatically, the daily documentation builds now disable the default output caching features in Sphinx.
bpo-26985: Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation.
Tests¶
bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz.
bpo-30197: Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the test.support module. They now work when delete replaced attribute or item inside the with statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None if it doesn’t exist) now will be assigned to the target of the “as” clause, if there is one.
Windows¶
bpo-30687: Locate msbuild.exe on Windows when building rather than vcvarsall.bat
bpo-30450: The build process on Windows no longer depends on Subversion, instead pulling external code from GitHub via a Python script. If Python 3.6 is not found on the system (via
py -3.6
), NuGet is used to download a copy of 32-bit Python.
Python 3.6.1 final¶
Release date: 2017-03-21
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-29723: The
sys.path[0]
initialization change for bpo-29139 caused a regression by revealing an inconsistency in how sys.path is initialized when executing__main__
from a zipfile, directory, or other import location. The interpreter now consistently avoids ever adding the import location’s parent directory tosys.path
, and ensures no othersys.path
entries are inadvertently modified when inserting the import location named on the command line.
Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-03-04
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28893: Set correct __cause__ for errors about invalid awaitables returned from __aiter__ and __anext__.
bpo-29683: Fixes to memory allocation in _PyCode_SetExtra. Patch by Brian Coleman.
bpo-29684: Fix minor regression of PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords. It should raise TypeError when kwargs is not a dict. But it might cause segv when args=NULL and kwargs is not a dict.
bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-29607: Fix stack_effect computation for CALL_FUNCTION_EX. Patch by Matthieu Dartiailh.
bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref objects.
bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.
bpo-29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].
bpo-29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be emitted at compile time.
bpo-29327: Fixed a crash when pass the iterable keyword argument to sorted().
bpo-29034: Fix memory leak and use-after-free in os module (path_converter).
bpo-29159: Fix regression in bytes(x) when x.__index__() raises Exception.
bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate form.
bpo-26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.
bpo-28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
bpo-28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
bpo-28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been built with Py_DEBUG defined.
bpo-28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict. Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
Library¶
bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
bpo-29623: Allow use of path-like object as a single argument in ConfigParser.read(). Patch by David Ellis.
bpo-28963: Fix out of bound iteration in asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback implemented in C.
bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all pipes are closed.
bpo-29271: Fix Task.current_task and Task.all_tasks implemented in C to accept None argument as their pure Python implementation.
bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes.
bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
bpo-28624: Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen() accepts PathLike objects. Patch by Sayan Chowdhury.
bpo-28518: Start a transaction implicitly before a DML statement. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects a partial object after creation.
bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.
bpo-29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.
bpo-29519: Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown when used with a rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs.
bpo-29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
bpo-29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object. Based on patch by WGH.
bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
bpo-29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking spaces.
bpo-28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.
bpo-29316: Restore the provisional status of typing module, add corresponding note to documentation. Patch by Ivan L.
bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.
bpo-29011: Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module.
bpo-28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.
bpo-29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
bpo-28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don’t ignore the name parameter anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
bpo-29203: functools.lru_cache() now respects PEP 468 and preserves the order of keyword arguments. f(a=1, b=2) is now cached separately from f(b=2, a=1) since both calls could potentially give different results.
bpo-15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of a context. Patch by Sam Breese.
bpo-29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object and modes “w” and “x” now are relative to the start of the file.
bpo-29085: Allow random.Random.seed() to use high quality OS randomness rather than the pid and time.
bpo-29061: Fixed bug in secrets.randbelow() which would hang when given a negative input. Patch by Brendan Donegan.
bpo-29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows
bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
bpo-29119: Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of collections.OrderedDict move_to_end() method. Contributed by Andra Bogildea.
bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative integers.
bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
bpo-28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
bpo-29055: Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice() by suppressing the upstream exception.
bpo-28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another thread.
bpo-20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a sequence that doesn’t own its elements as limits.
bpo-28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some multiprocessing objects such as locks.
bpo-28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer writes the index file when it is not changed.
bpo-26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android platforms.
IDLE¶
Windows¶
bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer
bpo-29326: Ignores blank lines in ._pth files (Patch by Alexey Izbyshev)
bpo-28164: Correctly handle special console filenames (patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-29409: Implement PEP 529 for io.FileIO (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module.
bpo-25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
C API¶
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is not set or set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or 0x03060100 or higher.
bpo-29083: Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API. PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
bpo-29058: All stable API extensions added after Python 3.2 are now available only when Py_LIMITED_API is set to the PY_VERSION_HEX value of the minimum Python version supporting this API.
Documentation¶
bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement.
bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
Tests¶
bpo-28087: Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS. Skip some tests of select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved issues with the underlying system poll function on some macOS versions.
bpo-29571: to match the behaviour of the
re.LOCALE
flag, test_re.test_locale_flag now useslocale.getpreferredencoding(False)
to determine the candidate encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly skip the test when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest command line arguments.
bpo-28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
bpo-26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
Build¶
bpo-27593: sys.version and the platform module python_build(), python_branch(), and python_revision() functions now use git information rather than hg when building from a repo.
bpo-29572: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.
bpo-26851: Set Android compilation and link flags.
bpo-28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto
bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
bpo-28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.
bpo-28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because if_nameindex() is available on Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not defined.
bpo-20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
bpo-28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2016-12-06
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn’t support zero-argument
super()
in methods, failing to pass the new__classcell__
namespace entry up totype.__new__
now results in aDeprecationWarning
and a class that supports zero-argumentsuper()
.bpo-28797: Modifying the class __dict__ inside the __set_name__ method of a descriptor that is used inside that class no longer prevents calling the __set_name__ method of other descriptors.
bpo-28782: Fix a bug in the implementation
yield from
when checking if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE (bpo-26647).
Library¶
bpo-27030: Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are allowed again. But they still are deprecated and will be disabled in 3.7.
bpo-28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings(): call warnings.showwarning() if it was overriden inside the context manager.
bpo-27172: To assist with upgrades from 2.7, the previously documented deprecation of
inspect.getfullargspec()
has been reversed. This decision may be revisited again after the Python 2.7 branch is no longer officially supported.bpo-26273: Add new
socket.TCP_CONGESTION
(Linux 2.6.13) andsocket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
(Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by Omar Sandoval.bpo-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch.
bpo-28843: Fix asyncio C Task to handle exceptions __traceback__.
Python 3.6.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2016-11-21
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28532: Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.
bpo-27100: The with-statement now checks for __enter__ before it checks for __exit__. This gives less confusing error messages when both methods are missing. Patch by Jonathan Ellington.
bpo-28746: Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on platforms that do not have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.
bpo-26920: Fix not getting the locale’s charset upon initializing the interpreter, on platforms that do not have langinfo.
bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
bpo-28665: Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.
bpo-28583: PyDict_SetDefault didn’t combine split table when needed. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27243: Change PendingDeprecationWarning -> DeprecationWarning. As it was agreed in the issue, __aiter__ returning an awaitable should result in PendingDeprecationWarning in 3.5 and in DeprecationWarning in 3.6.
bpo-26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.
bpo-28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.
Library¶
bpo-28752: Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.
bpo-28727: Regular expression patterns, _sre.SRE_Pattern objects created by re.compile(), become comparable (only x==y and x!=y operators). This change should fix the bpo-18383: don’t duplicate warning filters when the warnings module is reloaded (thing usually only done in unit tests).
bpo-20572: The subprocess.Popen.wait method’s undocumented endtime parameter now raises a DeprecationWarning.
bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
bpo-19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist. Patch by Vajrasky Kok
bpo-28563: Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when handle plural form selections in the gettext module. The expression parser now supports exact syntax supported by GNU gettext.
bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when the garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by Sebastian Cufre.
bpo-28600: Optimize loop.call_soon.
bpo-28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if called from coroutines/callbacks.
bpo-28634: Fix asyncio.isfuture() to support unittest.Mock.
bpo-26081: Fix refleak in _asyncio.Future.__iter__().throw.
bpo-28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool Patch by Justin Mayfield.
bpo-28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not support.
bpo-28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.
bpo-28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.
bpo-28704: Fix create_unix_server to support Path-like objects (PEP 519).
bpo-28720: Add collections.abc.AsyncGenerator.
Tests¶
Python 3.6.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2016-10-31
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28128: Deprecation warning for invalid str and byte escape sequences now prints better information about where the error occurs. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka and Eric Smith.
bpo-28509: dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large memory.
bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug build.
bpo-28517: Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that caused keeping unreachable code.
bpo-28214: Improved exception reporting for problematic __set_name__ attributes.
bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
bpo-28471: Fix “Python memory allocator called without holding the GIL” crash in socket.setblocking.
Library¶
bpo-27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if given empty data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle.
bpo-28549: Fixed segfault in curses’s addch() with ncurses6.
bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode “r” or “r:” now tries to open a tar file with compression before trying to open it without compression. Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
bpo-23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived browsers. Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.
bpo-27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and tkinter.Scale caused by representing the scale as float value internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
bpo-18844: The various ways of specifying weights for random.choices() now produce the same result sequences.
bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a space at the start of new line after printing a month’s calendar. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces. Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
bpo-28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
bpo-28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn’t accept non-None value is passed to it.send(val).
bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the “!” prefix for readability.
bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin a workaround to Tix library bug.
bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry “./” to ZIP archive.
bpo-25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in the string. Error message for invalid group reference now includes the group index and the position of the reference. Based on patch by SilentGhost.
bpo-18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
bpo-28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn’t work on Windows.
bpo-28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is disabled.
bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT handlers.
bpo-28492: Fix how StopIteration exception is raised in _asyncio.Future.
bpo-28500: Fix asyncio to handle async gens GC from another thread.
bpo-26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all children are done. Patch by Johannes Ebke.
bpo-26796: Don’t configure the number of workers for default threadpool executor. Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.
bpo-28544: Implement asyncio.Task in C.
Build¶
Python 3.6.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2016-10-10
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
bpo-26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future. Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator type now is deprecated. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas Koep.
bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
bpo-28201: Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when hashes have same lower bits.
bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword args.
bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message. Patch by Soumya Sharma.
bpo-28086: Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed unscathed to the C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact tuple.
bpo-28214: Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the instance.
bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
bpo-28192: Don’t import readline in isolated mode.
Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.
bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport’s compile_source(). zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
bpo-28126: Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly optimize memcpy().
bpo-28120: Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a “pending key” (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are used as variable/attribute/class/function name.
Library¶
bpo-27998: Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-28317: The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.
bpo-26293: Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start of the file. Offsets in ZIP file now are relative to the start of the archive in conforming to the specification.
bpo-28380: unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support assert_called, assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.
bpo-27181: remove statistics.geometric_mean and defer until 3.7.
bpo-28229: lzma module now supports pathlib.
bpo-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
bpo-28225: bz2 module now supports pathlib. Initial patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-28227: gzip now supports pathlib. Patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-27358: Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error message when passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.
bpo-28257: Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as a var-positional argument. Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.
bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-28228: imghdr now supports pathlib.
bpo-28226: compileall now supports pathlib.
bpo-28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
bpo-28148: Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time module.
Introduced platform independent _PyTime_localtime API that is similar to POSIX localtime_r, but available on all platforms. Patch by Ed Schouten.
bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and 9999-12.
Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that they don’t call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date under/overflow.
bpo-28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. Original patch by John Leitch.
bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-18844: random.choices() now has k as a keyword-only argument to improve the readability of common cases and come into line with the signature used in other languages.
bpo-18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by Madison May.
bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module. Added the master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.
bpo-27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception messages like “Exception: None”. This fixes a regression introduced in 3.5a2.
bpo-25651: Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
bpo-27778: Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is interrupted by a signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.
bpo-28200: Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix path_converter() function).
bpo-25400: RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for crawl_delay and request_rate. Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.
bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
bpo-28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of os.stat(). Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-22493: Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of regular expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern. Patch by Tim Graham.
bpo-25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when an empty bytestring is passed.
bpo-28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.
bpo-25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.
bpo-28114: Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
bpo-27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. Patch by Kevin Conway.
bpo-28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn’t properly supported. Patch by Seth Michael Larson.
bpo-26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. Patch by iceboy.
bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.
bpo-28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
bpo-27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. Patch by Mark Williams.
bpo-28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no loop attached. Patch by Vincent Michel.
bpo-28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport’s FD is used with add_reader, add_writer, etc.
bpo-28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
bpo-28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
bpo-28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
Windows¶
bpo-28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.
bpo-28333: Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
bpo-28161: Opening CON for write access fails
bpo-28162: WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with Ctrl+Z
bpo-28163: WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to _open_osfhandle
bpo-28164: _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths
bpo-28137: Renames Windows path file to ._pth
bpo-28138: Windows ._pth file should allow import site
C API¶
bpo-28426: Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
Build¶
bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the source tree.
Python 3.6.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2016-09-12
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23722: The __class__ cell used by zero-argument super() is now initialized from type.__new__ rather than __build_class__, so class methods relying on that will now work correctly when called from metaclass methods during class creation. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
bpo-25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
bpo-27080: Implement formatting support for PEP 515. Initial patch by Chris Angelico.
bpo-27199: In tarfile, expose copyfileobj bufsize to improve throughput. Patch by Jason Fried.
bpo-27948: In f-strings, only allow backslashes inside the braces (where the expressions are). This is a breaking change from the 3.6 alpha releases, where backslashes are allowed anywhere in an f-string. Also, require that expressions inside f-strings be enclosed within literal braces, and not escapes like
f'\x7b"hi"\x7d'
.bpo-28046: Remove platform-specific directories from sys.path.
bpo-28071: Add early-out for differencing from an empty set.
bpo-25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename (patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-25856: The __module__ attribute of extension classes and functions now is interned. This leads to more compact pickle data with protocol 4.
bpo-27213: Rework CALL_FUNCTION* opcodes to produce shorter and more efficient bytecode. Patch by Demur Rumed, design by Serhiy Storchaka, reviewed by Serhiy Storchaka and Victor Stinner.
bpo-26331: Implement tokenizing support for PEP 515. Patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-27999: Make “global after use” a SyntaxError, and ditto for nonlocal. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-28003: Implement PEP 525 – Asynchronous Generators.
bpo-27985: Implement PEP 526 – Syntax for Variable Annotations. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-26058: Add a new private version to the builtin dict type, incremented at each dictionary creation and at each dictionary change. Implementation of the PEP 509.
bpo-27364: A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates a DeprecationWarning. Patch by Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27350:
dict
implementation is changed like PyPy. It is more compact and preserves insertion order. (Concept developed by Raymond Hettinger and patch by Inada Naoki.)bpo-27911: Remove unnecessary error checks in
exec_builtin_or_dynamic()
.bpo-27078: Added BUILD_STRING opcode. Optimized f-strings evaluation.
bpo-17884: Python now requires systems with inttypes.h and stdint.h
bpo-27961: Require platforms to support
long long
. Python hasn’t compiled withoutlong long
for years, so this is basically a formality.bpo-27355: Removed support for Windows CE. It was never finished, and Windows CE is no longer a relevant platform for Python.
Implement PEP 523.
bpo-27870: A left shift of zero by a large integer no longer attempts to allocate large amounts of memory.
bpo-25402: In int-to-decimal-string conversion, improve the estimate of the intermediate memory required, and remove an unnecessarily strict overflow check. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-27214: In long_invert, be more careful about modifying object returned by long_add, and remove an unnecessary check for small longs. Thanks Oren Milman for analysis and patch.
bpo-27506: Support passing the bytes/bytearray.translate() “delete” argument by keyword.
bpo-27812: Properly clear out a generator’s frame’s backreference to the generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
bpo-27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
bpo-27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check after use of ‘def’ in _PyState_AddModule(). Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-27792: The modulo operation applied to
bool
and otherint
subclasses now always returns anint
. Previously the return type depended on the input values. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-26984: int() now always returns an instance of exact int.
bpo-25604: Fix a minor bug in integer true division; this bug could potentially have caused off-by-one-ulp results on platforms with unreliable ldexp implementations.
bpo-24254: Make class definition namespace ordered by default.
bpo-27662: Fix an overflow check in
List_New
: the original code was checking againstPy_SIZE_MAX
instead of the correct upper bound ofPy_SSIZE_T_MAX
. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly allows the
m_methods
field to be used to add module level functions to instances of non-module types returned fromPy_create_mod
. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument for some types but not for others. Fixed the inconsistency by accepting None for all numeric types.
bpo-27487: Warn if a submodule argument to “python -m” or runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are imported, but before the submodule is executed.
bpo-27157: Make only type() itself accept the one-argument form. Patch by Eryk Sun and Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of “raise” statement. In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there is no active exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28008: Implement PEP 530 – asynchronous comprehensions.
bpo-27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c
Library¶
bpo-28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args
bpo-28485: Always raise ValueError for negative compileall.compile_dir(workers=…) parameter, even when multithreading is unavailable.
bpo-28037: Use sqlite3_get_autocommit() instead of setting Connection->inTransaction manually.
bpo-25283: Attributes tm_gmtoff and tm_zone are now available on all platforms in the return values of time.localtime() and time.gmtime().
bpo-24454: Regular expression match object groups are now accessible using __getitem__. “mo[x]” is equivalent to “mo.group(x)”.
bpo-10740: sqlite3 no longer implicitly commit an open transaction before DDL statements.
bpo-17941: Add a module parameter to collections.namedtuple().
bpo-22493: Inline flags now should be used only at the start of the regular expression. Deprecation warning is emitted if uses them in the middle of the regular expression.
bpo-26885: xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types used by Apache XML-RPC implementation for numerics and None.
bpo-28070: Fixed parsing inline verbose flag in regular expressions.
bpo-19500: Add client-side SSL session resumption to the ssl module.
bpo-28022: Deprecate ssl-related arguments in favor of SSLContext. The deprecation include manual creation of SSLSocket and certfile/keyfile (or similar) in ftplib, httplib, imaplib, smtplib, poplib and urllib.
bpo-28043: SSLContext has improved default settings: OP_NO_SSLv2, OP_NO_SSLv3, OP_NO_COMPRESSION, OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE, OP_SINGLE_DH_USE, OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE and HIGH ciphers without MD5.
bpo-24693: Changed some RuntimeError’s in the zipfile module to more appropriate types. Improved some error messages and debugging output.
bpo-17909:
json.load
andjson.loads
now support binary input encoded as UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-27137: the pure Python fallback implementation of
functools.partial
now matches the behaviour of its accelerated C counterpart for subclassing, pickling and text representation purposes. Patch by Emanuel Barry and Serhiy Storchaka.Fix possible integer overflows and crashes in the mmap module with unusual usage patterns.
bpo-1703178: Fix the ability to pass the –link-objects option to the distutils build_ext command.
bpo-28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.
bpo-18401: Pdb now supports the ‘readrc’ keyword argument to control whether .pdbrc files should be read. Patch by Martin Matusiak and Sam Kimbrel.
bpo-25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking generalizations added in 3.5.
bpo-14977: mailcap now respects the order of the lines in the mailcap files (“first match”), as required by RFC 1542. Patch by Michael Lazar.
bpo-28082: Convert re flag constants to IntFlag.
bpo-28025: Convert all ssl module constants to IntEnum and IntFlags. SSLContext properties now return flags and enums.
bpo-23591: Add Flag, IntFlag, and auto() to enum module.
bpo-433028: Added support of modifier spans in regular expressions.
bpo-24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database
bpo-17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in attributes (Patch by Duane Griffin. Reviewed and approved by Stefan Behnel.)
bpo-28047: Fixed calculation of line length used for the base64 CTE in the new email policies.
bpo-27576: Fix call order in OrderedDict.__init__().
email.generator.DecodedGenerator now supports the policy keyword.
bpo-28027: Remove undocumented modules from
Lib/plat-*
: IN, CDROM, DLFCN, TYPES, CDIO, and STROPTS.bpo-27445: Don’t pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload(). Patch by Claude Paroz.
bpo-24277: The new email API is no longer provisional, and the docs have been reorganized and rewritten to emphasize the new API.
bpo-22450: urllib now includes an
Accept: */*
header among the default headers. This makes the results of REST API requests more consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are involved.lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache file between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the hash randomization setting.
bpo-28005: Allow ImportErrors in encoding implementation to propagate.
bpo-26667: Support path-like objects in importlib.util.
bpo-27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source pointers in the “ctypes” and “array” modules.
bpo-22233: Break email header lines only on the RFC specified CR and LF characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks. This also fixes a bug in HTTP header parsing.
bpo-27331: The email.mime classes now all accept an optional policy keyword.
bpo-27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
bpo-16113: Add SHA-3 and SHAKE support to hashlib module.
Eliminate a tautological-pointer-compare warning in _scproxy.c.
bpo-27776: The
os.urandom()
function does now block on Linux 3.17 and newer until the system urandom entropy pool is initialized to increase the security. This change is part of the PEP 524.bpo-27778: Expose the Linux
getrandom()
syscall as a newos.getrandom()
function. This change is part of the PEP 524.bpo-27691: Fix ssl module’s parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name fields in X.509 certs.
bpo-18844: Add random.choices().
bpo-25761: Improved error reporting about truncated pickle data in C implementation of unpickler. UnpicklingError is now raised instead of AttributeError and ValueError in some cases.
bpo-26798: Add BLAKE2 (blake2b and blake2s) to hashlib.
bpo-26032: Optimized globbing in pathlib by using os.scandir(); it is now about 1.5–4 times faster.
bpo-25596: Optimized glob() and iglob() functions in the glob module; they are now about 3–6 times faster.
bpo-27928: Add scrypt (password-based key derivation function) to hashlib module (requires OpenSSL 1.1.0).
bpo-27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module’s default cipher list to counter measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183).
bpo-27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module’s default cipher list. (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).
bpo-25387: Check return value of winsound.MessageBeep.
bpo-27866: Add SSLContext.get_ciphers() method to get a list of all enabled ciphers.
bpo-27744: Add AF_ALG (Linux Kernel crypto) to socket module.
bpo-26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
bpo-11620: Fix support for SND_MEMORY in winsound.PlaySound. Based on a patch by Tim Lesher.
bpo-11734: Add support for IEEE 754 half-precision floats to the struct module. Based on a patch by Eli Stevens.
bpo-27919: Deprecated
extra_path
distribution option in distutils packaging.bpo-23229: Add new
cmath
constants:cmath.inf
andcmath.nan
to matchmath.inf
andmath.nan
, and alsocmath.infj
andcmath.nanj
to match the format used by complex repr.bpo-27842: The csv.DictReader now returns rows of type OrderedDict. (Contributed by Steve Holden.)
Remove support for passing a file descriptor to os.access. It never worked but previously didn’t raise.
bpo-12885: Fix error when distutils encounters symlink.
bpo-27881: Fixed possible bugs when setting sqlite3.Connection.isolation_level. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a factory creates not a cursor. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline.
bpo-27706: Restore deterministic behavior of random.Random().seed() for string seeds using seeding version 1. Allows sequences of calls to random() to exactly match those obtained in Python 2. Patch by Nofar Schnider.
bpo-10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit(). Statements should not be reset after a commit.
bpo-12319: Chunked transfer encoding support added to http.client.HTTPConnection requests. The urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler class does not enforce a Content-Length header any more. If a HTTP request has a file or iterable body, but no Content-Length header, the library now falls back to use chunked transfer-encoding.
A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing: - Collection (only for 3.6) (bpo-27598) - Add FrozenSet to __all__ (upstream #261) - fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259) - Remove the dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252)
bpo-27832: Make
_normalize
parameter toFraction
constuctor keyword-only, so thatFraction(2, 3, 4)
now raisesTypeError
.bpo-27539: Fix unnormalised
Fraction.__pow__
result in the case of negative exponent and negative base.bpo-21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using CTEs.
bpo-27819: In distutils sdists, simply produce the “gztar” (gzipped tar format) distributions on all platforms unless “formats” is supplied.
bpo-2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which the user does not have permission to access.
bpo-9998: On Linux, ctypes.util.find_library now looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH for shared libraries.
bpo-27573: exit message for code.interact is now configurable.
bpo-27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener. Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch.
bpo-6766: Distributed reference counting added to multiprocessing to support nesting of shared values / proxy objects.
bpo-21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message. Thanks to Wojciech Walczak for patch.
asyncio: Add set_protocol / get_protocol to Transports.
bpo-27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.
IDLE¶
bpo-15308: Add ‘interrupt execution’ (^C) to Shell menu. Patch by Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.
bpo-27922: Stop IDLE tests from ‘flashing’ gui widgets on the screen.
bpo-27891: Consistently group and sort imports within idlelib modules.
bpo-17642: add larger font sizes for classroom projection.
Add version to title of IDLE help window.
bpo-25564: In section on IDLE – console differences, mention that using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.
bpo-27821: Fix 3.6.0a3 regression that prevented custom key sets from being selected when no custom theme was defined.
C API¶
Tests¶
bpo-27427: Additional tests for the math module. Patch by Francisco Couzo.
bpo-27953: Skip math and cmath tests that fail on OS X 10.4 due to a poor libm implementation of tan.
bpo-26040: Improve test_math and test_cmath coverage and rigour. Patch by Jeff Allen.
bpo-27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for “dangling threads”, since the dangling threads are weak references.
Build¶
bpo-27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach)
bpo-27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py
bpo-27976: Deprecate building _ctypes with the bundled copy of libffi on non-OSX UNIX platforms.
bpo-27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when
--with-optimizations
is enabled. Also improve our ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.bpo-21590: Support for DTrace and SystemTap probes.
bpo-26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules.
bpo-26359: Add the –with-optimizations flag to turn on LTO and PGO build support when available.
bpo-27917: Set platform triplets for Android builds.
bpo-25825: Update references to the $(LIBPL) installation path on AIX. This path was changed in 3.2a4.
Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.14.1 and XZ 5.2.2.
bpo-21122: Fix LTO builds on OS X.
bpo-17128: Build OS X installer with a private copy of OpenSSL. Also provide a sample Install Certificates command script to install a set of root certificates from the third-party certifi module.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-27952: Get Tools/scripts/fixcid.py working with Python 3 and the current “re” module, avoid invalid Python backslash escapes, and fix a bug parsing escaped C quote signs.
Windows¶
bpo-28065: Update xz dependency to 5.2.2 and build it from source.
bpo-25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom install.
bpo-1602: Windows console doesn’t input or print Unicode (PEP 528)
bpo-27781: Change file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 (PEP 529)
bpo-27731: Opt-out of MAX_PATH on Windows 10
bpo-6135: Adds encoding and errors parameters to subprocess.
bpo-27959: Adds oem encoding, alias ansi to mbcs, move aliasmbcs to codec lookup.
bpo-27982: The functions of the winsound module now accept keyword arguments.
bpo-20366: Build full text search support into SQLite on Windows.
bpo-27756: Adds new icons for Python files and processes on Windows. Designs by Cherry Wang.
bpo-27883: Update sqlite to 3.14.1.0 on Windows.
Python 3.6.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2016-08-15
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27704: Optimized creating bytes and bytearray from byte-like objects and iterables. Speed up to 3 times for short objects. Original patch by Naoki Inada.
bpo-26823: Large sections of repeated lines in tracebacks are now abbreviated as “[Previous line repeated {count} more times]” by the builtin traceback rendering. Patch by Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in functions implemented with using Argument Clinic.
bpo-22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5 times faster.
bpo-17596: Include <wincrypt.h> to help with Min GW building.
bpo-17599: On Windows, rename the privately defined REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER structure to avoid conflicting with the definition from Min GW.
bpo-27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27581: Don’t rely on wrapping for overflow check in PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-1621: Avoid signed integer overflow in list and tuple operations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up “__import__” in globals or builtins for importing submodules or “from import”. Fixed a crash if raise a warning about unabling to resolve package from __spec__ or __package__.
bpo-27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
bpo-27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError instead of SystemError.
bpo-27366: Implemented PEP 487 (Simpler customization of class creation). Upon subclassing, the __init_subclass__ classmethod is called on the base class. Descriptors are initialized with __set_name__ after class creation.
Library¶
bpo-26027: Add PEP 519/__fspath__() support to the os and os.path modules. Includes code from Jelle Zijlstra. (See also: bpo-27524)
bpo-27598: Add Collections to collections.abc. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar.
bpo-25958: Support “anti-registration” of special methods from various ABCs, like __hash__, __iter__ or __len__. All these (and several more) can be set to None in an implementation class and the behavior will be as if the method is not defined at all. (Previously, this mechanism existed only for __hash__, to make mutable classes unhashable.) Code contributed by Andrew Barnert and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-16764: Support keyword arguments to zlib.decompress(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27736: Prevent segfault after interpreter re-initialization due to ref count problem introduced in code for bpo-27038 in 3.6.0a3. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25628: The verbose and rename parameters for collections.namedtuple are now keyword-only.
bpo-12345: Add mathematical constant tau to math and cmath. See also PEP 628.
bpo-26823: traceback.StackSummary.format now abbreviates large sections of repeated lines as “[Previous line repeated {count} more times]” (this change then further affects other traceback display operations in the module). Patch by Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor() the ability to specify a thread name prefix.
bpo-27181: Add geometric_mean and harmonic_mean to statistics module.
bpo-27573: code.interact now prints an message when exiting.
bpo-6422: Add autorange method to timeit.Timer objects.
bpo-27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in _ssl.wrap_socket().
bpo-26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for subclasses of property() and other data descriptors. Removes the never publicly used, never documented unittest.mock.DescriptorTypes tuple.
bpo-26754: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects as path in compile() and similar functions is now deprecated.
bpo-26800: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects as paths in os functions is now deprecated.
bpo-26981: Add _order_ compatibility shim to enum.Enum for Python 2/3 code bases.
bpo-27661: Added tzinfo keyword argument to datetime.combine.
In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or window.instr() is passed a negative value.
bpo-27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in operator.methodcaller.
bpo-27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.
bpo-27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.
bpo-27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large record lengths.
bpo-27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates that the script is in CGI mode.
bpo-7063: Remove dead code from the “array” module’s slice handling. Patch by Chuck.
bpo-27656: Do not assume sched.h defines any SCHED_* constants.
bpo-27130: In the “zlib” module, fix handling of large buffers (typically 4 GiB) when compressing and decompressing. Previously, inputs were limited to 4 GiB, and compression and decompression operations did not properly handle results of 4 GiB.
bpo-24773: Implemented PEP 495 (Local Time Disambiguation).
Expose the EPOLLEXCLUSIVE constant (when it is defined) in the select module.
bpo-27567: Expose the EPOLLRDHUP and POLLRDHUP constants in the select module.
bpo-1621: Avoid signed int negation overflow in the “audioop” module.
bpo-27533: Release GIL in nt._isdir
bpo-17711: Fixed unpickling by the persistent ID with protocol 0. Original patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
bpo-27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in email.feedparser.
bpo-27512: Fix a segfault when os.fspath() called an __fspath__() method that raised an exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
IDLE¶
bpo-27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-run in the same process. This occurs when test_idle fails when run with the -w option but without -jn. Fix warning from test_config.
bpo-27621: Put query response validation error messages in the query box itself instead of in a separate messagebox. Redo tests to match. Add Mac OSX refinements. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-27620: Escape key now closes Query box as cancelled.
bpo-27609: IDLE: tab after initial whitespace should tab, not autocomplete. This fixes problem with writing docstrings at least twice indented.
bpo-27609: Explicitly return None when there are also non-None returns. In a few cases, reverse a condition and eliminate a return.
bpo-25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter imports. Users must include the same imports required to run directly in Python.
bpo-27173: Add ‘IDLE Modern Unix’ to the built-in key sets. Make the default key set depend on the platform. Add tests for the changes to the config module.
bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
Tests¶
bpo-25805: Skip a test in test_pkgutil as needed that doesn’t work when
__name__ == __main__
. Patch by SilentGhost.bpo-27472: Add test.support.unix_shell as the path to the default shell.
bpo-27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that changed in Expat 2.2.0.
bpo-27594: Prevent assertion error when running test_ast with coverage enabled: ensure code object has a valid first line number. Patch suggested by Ivan Levkivskyi.
Windows¶
Build¶
bpo-27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating importlib’s bootstrap files. Patch by Xiang Zhang
bpo-25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp, which is required on AIX. The references were accidentally changed in 3.5.0a1.
bpo-27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from being cross-compiled.
bpo-26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program to be used for file generation during the build.
bpo-10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X. Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
Python 3.6.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2016-07-11
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray concatenations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-23034: The output of a special Python build with defined COUNT_ALLOCS, SHOW_ALLOC_COUNT or SHOW_TRACK_COUNT macros is now off by default. It can be re-enabled using the “-X showalloccount” option. It now outputs to stderr instead of stdout.
bpo-27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a negative integer for a resized bytearray.
bpo-27007: The fromhex() class methods of bytes and bytearray subclasses now return an instance of corresponding subclass.
Library¶
bpo-26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to ‘path’ instead of ‘name’. Patch by Lev Maximov.
bpo-23804: Fix SSL zero-length recv() calls to not block and not raise an error about unclean EOF.
bpo-27466: Change time format returned by http.cookie.time2netscape, confirming the netscape cookie format and making it consistent with documentation.
bpo-21708: Deprecated dbm.dumb behavior that differs from common dbm behavior: creating a database in ‘r’ and ‘w’ modes and modifying a database in ‘r’ mode.
bpo-26721: Change the socketserver.StreamRequestHandler.wfile attribute to implement BufferedIOBase. In particular, the write() method no longer does partial writes.
bpo-22115: Added methods trace_add, trace_remove and trace_info in the tkinter.Variable class. They replace old methods trace_variable, trace, trace_vdelete and trace_vinfo that use obsolete Tcl commands and might not work in future versions of Tcl. Fixed old tracing methods: trace_vdelete() with wrong mode no longer break tracing, trace_vinfo() now always returns a list of pairs of strings, tracing in the “u” mode now works.
bpo-26243: Only the level argument to zlib.compress() is keyword argument now. The first argument is positional-only.
bpo-27038: Expose the DirEntry type as os.DirEntry. Code patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-27186: Update os.fspath()/PyOS_FSPath() to check the return value of __fspath__() to be either str or bytes.
bpo-18726: All optional parameters of the dump(), dumps(), load() and loads() functions and JSONEncoder and JSONDecoder class constructors in the json module are now keyword-only.
bpo-27319: Methods selection_set(), selection_add(), selection_remove() and selection_toggle() of ttk.TreeView now allow passing multiple items as multiple arguments instead of passing them as a tuple. Deprecated undocumented ability of calling the selection() method with arguments.
bpo-27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and ispunct().
bpo-27294: Numerical state in the repr for Tkinter event objects is now represented as a combination of known flags.
bpo-27177: Match objects in the re module now support index-like objects as group indices. Based on patches by Jeroen Demeyer and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26754: Some functions (compile() etc) accepted a filename argument encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects are accepted.
bpo-26536: socket.ioctl now supports SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH. Patch by Daniel Stokes.
bpo-27048: Prevents distutils failing on Windows when environment variables contain non-ASCII characters
bpo-27330: Fixed possible leaks in the ctypes module.
bpo-27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module. Original patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-27122: When an exception is raised within the context being managed by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack generators catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the original exception when exiting, let the new chained one through. This avoids the PEP 479 bug described in issue25782.
Security¶
bpo-27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux. Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random bytes, instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.
Library¶
Library¶
IDLE¶
bpo-27477: IDLE search dialogs now use ttk widgets.
bpo-27173: Add ‘IDLE Modern Unix’ to the built-in key sets. Make the default key set depend on the platform. Add tests for the changes to the config module.
bpo-27452: make command line “idle-test> python test_help.py” work. __file__ is relative when python is started in the file’s directory.
bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
bpo-27380: IDLE: add query.py with base Query dialog and ttk widgets. Module had subclasses SectionName, ModuleName, and HelpSource, which are used to get information from users by configdialog and file =>Load Module. Each subclass has itw own validity checks. Using ModuleName allows users to edit bad module names instead of starting over. Add tests and delete the two files combined into the new one.
bpo-27372: Test_idle no longer changes the locale.
bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names.
bpo-27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings. Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a cascade of warnings was emitted. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-24137: Run IDLE, test_idle, and htest with tkinter default root disabled. Fix code and tests that fail with this restriction. Fix htests to not create a second and redundant root and mainloop.
bpo-27310: Fix IDLE.app failure to launch on OS X due to vestigial import.
C API¶
bpo-26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects are accepted.
Build¶
bpo-28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for generated include files when building outside the source tree.
bpo-27442: Expose the Android API level that python was built against, in sysconfig.get_config_vars() as ‘ANDROID_API_LEVEL’.
bpo-27434: The interpreter that runs the cross-build, found in PATH, must now be of the same feature version (e.g. 3.6) as the source being built.
bpo-26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
bpo-23968: Rename the platform directory from plat-$(MACHDEP) to plat-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET). Rename the config directory (LIBPL) from config-$(LDVERSION) to config-$(LDVERSION)-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET). Install the platform specific _sysconfigdata module into the platform directory and rename it to include the ABIFLAGS.
Don’t use largefile support for GNU/Hurd.
Tools/Demos¶
Documentation¶
Python 3.6.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2016-06-13
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27095: Simplified MAKE_FUNCTION and removed MAKE_CLOSURE opcodes. Patch by Demur Rumed.
bpo-27190: Raise NotSupportedError if sqlite3 is older than 3.3.1. Patch by Dave Sawyer.
bpo-27286: Fixed compiling BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode. Calling function with generalized unpacking (PEP 448) and conflicting keyword names could cause undefined behavior.
bpo-27140: Added BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP opcode.
bpo-27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to open() (part of PEP 519).
bpo-27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a negative number without setting an exception.
bpo-26983: float() now always return an instance of exact float. The deprecation warning is emitted if __float__ returns an instance of a strict subclass of float. In a future versions of Python this can be an error.
bpo-27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized instruction decoding. Based on patch by Demur Rumed.
bpo-26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode. Patch by Demur Rumed.
bpo-23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets: () = iterable.
bpo-27243: Update the __aiter__ protocol: instead of returning an awaitable that resolves to an asynchronous iterator, the asynchronous iterator should be returned directly. Doing the former will trigger a PendingDeprecationWarning.
Library¶
Comment out socket (SO_REUSEPORT) and posix (O_SHLOCK, O_EXLOCK) constants exposed on the API which are not implemented on GNU/Hurd. They would not work at runtime anyway.
bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets are now more meaningful and recognizable.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive ElementTree.Element and functools.partial objects.
bpo-27294: Improved repr for Tkinter event objects.
bpo-20508: Improve exception message of IPv{4,6}Network.__getitem__. Patch by Gareth Rees.
Security¶
bpo-26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team Oststrom.
Library¶
bpo-21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property. It was documented since 07a5610bae9d. Initial patch by Roger Luethi.
bpo-27029: Removed deprecated support of universal newlines mode from ZipFile.open().
bpo-27030: Unknown escapes consisting of
'\'
and an ASCII letter in regular expressions now are errors. The re.LOCALE flag now can be used only with bytes patterns.bpo-27186: Add os.PathLike support to DirEntry (part of PEP 519). Initial patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses correctly. Initial patch by ingrid.
bpo-27186: Add os.PathLike support to pathlib, removing its provisional status (part of PEP 519). Initial patch by Dusty Phillips.
bpo-27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() (part of PEP 519).
bpo-27186: Introduce os.PathLike and os.fspath() (part of PEP 519).
A new version of typing.py provides several new classes and features: @overload outside stubs, Reversible, DefaultDict, Text, ContextManager, Type[], NewType(), TYPE_CHECKING, and numerous bug fixes (note that some of the new features are not yet implemented in mypy or other static analyzers). Also classes for PEP 492 (Awaitable, AsyncIterable, AsyncIterator) have been added (in fact they made it into 3.5.1 but were never mentioned).
bpo-25738: Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error() from sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don’t send Content header fields in responses that don’t have a body. Patch by Susumu Koshiba.
bpo-21313: Fix the “platform” module to tolerate when sys.version contains truncated build information.
Security¶
bpo-26839: On Linux,
os.urandom()
now callsgetrandom()
withGRND_NONBLOCK
to fall back on reading/dev/urandom
if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley.
Library¶
bpo-23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs for the following modules: cgi, mailbox, mimetypes, plistlib and smtpd. Patches by Jacek Kołodziej.
bpo-27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams with a predefined zdict. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to completely write data to the client. Previously it could do partial writes and truncate data. Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can now handle stdout doing partial writes, but this is deprecated.
bpo-21272: Use _sysconfigdata.py to initialize distutils.sysconfig.
bpo-19611:
inspect
now reports the implicit.0
parameters generated by the compiler for comprehension and generator expression scopes as if they were positional-only parameters calledimplicit0
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() is called in more/all circumstances.
signal, socket, and ssl module IntEnum constant name lookups now return a consistent name for values having multiple names. Ex: signal.Signals(6) now refers to itself as signal.SIGALRM rather than flipping between that and signal.SIGIOT based on the interpreter’s hash randomization seed.
bpo-27167: Clarify the subprocess.CalledProcessError error message text when the child process died due to a signal.
bpo-25931: Don’t define socketserver.Forking* names on platforms such as Windows that do not support os.fork().
bpo-21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError. Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-26526: Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser module with a simple DFA validator.
bpo-27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with PermissionError
bpo-18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings and simplefilter. Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
bpo-23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type.
bpo-26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning if the child process is still running.
bpo-27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster to deserialize a lot of small objects.
bpo-21271: New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call.
IDLE¶
bpo-5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11. This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps, and ttk widgets. Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-24750: Switch all scrollbars in IDLE to ttk versions. Where needed, minimal tests are added to cover changes.
bpo-24759: IDLE requires tk 8.5 and availability ttk widgets. Delete now unneeded tk version tests and code for older versions. Add test for IDLE syntax colorizer.
bpo-27239: idlelib.macosx.isXyzTk functions initialize as needed.
bpo-27262: move Aqua unbinding code, which enable context menus, to macosx.
bpo-24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
bpo-27196: Stop ‘ThemeChanged’ warnings when running IDLE tests. These persisted after other warnings were suppressed in #20567. Apply Serhiy Storchaka’s update_idletasks solution to four test files. Record this additional advice in idle_test/README.txt
bpo-20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding tk warning messages from tests. Apply advice to several IDLE tests.
bpo-24225: Update idlelib/README.txt with new file names and event handlers.
bpo-27156: Remove obsolete code not used by IDLE.
bpo-27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes. Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
bpo-24225: Rename many
idlelib/*.py
andidle_test/test_*.py
files. Edit files to replace old names with new names when the old name referred to the module rather than the class it contained. See the issue and IDLE section in What’s New in 3.6 for more.bpo-26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
bpo-21939: Add test for IDLE’s percolator. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-21676: Add test for IDLE’s replace dialog. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-18410: Add test for IDLE’s search dialog. Original patch by Westley Martínez.
bpo-21703: Add test for undo delegator. Patch mostly by Saimadhav Heblikar .
bpo-27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
bpo-23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
Documentation¶
bpo-16484: Change the default PYTHONDOCS URL to “https:”, and fix the resulting links to use lowercase. Patch by Sean Rodman, test by Kaushik Nadikuditi.
bpo-24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.
bpo-22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. Patch by Yoni Lavi.
Tests¶
Windows¶
bpo-27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3. The Windows launcher
py.exe
no longer prefers an installed Python 2 version over Python 3 by default when used interactively.
Build¶
Windows¶
bpo-17500: Remove unused and outdated icons. (See also: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945)
C API¶
Python 3.6.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2016-05-16
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with the “N” format unit.
bpo-26991: Fix possible refleak when creating a function with annotations.
bpo-27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127. Based on patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for subclasses.
bpo-27005: Optimized the float.fromhex() class method for exact float. It is now 2 times faster.
bpo-18531: Single var-keyword argument of dict subtype was passed unscathed to the C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact dict.
bpo-26811: gc.get_objects() no longer contains a broken tuple with NULL pointer.
bpo-20120: Use RawConfigParser for .pypirc parsing, removing support for interpolation unintentionally added with move to Python 3. Behavior no longer does any interpolation in .pypirc files, matching behavior in Python 2.7 and Setuptools 19.0.
bpo-26249: Memory functions of the
PyMem_Malloc()
domain (PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM
) now use the pymalloc allocator rather than systemmalloc()
. Applications callingPyMem_Malloc()
without holding the GIL can now crash: usePYTHONMALLOC=debug
environment variable to validate the usage of memory allocators in your application.bpo-26802: Optimize function calls only using unpacking like
func(*tuple)
(no other positional argument, no keyword): avoid copying the tuple. Patch written by Joe Jevnik.bpo-26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.
bpo-26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called multiple times. NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not endorsed!
bpo-27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().
bpo-27147: Mention PEP 420 in the importlib docs.
bpo-25339: PYTHONIOENCODING now has priority over locale in setting the error handler for stdin and stdout.
bpo-26494: Fixed crash on iterating exhausting iterators. Affected classes are generic sequence iterators, iterators of str, bytes, bytearray, list, tuple, set, frozenset, dict, OrderedDict, corresponding views and os.scandir() iterator.
bpo-26574: Optimize
bytes.replace(b'', b'.')
andbytearray.replace(b'', b'.')
. Patch written by Josh Snider.bpo-26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line in Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account.
bpo-19711: Add tests for reloading namespace packages.
bpo-21099: Switch applicable importlib tests to use PEP 451 API.
bpo-26563: Debug hooks on Python memory allocators now raise a fatal error if functions of the
PyMem_Malloc()
family are called without holding the GIL.bpo-26564: On error, the debug hooks on Python memory allocators now use the
tracemalloc
module to get the traceback where a memory block was allocated.bpo-26558: The debug hooks on Python memory allocator
PyObject_Malloc()
now detect when functions are called without holding the GIL.bpo-26516: Add
PYTHONMALLOC
environment variable to set the Python memory allocators and/or install debug hooks.bpo-26516: The
PyMem_SetupDebugHooks()
function can now also be used on Python compiled in release mode.bpo-26516: The
PYTHONMALLOCSTATS
environment variable can now also be used on Python compiled in release mode. It now has no effect if set to an empty string.bpo-26516: In debug mode, debug hooks are now also installed on Python memory allocators when Python is configured without pymalloc.
bpo-26464: Fix str.translate() when string is ASCII and first replacements removes character, but next replacement uses a non-ASCII character or a string longer than 1 character. Regression introduced in Python 3.5.0.
bpo-22836: Ensure exception reports from PyErr_Display() and PyErr_WriteUnraisable() are sensible even when formatting them produces secondary errors. This affects the reports produced by sys.__excepthook__() and when __del__() raises an exception.
bpo-26302: Correct behavior to reject comma as a legal character for cookie names.
bpo-26136: Upgrade the warning when a generator raises StopIteration from PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning. Patch by Anish Shah.
bpo-26204: The compiler now ignores all constant statements: bytes, str, int, float, complex, name constants (None, False, True), Ellipsis and ast.Constant; not only str and int. For example,
1.0
is now ignored indef f(): 1.0
.bpo-4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star (
*
) unpacking in function calls. Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and Daniel Urban.bpo-26146: Add a new kind of AST node:
ast.Constant
. It can be used by external AST optimizers, but the compiler does not emit directly such node.bpo-23601: Sped-up allocation of dict key objects by using Python’s small object allocator. (Contributed by Julian Taylor.)
bpo-18018: Import raises ImportError instead of SystemError if a relative import is attempted without a known parent package.
bpo-25843: When compiling code, don’t merge constants if they are equal but have a different types. For example,
f1, f2 = lambda: 1, lambda: 1.0
is now correctly compiled to two different functions:f1()
returns1
(int
) andf2()
returns1.0
(float
), even if1
and1.0
are equal.bpo-26107: The format of the
co_lnotab
attribute of code objects changes to support negative line number delta.bpo-26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function to get the current Python thread state, but don’t issue a fatal error if it is NULL. This new function must be used instead of accessing directly the _PyThreadState_Current variable. The variable is no more exposed since Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact implementation of atomic C types, to avoid compiler issues.
bpo-25791: If __package__ != __spec__.parent or if neither __package__ or __spec__ are defined then ImportWarning is raised.
bpo-22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests in _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based projects.
bpo-25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name.
bpo-25973: Fix segfault when an invalid nonlocal statement binds a name starting with two underscores.
bpo-22995: Instances of extension types with a state that aren’t subclasses of list or dict and haven’t implemented any pickle-related methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__, __getnewargs_ex__, or __getstate__), can no longer be pickled. Including memoryview.
bpo-20440: Massive replacing unsafe attribute setting code with special macro Py_SETREF.
bpo-25766: Special method __bytes__() now works in str subclasses.
bpo-25421: __sizeof__ methods of builtin types now use dynamic basic size. This allows sys.getsize() to work correctly with their subclasses with __slots__ defined.
bpo-25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8 cache.
bpo-5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API allowing Python to set an exit status of 120 on failure to flush buffered streams.
bpo-25485: telnetlib.Telnet is now a context manager.
bpo-24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside __getattr__.
bpo-24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and float correspondingly.
bpo-25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in functions that accept filesystem paths.
bpo-23564: Fixed a partially broken sanity check in the _posixsubprocess internals regarding how fds_to_pass were passed to the child. The bug had no actual impact as subprocess.py already avoided it.
bpo-25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code with a null byte.
bpo-25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most operations in C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.
bpo-24802: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(), exec() and eval() are passed bytes-like objects. These objects are not necessarily terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed they were.
bpo-25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of “arg” node when compiling AST from Python objects.
bpo-24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict that was mutated by direct calls of dict methods.
bpo-25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now raises KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python implementation.
bpo-25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures were garbage collected.
bpo-25401: Optimize bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex(): they are now between 2x and 3.5x faster.
bpo-25399: Optimize bytearray % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter API. Formatting is now between 2.5 and 5 times faster.
bpo-25274: sys.setrecursionlimit() now raises a RecursionError if the new recursion limit is too low depending at the current recursion depth. Modify also the “lower-water mark” formula to make it monotonic. This mark is used to decide when the overflowed flag of the thread state is reset.
bpo-24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when sys.stdout.fileno() fails.
bpo-25349: Optimize bytes % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter API. Formatting is now up to 2 times faster.
bpo-24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from being subclassed through multiple inheritance.
bpo-25301: The UTF-8 decoder is now up to 15 times as fast for error handlers:
ignore
,replace
andsurrogateescape
.bpo-24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
bpo-25267: The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for error handlers:
ignore
,replace
,surrogateescape
,surrogatepass
. Patch co-written with Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no longer formatted twice.
bpo-25227: Optimize ASCII and latin1 encoders with the
surrogateescape
error handler: the encoders are now up to 3 times as fast. Initial patch written by Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-25003: On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn’t need such high-quality entropy.
bpo-9232: Modify Python’s grammar to allow trailing commas in the argument list of a function declaration. For example, “def f(*, a = 3,): pass” is now legal. Patch from Mark Dickinson.
bpo-24965: Implement PEP 498 “Literal String Interpolation”. This allows you to embed expressions inside f-strings, which are converted to normal strings at run time. Given x=3, then f’value={x}’ == ‘value=3’. Patch by Eric V. Smith.
bpo-26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary views and tuples.
bpo-26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in zipimporter.get_data().
bpo-25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.
bpo-26288: Optimize PyLong_AsDouble.
bpo-26289: Optimize floor and modulo division for single-digit longs. Microbenchmarks show 2-2.5x improvement. Built-in ‘divmod’ function is now also ~10% faster. (See also: bpo-26315)
bpo-25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited more than once.
Library¶
bpo-27057: Fix os.set_inheritable() on Android, ioctl() is blocked by SELinux and fails with EACCESS. The function now falls back to fcntl(). Patch written by Michał Bednarski.
bpo-27014: Fix infinite recursion using typing.py. Thanks to Kalle Tuure!
bpo-27031: Removed dummy methods in Tkinter widget classes: tk_menuBar() and tk_bindForTraversal().
bpo-14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target only has a query string. Original fix by Ján Janech.
bpo-17214: The “urllib.request” module now percent-encodes non-ASCII bytes found in redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header fields with non-ASCII bytes, but “http.client” requires the request target to be ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-27033: The default value of the decode_data parameter for smtpd.SMTPChannel and smtpd.SMTPServer constructors is changed to False.
bpo-27034: Removed deprecated class asynchat.fifo.
bpo-26870: Added readline.set_auto_history(), which can stop entries being automatically added to the history list. Based on patch by Tyler Crompton.
bpo-26039: zipfile.ZipFile.open() can now be used to write data into a ZIP file, as well as for extracting data. Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-26892: Honor debuglevel flag in urllib.request.HTTPHandler. Patch contributed by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected to stdout even when stdout is not redirected. Patch by Akira Li.
bpo-26807: mock_open ‘files’ no longer error on readline at end of file. Patch from Yolanda Robla.
bpo-25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.
bpo-26977: Removed unnecessary, and ignored, call to sum of squares helper in statistics.pvariance.
bpo-26002: Use bisect in statistics.median instead of a linear search. Patch by Upendra Kuma.
bpo-25974: Make use of new Decimal.as_integer_ratio() method in statistics module. Patch by Stefan Krah.
bpo-26996: Add secrets module as described in PEP 506.
bpo-26881: The modulefinder module now supports extended opcode arguments.
bpo-23815: Fixed crashes related to directly created instances of types in _tkinter and curses.panel modules.
bpo-17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword arguments. Patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags instead of silently return incorrect result.
bpo-26915: The __contains__ methods in the collections ABCs now check for identity before checking equality. This better matches the behavior of the concrete classes, allows sensible handling of NaNs, and makes it easier to reason about container invariants.
bpo-26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.
bpo-24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in
ctypes.util
.The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches for the
crle
program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by Kees Bos.bpo-26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host checking against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24902: Print server URL on http.server startup. Initial patch by Felix Kaiser.
bpo-25788: fileinput.hook_encoded() now supports an “errors” argument for passing to open. Original patch by Joseph Hackman.
bpo-26634: recursive_repr() now sets __qualname__ of wrapper. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26804: urllib.request will prefer lower_case proxy environment variables over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones. Patch contributed by Hans-Peter Jansen.
bpo-26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-stringified differing items (like bytes in the -b mode). This affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().
bpo-26041: Remove “will be removed in Python 3.7” from deprecation messages of platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution(). Patch by Kumaripaba Miyurusara Athukorala.
bpo-26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no longer silently ignore keyword arguments.
bpo-26733: Disassembling a class now disassembles class and static methods. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26801: Fix error handling in
shutil.get_terminal_size()
, catchAttributeError
instead ofNameError
. Patch written by Emanuel Barry.bpo-24838: tarfile’s ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate name and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like utf-8.
Security¶
bpo-26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with http.server on Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 3.3.4rc1 and 3.4.0rc1. Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
Library¶
bpo-26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-26782: Add STARTUPINFO to subprocess.__all__ on Windows.
bpo-26404: Add context manager to socketserver. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-26735: Fix
os.urandom()
on Solaris 11.3 and newer when reading more than 1,024 bytes: callgetrandom()
multiple times with a limit of 1024 bytes per call.bpo-26585: Eliminate http.server._quote_html() and use html.escape(quote=False). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26685: Raise OSError if closing a socket fails.
bpo-16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Geoff Wilson.
bpo-26587: the site module now allows .pth files to specify files to be added to sys.path (e.g. zip files).
bpo-25609: Introduce contextlib.AbstractContextManager and typing.ContextManager.
bpo-26709: Fixed Y2038 problem in loading binary PLists.
bpo-23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by installing our own SIGWINCH handler. Patch by Eric Price.
bpo-25951: Change SSLSocket.sendall() to return None, as explicitly documented for plain socket objects. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-26586: In http.server, respond with “413 Request header fields too large” if there are too many header fields to parse, rather than killing the connection and raising an unhandled exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26676: Added missing XMLPullParser to ElementTree.__all__.
bpo-22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False.
bpo-26492: Exhausted iterator of array.array now conforms with the behavior of iterators of other mutable sequences: it lefts exhausted even if iterated array is extended.
bpo-26641: doctest.DocFileTest and doctest.testfile() now support packages (module splitted into multiple directories) for the package parameter.
bpo-25195: Fix a regression in mock.MagicMock. _Call is a subclass of tuple (changeset 3603bae63c13 only works for classes) so we need to implement __ne__ ourselves. Patch by Andrew Plummer.
bpo-26644: Raise ValueError rather than SystemError when a negative length is passed to SSLSocket.recv() or read().
bpo-23804: Fix SSL recv(0) and read(0) methods to return zero bytes instead of up to 1024.
bpo-26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.
bpo-26637: The
importlib
module now emits anImportError
rather than aTypeError
if__import__()
is tried during the Python shutdown process butsys.path
is already cleared (set toNone
).bpo-21925:
warnings.formatwarning()
now catches exceptions when callinglinecache.getline()
andtracemalloc.get_object_traceback()
to be able to logResourceWarning
emitted late during the Python shutdown process.bpo-23848: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now also installs an exception handler to dump the traceback of all Python threads on any Windows exception, not only on UNIX signals (SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, SIGABRT).
bpo-26530: Add C functions
_PyTraceMalloc_Track()
and_PyTraceMalloc_Untrack()
to track memory blocks using thetracemalloc
module. Add_PyTraceMalloc_GetTraceback()
to get the traceback of an object.bpo-26588: The _tracemalloc now supports tracing memory allocations of multiple address spaces (domains).
bpo-24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the search mode when compiled with Readline 7.
bpo-26590: Implement a safe finalizer for the _socket.socket type. It now releases the GIL to close the socket.
bpo-18787: spwd.getspnam() now raises a PermissionError if the user doesn’t have privileges.
bpo-26560: Avoid potential ValueError in BaseHandler.start_response. Initial patch by Peter Inglesby.
bpo-26567: Add a new function
PyErr_ResourceWarning()
function to pass the destroyed object. Add a source attribute towarnings.WarningMessage
. Add warnings._showwarnmsg() which uses tracemalloc to get the traceback where source object was allocated.
Security¶
bpo-26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows cert store is empty. Patch by Baji.
Library¶
bpo-26569: Fix
pyclbr.readmodule()
andpyclbr.readmodule_ex()
to support importing packages.bpo-26499: Account for remaining Content-Length in HTTPResponse.readline() and read1(). Based on patch by Silent Ghost. Also document that HTTPResponse now supports these methods.
bpo-25320: Handle sockets in directories unittest discovery is scanning. Patch from Victor van den Elzen.
bpo-16181: cookiejar.http2time() now returns None if year is higher than datetime.MAXYEAR.
bpo-26513: Fixes platform module detection of Windows Server
bpo-23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1. Original patch by Tamás Bence Gedai.
bpo-26323: Add Mock.assert_called() and Mock.assert_called_once() methods to unittest.mock. Patch written by Amit Saha.
bpo-20589: Invoking Path.owner() and Path.group() on Windows now raise NotImplementedError instead of ImportError.
bpo-26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar widgets.
bpo-15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in fileinput. The bufsize parameter is now deprecated and ignored.
bpo-19475: Added an optional argument timespec to the datetime isoformat() method to choose the precision of the time component.
bpo-2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu Dupuy.
bpo-26167: Minimized overhead in copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy(). Optimized copying and deepcopying bytearrays, NotImplemented, slices, short lists, tuples, dicts, sets.
bpo-25718: Fixed pickling and copying the accumulate() iterator with total is None.
bpo-26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the (?x) flag.
bpo-26482: Allowed pickling recursive dequeues.
bpo-26335: Make mmap.write() return the number of bytes written like other write methods. Patch by Jakub Stasiak.
bpo-26457: Fixed the subnets() methods in IP network classes for the case when resulting prefix length is equal to maximal prefix length. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26385: Remove the file if the internal open() call in NamedTemporaryFile() fails. Patch by Silent Ghost.
bpo-26402: Fix XML-RPC client to retry when the server shuts down a persistent connection. This was a regression related to the new http.client.RemoteDisconnected exception in 3.5.0a4.
bpo-25913: Leading
<~
is optional now in base64.a85decode() with adobe=True. Patch by Swati Jaiswal.bpo-26186: Remove an invalid type check in importlib.util.LazyLoader.
bpo-26367: importlib.__import__() raises ImportError like builtins.__import__() when
level
is specified but without an accompanying package specified.bpo-26309: In the “socketserver” module, shut down the request (closing the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-23430: Change the socketserver module to only catch exceptions raised from a request handler that are derived from Exception (instead of BaseException). Therefore SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt no longer trigger the handle_error() method, and will now to stop a single-threaded server.
Library¶
bpo-25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree depth.
bpo-25994: Added the close() method and the support of the context manager protocol for the os.scandir() iterator.
bpo-23992: multiprocessing: make MapResult not fail-fast upon exception.
bpo-26243: Support keyword arguments to zlib.compress(). Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-26117: The os.scandir() iterator now closes file descriptor not only when the iteration is finished, but when it was failed with error.
bpo-25949: __dict__ for an OrderedDict instance is now created only when needed.
bpo-25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on Windows.
bpo-26045: Add UTF-8 suggestion to error message when posting a non-Latin-1 string with http.client.
bpo-26039: Added zipfile.ZipInfo.from_file() and zipinfo.ZipInfo.is_dir(). Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-12923: Reset FancyURLopener’s redirect counter even if there is an exception. Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco.
bpo-25945: Fixed a crash when unpickle the functools.partial object with wrong state. Fixed a leak in failed functools.partial constructor. “args” and “keywords” attributes of functools.partial have now always types tuple and dict correspondingly.
bpo-26202: copy.deepcopy() now correctly copies range() objects with non-atomic attributes.
bpo-23076: Path.glob() now raises a ValueError if it’s called with an invalid pattern. Patch by Thomas Nyberg.
bpo-19883: Fixed possible integer overflows in zipimport.
bpo-26227: On Windows, getnameinfo(), gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the hostname from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8.
bpo-26099: The site module now writes an error into stderr if sitecustomize module can be imported but executing the module raise an ImportError. Same change for usercustomize.
bpo-26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used non-UTF-8 encoding.
bpo-25935: Garbage collector now breaks reference loops with OrderedDict.
bpo-16620: Fixed AttributeError in msilib.Directory.glob().
bpo-26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles created in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower).
bpo-26129: Deprecated accepting non-integers in grp.getgrgid().
bpo-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.
bpo-25822: Add docstrings to the fields of urllib.parse results. Patch contributed by Swati Jaiswal.
bpo-22642: Convert trace module option parsing mechanism to argparse. Patch contributed by SilentGhost.
bpo-24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars appearing before $() vars.
bpo-26069: Remove the deprecated apis in the trace module.
bpo-22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors. Restore original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean McCully.
bpo-25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode option if it is safe to do so.
bpo-26012: Don’t traverse into symlinks for
**
pattern in pathlib.Path.[r]glob().bpo-24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with pathlib.Path.[r]glob(). Patch by Ulrich Petri.
bpo-21815: Accept ] characters in the data portion of imap responses, in order to handle the flags with square brackets accepted and produced by servers such as gmail.
bpo-25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have a buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility).
bpo-25971: Optimized creating Fractions from floats by 2 times and from Decimals by 3 times.
bpo-25802: Document as deprecated the remaining implementations of importlib.abc.Loader.load_module().
bpo-25928: Add Decimal.as_integer_ratio().
bpo-25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always works, independently from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original object unchanged).
bpo-25768: Have the functions in compileall return booleans instead of ints and add proper documentation and tests for the return values.
bpo-24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.XMLPullParser.
bpo-25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when error occurs. Original patch by Samson Lee.
bpo-25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__.
bpo-25869: Optimized deepcopying ElementTree; it is now 20 times faster.
bpo-25873: Optimized iterating ElementTree. Iterating elements Element.iter() is now 40% faster, iterating text Element.itertext() is now up to 2.5 times faster.
bpo-25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.
bpo-22227: The TarFile iterator is reimplemented using generator. This implementation is simpler that using class.
bpo-25638: Optimized ElementTree.iterparse(); it is now 2x faster. Optimized ElementTree parsing; it is now 10% faster.
bpo-25761: Improved detecting errors in broken pickle data.
bpo-25717: Restore the previous behaviour of tolerating most fstat() errors when opening files. This was a regression in 3.5a1, and stopped anonymous temporary files from working in special cases.
bpo-24903: Fix regression in number of arguments compileall accepts when ‘-d’ is specified. The check on the number of arguments has been dropped completely as it never worked correctly anyway.
bpo-25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused by fork() failure when preexec_fn is used.
bpo-25771: Tweak the exception message for importlib.util.resolve_name() when ‘package’ isn’t specified but necessary.
bpo-6478: _strptime’s regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone with time.tzset().
bpo-14285: When executing a package with the “python -m package” option, and package initialization fails, a proper traceback is now reported. The “runpy” module now lets exceptions from package initialization pass back to the caller, rather than raising ImportError.
bpo-19771: Also in runpy and the “-m” option, omit the irrelevant message “… is a package and cannot be directly executed” if the package could not even be initialized (e.g. due to a bad
*.pyc
file).bpo-25177: Fixed problem with the mean of very small and very large numbers. As a side effect, statistics.mean and statistics.variance should be significantly faster.
bpo-25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is false.
bpo-10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents. Based on patch by Marian Ganisin.
bpo-7990: dir() on ElementTree.Element now lists properties: “tag”, “text”, “tail” and “attrib”. Original patch by Santoso Wijaya.
bpo-25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when unpickling invalid data including tuple instructions.
bpo-25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate global names, and search the global namespace before searching builtins.
bpo-25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an error.
bpo-23914: Fixed SystemError raised by unpickler on broken pickle data.
bpo-25691: Fixed crash on deleting ElementTree.Element attributes.
bpo-25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory entries. Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
bpo-25626: Change three zlib functions to accept sizes that fit in Py_ssize_t, but internally cap those sizes to UINT_MAX. This resolves a regression in 3.5 where GzipFile.read() failed to read chunks larger than 2 or 4 GiB. The change affects the zlib.Decompress.decompress() max_length parameter, the zlib.decompress() bufsize parameter, and the zlib.Decompress.flush() length parameter.
bpo-25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio.
bpo-6973: When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do not allow the send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do anything as they could potentially signal a different process.
bpo-23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs for the following modules: calendar, csv, enum, fileinput, ftplib, logging, optparse, tarfile, threading and wave. Also added a test.support.check__all__() helper. Patches by Jacek Kołodziej, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues and Joel Taddei.
bpo-25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per attribute. Also complete names of attributes such as properties and slots which are listed by dir() but not yet created on an instance.
bpo-25498: Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects created by wrapping a memoryview. This was a regression made in 3.5a1. Based on patch by Eryksun.
bpo-25584: Added “escape” to the __all__ list in the glob module.
bpo-25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with
**
.bpo-25446: Fix regression in smtplib’s AUTH LOGIN support.
bpo-18010: Fix the pydoc web server’s module search function to handle exceptions from importing packages.
bpo-25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression parsing.
bpo-18973: Command-line interface of the calendar module now uses argparse instead of optparse.
bpo-25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b’’ instead of ‘’ at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode. Patch by Ryosuke Ito.
bpo-25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of properties. Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg.
bpo-25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4.
bpo-21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace. Based on patch by Robert Li.
bpo-25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and pickled (by returning the original object unchanged).
bpo-25390: typing: Don’t crash on Union[str, Pattern].
bpo-25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed.
bpo-25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better use of the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch.
Move the imp module from a PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning.
bpo-25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed in Python 3.6.
bpo-25406: Fixed a bug in C implementation of OrderedDict.move_to_end() that caused segmentation fault or hang in iterating after moving several items to the start of ordered dict.
bpo-25382: pickletools.dis() now outputs implicit memo index for the MEMOIZE opcode.
bpo-25357: Add an optional newline parameter to binascii.b2a_base64(). base64.b64encode() uses it to avoid a memory copy.
bpo-24164: Objects that need calling
__new__
with keyword arguments, can now be pickled using pickle protocols older than protocol version 4.bpo-25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds.
bpo-25328: smtpd’s SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError if both decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true.
bpo-16099: RobotFileParser now supports Crawl-delay and Request-rate extensions. Patch by Nikolay Bogoychev.
bpo-25316: distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError when MSVC is not installed.
bpo-25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in pickletools.opcodes.
bpo-23972: Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing reuseport and reuseaddr socket options to be set prior to binding the socket. Mirroring the existing asyncio create_server method the reuseaddr option for datagram sockets defaults to True if the O/S is ‘posix’ (except if the platform is Cygwin). Patch by Chris Laws.
bpo-25304: Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(). This lets you submit a coroutine to a loop from another thread, returning a concurrent.futures.Future. By Vincent Michel.
bpo-25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25287: Don’t add crypt.METHOD_CRYPT to crypt.methods if it’s not supported. Check if it is supported, it may not be supported on OpenBSD for example.
bpo-23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning wrong results in some cases.
bpo-25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the module in inconsistent state.
bpo-25011: rlcompleter now omits private and special attribute names unless the prefix starts with underscores.
bpo-25209: rlcompleter now can add a space or a colon after completed keyword.
bpo-22241: timezone.utc name is now plain ‘UTC’, not ‘UTC-00:00’.
bpo-23517: fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods of datetime.datetime now round microseconds to nearest with ties going to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), as round(float), instead of rounding towards -Infinity (ROUND_FLOOR).
bpo-23552: Timeit now warns when there is substantial (4x) variance between best and worst times. Patch from Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-24633: site-packages/README -> README.txt.
bpo-24879: help() and pydoc can now list named tuple fields in the order they were defined rather than alphabetically. The ordering is determined by the _fields attribute if present.
bpo-24874: Improve speed of itertools.cycle() and make its pickle more compact.
Fix crash in itertools.cycle.__setstate__() when the first argument wasn’t a list.
bpo-20059: urllib.parse raises ValueError on all invalid ports. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-24360: Improve __repr__ of argparse.Namespace() for invalid identifiers. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-23426: run_setup was broken in distutils. Patch from Alexander Belopolsky.
bpo-13938: 2to3 converts StringTypes to a tuple. Patch from Mark Hammond.
bpo-2091: open() accepted a ‘U’ mode string containing ‘+’, but ‘U’ can only be used with ‘r’. Patch from Jeff Balogh and John O’Connor.
bpo-8585: improved tests for zipimporter2. Patch from Mark Lawrence.
bpo-18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.
bpo-24426: Fast searching optimization in regular expressions now works for patterns that starts with capturing groups. Fast searching optimization now can’t be disabled at compile time.
bpo-23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi
bpo-13248: Remove deprecated inspect.getmoduleinfo function.
bpo-25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().
bpo-25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating ssl.SSLContext.
bpo-25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
bpo-25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn’t appear to be nonblocking.
bpo-25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock.
Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method. Patch by Марк Коренберг.
bpo-25924: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on OS X versions 10.5 or higher. Original patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26406: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on current versions of OpenBSD and NetBSD. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26848: Fix asyncio/subprocess.communicate() to handle empty input. Patch by Jack O’Connor.
bpo-27040: Add loop.get_exception_handler method
bpo-27041: asyncio: Add loop.create_future method
IDLE¶
bpo-20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
In the ‘IDLE-console differences’ section of the IDLE doc, clarify how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
bpo-25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing. Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
bpo-25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ‘ to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with ‘ascii’. Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with ‘utf-8’.
bpo-15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process) before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process). This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.
bpo-24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455). The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes. 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit). 2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first.
Change ‘The program’ to ‘Your program’ in an IDLE ‘kill program?’ message to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running user program, not IDLE itself.
bpo-24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark. Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.
bpo-24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted list. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.
bpo-24820: IDLE now has an ‘IDLE Dark’ built-in text color theme. It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background. Strings, comments, keywords, … are still green, red, orange, … . To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the ‘Save as New Custom Theme’ button and enter a new name, such as ‘Custom Dark’. The custom theme will work with any IDLE release, and can be modified.
bpo-25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter. ‘IDLE’ now means ‘Integrated Development and Learning Environment’.
bpo-24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. For Mac OSX, make them a ‘sheet’. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header at the top of the screen.
bpo-25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
bpo-21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
bpo-22820: Explain need for print when running file from Idle editor.
bpo-25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
bpo-25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. Some were missing and notes were not correct.
bpo-24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
bpo-25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
bpo-16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display. The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released. The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Rose Roseman. The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.
bpo-24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
bpo-24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
Documentation¶
bpo-26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if possible.
bpo-6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group related functions together, and add more details such as what underlying Readline functions and variables are accessed.
bpo-23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt.
bpo-24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in the “threading” and “_thread” modules. Patch from Mattip.
bpo-26014: Update 3.x packaging documentation: * “See also” links to the new docs are now provided in the legacy pages * links to setuptools documentation have been updated
Tests¶
bpo-21916: Added tests for the turtle module. Patch by ingrid, Gregory Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-26295: When using “python3 -m test –testdir=TESTDIR”, regrtest doesn’t add “test.” prefix to test module names.
bpo-26523: The multiprocessing thread pool (multiprocessing.dummy.Pool) was untested.
bpo-26015: Added new tests for pickling iterators of mutable sequences.
bpo-26325: Added test.support.check_no_resource_warning() to check that no ResourceWarning is emitted.
bpo-25940: Changed test_ssl to use its internal local server more. This avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root certificate.
bpo-25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections into separate file test_ordered_dict.
bpo-25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses.
bpo-25188: Add -P/–pgo to test.regrtest to suppress error output when running the test suite for the purposes of a PGO build. Initial patch by Alecsandru Patrascu.
bpo-22806: Add
python -m test --list-tests
command to list tests.bpo-18174:
python -m test --huntrleaks ...
now also checks for leak of file descriptors. Patch written by Richard Oudkerk.bpo-25260: Fix
python -m test --coverage
on Windows. Remove the list of ignored directories.PCbuild\rt.bat
now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9.bpo-26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode files cannot be written.
Build¶
bpo-21277: Don’t try to link _ctypes with a ffi_convenience library.
bpo-26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-26932: Fixed support of RTLD_* constants defined as enum values, not via macros (in particular on Android). Patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-22359: Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when cross-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the source code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm, except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-25702: A –with-lto configure option has been added that will enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt. Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable code when using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before relying on it. It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt alone.
bpo-26624: Adds validation of ucrtbase[d].dll version with warning for old versions.
bpo-17603: Avoid error about nonexistent fileblocks.o file by using a lower-level check for st_blocks in struct stat.
bpo-26079: Fixing the build output folder for tix-8.4.3.6. Patch by Bjoern Thiel.
bpo-26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
bpo-25348: Added
--pgo
and--pgo-job
arguments toPCbuild\build.bat
for building with Profile-Guided Optimization. The oldPCbuild\build_pgo.bat
script is removed.bpo-25827: Add support for building with ICC to
configure
, including a new--with-icc
flag.bpo-25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9.
bpo-24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors when external libraries are not available.
bpo-24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions. Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds were concurrent.
bpo-26465: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
bpo-26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f.
bpo-25136: Support Apple Xcode 7’s new textual SDK stub libraries.
bpo-24324: Do not enable unreachable code warnings when using gcc as the option does not work correctly in older versions of gcc and has been silently removed as of gcc-4.5.
Windows¶
bpo-27053: Updates make_zip.py to correctly generate library ZIP file.
bpo-26268: Update the prepare_ssl.py script to handle OpenSSL releases that don’t include the contents of the include directory (that is, 1.0.2e and later).
bpo-26071: bdist_wininst created binaries fail to start and find 32bit Python
bpo-26073: Update the list of magic numbers in launcher
bpo-26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable distro.
bpo-25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don’t get C types once when the Python code is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable. Patch written by Thomas Ilsche.
bpo-26271: Fix the Freeze tool to properly use flags passed through configure. Patch by Daniel Shaulov.
bpo-26489: Add dictionary unpacking support to Tools/parser/unparse.py. Patch by Guo Ci Teo.
bpo-26316: Fix variable name typo in Argument Clinic.
bpo-25440: Fix output of python-config –extension-suffix.
bpo-25154: The pyvenv script has been deprecated in favour of
python3 -m venv
.
C API¶
bpo-26312: SystemError is now raised in all programming bugs with using PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(). RuntimeError did raised before in some programming bugs.
bpo-26198: ValueError is now raised instead of TypeError on buffer overflow in parsing “es#” and “et#” format units. SystemError is now raised instead of TypeError on programmatical error in parsing format string.
Python 3.5.5 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-01-23
Security¶
bpo-32551: The
sys.path[0]
initialization change for bpo-29139 caused a regression by revealing an inconsistency in how sys.path is initialized when executing__main__
from a zipfile, directory, or other import location. This is considered a potential security issue, as it may lead to privileged processes unexpectedly loading code from user controlled directories in situations where that was not previously the case.The interpreter now consistently avoids ever adding the import location’s parent directory to
sys.path
, and ensures no othersys.path
entries are inadvertently modified when inserting the import location named on the command line. (Originally reported as bpo-29723 against Python 3.6rc1, but it was missed at the time that the then upcoming Python 3.5.4 release would also be affected)bpo-30657: Fixed possible integer overflow in PyBytes_DecodeEscape, CVE-2017-1000158. Original patch by Jay Bosamiya; rebased to Python 3 by Miro Hrončok.
bpo-30947: Upgrade libexpat embedded copy from version 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 to get security fixes.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31095: Fix potential crash during GC caused by
tp_dealloc
which doesn’t callPyObject_GC_UnTrack()
.
Library¶
bpo-32072: Fixed issues with binary plists:
Fixed saving bytearrays.
Identical objects will be saved only once.
Equal references will be load as identical objects.
Added support for saving and loading recursive data structures.
bpo-31170: expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of partial characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115): https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115
Python 3.5.4 final¶
Release date: 2017-08-07
Python 3.5.4 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-07-23
Security¶
bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command arguments.
bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE-2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0’s fix to CVE-2016-0718) and CVE-2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn’t impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
XML_SetHashSalt()
.bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For example,
splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')
now correctly returns the127.0.0.1
host, instead of treating@evil.com
as the host in an authentication (login@host
).bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of CVE-2016-0718 and CVE-2016-4472. See https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-30876: Relative import from unloaded package now reimports the package instead of failing with SystemError. Relative import from non-package now fails with ImportError rather than SystemError.
bpo-30765: Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked not to block.
bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell.
bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque when pass indices of wrong type.
bpo-28876:
bool(range)
works even iflen(range)
raisesOverflowError
.bpo-29600: Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration.
bpo-29537: Restore runtime compatibility with bytecode files generated by CPython 3.5.0 to 3.5.2, and adjust the eval loop to avoid the problems that could be caused by the malformed variant of the BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode that they may contain. Patch by Petr Viktorin, Serhiy Storchaka, and Nick Coghlan.
bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref objects.
bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.
bpo-29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].
bpo-29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be emitted at compile time.
bpo-29478: If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, it is no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc.
Library¶
bpo-29403: Fix
unittest.mock
’s autospec to not fail on method-bound builtin functions. Patch by Aaron Gallagher.bpo-30961: Fix decrementing a borrowed reference in tracemalloc.
bpo-30886: Fix multiprocessing.Queue.join_thread(): it now waits until the thread completes, even if the thread was started by the same process which created the queue.
bpo-29854: Fix segfault in readline when using readline’s history-size option. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value.
Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval, therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.
bpo-30441: Fix bug when modifying os.environ while iterating over it
bpo-30532: Fix email header value parser dropping folding white space in certain cases.
bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
bpo-30879: os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-like argument.
bpo-30746: Prohibited the ‘=’ character in environment variable names in
os.putenv()
andos.spawn*()
.bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. They now always return bytes.
bpo-30645: Fix path calculation in imp.load_package(), fixing it for cases when a package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by Alexandru Ardelean.
bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.
bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-29931: Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. Patch by Sanjay Sundaresan.
bpo-24484: Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup.
bpo-28994: The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback registered by atexit.
bpo-30508: Don’t log exceptions if Task/Future “cancel()” method was called.
bpo-28556: Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add support for ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra and Ivan Levkivskyi
bpo-29870: Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer.
bpo-29743: Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. Patch by Nikolay Kim
bpo-27585: Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. Patch by Mathieu Sornay.
bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe.
bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6 addresses.
bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson.
bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main loop on exception.
bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-30301: Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under spawn and forkserver start methods.
bpo-30329: imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error occurs sometimes on SSL connections.
bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.
bpo-30048: Fixed
Task.cancel()
can be ignored when the task is running coroutine and the coroutine returned without any moreawait
.bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-26293: Change resulted because of zipfile breakage. (See also: bpo-29094)
bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json’s scanner and encoder. Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods.
bpo-30185: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process when Ctrl-C is received.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux.
bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module.
bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when readline() or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size().
bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it’s closed first when hint is present.
bpo-29694: Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags parents=True. Patch by Armin Rigo.
bpo-29692: Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar.
bpo-29998: Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path attributes.
bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of empty iterables.
bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong types.
bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. Patch by Christophe Zeitouny.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert.
bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. Patch by Nikolay Kim.
bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes “encoding” or “errors” of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array ‘Q’, ‘L’ and ‘I’ from accepting big intables (objects that have __int__) as elements. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. Patch by Petr Motejlek.
bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all pipes are closed.
bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes.
bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
bpo-28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don’t ignore the name parameter anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects a partial object after creation.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.
bpo-29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.
bpo-29519: Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown when used with a rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs.
bpo-29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
bpo-29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object. Based on patch by WGH.
bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
bpo-29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking spaces.
bpo-28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.
bpo-29011: Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module.
bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.
bpo-28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.
bpo-29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
Documentation¶
bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation.
bpo-26985: Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation.
bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement.
bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
Tests¶
bpo-30822: Fix regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u extralargefile to run test_zipfile64.
bpo-30383: regrtest: Enhance regrtest and backport features from the master branch.
Add options: –coverage, –testdir, –list-tests (list test files, don’t run them), –list-cases (list test identifiers, don’t run them, bpo-30523), –matchfile (load a list of test filters from a text file, bpo-30540), –slowest (alias to –slow).
Enhance output: add timestamp, test result, currently running tests, “Tests result: xxx” summary with total duration, etc.
Fix reference leak hunting in regrtest, –huntrleaks: regrtest now warms up caches, create explicitly all internal singletons which are created on demand to prevent false positives when checking for reference leaks. (bpo-30675).
bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz.
bpo-28087: Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS. Skip some tests of select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved issues with the underlying system poll function on some macOS versions.
bpo-30197: Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the test.support module. They now work when delete replaced attribute or item inside the with statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None if it doesn’t exist) now will be assigned to the target of the “as” clause, if there is one.
bpo-29571: to match the behaviour of the
re.LOCALE
flag, test_re.test_locale_flag now useslocale.getpreferredencoding(False)
to determine the candidate encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly skip the test when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)
Build¶
bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during
make test
,make install
and some other make targets when configured with--enable-optimizations
.bpo-23404: Don’t regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace
make touch
withmake regen-all
.bpo-29643: Fix
--enable-optimization
didn’t work.
Windows¶
C API¶
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or 0x03060100 or higher.
bpo-29083: Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API. PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
Python 3.5.3 final¶
Release date: 2017-01-17
There were no code changes between 3.5.3rc1 and 3.5.3 final.
Python 3.5.3 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-01-02
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-29073: bytearray formatting no longer truncates on first null byte.
bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
bpo-28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr() must not convert combined table into split table.
bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate form.
bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
bpo-28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy bug caused by a monkey-patched len() function.
bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug build.
bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas Koep.
bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword args.
bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in error message from
complex(1.0, {2:3})
. Patch by Soumya Sharma.bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport’s compile_source(). zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
bpo-25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
bpo-25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename (patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28189: dictitems_contains no longer swallows compare errors. (Patch by Xiang Zhang)
bpo-27812: Properly clear out a generator’s frame’s backreference to the generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
bpo-27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
bpo-27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check after use of ‘def’ in _PyState_AddModule(). Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented behaviour.
bpo-27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly allows the
m_methods
field to be used to add module level functions to instances of non-module types returned fromPy_create_mod
. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument for some types but not for others. Fixed the inconsistency by accepting None for all numeric types.
bpo-27487: Warn if a submodule argument to “python -m” or runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are imported, but before the submodule is executed.
bpo-27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of “raise” statement. In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there is no active exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up “__import__” in globals or builtins for importing submodules or “from import”. Fixed handling an error of non-string package name.
bpo-27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
bpo-27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError instead of SystemError.
bpo-27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray concatenations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27581: Don’t rely on wrapping for overflow check in PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a negative integer for a resized bytearray.
bpo-27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c