Changelog¶
Python next¶
Release date: XXXX-XX-XX
Security¶
bpo-40121: Fixes audit events raised on creating a new socket.
bpo-38576: Disallow control characters in hostnames in http.client, addressing CVE-2019-18348. Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause a InvalidURL to be raised.
bpo-39503: CVE-2020-8492: The
AbstractBasicAuthHandler
class of theurllib.request
module uses an inefficient regular expression which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service. Fix the regex to prevent the catastrophic backtracking. Vulnerability reported by Ben Caller and Matt Schwager.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-20526: Fix
PyThreadState_Clear()
.PyThreadState.frame
is a borrowed reference, not a strong reference:PyThreadState_Clear()
must not callPy_CLEAR(tstate->frame)
.bpo-39965: Correctly raise
SyntaxError
if await is used inside non-async functions andPyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT
is set (like in the asyncio REPL). Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39562: Allow executing asynchronous comprehensions on the top level when the
PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT
flag is given. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-38894: Fix a bug that was causing incomplete results when calling
pathlib.Path.glob
in the presence of symlinks that point to files where the user does not have read access. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Matt Wozniski.bpo-39871: Fix a possible
SystemError
inmath.{atan2,copysign,remainder}()
when the first argument cannot be converted to afloat
. Patch by Zachary Spytz.bpo-39776: Fix race condition where threads created by PyGILState_Ensure() could get a duplicate id.
This affects consumers of tstate->id like the contextvar caching machinery, which could return invalid cached objects under heavy thread load (observed in embedded scenarios).
bpo-39778: Fixed a crash due to incorrect handling of weak references in
collections.OrderedDict
classes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39520: Fix unparsing of ext slices with no items (
foo[:,]
). Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-22490: Don’t leak environment variable
__PYVENV_LAUNCHER__
into the interpreter session on macOS.
Library¶
bpo-40138: Fix the Windows implementation of
os.waitpid()
for exit code larger thanINT_MAX >> 8
. The exit status is now interpreted as an unsigned number.bpo-39942: Set “__main__” as the default module name when “__name__” is missing in
typing.TypeVar
. Patch by Weipeng Hong.bpo-40330: In
ShareableList.__setitem__()
, check the size of a new string item after encoding it to utf-8, not before.bpo-40287: Fixed
SpooledTemporaryFile.seek()
to return the position.bpo-40260: Ensure
modulefinder
usesio.open_code()
and respects coding comments.bpo-40196: Fix a bug in the
symtable
module that was causing incorrectly report global variables as local. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-40126: Fixed reverting multiple patches in unittest.mock. Patcher’s
__exit__()
is now never called if its__enter__()
is failed. Returning true from__exit__()
silences now the exception.bpo-40089: Fix threading._after_fork(): if fork was not called by a thread spawned by threading.Thread, threading._after_fork() now creates a _MainThread instance for _main_thread, instead of a _DummyThread instance.
bpo-39503:
AbstractBasicAuthHandler
ofurllib.request
now parses all WWW-Authenticate HTTP headers and accepts multiple challenges per header: use the realm of the first Basic challenge.bpo-40014: Fix
os.getgrouplist()
: ifgetgrouplist()
function fails because the group list is too small, retry with a larger group list. On failure, the glibc implementation ofgetgrouplist()
setsngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the group list size.bpo-40016: In re docstring, clarify the relationship between inline and argument compile flags.
bpo-39953: Update internal table of OpenSSL error codes in the
ssl
module.bpo-39360: Ensure all workers exit when finalizing a
multiprocessing.Pool
implicitly via the module finalization handlers of multiprocessing. This fixes a deadlock situation that can be experienced when the Pool is not properly finalized via the context manager or a call tomultiprocessing.Pool.terminate
. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya and Pablo Galindo.bpo-39652: The column name found in
sqlite3.Cursor.description
is now truncated on the first ‘[‘ only if the PARSE_COLNAMES option is set.bpo-39915: Ensure
unittest.mock.AsyncMock.await_args_list
has call objects in the order of awaited arguments instead of usingunittest.mock.Mock.call_args
which has the last value of the call. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-38662: The
ensurepip
module now invokespip
via therunpy
module. Hence it is no longer tightly coupled with the internal API of the bundledpip
version, allowing easier updates to a newerpip
version both internally and for distributors.bpo-39916: More reliable use of
os.scandir()
inPath.glob()
. It no longer emits a ResourceWarning when interrupted.bpo-39850:
multiprocessing
now supports abstract socket addresses (if abstract sockets are supported in the running platform). Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39828: Fix
json.tool
to catchBrokenPipeError
. Patch by Dong-hee Na.bpo-13487: Avoid a possible “RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration” from
inspect.getmodule()
when it tried to loop throughsys.modules
.bpo-39794: Add –without-decimal-contextvar build option. This enables a thread-local rather than a coroutine local context.
bpo-39769: The
compileall.compile_dir()
function’s ddir parameter and the compileall command line flag-d
no longer write the wrong pathname to the generated pyc file for submodules beneath the root of the directory tree being compiled. This fixes a regression introduced with Python 3.5.bpo-39517: Fix runpy.run_path() when using pathlike objects
bpo-39764: Fix AttributeError when calling get_stack on a PyAsyncGenObject Task
bpo-30566: Fix
IndexError
when trying to decode an invalid string with punycode codec.bpo-39667: Correct performance degradation in
zipfile.Path
as found in zipp 3.0. While retaining compatibility, this change discourages the use ofzipfile.Path.open
due to the signature change in Python 3.9. For compatibility across Python 3.8 and later versions, consider usingzipp.Path
on Python 3.8.x and earlier.bpo-39548: Fix handling of header in
urllib.request.AbstractDigestAuthHandler
when the optionalqop
parameter is not present.bpo-38971: Open issue in the BPO indicated a desire to make the implementation of codecs.open() at parity with io.open(), which implements a try/except to assure file stream gets closed before an exception is raised.
bpo-38410: Properly handle
sys.audit()
failures insys.set_asyncgen_hooks()
. Based on patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-36541: lib2to3 now recognizes named assignment expressions (the walrus operator,
:=
)bpo-31758: Prevent crashes when using an uninitialized
_elementtree.XMLParser
object. Patch by Oren Milman.
Documentation¶
bpo-27635: The pickle documentation incorrectly claimed that
__new__
isn’t called by default when unpickling.bpo-39879: Updated Data model docs to include
dict()
insertion order preservation. Patch by Furkan Onder and Samy Lahfa.bpo-13790: Change ‘string’ to ‘specification’ in format doc.
bpo-17422: The language reference no longer restricts default class namespaces to dicts only.
bpo-39530: Fix misleading documentation about mixed-type numeric comparisons.
bpo-39718: Update
token
documentation to reflect additions in Python 3.8bpo-39677: Changed operand name of MAKE_FUNCTION from argc to flags for module
dis
bpo-38387: Document
PyDoc_STRVAR
macro in the C-API reference.
Tests¶
bpo-40162: Update Travis CI configuration to OpenSSL 1.1.1f.
bpo-40146: Update OpenSSL to 1.1.1f in Azure Pipelines.
bpo-40019: test_gdb now skips tests if it detects that gdb failed to read debug information because the Python binary is optimized.
bpo-27807:
test_site.test_startup_imports()
is now skipped if a path ofsys.path
contains a.pth
file.bpo-39793: Use the same domain when testing
make_msgid
. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-1812: Fix newline handling in doctest.testfile when loading from a package whose loader has a get_data method. Patch by Peter Donis.
bpo-37957: test.regrtest now can receive a list of test patterns to ignore (using the -i/–ignore argument) or a file with a list of patterns to ignore (using the –ignore-file argument). Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-38502: test.regrtest now uses process groups in the multiprocessing mode (-jN command line option) if process groups are available: if
os.setsid()
andos.killpg()
functions are available.
Build¶
bpo-38360: Support single-argument form of macOS -isysroot flag.
bpo-40204: Pin Sphinx version to 1.8.2 in
Doc/Makefile
.bpo-40158: Fix CPython MSBuild Properties in NuGet Package (build/native/python.props)
bpo-38527: Fix configure check on Solaris for “float word ordering”: sometimes, the correct “grep” command was not being used. Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Windows¶
bpo-40164: Updates Windows to OpenSSL 1.1.1f
bpo-39930: Ensures the required
vcruntime140.dll
is included in install packages.bpo-39847: Avoid hang when computer is hibernated whilst waiting for a mutex (for lock-related objects from
threading
) around 49-day uptime.bpo-38597:
distutils
will no longer statically linkvcruntime140.dll
when a redistributable version is unavailable. All future releases of CPython will include a copy of this DLL to ensure distributed extensions can continue to load.bpo-38380: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.31.1
bpo-39789: Update Windows release build machines to Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 14.2).
bpo-34803: Package for nuget.org now includes repository reference and bundled icon image.
macOS¶
IDLE¶
bpo-27115: For ‘Go to Line’, use a Query box subclass with IDLE standard behavior and improved error checking.
bpo-39885: Since clicking to get an IDLE context menu moves the cursor, any text selection should be and now is cleared.
bpo-39852: Edit “Go to line” now clears any selection, preventing accidental deletion. It also updates Ln and Col on the status bar.
bpo-39781: Selecting code context lines no longer causes a jump.
bpo-38439: Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to support more modern environments. Created by Andrew Clover. Delete the unused macOS idle.icns icon file.
bpo-38689: IDLE will no longer freeze when inspect.signature fails when fetching a calltip.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-40179: Fixed translation of
#elif
in Argument Clinic.bpo-36184: Port python-gdb.py to FreeBSD. python-gdb.py now checks for “take_gil” function name to check if a frame tries to acquire the GIL, instead of checking for “pthread_cond_timedwait” which is specific to Linux and can be a different condition than the GIL.
bpo-39889: Fixed
unparse.py
for extended slices containing a single element (e.g.a[i:j,]
). Remove redundant tuples when index with a tuple (e.g.a[i, j]
).
C API¶
bpo-35370: If
PySys_Audit()
fails inPyEval_SetProfile()
orPyEval_SetTrace()
, log the error as an unraisable exception.bpo-39884:
PyDescr_NewMethod()
andPyCFunction_NewEx()
now include the method name in the SystemError “bad call flags” error message to ease debug.bpo-38643:
PyNumber_ToBase()
now raises aSystemError
instead of crashing when called with invalid base.bpo-38913: Fixed segfault in
Py_BuildValue()
called with a format containing “#” and undefined PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN whwn an exception is set.
Python 3.8.2 final¶
Release date: 2020-02-24
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-39382: Fix a use-after-free in the single inheritance path of
issubclass()
, when the__bases__
of an object has a single reference, and so does its first item. Patch by Yonatan Goldschmidt.bpo-39427: Document all possibilities for the
-X
options in the command line help section. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Library¶
bpo-39649: Remove obsolete check for
__args__
in bdb.Bdb.format_stack_entry.bpo-39681: Fix a regression where the C pickle module wouldn’t allow unpickling from a file-like object that doesn’t expose a readinto() method.
bpo-39546: Fix a regression in
ArgumentParser
whereallow_abbrev=False
was ignored for long options that used a prefix character other than “-“.bpo-39432: Implement PEP-489 algorithm for non-ascii “PyInit_…” symbol names in distutils to make it export the correct init symbol also on Windows.
Documentation¶
bpo-17422: The language reference now specifies restrictions on class namespaces. Adapted from a patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-39572: Updated documentation of
total
flag of TypeDict.bpo-39654: In pyclbr doc, update ‘class’ to ‘module’ where appropriate and add readmodule comment. Patch by Hakan Çelik.
Python 3.8.2 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2020-02-17
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-39619: Enable use of
os.chroot()
on HP-UX systems.bpo-39606: Fix regression caused by fix for bpo-39386, that prevented calling
aclose
on an async generator that had already been closed or exhausted.bpo-39453: Fixed a possible crash in
list.__contains__()
when a list is changed during comparing items. Patch by Dong-hee Na.bpo-39219: Syntax errors raised in the tokenizer now always set correct “text” and “offset” attributes.
Library¶
bpo-27657: The original fix for bpo-27657, “Fix urlparse() with numeric paths” (GH-16839) included in 3.8.1, inadvertently introduced a behavior change that broke several third-party packages relying on the original undefined parsing behavior. The change is reverted in 3.8.2, restoring the behavior of 3.8.0 and earlier releases.
bpo-39474: Fixed starting position of AST for expressions like
(a)(b)
,(a)[b]
and(a).b
.bpo-21016: The
pydoc
andtrace
modules now use thesysconfig
module to get the path to the Python standard library, to support uncommon installation path like/usr/lib64/python3.9/
on Fedora. Patch by Jan Matějek.bpo-39595: Improved performance of zipfile.Path for files with a large number of entries. Also improved performance and fixed minor issue as published with importlib_metadata 1.5.
Python 3.8.2 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2020-02-10
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-39579: Change the ending column offset of
Attribute
nodes constructed inast_for_dotted_name
to point at the end of the current node and not at the end of the lastNAME
node.bpo-39510: Fix segfault in
readinto()
method on closed BufferedReader.bpo-39492: Fix a reference cycle in the C Pickler that was preventing the garbage collection of deleted, pickled objects.
bpo-39421: Fix possible crashes when operating with the functions in the
heapq
module and custom comparison operators.bpo-39386: Prevent double awaiting of async iterator.
bpo-39235: Fix AST end location for lone generator expression in function call, e.g. f(i for i in a).
bpo-39209: Correctly handle multi-line tokens in interactive mode. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-39216: Fix constant folding optimization for positional only arguments - by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-39215: Fix
SystemError
when nested function has annotation on positional-only argument - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-38588: Fix possible crashes in dict and list when calling
PyObject_RichCompareBool()
.bpo-38610: Fix possible crashes in several list methods by holding strong references to list elements when calling
PyObject_RichCompareBool()
.
Library¶
bpo-39590: Collections.deque now holds strong references during deque.__contains__ and deque.count, fixing crashes.
bpo-38149:
sys.audit()
is now called only once per call ofglob.glob()
andglob.iglob()
.bpo-39450: Striped whitespace from docstring before returning it from
unittest.case.shortDescription()
.bpo-39493: Mark
typing.IO.closed
as a propertybpo-39485: Fix a bug in
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
that would complain about the wrong number of arguments for custom descriptors defined in an extension module returning functions.bpo-39082: Allow AsyncMock to correctly patch static/class methods
bpo-39390: Fixed a regression with the
ignore
callback ofshutil.copytree()
. The argument types are now str and List[str] again.bpo-39389: Write accurate compression level metadata in
gzip
archives, rather than always signaling maximum compression.bpo-39274:
bool(fraction.Fraction)
now returns a boolean even if (numerator != 0) does not return a boolean (ex: numpy number).bpo-39297: Improved performance of importlib.metadata distribution discovery and resilients to inaccessible sys.path entries (importlib_metadata v1.4.0).
bpo-39242: Updated the Gmane domain from news.gmane.org to news.gmane.io which is used for examples of
NNTP
news reader server and nntplib tests.bpo-38907: In http.server script, restore binding to IPv4 on Windows.
bpo-39152: Fix ttk.Scale.configure([name]) to return configuration tuple for name or all options. Giovanni Lombardo contributed part of the patch.
bpo-39198: If an exception were to be thrown in
Logger.isEnabledFor
(say, by asyncio timeouts or stopit) , thelogging
global lock may not be released appropriately, resulting in deadlock. This change wraps that block of code withtry...finally
to ensure the lock is released.bpo-39191: Perform a check for running loop before starting a new task in
loop.run_until_complete()
to fail fast; it prevents the side effect of new task spawning before exception raising.bpo-38871: Correctly parenthesize filter-based statements that contain lambda expressions in mod:
lib2to3
. Patch by Dong-hee Na.bpo-39142: A change was made to logging.config.dictConfig to avoid converting instances of named tuples to ConvertingTuple. It’s assumed that named tuples are too specialised to be treated like ordinary tuples; if a user of named tuples requires ConvertingTuple functionality, they will have to implement that themselves in their named tuple class.
bpo-39129: Fix import path for
asyncio.TimeoutError
bpo-39057:
urllib.request.proxy_bypass_environment()
now ignores leading dots and no longer ignores a trailing newline.bpo-39056: Fixed handling invalid warning category in the -W option. No longer import the re module if it is not needed.
bpo-39055:
base64.b64decode()
withvalidate=True
raises now a binascii.Error if the input ends with a single\n
.bpo-39033: Fix
NameError
inzipimport
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-38878: Fixed __subclasshook__ of
os.PathLike
to return a correct result upon inheritence. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-35182: Fixed
Popen.communicate()
subsequent call crash when the child process has already closed any piped standard stream, but still continues to be running. Patch by Andriy Maletsky.bpo-38473: Use signature from inner mock for autospecced methods attached with
unittest.mock.attach_mock()
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-38293: Add
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
support toproperty()
objects.
Documentation¶
bpo-39153: Clarify refcounting semantics for the following functions: - PyObject_SetItem - PyMapping_SetItemString - PyDict_SetItem - PyDict_SetItemString
bpo-39392: Explain that when filling with turtle, overlap regions may be left unfilled.
bpo-39381: Mention in docs that
asyncio.get_event_loop()
implicitly creates new event loop only if called from the main thread.bpo-38918: Add an entry for
__module__
in the “function” & “method” sections of the inspect docs types and members tablebpo-3530: In the
ast
module documentation, fix a misleadingNodeTransformer
example and add advice on when to use thefix_missing_locations
function.
Tests¶
bpo-39502: Skip test_zipfile.test_add_file_after_2107() if
time.localtime()
fails withOverflowError
. It is the case on AIX 6.1 for example.bpo-38546: Fix test_ressources_gced_in_workers() of test_concurrent_futures: explicitly stop the manager to prevent leaking a child process running in the background after the test completes.
Build¶
bpo-39144: The ctags and etags build targets both include Modules/_ctypes and Python standard library source files.
Windows¶
bpo-39439: Honor the Python path when a virtualenv is active on Windows.
bpo-39393: Improve the error message when attempting to load a DLL with unresolved dependencies.
bpo-38883:
home()
andexpanduser()
on Windows now preferUSERPROFILE
and no longer useHOME
, which is not normally set for regular user accounts. This makes them again behave likeos.path.expanduser()
, which was changed to ignoreHOME
in 3.8, see bpo-36264.bpo-39185: The build.bat script has additional options for very-quiet output (-q) and very-verbose output (-vv)
IDLE¶
bpo-30780: Add remaining configdialog tests for buttons and highlights and keys tabs.
bpo-39388: IDLE Settings Cancel button now cancels pending changes
bpo-39050: Make IDLE Settings dialog Help button work again.
bpo-34118: Tag memoryview, range, and tuple as classes, the same as list, etcetera, in the library manual built-in functions list.
bpo-38792: Close an IDLE shell calltip if a
KeyboardInterrupt
or shell restart occurs. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-32989: Add tests for editor newline_and_indent_event method. Remove dead code from pyparse find_good_parse_start method.
Python 3.8.1 final¶
Release date: 2019-12-18
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-39080: Fix the value of end_col_offset for Starred Expression AST nodes when they are among the elements in the args attribute of Call AST nodes.
bpo-39031: When parsing an “elif” node, lineno and col_offset of the node now point to the “elif” keyword and not to its condition, making it consistent with the “if” node. Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou.
bpo-39008:
PySys_Audit()
now requiresPy_ssize_t
to be used for size arguments in the format string, regardless of whetherPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
was defined at include time.
Library¶
bpo-39022: Update importlib.metadata to include improvements from importlib_metadata 1.3 including better serialization of EntryPoints and improved documentation for custom finders.
bpo-38811: Fix an unhandled exception in
pathlib
whenos.link()
is missing. Patch by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.bpo-36406: Handle namespace packages in
doctest
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
Python 3.8.1 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2019-12-09
Security¶
bpo-38945: Newline characters have been escaped when performing uu encoding to prevent them from overflowing into to content section of the encoded file. This prevents malicious or accidental modification of data during the decoding process.
bpo-37228: Due to significant security concerns, the reuse_address parameter of
asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint()
is no longer supported. This is because of the behavior ofSO_REUSEADDR
in UDP. For more details, see the documentation forloop.create_datagram_endpoint()
. (Contributed by Kyle Stanley, Antoine Pitrou, and Yury Selivanov in bpo-37228.)bpo-38722:
runpy
now usesio.open_code()
to open code files. Patch by Jason Killen.bpo-38804: Fixes a ReDoS vulnerability in
http.cookiejar
. Patch by Ben Caller.bpo-38622: Add additional audit events for the
ctypes
module.bpo-38418: Fixes audit event for
os.system()
to be namedos.system
.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-38673: In REPL mode, don’t switch to PS2 if the line starts with comment or whitespace. Based on work by Batuhan Taşkaya.
bpo-38922: Calling
replace
on a code object now raises thecode.__new__
audit event.bpo-38920: Add audit hooks for when
sys.excepthook()
andsys.unraisablehook()
are invokedbpo-38892: Improve documentation for audit events table and functions.
bpo-38707:
MainThread.native_id
is now correctly reset in child processes spawned usingmultiprocessing.Process
, instead of retaining the parent’s value.bpo-38640: Fixed a bug in the compiler that was causing to raise in the presence of break statements and continue statements inside always false while loops. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-38535: Fixed line numbers and column offsets for AST nodes for calls without arguments in decorators.
bpo-38525: Fix a segmentation fault when using reverse iterators of empty
dict
objects. Patch by Dong-hee Na and Inada Naoki.bpo-35409: Ignore GeneratorExit exceptions when throwing an exception into the aclose coroutine of an asynchronous generator.
Library¶
bpo-39006: Fix asyncio when the ssl module is missing: only check for ssl.SSLSocket instance if the ssl module is available.
bpo-38708: Fix a potential IndexError in email parser when parsing an empty msg-id.
bpo-38698: Add a new
InvalidMessageID
token to email parser to represent invalid Message-ID headers. Also, add defects when there is remaining value after parsing the header.bpo-38979: Return class from
ContextVar.__class_getitem__
to simplify subclassing.bpo-38986: Make repr of C accelerated TaskWakeupMethWrapper the same as of pure Python version.
bpo-38529: Drop too noisy asyncio warning about deletion of a stream without explicit
.close()
call.bpo-38634: The
readline
module now detects if Python is linked to libedit at runtime on all platforms. Previously, the check was only done on macOS.bpo-33684: Fix
json.tool
failed to read a JSON file with non-ASCII characters when locale encoding is not UTF-8.bpo-38698: Prevent UnboundLocalError to pop up in parse_message_id
parse_message_id() was improperly using a token defined inside an exception handler, which was raising
UnboundLocalError
on parsing an invalid value. Patch by Claudiu Popa.bpo-26730: Fix
SpooledTemporaryFile.rollover()
might corrupt the file when it is in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-38668: Calling func:
shutil.copytree
to copy a directory tree from one directory to another subdirectory resulted in an endless loop and a RecursionError. A fix was added to consume an iterator and create the list of the entries to be copied, avoiding the recursion for newly created directories. Patch by Bruno P. Kinoshita.bpo-37838:
typing.get_type_hints()
properly handles functions decorated withfunctools.wraps()
.bpo-38859: AsyncMock now returns StopAsyncIteration on the exaustion of a side_effects iterable. Since PEP-479 its Impossible to raise a StopIteration exception from a coroutine.
bpo-38857: AsyncMock fix for return values that are awaitable types. This also covers side_effect iterable values that happend to be awaitable, and wraps callables that return an awaitable type. Before these awaitables were being awaited instead of being returned as is.
bpo-38821: Fix unhandled exceptions in
argparse
when internationalizing error messages for arguments withnargs
set to special (non-integer) values. Patch by Federico Bond.bpo-38820: Make Python compatible with OpenSSL 3.0.0.
ssl.SSLSocket.getpeercert()
no longer returns IPv6 addresses with a trailing new line.bpo-38807: Update
TypeError
messages foros.path.join()
to includeos.PathLike
objects as acceptable input types.bpo-38785: Prevent asyncio from crashing if parent
__init__
is not called from a constructor of object derived fromasyncio.Future
.bpo-38723:
pdb
now usesio.open_code()
to trigger auditing events.bpo-27805: Allow opening pipes and other non-seekable files in append mode with
open()
.bpo-38686: Added support for multiple
qop
values inurllib.request.AbstractDigestAuthHandler
.bpo-38334: Fixed seeking backward on an encrypted
zipfile.ZipExtFile
.bpo-34679: asynci.ProactorEventLoop.close() now only calls signal.set_wakeup_fd() in the main thread.
bpo-31202: The case the result of
pathlib.WindowsPath.glob()
matches now the case of the pattern for literal parts.bpo-38521: Fixed erroneous equality comparison in statistics.NormalDist().
bpo-38478: Fixed a bug in
inspect.signature.bind()
that was causing it to fail when handling a keyword argument with same name as positional-only parameter. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-33604: Fixed
hmac.new
andhmac.HMAC
to raise TypeError instead of ValueError when the digestmod parameter, now required in 3.8, is omitted. Also clarified the hmac module documentation and docstrings.bpo-38422: Clarify docstrings of pathlib suffix(es)
bpo-36993: Improve error reporting for corrupt zip files with bad zip64 extra data. Patch by Daniel Hillier.
bpo-36820: Break cycle generated when saving an exception in socket.py, codeop.py and dyld.py as they keep alive not only the exception but user objects through the
__traceback__
attribute. Patch by Mario Corchero.bpo-34776: Fix dataclasses to support forward references in type annotations
bpo-33348: lib2to3 now recognizes expressions after
*
and**
like inf(*[] or [])
.bpo-27657: Fix urllib.parse.urlparse() with numeric paths. A string like “path:80” is no longer parsed as a path but as a scheme (“path”) and a path (“80”).
Documentation¶
bpo-38816: Provides more details about the interaction between
fork()
and CPython’s runtime, focusing just on the C-API. This includes cautions about wherefork()
should and shouldn’t be called.bpo-38351: Modernize
email
examples from %-formatting to f-strings.bpo-38778: Document the fact that
RuntimeError
is raised ifos.fork()
is called in a subinterpreter.bpo-38592: Add Brazilian Portuguese to the language switcher at Python Documentation website.
Tests¶
bpo-38547: Fix test_pty: if the process is the session leader, closing the master file descriptor raises a SIGHUP signal: simply ignore SIGHUP when running the tests.
bpo-38992: Fix a test for
math.fsum()
that was failing due to constant folding.bpo-38965: Fix test_faulthandler on GCC 10. Use the “volatile” keyword in
faulthandler._stack_overflow()
to prevent tail call optimization on any compiler, rather than relying on compiler specific pragma.bpo-38875: test_capi: trashcan tests now require the test “cpu” resource.
bpo-38841: Skip asyncio test_create_datagram_endpoint_existing_sock_unix on platforms lacking a functional bind() for named unix domain sockets.
bpo-38669: Raise
TypeError
when passing target as a string withunittest.mock.patch.object()
.bpo-35998: Fix a race condition in test_asyncio.test_start_tls_server_1(). Previously, there was a race condition between the test main() function which replaces the protocol and the test ServerProto protocol which sends ANSWER once it gets HELLO. Now, only the test main() function is responsible to send data, ServerProto no longer sends data.
Build¶
bpo-37404:
asyncio
now raisesTyperError
when calling incompatible methods with anssl.SSLSocket
socket. Patch by Ido Michael.bpo-38809: On Windows, build scripts will now recognize and use python.exe from an active virtual env.
bpo-38684: Fix _hashlib build when Blake2 is disabled, but OpenSSL supports it.
bpo-37415: Fix stdatomic.h header check for ICC compiler: the ICC implementation lacks atomic_uintptr_t type which is needed by Python.
Windows¶
bpo-33125: Add support for building and releasing Windows ARM64 packages.
bpo-38589: Fixes HTML Help shortcut when Windows is not installed to C drive
bpo-38453: Ensure ntpath.realpath() correctly resolves relative paths.
bpo-38519: Restores the internal C headers that were missing from the nuget.org and Microsoft Store packages.
bpo-38492: Remove
pythonw.exe
dependency on the Microsoft C++ runtime.
macOS¶
bpo-37931: Fixed a crash on OSX dynamic builds that occurred when re-initializing the posix module after a Py_Finalize if the environment had changed since the previous
import posix
. Patch by Benoît Hudson.
IDLE¶
bpo-38862: ‘Strip Trailing Whitespace’ on the Format menu removes extra newlines at the end of non-shell files.
bpo-26353: Stop adding newline when saving an IDLE shell window.
bpo-38636: Fix IDLE Format menu tab toggle and file indent width. These functions (default shortcuts Alt-T and Alt-U) were mistakenly disabled in 3.7.5 and 3.8.0.
bpo-4630: Add an option to toggle IDLE’s cursor blink for shell, editor, and output windows. See Settings, General, Window Preferences, Cursor Blink. Patch by Zachary Spytz.
bpo-38598: Do not try to compile IDLE shell or output windows
C API¶
bpo-37633: Re-export some function compatibility wrappers for macros in
pythonrun.h
.bpo-38540: Fixed possible leak in
PyArg_Parse()
and similar functions for format units"es#"
and"et#"
when the macroPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
is not defined.bpo-36389: The
_PyObject_CheckConsistency()
function is now also available in release mode. For example, it can be used to debug a crash in thevisit_decref()
function of the GC.
Python 3.8.0 final¶
Release date: 2019-10-14
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-38469: Fixed a bug where the scope of named expressions was not being resolved correctly in the presence of the global keyword. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-38379: When cyclic garbage collection (gc) runs finalizers that resurrect unreachable objects, the current gc run ends, without collecting any cyclic trash. However, the statistics reported by
collect()
andget_stats()
claimed that all cyclic trash found was collected, and that the resurrected objects were collected. Changed the stats to report that none were collected.
Library¶
bpo-38449: Revert GH-15522, which introduces a regression in
mimetypes.guess_type()
due to improper handling of filenames as urls.bpo-38431: Fix
__repr__
method fordataclasses.InitVar
to support typing objects, patch by Samuel Colvin.bpo-38109: Add missing
stat.S_IFDOOR
,stat.S_IFPORT
,stat.S_IFWHT
,stat.S_ISDOOR()
,stat.S_ISPORT()
, andstat.S_ISWHT()
values to the Python implementation ofstat
.bpo-38405: Nested subclasses of
typing.NamedTuple
are now pickleable.bpo-38332: Prevent
KeyError
thrown by_encoded_words.decode()
when given an encoded-word with invalid content-type encoding from propagating all the way toemail.message.get()
.bpo-38341: Add
smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError
to thesmtplib
exported names.bpo-13153: OS native encoding is now used for converting between Python strings and Tcl objects. This allows to display, copy and paste to clipboard emoji and other non-BMP characters. Converting strings from Tcl to Python and back now never fails (except MemoryError).
Tests¶
bpo-37531: On timeout, regrtest no longer attempts to call
popen.communicate()
again: it can hang until all child processes using stdout and stderr pipes completes. Kill the worker process and ignores its output. Change also the faulthandler timeout of the main process from 1 minute to 5 minutes, for Python slowest buildbots.
Windows¶
IDLE¶
bpo-36698: IDLE no longer fails when write non-encodable characters to stderr. It now escapes them with a backslash, as the regular Python interpreter. Added the
errors
field to the standard streams.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-38118: Update Valgrind suppression file to ignore a false alarm in
PyUnicode_Decode()
when using GCC builtin strcmp().bpo-38347: pathfix.py: Assume all files that end on ‘.py’ are Python scripts when working recursively.
C API¶
bpo-38395: Fix a crash in
weakref.proxy
objects due to incorrect lifetime management when calling some associated methods that may delete the last reference to object being referenced by the proxy. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Python 3.8.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2019-10-01
Security¶
bpo-38243: Escape the server title of
xmlrpc.server.DocXMLRPCServer
when rendering the document page as HTML. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in bpo-38243.)bpo-38174: Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.8, which resolves CVE-2019-15903.
bpo-37764: Fixes email._header_value_parser.get_unstructured going into an infinite loop for a specific case in which the email header does not have trailing whitespace, and the case in which it contains an invalid encoded word. Patch by Ashwin Ramaswami.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-38006: Fix a bug due to the interaction of weakrefs and the cyclic garbage collector. We must clear any weakrefs in garbage in order to prevent their callbacks from executing and causing a crash.
bpo-38317: Fix warnings options priority:
PyConfig.warnoptions
has the highest priority, as stated in the PEP 587.bpo-36871: Improve error handling for the assert_has_calls and assert_has_awaits methods of mocks. Fixed a bug where any errors encountered while binding the expected calls to the mock’s spec were silently swallowed, leading to misleading error output.
bpo-38236: Python now dumps path configuration if it fails to import the Python codecs of the filesystem and stdio encodings.
bpo-38013: Allow to call
async_generator_athrow().throw(...)
even for non-started async generator helper. It fixes annoying warning at the end ofasyncio.run()
call.bpo-38124: Fix an off-by-one error in PyState_AddModule that could cause out-of-bounds memory access.
bpo-38005: Fixed comparing and creating of InterpreterID and ChannelID.
bpo-37994: Fixed silencing arbitrary errors if an attribute lookup fails in several sites. Only AttributeError should be silenced.
bpo-37990: Fix elapsed time in gc stats was not printed correctly. This bug was a regression in 3.8b4.
bpo-37966: The implementation of
is_normalized()
has been greatly sped up on strings that aren’t normalized, by implementing the full normalization-quick-check algorithm from the Unicode standard.bpo-20490: Improve import error message for partially initialized module on circular
from
imports - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-37409: Ensure explicit relative imports from interactive sessions and scripts (having no parent package) always raise ImportError, rather than treating the current module as the package. Patch by Ben Lewis.
bpo-37619: When adding a wrapper descriptor from one class to a different class (for example, setting
__add__ = str.__add__
on anint
subclass), an exception is correctly raised when the operator is called.bpo-30773: Prohibit parallel running of aclose() / asend() / athrow(). Fix ag_running to reflect the actual running status of the AG.
Library¶
bpo-38319: sendfile() used in socket and shutil modules was raising OverflowError for files >= 2GiB on 32-bit architectures. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
bpo-38242: Revert the new asyncio Streams API
bpo-38019: Correctly handle pause/resume reading of closed asyncio unix pipe.
bpo-38163: Child mocks will now detect their type as either synchronous or asynchronous, asynchronous child mocks will be AsyncMocks and synchronous child mocks will be either MagicMock or Mock (depending on their parent type).
bpo-38161: Removes _AwaitEvent from AsyncMock.
bpo-38216: Allow the rare code that wants to send invalid http requests from the
http.client
library a way to do so. The fixes for bpo-30458 led to breakage for some projects that were relying on this ability to test their own behavior in the face of bad requests.bpo-38108: Any synchronous magic methods on an AsyncMock now return a MagicMock. Any asynchronous magic methods on a MagicMock now return an AsyncMock.
bpo-38248: asyncio: Fix inconsistent immediate Task cancellation
bpo-38237: The arguments for the builtin pow function are more descriptive. They can now also be passed in as keywords.
bpo-38191: Constructors of
NamedTuple
andTypedDict
types now accept arbitrary keyword argument names, including “cls”, “self”, “typename”, “_typename”, “fields” and “_fields”. Passing positional arguments by keyword is deprecated.bpo-38185: Fixed case-insensitive string comparison in
sqlite3.Row
indexing.bpo-38136: Changes AsyncMock call count and await count to be two different counters. Now await count only counts when a coroutine has been awaited, not when it has been called, and vice-versa. Update the documentation around this.
bpo-37828: Fix default mock name in
unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called()
exceptions. Patch by Abraham Toriz Cruz.bpo-38175: Fix a memory leak in comparison of
sqlite3.Row
objects.bpo-33936: _hashlib no longer calls obsolete OpenSSL initialization function with OpenSSL 1.1.0+.
bpo-34706: Preserve subclassing in inspect.Signature.from_callable.
bpo-38153: Names of hashing algorithms frome OpenSSL are now normalized to follow Python’s naming conventions. For example OpenSSL uses sha3-512 instead of sha3_512 or blake2b512 instead of blake2b.
bpo-38115: Fix a bug in dis.findlinestarts() where it would return invalid bytecode offsets. Document that a code object’s co_lnotab can contain invalid bytecode offsets.
bpo-38148: Add slots to
asyncio
transport classes, which can reduce memory usage.bpo-36991: Fixes a potential incorrect AttributeError exception escaping ZipFile.extract() in some unsupported input error situations.
bpo-38134: Remove obsolete copy of PBKDF2_HMAC_fast. All supported OpenSSL versions contain a fast implementation.
bpo-38132: The OpenSSL hashlib wrapper uses a simpler implementation. Several Macros and pointless caches are gone. The hash name now comes from OpenSSL’s EVP. The algorithm name stays the same, except it is now always lower case.
bpo-38008: Fix parent class check in protocols to correctly identify the module that provides a builtin protocol, instead of assuming they all come from the
collections.abc
modulebpo-37405: Fixed regression bug for socket.getsockname() for non-CAN_ISOTP AF_CAN address family sockets by returning a 1-tuple instead of string.
bpo-38121: Update parameter names on functions in importlib.metadata matching the changes in the 0.22 release of importlib_metadata.
bpo-38110: The os.closewalk() implementation now uses the libc fdwalk() API on platforms where it is available.
bpo-38093: Fixes AsyncMock so it doesn’t crash when used with AsyncContextManagers or AsyncIterators.
bpo-37488: Add warning to
datetime.utctimetuple()
,datetime.utcnow()
anddatetime.utcfromtimestamp()
.bpo-38086: Update importlib.metadata with changes from importlib_metadata 0.21.
bpo-37251: Remove
__code__
check in AsyncMock that incorrectly evaluated function specs as async objects but failed to evaluate classes with__await__
but no__code__
attribute defined as async objects.bpo-38066: Hide internal asyncio.Stream methods: feed_eof(), feed_data(), set_exception() and set_transport().
bpo-38059: inspect.py now uses sys.exit() instead of exit()
bpo-37953: In
typing
, improved the__hash__
and__eq__
methods forForwardReferences
.bpo-38026: Fixed
inspect.getattr_static()
usedisinstance
while it should avoid dynamic lookup.bpo-38010: In
importlib.metadata
sync withimportlib_metadata
0.20, clarifying behavior offiles()
and fixing issue where only one requirement was returned forrequires()
ondist-info
packages.bpo-38006: weakref.WeakValueDictionary defines a local remove() function used as callback for weak references. This function was created with a closure. Modify the implementation to avoid the closure.
bpo-34410: Fixed a crash in the
tee()
iterator when re-enter it. RuntimeError is now raised in this case.bpo-37140: Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice.
bpo-37972: Subscripts to the
unittest.mock.call
objects now receive the same chaining mechanism as any other custom attributes, so that the following usage no longer raises aTypeError
:call().foo().__getitem__(‘bar’)
Patch by blhsing
bpo-22347: Update mimetypes.guess_type to allow proper parsing of URLs with only a host name. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
bpo-37885: venv: Don’t generate unset variable warning on deactivate.
bpo-37424: Fixes a possible hang when using a timeout on
subprocess.run()
while capturing output. If the child process spawned its own children or otherwise connected its stdout or stderr handles with another process, we could hang after the timeout was reached and our child was killed when attempting to read final output from the pipes.bpo-37212:
unittest.mock.call()
now preserves the order of keyword arguments in repr output. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-37305: Add .webmanifest -> application/manifest+json to list of recognized file types and content type headers
bpo-21872: Fix
lzma
: module decompresses data incompletely. When decompressing a FORMAT_ALONE format file, and it doesn’t have the end marker, sometimes the last one to dozens bytes can’t be output. Patch by Ma Lin.bpo-37206: Default values which cannot be represented as Python objects no longer improperly represented as
None
in function signatures.bpo-12144: Ensure cookies with
expires
attribute are handled inCookieJar.make_cookies()
.bpo-31163: pathlib.Path instance’s rename and replace methods now return the new Path instance.
bpo-25068:
urllib.request.ProxyHandler
now lowercases the keys of the passed dictionary.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-36250: Ignore
ValueError
fromsignal
withinteraction
in non-main thread.bpo-35168:
shlex.shlex.punctuation_chars
is now a read-only property.bpo-20504: Fixes a bug in
cgi
module when a multipart/form-data request has noContent-Length
header.bpo-34519: Add additional aliases for HP Roman 8. Patch by Michael Osipov.
Documentation¶
bpo-26868: Fix example usage of
PyModule_AddObject()
to properly handle errors.bpo-36797: Fix a dead link in the distutils API Reference.
bpo-37977: Warn more strongly and clearly about pickle insecurity
bpo-37937: Mention
frame.f_trace
insys.settrace()
docs.bpo-36260: Add decompression pitfalls to zipfile module documentation.
bpo-36960: Restructured the
datetime
docs in the interest of making them more user-friendly and improving readability. Patch by Brad Solomon.bpo-23460: The documentation for decimal string formatting using the
:g
specifier has been updated to reflect the correct exponential notation cutoff point. Original patch contributed by Tuomas Suutari.bpo-35803: Document and test that
tempfile
functions may accept a path-like object for thedir
argument. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-33944: Added a note about the intended use of code in .pth files.
bpo-34293: Fix the Doc/Makefile regarding PAPER environment variable and PDF builds
Tests¶
bpo-38239: Fix test_gdb for Link Time Optimization (LTO) builds.
bpo-38275: test_ssl now handles disabled TLS/SSL versions better. OpenSSL’s crypto policy and run-time settings are recognized and tests for disabled versions are skipped. Tests also accept more TLS minimum_versions for platforms that override OpenSSL’s default with strict settings.
bpo-38271: The private keys for test_ssl were encrypted with 3DES in traditional PKCS#5 format. 3DES and the digest algorithm of PKCS#5 are blocked by some strict crypto policies. Use PKCS#8 format with AES256 encryption instead.
bpo-38270: test.support now has a helper function to check for availibility of a hash digest function. Several tests are refactored avoid MD5 and use SHA256 instead. Other tests are marked to use MD5 and skipped when MD5 is disabled.
bpo-37123: Multiprocessing test test_mymanager() now also expects -SIGTERM, not only exitcode 0. BaseManager._finalize_manager() sends SIGTERM to the manager process if it takes longer than 1 second to stop, which happens on slow buildbots.
bpo-38212: Multiprocessing tests: increase test_queue_feeder_donot_stop_onexc() timeout from 1 to 60 seconds.
bpo-38117: Test with OpenSSL 1.1.1d
bpo-37531: Enhance regrtest multiprocess timeout: write a message when killing a worker process, catch popen.kill() and popen.wait() exceptions, put a timeout on the second call to popen.communicate().
bpo-37876: Add tests for ROT-13 codec.
bpo-37252: Fix assertions in
test_close
andtest_events_mask_overflow
devpoll tests.bpo-34001: Make test_ssl pass with LibreSSL. LibreSSL handles minimum and maximum TLS version differently than OpenSSL.
bpo-36919: Make
test_source_encoding.test_issue2301
implementation independent. The test will work now for both CPython and IronPython.bpo-34596: Fallback to a default reason when
unittest.skip()
is uncalled. Patch by Naitree Zhu.
Build¶
bpo-38301: In Solaris family, we must be sure to use
-D_REENTRANT
. Patch by Jesús Cea Avión.bpo-36210: Update optional extension module detection for AIX. ossaudiodev and spwd are not applicable for AIX, and are no longer reported as missing. 3rd-party packaging of ncurses (with ASIS support) conflicts with officially supported AIX curses library, so configure AIX to use libcurses.a. However, skip trying to build _curses_panel.
patch by M Felt
bpo-36002: Locate
llvm-profdata
andllvm-ar
binaries usingAC_PATH_TOOL
rather thanAC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL
.bpo-37936: The
.gitignore
file systematically keeps “rooted”, with a non-trailing slash, all the rules that are meant to apply to files in a specific place in the repo. Previously, when the intended file to ignore happened to be at the root of the repo, we’d most often accidentally also ignore files and directories with the same name anywhere in the tree.bpo-37936: The
.gitignore
file no longer applies to any files that are in fact tracked in the Git repository. Patch by Greg Price.
Windows¶
bpo-38117: Update bundled OpenSSL to 1.1.1d
bpo-38092: Reduce overhead when using multiprocessing in a Windows virtual environment.
bpo-38133: Allow py.exe launcher to locate installations from the Microsoft Store and improve display of active virtual environments.
bpo-38114: The
pip.ini
is no longer included in the Nuget package.bpo-36634:
os.cpu_count()
now returns active processors rather than maximum processors.bpo-36634: venv activate.bat now works when the existing variables contain double quote characters.
bpo-38081: Prevent error calling
os.path.realpath()
on'NUL'
.bpo-38087: Fix case sensitivity in test_pathlib and test_ntpath.
bpo-38088: Fixes distutils not finding vcruntime140.dll with only the v142 toolset installed.
bpo-37283: Ensure command-line and unattend.xml setting override previously detected states in Windows installer.
bpo-38030: Fixes
os.stat()
failing for block devices on Windowsbpo-38020: Fixes potential crash when calling
os.readlink()
(or indirectly throughrealpath()
) on a file that is not a supported link.bpo-37705: Improve the implementation of
winerror_to_errno()
.bpo-37702: Fix memory leak on Windows in creating an SSLContext object or running urllib.request.urlopen(‘https://…’).
bpo-37445: Include the
FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS
flag inFormatMessageW()
calls.bpo-37380: Don’t collect unfinished processes with
subprocess._active
on Windows to cleanup later. Patch by Ruslan Kuprieiev.bpo-32587: Make
winreg.REG_MULTI_SZ
support zero-length strings.
macOS¶
IDLE¶
bpo-35379: When exiting IDLE, catch any AttributeError. One happens when EditorWindow.close is called twice. Printing a traceback, when IDLE is run from a terminal, is useless and annoying.
bpo-38183: To avoid problems, test_idle ignores the user config directory. It no longer tries to create or access .idlerc or any files within. Users must run IDLE to discover problems with saving settings.
bpo-38077: IDLE no longer adds ‘argv’ to the user namespace when initializing it. This bug only affected 3.7.4 and 3.8.0b2 to 3.8.0b4.
bpo-38041: Shell restart lines now fill the window width, always start with ‘=’, and avoid wrapping unnecessarily. The line will still wrap if the included file name is long relative to the width.
bpo-35771: To avoid occasional spurious test_idle failures on slower machines, increase the
hover_delay
in test_tooltip.bpo-37902: Add mousewheel scrolling for IDLE module, path, and stack browsers. Patch by George Zhang.
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
bpo-38234:
Py_SetPath()
now setssys.executable
to the program full path (Py_GetProgramFullPath()
) rather than to the program name (Py_GetProgramName()
).bpo-38234: Python ignored arguments passed to
Py_SetPath()
,Py_SetPythonHome()
andPy_SetProgramName()
: fix Python initialization to use specified arguments.bpo-38205: The
Py_UNREACHABLE()
macro now callsPy_FatalError()
.bpo-37879: Fix subtype_dealloc to suppress the type decref when the base type is a C heap type
Python 3.8.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2019-08-29
Security¶
bpo-34155: Fix parsing of invalid email addresses with more than one
@
(e.g. a@b@c.com.) to not return the part before 2nd@
as valid email address. Patch by maxking & jpic.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-37947: Adjust correctly the recursion level in the symtable generation for named expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37830: Fixed compilation of
break
andcontinue
in thefinally
block when the correspondingtry
block containsreturn
with a non-constant value.bpo-32912: Reverted bpo-32912: emitting
SyntaxWarning
instead ofDeprecationWarning
for invalid escape sequences in string and bytes literals.bpo-37757: PEP 572: As described in the PEP, assignment expressions now raise
SyntaxError
when their interaction with comprehension scoping results in an ambiguous target scope.The
TargetScopeError
subclass originally proposed by the PEP has been removed in favour of just raising regular syntax errors for the disallowed cases.bpo-36311: Decoding bytes objects larger than 2GiB is faster and no longer fails when a multibyte characters spans a chunk boundary.
bpo-37433: Fix
SyntaxError
indicator printing too many spaces for multi-line strings - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-20523:
pdb.Pdb
supports ~/.pdbrc in Windows 7. Patch by Tim Hopper and Dan Lidral-Porter.
Library¶
bpo-37834: Prevent shutil.rmtree exception when built on non-Windows system without fd system call support, like older versions of macOS.
bpo-37965: Fix C compiler warning caused by distutils.ccompiler.CCompiler.has_function.
bpo-37960:
repr()
of buffered and text streams now silences only expected exceptions when get the value of “name” and “mode” attributes.bpo-37951: Most features of the subprocess module now work again in subinterpreters. Only preexec_fn is restricted in subinterpreters.
bpo-36205: Fix the rusage implementation of time.process_time() to correctly report the sum of the system and user CPU time.
bpo-37950: Fix
ast.dump()
when call with incompletely initialized node.bpo-34679: Restores instantiation of Windows IOCP event loops from the non-main thread.
bpo-36917: Add default implementation of the
ast.NodeVisitor.visit_Constant()
method which emits a deprecation warning and calls corresponding methodyvisit_Num()
,visit_Str()
, etc.bpo-37798: Update test_statistics.py to verify that the statistics module works well for both C and Python implementations. Patch by Dong-hee Na
bpo-26589: Added a new status code to the http module: 451 UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS
bpo-37915: Fix a segmentation fault that appeared when comparing instances of
datetime.timezone
anddatetime.tzinfo
objects. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-37868: Fix dataclasses.is_dataclass when given an instance that never raises AttributeError in __getattr__. That is, an object that returns something for __dataclass_fields__ even if it’s not a dataclass.
bpo-37811: Fix
socket
module’ssocket.connect(address)
function being unable to establish connection in case of interrupted system call. The problem was observed on all OSes whichpoll(2)
system call can take only non-negative integers and -1 as a timeout value.bpo-21131: Fix
faulthandler.register(chain=True)
stack. faulthandler now allocates a dedicated stack ofSIGSTKSZ*2
bytes, instead of justSIGSTKSZ
bytes. Calling the previous signal handler in faulthandler signal handler uses more thanSIGSTKSZ
bytes of stack memory on some platforms.bpo-37798: Add C fastpath for statistics.NormalDist.inv_cdf() Patch by Dong-hee Na
bpo-37819: Add Fraction.as_integer_ratio() to match the corresponding methods in bool, int, float, and decimal.
bpo-37810: Fix
difflib
?
hint in diff output when dealing with tabs. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-37772: In
zipfile.Path
, when adding implicit dirs, ensure that ancestral directories are added and that duplicates are excluded.bpo-28292: Mark calendar.py helper functions as being private. The follows PEP 8 guidance to maintain the style conventions in the module and it addresses a known case of user confusion.
bpo-18049: Add definition of THREAD_STACK_SIZE for AIX in Python/thread_pthread.h The default thread stacksize caused crashes with the default recursion limit Patch by M Felt
bpo-37738: Fix the implementation of curses
addch(str, color_pair)
: pass the color pair tosetcchar()
, instead of always passing 0 as the color pair.bpo-37723: Fix performance regression on regular expression parsing with huge character sets. Patch by Yann Vaginay.
bpo-32178: Fix IndexError in
email
package when trying to parse invalid address fields starting with:
.bpo-37685: Fixed comparisons of
datetime.timedelta
anddatetime.timezone
.bpo-37695: Correct
curses.unget_wch()
error message. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-37354: Make Activate.ps1 Powershell script static to allow for signing it.
bpo-37664: Update wheels bundled with ensurepip (pip 19.2.3 and setuptools 41.2.0)
bpo-37642: Allowed the pure Python implementation of
datetime.timezone
to represent sub-minute offsets close to minimum and maximum boundaries, specifically in the ranges (23:59, 24:00) and (-23:59, 24:00). Patch by Ngalim Siregarbpo-16970: Adding a value error when an invalid value in passed to nargs Patch by Robert Leenders
bpo-37587: Make json.loads faster for long strings. (Patch by Marco Paolini)
bpo-18378: Recognize “UTF-8” as a valid value for LC_CTYPE in locale._parse_localename.
bpo-37531: “python3 -m test -jN –timeout=TIMEOUT” now kills a worker process if it runs longer than TIMEOUT seconds.
bpo-37482: Fix serialization of display name in originator or destination address fields with both encoded words and special chars.
bpo-37372: Fix error unpickling datetime.time objects from Python 2 with seconds>=24. Patch by Justin Blanchard.
bpo-37085: Add the optional Linux SocketCAN Broadcast Manager constants, used as flags to configure the BCM behaviour, in the socket module. Patch by Karl Ding.
bpo-36871: Ensure method signature is used instead of constructor signature of a class while asserting mock object against method calls. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-36582: Fix
UserString.encode()
to correctly returnbytes
rather than aUserString
instance.bpo-34775: Division handling of PurePath now returns NotImplemented instead of raising a TypeError when passed something other than an instance of str or PurePath. Patch by Roger Aiudi.
Documentation¶
bpo-37979: Added a link to dateutil.parser.isoparse in the datetime.fromisoformat documentation. Patch by Paul Ganssle
bpo-37759: Beginning edits to Whatsnew 3.8
bpo-37726: Stop recommending getopt in the tutorial for command line argument parsing and promote argparse.
bpo-37256: Fix wording of arguments for
Request
inurllib.request
bpo-37004: In the documentation for difflib, a note was added explicitly warning that the results of SequenceMatcher’s ratio method may depend on the order of the input strings.
bpo-36487: Make C-API docs clear about what the “main” interpreter is.
Build¶
bpo-37707: Mark some individual tests to skip when –pgo is used. The tests marked increase the PGO task time significantly and likely don’t help improve optimization of the final executable.
Windows¶
bpo-37549:
os.dup()
no longer fails for standard streams on Windows 7.bpo-1311: The
nul
file on Windows now returns True fromexists()
and a valid result fromos.stat()
withS_IFCHR
set.bpo-9949: Enable support for following symlinks in
os.realpath()
.bpo-37834: Treat all name surrogate reparse points on Windows in
os.lstat()
and other reparse points as regular files inos.stat()
.bpo-36266: Add the module name in the formatted error message when DLL load fail happens during module import in
_PyImport_FindSharedFuncptrWindows()
. Patch by Srinivas Nyayapati.bpo-25172: Trying to import the
crypt
module on Windows will result in anImportError
with a message explaining that the module isn’t supported on Windows. On other platforms, if the underlying_crypt
module is not available, the ImportError will include a message explaining the problem.bpo-37778: Fixes the icons used for file associations to the Microsoft Store package.
bpo-37734: Fix use of registry values to launch Python from Microsoft Store app.
bpo-28269: Replace use of
strcasecmp()
for the system function_stricmp()
. Patch by Minmin Gong.
macOS¶
bpo-18049: Increase the default stack size of threads from 5MB to 16MB on macOS, to match the stack size of the main thread. This avoids crashes on deep recursion in threads.
IDLE¶
bpo-37824: Properly handle user input warnings in IDLE shell. Cease turning SyntaxWarnings into SyntaxErrors.
bpo-37929: IDLE Settings dialog now closes properly when there is no shell window.
bpo-37849: Fixed completions list appearing too high or low when shown above the current line.
bpo-36419: Refactor IDLE autocomplete and improve testing.
bpo-37748: Reorder the Run menu. Put the most common choice, Run Module, at the top.
Tools/Demos¶
Python 3.8.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2019-07-29
Security¶
bpo-37461: Fix an infinite loop when parsing specially crafted email headers. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
Core and Builtins¶
Library¶
bpo-37697: Syncronize
importlib.metadata
with importlib_metadata 0.19, improving handling of EGG-INFO files and fixing a crash when entry point names contained colons.bpo-37691: Let math.dist() accept coordinates as sequences (or iterables) rather than just tuples.
bpo-37664: Update wheels bundled with ensurepip (pip 19.2.1 and setuptools 41.0.1)
bpo-36324: Make internal attributes for statistics.NormalDist() private.
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-37502: pickle.loads() no longer raises TypeError when the buffers argument is set to None
bpo-37520: Correct behavior for zipfile.Path.parent when the path object identifies a subdirectory.
bpo-18374: Fix the
.col_offset
attribute of nestedast.BinOp
instances which had a too large value in some situations.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-37481: The distutils
bdist_wininst
command is deprecated in Python 3.8, usebdist_wheel
(wheel packages) instead.bpo-26967: An
ArgumentParser
withallow_abbrev=False
no longer disables grouping of short flags, such as-vv
, but only disables abbreviation of long flags as documented. Patch by Zac Hatfield-Dodds.bpo-37347:
sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate()
,sqlite3.Connection.create_function()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler()
sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback()
methods lead to segfaults if some of these methods are called twice with an equal object but not the same. Now callbacks are stored more carefully. Patch by Aleksandr Balezin.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
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-37521: Fix
importlib
examples to insert any newly created modules via importlib.util.module_from_spec() immediately into sys.modules instead of after calling loader.exec_module().Thanks to Benjamin Mintz for finding the bug.
bpo-37456: Slash (‘/’) is now part of syntax.
bpo-37487: Fix PyList_GetItem index description to include 0.
bpo-37149: Replace the dead link to the Tkinter 8.5 reference by John Shipman, New Mexico Tech, with a link to the archive.org copy.
bpo-37478: Added possible exceptions to the description of os.chdir().
Tests¶
bpo-37558: Fix test_shared_memory_cleaned_after_process_termination name handling
bpo-37526: Add
test.support.catch_threading_exception()
: context manager catchingthreading.Thread
exception usingthreading.excepthook()
.bpo-37421: test_concurrent_futures now explicitly stops the ForkServer instance if it’s running.
bpo-37421: multiprocessing tests now stop the ForkServer instance if it’s running: close the “alive” file descriptor to ask the server to stop and then remove its UNIX address.
Build¶
bpo-36044: Reduce the number of unit tests run for the PGO generation task. This speeds up the task by a factor of about 15x. Running the full unit test suite is slow. This change may result in a slightly less optimized build since not as many code branches will be executed. If you are willing to wait for the much slower build, the old behavior can be restored using ‘./configure [..] PROFILE_TASK=”-m test –pgo-extended”’. We make no guarantees as to which PGO task set produces a faster build. Users who care should run their own relevant benchmarks as results can depend on the environment, workload, and compiler tool chain.
Windows¶
bpo-37672: Switch Windows Store package’s pip to use bundled
pip.ini
instead ofPIP_USER
variable.
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-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 3.8.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2019-07-04
Security¶
bpo-37363: Adds audit events for the range of supported run commands (see Command line and environment).
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’.
bpo-37363: Adds audit events for
ensurepip
,ftplib
,glob
,imaplib
,nntplib
,pdb
,poplib
,shutil
,smtplib
,sqlite3
,subprocess
,telnetlib
,tempfile
andwebbrowser
, as well asos.listdir()
,os.scandir()
andbreakpoint()
.bpo-37364:
io.open_code()
is now used when reading.pth
files.bpo-34631: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in Windows installer
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.bpo-24214: Improved support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 and UTF-16 incremental decoders.
bpo-35224: Reverse evaluation order of key: value in dict comprehensions as proposed in PEP 572. I.e. in
{k: v for ...}
,k
will be evaluated beforev
.bpo-37316: Fix the
PySys_Audit()
call inmmap.mmap
.bpo-37269: Fix a bug in the peephole optimizer that was not treating correctly constant conditions with binary operators. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37213: Handle correctly negative line offsets in the peephole optimizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37219: Remove errorneous optimization for empty set differences.
bpo-36922: Slot functions optimize any callable with
Py_TPFLAGS_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR
instead of only instances offunction
.bpo-36974: The slot
tp_vectorcall_offset
is inherited unconditionally to supportsuper().__call__()
when the base class uses vectorcall.bpo-37160:
threading.get_native_id()
now also supports NetBSD.bpo-37077: Add
threading.get_native_id()
support for AIX. Patch by M. Felt
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-37420:
os.sched_setaffinity()
now correctly handles errors that arise during iteration over itsmask
argument. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-37412: The
os.getcwdb()
function now uses the UTF-8 encoding on Windows, rather than the ANSI code page: see PEP 529 for the rationale. The function is no longer deprecated on Windows.bpo-29412: Fix IndexError in parsing a header value ending unexpectedly. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
bpo-36546: The dist argument for statistics.quantiles() is now positional only. The current name doesn’t reflect that the argument can be either a dataset or a distribution. Marking the parameter as positional avoids confusion and makes it possible to change the name later.
bpo-37394: Fix a bug that was causing the
queue
module to fail if the accelerator module was not available. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-33972: Email with single part but content-type set to
multipart/*
doesn’t raise AttributeError anymore.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-37210: Allow pure Python implementation of
pickle
to work even when the C_pickle
module is unavailable.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-35766: Change the format of feature_version to be a (major, minor) tuple.
bpo-36607: Eliminate
RuntimeError
raised byasyncio.all_tasks()
if internal tasks weak set is changed by another thread during iteration.bpo-18748:
_pyio.IOBase
destructor now does nothing if getting theclosed
attribute fails to better mimick_io.IOBase
finalizer.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-37178: Give math.perm() a one argument form that means the same as math.factorial().
bpo-37178: For math.perm(n, k), let k default to n, giving the same result as factorial.
bpo-37163: Deprecated passing
obj
argument ofdataclasses.replace()
as keyword argument.bpo-37165: Converted _collections._count_elements to use the Argument Clinic.
bpo-34767: Do not always create a
collections.deque
inasyncio.Lock
.bpo-37158: Speed-up statistics.fmean() by switching from a function to a generator.
bpo-37150:
argparse._ActionsContainer.add_argument
now throws error, if someone accidentally pass FileType class object instead of instance of FileType astype
argumentbpo-35621: Support running asyncio subprocesses when execution event loop in a thread on UNIX.
bpo-36520: Lengthy email headers with UTF-8 characters are now properly encoded when they are folded. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
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-35805: Add parser for Message-ID header and add it to default HeaderRegistry. This should prevent folding of Message-ID using RFC 2048 encoded words.
bpo-35070: posix.getgrouplist() now works correctly when the user belongs to NGROUPS_MAX supplemental groups. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
bpo-32627: Fix compile error when
_uuid
headers conflicting included.bpo-11122: Distutils won’t check for rpmbuild in specified paths only.
bpo-4963: Fixed non-deterministic behavior related to mimetypes extension mapping and module reinitialization.
Documentation¶
bpo-34903: Documented that in
datetime.datetime.strptime()
, the leading zero in some two-digit formats is optional. Patch by Mike Gleen.
Tests¶
bpo-37421: test_distutils.test_build_ext() is now able to remove the temporary directory on Windows: don’t import the newly built C extension (“xx”) in the current process, but test it in a separated process.
bpo-37421: test_concurrent_futures now cleans up multiprocessing to remove immediately temporary directories created by multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir().
bpo-37421: test_winconsoleio doesn’t leak a temporary file anymore: use tempfile.TemporaryFile() to remove it when the test completes.
bpo-37421: multiprocessing tests now explicitly call
_run_finalizers()
to immediately remove temporary directories created by tests.bpo-37199: Fix test failures when IPv6 is unavailable or disabled.
bpo-37335: Remove no longer necessary code from c locale coercion tests
bpo-37421: Fix test_shutil to no longer leak temporary files.
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-35998: Avoid TimeoutError in test_asyncio: test_start_tls_server_1()
bpo-37278: Fix test_asyncio ProactorLoopCtrlC: join the thread to prevent leaking a running thread and leaking a reference.
bpo-37261: Fix
test.support.catch_unraisable_exception()
: its __exit__() method now ignores unraisable exception raised when clearing itsunraisable
attribute.bpo-37169: Rewrite
_PyObject_IsFreed()
unit tests.bpo-37153:
test_venv.test_mutiprocessing()
now explicitly callspool.terminate()
to wait until the pool completes.bpo-28009: Modify the test_uuid logic to test when a program is available AND can be used to obtain a MACADDR as basis for an UUID. Patch by M. Felt
Build¶
bpo-37189: Many
PyRun_XXX()
functions likePyRun_String()
were no longer exported inlibpython38.dll
by mistake. Export them again to fix the ABI compatibiliy.
Windows¶
bpo-10945: Officially drop support for creating bdist_wininst installers on non-Windows systems.
bpo-37369: Fixes path for
sys.executable
when running from the Microsoft Store.bpo-37351: Removes libpython38.a from standard Windows distribution.
bpo-35360: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.28.0.
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.
macOS¶
bpo-34602: Avoid test suite failures on macOS by no longer calling resource.setrlimit to increase the process stack size limit at runtime. The runtime change is no longer needed since the interpreter is being built with a larger default stack size.
bpo-35360: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.28.0.
bpo-34631: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in macOS installer.
IDLE¶
bpo-37325: Fix tab focus traversal order for help source and custom run dialogs.
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.
C API¶
bpo-36763: Add
PyConfig_SetWideStringList()
function.bpo-28805: The
METH_FASTCALL
calling convention has been documented.bpo-37221:
tp_print
is put back at the end of thePyTypeObject
structure to restore support for old code (in particular generated by Cython) settingtp_print = 0
. Note thattp_print
will be removed entirely in Python 3.9.bpo-37221: The new function
PyCode_NewWithPosOnlyArgs()
allows to create code objects likePyCode_New()
, but with an extra posonlyargcount parameter for indicating the number of positonal-only arguments.bpo-37191: Python.h does not need compiler support for intermingled declarations (GCC’s
-Wdeclaration-after-statement
), which were added in 3.8.0 Beta 1. Note that in Python 3.9, intermingled declarations will be needed again.bpo-37170: Fix the cast on error in
PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask()
.
Python 3.8.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2019-06-04
Security¶
bpo-35907: CVE-2019-9948: Avoid file reading by disallowing
local-file://
andlocal_file://
URL schemes inURLopener().open()
andURLopener().retrieve()
ofurllib.request
.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-33164: Updated blake2 implementation which uses secure memset implementation provided by platform.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-35814: Allow unpacking in the right hand side of annotated assignments. In particular,
t: Tuple[int, ...] = x, y, *z
is now allowed.bpo-37126: All structseq objects are now tracked by the garbage collector. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37122: Make the co_argcount attribute of code objects represent the total number of positional arguments (including positional-only arguments). The value of co_posonlyargcount can be used to distinguish which arguments are positional only, and the difference (co_argcount - co_posonlyargcount) is the number of positional-or-keyword arguments. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-20092: Constructors of
int
,float
andcomplex
will now use the__index__()
special method, if available and the corresponding method__int__()
,__float__()
or__complex__()
is not available.bpo-37087: Add native thread ID (TID) support to OpenBSD.
bpo-26219: Implemented per opcode cache mechanism and
LOAD_GLOBAL
instruction use it.LOAD_GLOBAL
is now about 40% faster. Contributed by Yury Selivanov, and Inada Naoki.bpo-37072: Fix crash in PyAST_FromNodeObject() when flags is NULL.
bpo-37029: Freeing a great many small objects could take time quadratic in the number of arenas, due to using linear search to keep
obmalloc.c
’s list of usable arenas sorted by order of number of free memory pools. This is accomplished without search now, leaving the worst-case time linear in the number of arenas. For programs where this quite visibly matters (typically with more than 100 thousand small objects alive simultaneously), this can greatly reduce the time needed to release their memory.bpo-26423: Fix possible overflow in
wrap_lenfunc()
whensizeof(long) < sizeof(Py_ssize_t)
(e.g., 64-bit Windows).bpo-37050: Improve the AST for “debug” f-strings, which use ‘=’ to print out the source of the expression being evaluated. Delete expr_text from the FormattedValue node, and instead use a Constant string node (possibly merged with adjacent constant expressions inside the f-string).
bpo-22385: The
bytes.hex
,bytearray.hex
, andmemoryview.hex
methods as well as thebinascii.hexlify
andb2a_hex
functions now have the ability to include an optional separator between hex bytes. This functionality was inspired by MicroPython’s hexlify implementation.bpo-26836: Add
os.memfd_create()
.bpo-37032: Added new
replace()
method to the code type (types.CodeType
).bpo-37007: Implement
socket.if_nameindex()
,socket.if_nametoindex()
, andsocket.if_indextoname()
on Windows.bpo-36829:
PyErr_WriteUnraisable()
now creates a traceback object if there is no current traceback. Moreover, callPyErr_NormalizeException()
andPyException_SetTraceback()
to normalize the exception value. Ignore any error.bpo-36878: Only accept text after
# type: ignore
if the first character is ASCII. This is to disallow things like# type: ignoreé
.bpo-36878: Store text appearing after a
# type: ignore
comment in the AST. For example a type ignore like# type: ignore[E1000]
will have the string"[E1000]"
stored in its AST node.bpo-2180: Treat line continuation at EOF as a
SyntaxError
by Anthony Sottile.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-36826: Add NamedExpression kind support to ast_unparse.c
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.bpo-36027: Allow computation of modular inverses via three-argument
pow
: the second argument is now permitted to be negative in the case where the first and third arguments are relatively prime.bpo-36861: Update the Unicode database to version 12.1.0.
bpo-28866: Avoid caching attributes of classes which type defines mro() to avoid a hard cache invalidation problem.
bpo-36851: The
FrameType
stack is now correctly cleaned up if the execution ends with a return and the stack is not empty.bpo-34616: The
compile()
builtin functions now support theast.PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT
flag, which allow to compile sources that contains top-levelawait
,async with
orasync for
. This is useful to evaluate async-code from with an already async functions; for example in a custom REPL.bpo-36842: Implement PEP 578, adding sys.audit, io.open_code and related APIs.
bpo-27639: Correct return type for UserList slicing operations. Patch by Michael Blahay, Erick Cervantes, and vaultah
bpo-36737: Move PyRuntimeState.warnings into per-interpreter state (via “module state”).
bpo-36793: Removed
__str__
implementations from builtin typesbool
,int
,float
,complex
and few classes from the standard library. They now inherit__str__()
fromobject
.bpo-36817: Add a
=
feature f-strings for debugging. This can precede!s
,!r
, or!a
. It produces the text of the expression, followed by an equal sign, followed by the repr of the value of the expression. Sof'{3*9+15=}'
would be equal to the string'3*9+15=42'
. If=
is specified, the default conversion is set to!r
, unless a format spec is given, in which case the formatting behavior is unchanged, and __format__ will be used.bpo-24048: Save the live exception during import.c’s
remove_module()
.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-36601: A long-since-meaningless check for
getpid() == main_pid
was removed from Python’s internal C signal handler.bpo-36594: Fix incorrect use of
%p
in format strings. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-36045: builtins.help() now prefixes
async
for async functionsbpo-36084: Add native thread ID (TID) to threading.Thread objects (supported platforms: Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS)
bpo-36035: Added fix for broken symlinks in combination with pathlib
bpo-35983: Added new trashcan macros to deal with a double deallocation that could occur when the
tp_dealloc
of a subclass calls thetp_dealloc
of a base class and that base class uses the trashcan mechanism. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.bpo-20602: Do not clear
sys.flags
andsys.float_info
during shutdown. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-26826: Expose
copy_file_range()
as a low level API in theos
module.bpo-32388: Remove cross-version binary compatibility requirement in tp_flags.
bpo-31862: Port binascii to PEP 489 multiphase initialization. Patch by Marcel Plch.
Library¶
bpo-37128: Added
math.perm()
.bpo-37120: Add SSLContext.num_tickets to control the number of TLSv1.3 session tickets.
bpo-12202: Fix the error handling in
msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-26835: The fcntl module now contains file sealing constants for sealing of memfds.
bpo-29262: Add
get_origin()
andget_args()
introspection helpers totyping
module.bpo-12639:
msilib.Directory.start_component()
no longer fails if keyfile is notNone
.bpo-36999: Add the
asyncio.Task.get_coro()
method to publicly expose the tasks’s coroutine object.bpo-35246: Make
asyncio.create_subprocess_exec()
accept path-like arguments.bpo-35279: Change default max_workers of
ThreadPoolExecutor
fromcpu_count() * 5
tomin(32, cpu_count() + 4))
. Previous value was unreasonably large on many cores machines.bpo-37076:
_thread.start_new_thread()
now logs uncaught exception raised by the function usingsys.unraisablehook()
, rather thansys.excepthook()
, so the hook gets access to the function which raised the exception.bpo-33725: On macOS, the
multiprocessing
module now uses spawn start method by default.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-37058: PEP 544: Add
Protocol
and@runtime_checkable
to thetyping
module.bpo-36933: The functions
sys.set_coroutine_wrapper
andsys.get_coroutine_wrapper
that were deprecated and marked for removal in 3.8 have been removed.bpo-37047: Handle late binding and attribute access in
unittest.mock.AsyncMock
setup for autospeccing. Document newly implemented async methods inunittest.mock.MagicMock
.bpo-37049: PEP 589: Add
TypedDict
to thetyping
module.bpo-37046: PEP 586: Add
Literal
to thetyping
module.bpo-37045: PEP 591: Add
Final
qualifier and@final
decorator to thetyping
module.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-37001:
symtable.symtable()
now accepts the same input types for source code as the built-incompile()
function. Patch by Dino Viehland.bpo-37028: Implement asyncio REPL
bpo-37027: Return safe to use proxy socket object from transport.get_extra_info(‘socket’)
bpo-32528: Make asyncio.CancelledError a BaseException.
This will address the common mistake many asyncio users make: an “except Exception” clause breaking Tasks cancellation.
In addition to this change, we stop inheriting asyncio.TimeoutError and asyncio.InvalidStateError from their concurrent.futures.* counterparts. There’s no point for these exceptions to share the inheritance chain.
bpo-1230540: Add a new
threading.excepthook()
function which handles uncaughtthreading.Thread.run()
exception. It can be overridden to control how uncaughtthreading.Thread.run()
exceptions are handled.bpo-36996: Handle
unittest.mock.patch()
used as a decorator on async functions.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 positional only arguments. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-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-36972: Add SupportsIndex protocol to the typing module to allow type checking to detect classes that can be passed to
hex()
,oct()
andbin()
.bpo-32972: Implement
unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
to help testing asyncio-based code.bpo-36952:
fileinput.input()
andfileinput.FileInput
bufsize argument has been removed (was deprecated and ignored since Python 3.6), and as a result the mode and openhook arguments have been made keyword-only.bpo-36952: Starting with Python 3.3, importing ABCs from
collections
is deprecated, and import should be done fromcollections.abc
. Still being able to import fromcollections
was marked for removal in 3.8, but has been delayed to 3.9; documentation andDeprecationWarning
clarified.bpo-36949: Implement __repr__ for WeakSet objects.
bpo-36948: Fix
NameError
inurllib.request.URLopener.retrieve()
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.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-36888: Python child processes can now access the status of their parent process using multiprocessing.process.parent_process
bpo-36921: Deprecate
@coroutine
for sake ofasync def
.bpo-25652: Fix bug in
__rmod__
ofUserString
- by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-36916: Remove a message about an unhandled exception in a task when writer.write() is used without await and writer.drain() fails with an exception.
bpo-36889: Introduce
asyncio.Stream
class that mergesasyncio.StreamReader
andasyncio.StreamWriter
functionality.asyncio.Stream
can work in readonly, writeonly and readwrite modes. Provideasyncio.connect()
,asyncio.connect_unix()
,asyncio.connect_read_pipe()
andasyncio.connect_write_pipe()
factories to openasyncio.Stream
connections. Provideasyncio.StreamServer
andUnixStreamServer
to serve servers with asyncio.Stream API. Modifyasyncio.create_subprocess_shell()
andasyncio.create_subprocess_exec()
to useasyncio.Stream
instead of deprecatedStreamReader
andStreamWriter
. Deprecateasyncio.StreamReader
andasyncio.StreamWriter
. Deprecate usage of private classes, e.g.asyncio.FlowControlMixing
andasyncio.StreamReaderProtocol
outside of asyncio package.bpo-36845: Added validation of integer prefixes to the construction of IP networks and interfaces in the ipaddress module.
bpo-23378: Add an extend action to argparser.
bpo-36867: Fix a bug making a SharedMemoryManager instance and its parent process use two separate resource_tracker processes.
bpo-23896: Adds a grammar to lib2to3.pygram that contains exec as a function not as statement.
bpo-36895: The function
time.clock()
was deprecated in 3.3 in favor oftime.perf_counter()
and marked for removal in 3.8, it has removed.bpo-35545: Fix asyncio discarding IPv6 scopes when ensuring hostname resolutions internally
bpo-36887: Add new function
math.isqrt()
to compute integer square roots.bpo-34632: Introduce the
importlib.metadata
module with (provisional) support for reading metadata from third-party packages.bpo-36878: When using
type_comments=True
inast.parse
, treat# type: ignore
followed by a non-alphanumeric character and then arbitrary text as a type ignore, instead of requiring nothing but whitespace or another comment. This is to permit formations such as# type: ignore[E1000]
.bpo-36778:
cp65001
encoding (Windows code page 65001) becomes an alias toutf_8
encoding.bpo-36867: The multiprocessing.resource_tracker replaces the multiprocessing.semaphore_tracker module. Other than semaphores, resource_tracker also tracks shared_memory segments.
bpo-30262: The
Cache
andStatement
objects of thesqlite3
module are not exposed to the user. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.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-36829: Add new
sys.unraisablehook()
function which can be overridden to control how “unraisable exceptions” are handled. It is called when an exception has occurred but there is no way for Python to handle it. For example, when a destructor raises an exception or during garbage collection (gc.collect()
).bpo-36832: Introducing
zipfile.Path
, a pathlib-compatible wrapper for traversing zip files.bpo-36814: Fix an issue where os.posix_spawnp() would incorrectly raise a TypeError when file_actions is None.
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-36806: Forbid creation of asyncio stream objects like StreamReader, StreamWriter, Process, and their protocols outside of asyncio package.
bpo-36802: Provide both sync and async calls for StreamWriter.write() and StreamWriter.close()
bpo-36801: Properly handle SSL connection closing in asyncio StreamWriter.drain() call.
bpo-36785: Implement PEP 574 (pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band buffers).
bpo-36772: functools.lru_cache() can now be used as a straight decorator in addition to its existing usage as a function that returns a decorator.
bpo-6584: Add a
BadGzipFile
exception to thegzip
module.bpo-36748: Optimized write buffering in C implementation of
TextIOWrapper
. Writing ASCII string toTextIOWrapper
with ascii, latin1, or utf-8 encoding is about 20% faster. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-8138: Don’t mark
wsgiref.simple_server.SimpleServer
as multi-threaded sincewsgiref.simple_server.WSGIServer
is single-threaded.bpo-22640:
py_compile.compile()
now supports silent mode. Patch by Joannah Nanjekyebpo-29183: Fix double exceptions in
wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler
by calling itsclose()
method only when no exception is raised.bpo-36548: Improved the repr of regular expression flags.
bpo-36542: The signature of Python functions can now be overridden by specifying the
__text_signature__
attribute.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 acquisition order cannot be guaranteed.
bpo-35252: Throw a TypeError instead of an AssertionError when using an invalid type annotation with singledispatch.
bpo-35900: Allow reduction methods to return a 6-item tuple where the 6th item specifies a custom state-setting method that’s called instead of the regular
__setstate__
method.bpo-35900: enable custom reduction callback registration for functions and classes in _pickle.c, using the new Pickler’s attribute
reducer_override
bpo-36368: Fix a bug crashing SharedMemoryManager instances in interactive sessions after a ctrl-c (KeyboardInterrupt) was sent
bpo-31904: Fix mmap fail for VxWorks
bpo-27497:
csv.DictWriter.writeheader()
now returns the return value of the underlyingcsv.Writer.writerow()
method. Patch contributed by Ashish Nitin Patil.bpo-36239: Parsing .mo files now ignores comments starting and ending with #-#-#-#-#.
bpo-26707: Enable plistlib to read and write binary plist files that were created as a KeyedArchive file. Specifically, this allows the plistlib to process 0x80 tokens as UID objects.
bpo-31904: Add posix module support for VxWorks.
bpo-35125: Asyncio: Remove inner callback on outer cancellation in shield
bpo-35721: Fix
asyncio.SelectorEventLoop.subprocess_exec()
leaks file descriptors ifPopen
fails and called withstdin=subprocess.PIPE
. Patch by Niklas Fiekas.bpo-31855:
unittest.mock.mock_open()
results now respects the argument of read([size]). Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35431: Implement
math.comb()
that returns binomial coefficient, that computes the number of ways to choose k items from n items without repetition and without order. Patch by Yash Aggarwal and Keller Fuchs.bpo-26660: Fixed permission errors in
TemporaryDirectory
clean up. PreviouslyTemporaryDirectory.cleanup()
failed when non-writeable or non-searchable files or directories were created inside a temporary directory.bpo-34271: Add debugging helpers to ssl module. It’s now possible to dump key material and to trace TLS protocol. The default and stdlib contexts also support SSLKEYLOGFILE env var.
bpo-26467: Added AsyncMock to support using unittest to mock asyncio coroutines. Patch by Lisa Roach.
bpo-33569: dataclasses.InitVar: Exposes the type used to create the init var.
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-34303: Performance of
functools.reduce()
is slightly improved. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.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-22454: The
shlex
module now exposesshlex.join()
, the inverse ofshlex.split()
. Patch by Bo Bayles.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-24882: Change ThreadPoolExecutor to use existing idle threads before spinning up new ones.
bpo-31961: Added support for bytes and path-like objects in
subprocess.Popen()
on Windows. The args parameter now accepts a path-like object if shell isFalse
and a sequence containing bytes and path-like objects. The executable parameter now accepts a bytes and path-like object. The cwd parameter now accepts a bytes object. Based on patch by Anders Lorentsen.bpo-33123:
pathlib.Path.unlink
now accepts a missing_ok parameter to avoid aFileNotFoundError
from being raised. Patch by Robert Buchholz.bpo-32941: Allow
mmap.mmap
objects to access the madvise() system call (throughmmap.mmap.madvise()
).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-32515: trace.py can now run modules via python3 -m trace -t –module module_name
bpo-32299: Changed
unittest.mock.patch.dict()
to return the patched dictionary when used as context manager. Patch by Vadim Tsander.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-23395:
_thread.interrupt_main()
now avoids setting the Python error status if theSIGINT
signal is ignored or not handled by Python.
Documentation¶
bpo-36896: Clarify that some types have unstable constructor signature between Python versions.
bpo-36686: Improve documentation of the stdin, stdout, and stderr arguments of of the
asyncio.subprocess_exec
function to specify which values are supported. Also mention that decoding as text is not supported.Add a few tests to verify that the various values passed to the std* arguments actually work.
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-35924: Add a note to the
curses.addstr()
documentation to warn that multiline strings can cause segfaults because of an ncurses bug.bpo-36783: Added C API Documentation for Time_FromTimeAndFold and PyDateTime_FromDateAndTimeAndFold as per PEP 495. Patch by Edison Abahurire.
bpo-36797: More of the legacy distutils documentation has been either pruned, or else more clearly marked as being retained solely until the setuptools documentation covers it independently.
bpo-22865: Add detail to the documentation on the
pty.spawn
function.bpo-35397: Remove deprecation and document urllib.parse.unwrap(). Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
bpo-32995: Added the context variable in glossary.
bpo-33519: Clarify that
copy()
is not part of theMutableSequence
ABC.bpo-33482: Make
codecs.StreamRecoder.writelines
take a list of bytes.bpo-25735: Added documentation for func factorial to indicate that returns integer values
bpo-20285: Expand object.__doc__ (docstring) to make it clearer. Modify pydoc.py so that help(object) lists object methods (for other classes, help omits methods of the object base class.)
Tests¶
bpo-37069: Modify test_coroutines, test_cprofile, test_generators, test_raise, test_ssl and test_yield_from to use
test.support.catch_unraisable_exception()
rather thantest.support.captured_stderr()
.bpo-37098: Fix test_memfd_create on older Linux Kernels.
bpo-37081: Test with OpenSSL 1.1.1c
bpo-36829: Add
test.support.catch_unraisable_exception()
: context manager catching unraisable exception usingsys.unraisablehook()
.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-36782: Add tests for several C API functions in the
datetime
module. Patch by Edison Abahurire.bpo-36342: Fix test_multiprocessing in test_venv if platform lacks functioning sem_open.
Build¶
bpo-36721: To embed Python into an application, a new
--embed
option must be passed topython3-config --libs --embed
to get-lpython3.8
(link the application to libpython). To support both 3.8 and older, trypython3-config --libs --embed
first and fallback topython3-config --libs
(without--embed
) if the previous command fails.Add a pkg-config
python-3.8-embed
module to embed Python into an application:pkg-config python-3.8-embed --libs
includes-lpython3.8
. To support both 3.8 and older, trypkg-config python-X.Y-embed --libs
first and fallback topkg-config python-X.Y --libs
(without--embed
) if the previous command fails (replaceX.Y
with the Python version).On the other hand,
pkg-config python3.8 --libs
no longer contains-lpython3.8
. C extensions must not be linked to libpython (except on Android, case handled by the script); this change is backward incompatible on purpose.bpo-36786: “make install” now runs compileall in parallel.
Windows¶
macOS¶
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.
IDLE¶
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-36807: When saving a file, call os.fsync() so bits are flushed to e.g. USB drive.
bpo-32411: In browser.py, remove extraneous sorting by line number since dictionary was created in line number order.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-37053: Handle strings like u”bar” correctly in Tools/parser/unparse.py. Patch by Chih-Hsuan Yen.
C API¶
bpo-36763: Implement the PEP 587 “Python Initialization Configuration”.
bpo-36379: Fix crashes when attempting to use the modulo parameter when
__ipow__
is implemented in C.bpo-37107: Update
PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs()
and_PyObject_CallMethodIdObjArgs
to use_PyObject_GetMethod
to avoid creating a bound method object in many cases. Patch by Michael J. Sullivan.bpo-36974: Implement PEP 590: Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython. This is a new protocol to optimize calls of custom callable objects.
bpo-36763:
Py_Main()
now returns the exitcode rather than callingPy_Exit(exitcode)
when callingPyErr_Print()
if the current exception type isSystemExit
.bpo-36922: Add new type flag
Py_TPFLAGS_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR
for objects behaving like unbound methods. These are objects supporting the optimization given by theLOAD_METHOD
/CALL_METHOD
opcodes. See PEP 590.bpo-36728: The
PyEval_ReInitThreads()
function has been removed from the C API. It should not be called explicitly: usePyOS_AfterFork_Child()
instead.
Python 3.8.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2019-05-06
Security¶
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-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-36722: In debug build, import now also looks for C extensions compiled in release mode and for C extensions compiled in the stable ABI.
bpo-32849: Fix Python Initialization code on FreeBSD to detect properly when stdin file descriptor (fd 0) is invalid.
bpo-36623: Remove parser headers and related function declarations that lack implementations after the removal of pgen.
bpo-20180:
dict.pop()
is now up to 33% faster thanks to Argument Clinic. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-36611: Debug memory allocators: disable serialno field by default from debug hooks on Python memory allocators to reduce the memory footprint by 5%. Enable
tracemalloc
to get the traceback where a memory block has been allocated when a fatal memory error is logged to decide where to put a breakpoint. Compile Python withPYMEM_DEBUG_SERIALNO
defined to get back the field.bpo-36588: On AIX,
sys.platform
doesn’t contain the major version anymore. Always return'aix'
, instead of'aix3'
..'aix7'
. Since older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to always usesys.platform.startswith('aix')
. Contributed by M. Felt.bpo-36549: Change str.capitalize to use titlecase for the first character instead of uppercase.
bpo-36540: Implement PEP 570 (Python positional-only parameters). Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-36475:
PyEval_AcquireLock()
andPyEval_AcquireThread()
now terminate the current thread if called while the interpreter is finalizing, making them consistent withPyEval_RestoreThread()
,Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS()
, andPyGILState_Ensure()
.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-36452: Changing
dict
keys during iteration of the dict itself,keys()
,values()
, oritems()
will now be detected in certain corner cases where keys are deleted/added so that the number of keys isn’t changed. ARuntimeError
will be raised afterlen(dict)
iterations. Contributed by Thomas Perl.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-36143: Regenerate
keyword
from the Grammar and Tokens file using pgen. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-18372: Add missing
PyObject_GC_Track()
calls in thepickle
module. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
Library¶
bpo-35952: Fix pythoninfo when the compiler is missing.
bpo-28238: The
.find*()
methods of xml.etree.ElementTree can now search for wildcards like{*}tag
and{ns}*
that match a tag in any namespace or all tags in a namespace. Patch by Stefan Behnel.bpo-26978:
pathlib.path.link_to()
is now implemented. It creates a hard link pointing to a path.bpo-1613500:
fileinput.FileInput
now uses the input file mode to correctly set the output file mode (previously it was hardcoded to'w'
) wheninplace=True
is passed to its constructor.bpo-36734: Fix compilation of
faulthandler.c
on HP-UX. Initializestack_t current_stack
to zero usingmemset()
.bpo-13611: The xml.etree.ElementTree packages gained support for C14N 2.0 serialisation. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-36669: Add missing matrix multiplication operator support to weakref.proxy.
bpo-36676: The XMLParser() in xml.etree.ElementTree provides namespace prefix context to the parser target if it defines the callback methods “start_ns()” and/or “end_ns()”. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-36673: The TreeBuilder and XMLPullParser in xml.etree.ElementTree gained support for parsing comments and processing instructions. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
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-25430: improve performance of
IPNetwork.__contains__()
bpo-30485: Path expressions in xml.etree.ElementTree can now avoid explicit namespace prefixes for tags (or the “{namespace}tag” notation) by passing a default namespace with an empty string prefix.
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-18748: In development mode (
-X
dev
) and in debug build, theio.IOBase
destructor now logsclose()
exceptions. These exceptions are silent by default in release mode.bpo-36575: The
_lsprof
module now uses internal timer same totime.perf_counter()
by default.gettimeofday(2)
was used on Unix. New timer has better resolution on most Unix platforms and timings are no longer impacted by system clock updates sinceperf_counter()
is monotonic. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-33461:
json.loads
now emitsDeprecationWarning
whenencoding
option is specified. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.bpo-36559: The random module now prefers the lean internal _sha512 module over hashlib for seed(version=2) to optimize import time.
bpo-17561: Set backlog=None as the default for socket.create_server.
bpo-34373: Fix
time.mktime()
error handling on AIX for year before 1970.bpo-36232: Improve error message when trying to open existing DBM database that actually doesn’t exist. Patch by Marco Rougeth.
bpo-36546: Add statistics.quantiles()
bpo-36050: Optimized
http.client.HTTPResponse.read()
for large response. Patch by Inada Naoki.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: Deprecated passing required arguments like func as keyword arguments in functions which should accept arbitrary keyword arguments and pass them to other function. Arbitrary keyword arguments (even with names “self” and “func”) can now be passed to these functions if the required arguments are passed as positional arguments.
bpo-27181: Add statistics.geometric_mean().
bpo-30427:
os.path.normcase()
relies onos.fspath()
to check the type of its argument. Redundant checks have been removed from itsposixpath.normcase()
andntpath.normcase()
implementations. Patch by Wolfgang Maier.bpo-36385: Stop rejecting IPv4 octets for being ambiguously octal. Leading zeros are ignored, and no longer are assumed to specify octal octets. Octets are always decimal numbers. Octets must still be no more than three digits, including leading zeroes.
bpo-36434: Errors during writing to a ZIP file no longer prevent to properly close it.
bpo-36407: Fixed wrong indentation writing for CDATA section in xml.dom.minidom. Patch by Vladimir Surjaninov.
bpo-36326: inspect.getdoc() can now find docstrings for member objects when __slots__ is a dictionary.
bpo-36366: Calling
stop()
on an unstarted or stoppedunittest.mock.patch()
object will now returnNone
instead of raisingRuntimeError
, making the method idempotent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-36348: The
imap.IMAP4.logout()
method no longer ignores silently arbitrary exceptions.bpo-31904: Add time module support and fix test_time faiures for VxWorks.
bpo-36227: Added support for keyword arguments
default_namespace
andxml_declaration
in functions ElementTree.tostring() and ElementTree.tostringlist().bpo-36004: Added new alternate constructors
datetime.date.fromisocalendar()
anddatetime.datetime.fromisocalendar()
, which construct date objects from ISO year, week number and weekday; these are the inverse of each class’sisocalendar
method. Patch by Paul Ganssle.bpo-35936:
modulefinder
no longer depends on the deprecatedimp
module, and the initializer formodulefinder.ModuleFinder
now has immutable default arguments. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-35376:
modulefinder
correctly handles modules that have the same name as a bad package. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-17396:
modulefinder
no longer crashes when encountering syntax errors in followed imports. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-35934: Added
create_server()
andhas_dualstack_ipv6()
convenience functions to automate the necessary tasks usually involved when creating a server socket, including accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 connections on the same socket. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola in bpo-17561.)bpo-23078: Add support for
classmethod()
andstaticmethod()
tounittest.mock.create_autospec()
. Initial patch by Felipe Ochoa.bpo-35416: Fix potential resource warnings in distutils. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.
bpo-25451: Add transparency methods to
tkinter.PhotoImage
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.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-31658:
xml.sax.parse()
now supports path-like. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.bpo-34139: Remove stale unix datagram socket before binding
bpo-33530: Implemented Happy Eyeballs in
asyncio.create_connection()
. Added two new arguments, happy_eyeballs_delay and interleave, to specify Happy Eyeballs behavior.bpo-33291: Do not raise AttributeError when calling the inspect functions isgeneratorfunction, iscoroutinefunction, isasyncgenfunction on a method created from an arbitrary callable. Instead, return False.
bpo-31310: Fix the multiprocessing.semaphore_tracker so it is reused by child processes
bpo-31292: Fix
setup.py check --restructuredtext
for files containinginclude
directives.
Documentation¶
bpo-36625: Remove obsolete comments from docstrings in fractions.Fraction
bpo-30840: Document relative imports
bpo-36523: Add docstring for io.IOBase.writelines().
bpo-36425: New documentation translation: Simplified Chinese.
bpo-36345: Avoid the duplication of code from
Tools/scripts/serve.py
in using theliteralinclude
directive for the basic wsgiref-based web server in the documentation ofwsgiref
. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.bpo-36345: Using the code of the
Tools/scripts/serve.py
script as an example in thewsgiref
documentation. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.bpo-36157: Added Documention for PyInterpreterState_Main().
bpo-33043: Updates the docs.python.org page with the addition of a ‘Contributing to Docs’ link at the end of the page (between ‘Reporting Bugs’ and ‘About Documentation’). Updates the ‘Found a Bug’ page with additional links and information in the Documentation Bugs section.
bpo-35581: @typing.type_check_only now allows type stubs to mark functions and classes not available during runtime.
bpo-33832: Add glossary entry for ‘magic method’.
bpo-32913: Added re.Match.groupdict example to regex HOWTO.
Tests¶
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-32424: Improve test coverage for xml.etree.ElementTree. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley.
bpo-32424: Fix typo in test_cyclic_gc() test for xml.etree.ElementTree. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley.
bpo-36635: Add a new
_testinternalcapi
module to test the internal C API.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-31904: Port test_resource to VxWorks: skip tests cases setting RLIMIT_FSIZE and RLIMIT_CPU.
bpo-31904: Fix test_tabnanny on VxWorks: adjust ENOENT error message.
bpo-36436: Fix
_testcapi.pymem_buffer_overflow()
: handle memory allocation failure.bpo-31904: Fix test_utf8_mode on VxWorks: Python always use UTF-8 on VxWorks.
bpo-36341: Fix tests that may fail with PermissionError upon calling bind() on AF_UNIX sockets.
Build¶
bpo-36747: Remove the stale scriptsinstall Makefile target.
bpo-21536: On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython except on Android and Cygwin.
It is now possible for a statically linked Python to load a C extension built using a shared library Python.
When Python is embedded,
libpython
must not be loaded withRTLD_LOCAL
, butRTLD_GLOBAL
instead. Previously, usingRTLD_LOCAL
, it was already not possible to load C extensions which were not linked tolibpython
, such as C extensions of the standard library built by the*shared*
section ofModules/Setup
.distutils, python-config and python-config.py have been modified.
bpo-36707:
./configure --with-pymalloc
no longer adds them
flag to SOABI (sys.implementation.cache_tag). Enabling or disabling pymalloc has no impact on the ABI.bpo-36635: Change
PyAPI_FUNC(type)
,PyAPI_DATA(type)
andPyMODINIT_FUNC
macros ofpyport.h
whenPy_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
is defined. ThePy_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
define must be now be used to build a C extension as a dynamic library accessing Python internals: export the PyInit_xxx() function in DLL exports on Windows.bpo-31904: Don’t build the
_crypt
extension on VxWorks.bpo-36618: Add
-fmax-type-align=8
to CFLAGS when clang compiler is detected. The pymalloc memory allocator aligns memory on 8 bytes. On x86-64, clang expects alignment on 16 bytes by default and so uses MOVAPS instruction which can lead to segmentation fault. Instruct clang that Python is limited to alignment on 8 bytes to use MOVUPS instruction instead: slower but don’t trigger a SIGSEGV if the memory is not aligned on 16 bytes. Sadly, the flag must be added toCFLAGS
and not justCFLAGS_NODIST
, since third party C extensions can have the same issue.bpo-36605:
make tags
andmake TAGS
now also parseModules/_io/*.c
andModules/_io/*.h
.bpo-36465: Release builds and debug builds are now ABI compatible: defining the
Py_DEBUG
macro no longer implies thePy_TRACE_REFS
macro, which introduces the only ABI incompatibility. ThePy_TRACE_REFS
macro, which adds thesys.getobjects()
function and thePYTHONDUMPREFS
environment variable, can be set using the new./configure --with-trace-refs
build option.bpo-36577: setup.py now correctly reports missing OpenSSL headers and libraries again.
bpo-36544: Fix regression introduced in bpo-36146 refactoring setup.py
bpo-36508:
python-config --ldflags
no longer includes flags of theLINKFORSHARED
variable. TheLINKFORSHARED
variable must only be used to build executables.bpo-36503: Remove references to “aix3” and “aix4”. Patch by M. Felt.
Windows¶
bpo-35920: Added platform.win32_edition() and platform.win32_is_iot(). Added support for cross-compiling packages for Windows ARM32. Skip tests that are not expected to work on Windows IoT Core ARM32.
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-36509: Added preset-iot layout for Windows IoT ARM containers. This layout doesn’t contain UI components like tkinter or IDLE. It also doesn’t contain files to support on-target builds since Windows ARM32 builds must be cross-compiled when using MSVC.
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-36085: Enable better DLL resolution on Windows by using safe DLL search paths and adding
os.add_dll_directory()
.bpo-36010: Add the venv standard library module to the nuget distribution for Windows.
bpo-29515: Add the following socket module constants on Windows: IPPROTO_AH IPPROTO_CBT IPPROTO_DSTOPTS IPPROTO_EGP IPPROTO_ESP IPPROTO_FRAGMENT IPPROTO_GGP IPPROTO_HOPOPTS IPPROTO_ICLFXBM IPPROTO_ICMPV6 IPPROTO_IDP IPPROTO_IGMP IPPROTO_IGP IPPROTO_IPV4 IPPROTO_IPV6 IPPROTO_L2TP IPPROTO_MAX IPPROTO_ND IPPROTO_NONE IPPROTO_PGM IPPROTO_PIM IPPROTO_PUP IPPROTO_RDP IPPROTO_ROUTING IPPROTO_SCTP IPPROTO_ST
bpo-35947: Added current version of libffi to cpython-source-deps. Change _ctypes to use current version of libffi on Windows.
bpo-34060: Report system load when running test suite on Windows. Patch by Ammar Askar. Based on prior work by Jeremy Kloth.
bpo-31512: With the Windows 10 Creators Update, non-elevated users can now create symlinks as long as the computer has Developer Mode enabled.
macOS¶
IDLE¶
bpo-36429: Fix starting IDLE with pyshell. Add idlelib.pyshell alias at top; remove pyshell alias at bottom. Remove obsolete __name__==’__main__’ command.
C API¶
bpo-36763: Fix memory leak in
Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding()
: release memory if the function is called twice.bpo-36641:
PyDoc_VAR(name)
andPyDoc_STRVAR(name,str)
now createstatic const char name[]
instead ofstatic char name[]
. Patch by Inada Naoki.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()
.bpo-36443: Since Python 3.7.0, calling
Py_DecodeLocale()
beforePy_Initialize()
produces mojibake if theLC_CTYPE
locale is coerced and/or if the UTF-8 Mode is enabled by the user configuration. The LC_CTYPE coercion and UTF-8 Mode are now disabled by default to fix the mojibake issue. They must now be enabled explicitly (opt-in) using the new_Py_PreInitialize()
API with_PyPreConfig
.bpo-36025: Fixed an accidental change to the datetime C API where the arguments to the
PyDate_FromTimestamp()
function were incorrectly interpreted as a single timestamp rather than an arguments tuple, which causes existing code to start raisingTypeError
. The backwards-incompatible change was only present in alpha releases of Python 3.8. Patch by Paul Ganssle.bpo-35810: Modify
PyObject_Init
to correctly increase the refcount of heap- allocated Type objects. Also fix the refcounts of the heap-allocated types that were either doing this manually or not decreasing the type’s refcount in tp_dealloc
Python 3.8.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2019-03-25
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-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-36421: Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c’s
PyCArrayType_new()
.bpo-36412: Fix a possible crash when creating a new dictionary.
bpo-36398: Fix a possible crash in
structseq_repr()
.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-36365: repr(structseq) is no longer limited to 512 bytes.
bpo-36374: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in
merge_consts_recursive()
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-36236: At Python initialization, the current directory is no longer prepended to
sys.path
if it has been removed.bpo-36352: Python initialization now fails with an error, rather than silently truncating paths, if a path is too long.
bpo-36301: Python initialization now fails if decoding
pybuilddir.txt
configuration file fails at startup.bpo-36333: Fix leak in _PyRuntimeState_Fini. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.
bpo-36332: The builtin
compile()
can now handle AST objects that contain assignment expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-36282: Improved error message for too much positional arguments in some builtin functions.
bpo-30040: New empty dict uses fewer memory for now. It used more memory than empty dict created by
dict.clear()
. And empty dict creation and deletion is about 2x faster. Patch by Inada Naoki.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-36252: Update Unicode databases to version 12.0.0.
bpo-36218: Fix a segfault occurring when sorting a list of heterogeneous values. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre and Elliot Gorokhovsky.
bpo-36188: Cleaned up left-over vestiges of Python 2 unbound method handling in method objects and documentation. Patch by Martijn Pieters
bpo-36124: Add a new interpreter-specific dict and expose it in the C-API via PyInterpreterState_GetDict(). This parallels PyThreadState_GetDict(). However, extension modules should continue using PyModule_GetState() for their own internal per-interpreter state.
bpo-35975: Add a
feature_version
flag toast.parse()
(documented) andcompile()
(hidden) that allows tweaking the parser to support older versions of the grammar. In particular, iffeature_version
is 5 or 6, the hacks for theasync
andawait
keyword from PEP 492 are reinstated. (For 7 or higher, these are unconditionally treated as keywords, but they are still special tokens rather thanNAME
tokens that the parser driver recognizes.)bpo-31904: Use UTF-8 as the system encoding on VxWorks.
bpo-36048: The
__index__()
special method will be used instead of__int__()
for implicit conversion of Python numbers to C integers. Using the__int__()
method in implicit conversions has been deprecated.bpo-35808: Retire pgen and use a modified version of pgen2 to generate the parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Library¶
bpo-36401: The class documentation created by pydoc now has a separate section for readonly properties.
bpo-36320: The typing.NamedTuple() class has deprecated the _field_types attribute in favor of the __annotations__ attribute which carried the same information. Also, both attributes were converted from OrderedDict to a regular dict.
bpo-34745: Fix
asyncio
ssl memory issues caused by circular referencesbpo-36324: Add method to statistics.NormalDist for computing the inverse cumulative normal distribution.
bpo-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-36297: “unicode_internal” codec is removed. It was deprecated since Python 3.3. Patch by Inada Naoki.
bpo-36298: Raise ModuleNotFoundError in pyclbr when a module can’t be found. Thanks to ‘mental’ for the bug report.
bpo-36268: Switch the default format used for writing tars with mod:
tarfile
to the modern POSIX.1-2001 pax standard, from the vendor-specific GNU. Contributed by C.A.M. Gerlach.bpo-36285: Fix integer overflows in the array module. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-31904: Add _signal module support for VxWorks.
bpo-36272:
logging
does not silently ignore RecursionError anymore. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-36280: Add a kind field to ast.Constant. It is ‘u’ if the literal has a ‘u’ prefix (i.e. a Python 2 style unicode literal), else None.
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-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-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-36169: Add overlap() method to statistics.NormalDist. Computes the overlapping coefficient for two normal distributions.
bpo-36103: Default buffer size used by
shutil.copyfileobj()
is changed from 16 KiB to 64 KiB on non-Windows platform to reduce system call overhead. Contributed by Inada Naoki.bpo-36130: Fix
pdb
withskip=...
when stepping into a frame without a__name__
global. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35652: shutil.copytree(copy_function=…) erroneously pass DirEntry instead of a path string.
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-36091: Clean up reference to async generator in Lib/types. Patch by Henry Chen.
bpo-36043:
FileCookieJar
supports path-like object. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-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-21269: Add
args
andkwargs
properties to mock call objects. Contributed by Kumar Akshay.bpo-30670:
pprint.pp
has been added to pretty-print objects with dictionary keys being sorted with their insertion order by default. Parameter sort_dicts has been added topprint.pprint
,pprint.pformat
andpprint.PrettyPrinter
. Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35843: Implement
__getitem__
for_NamespacePath
. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35802: Clean up code which checked presence of
os.stat
/os.lstat
/os.chmod
which are always present. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35715: Librates the return value of a ProcessPoolExecutor _process_worker after it’s no longer needed to free memory
bpo-35493: Use
multiprocessing.connection.wait()
instead of polling each 0.2 seconds for worker updates inmultiprocessing.Pool
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-35661: Store the venv prompt in pyvenv.cfg.
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-21478: Calls to a child function created with
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
should propagate to the parent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-35198: Fix C++ extension compilation on AIX
Documentation¶
bpo-36329: Declare the path of the Python binary for the usage of
Tools/scripts/serve.py
when executingmake -C Doc/ serve
. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-36138: Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars.
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
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.bpo-36123: Fix race condition in test_socket.
Build¶
bpo-36356: Fix leaks that led to build failure when configured with address sanitizer.
bpo-36146: Add
TEST_EXTENSIONS
constant tosetup.py
to allow to not build test extensions like_testcapi
.bpo-36146: Fix setup.py on macOS: only add
/usr/include/ffi
to include directories of _ctypes, not for all extensions.bpo-31904: Enable build system to cross-build for VxWorks RTOS.
Windows¶
bpo-36312: Fixed decoders for the following code pages: 50220, 50221, 50222, 50225, 50227, 50229, 57002 through 57011, 65000 and 42.
bpo-36264: Don’t honor POSIX
HOME
inos.path.expanduser
on windows. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-24643: Fix name collisions due to
#define timezone _timezone
in PC/pyconfig.h.
IDLE¶
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-36176: Fix IDLE autocomplete & calltip popup colors. Prevent conflicts with Linux dark themes (and slightly darken calltip background).
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-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-36096: Refactor class variables to instance variables in colorizer.
bpo-30348: Increase test coverage of idlelib.autocomplete by 30%. Patch by Louie Lu
Tools/Demos¶
Python 3.8.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2019-02-25
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-36052: Raise a
SyntaxError
when assigning a value to__debug__
with the Assignment Operator. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel and Pablo Galindo.bpo-36012: Doubled the speed of class variable writes. When a non-dunder attribute was updated, there was an unnecessary call to update slots.
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-36016:
gc.get_objects
can now receive an optional parameter indicating a generation to get objects from. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-1054041: When the main interpreter exits due to an uncaught KeyboardInterrupt, the process now exits in the appropriate manner for its parent process to detect that a SIGINT or ^C terminated the process. This allows shells and batch scripts to understand that the user has asked them to stop.
bpo-35992: Fix
__class_getitem__()
not being called on a class with a custom non-subscriptable metaclass.bpo-35993: Fix a crash on fork when using subinterpreters. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel
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-35911: Enable the creation of cell objects by adding a
cell.__new__
method, and expose the typecell
inLib/types.py
under the name CellType. Patch by Pierre Glaser.bpo-12822: Use monotonic clock for
pthread_cond_timedwait
whenpthread_condattr_setclock
andCLOCK_MONOTONIC
are available.bpo-15248: The compiler emits now syntax warnings in the case when a comma is likely missed before tuple or list.
bpo-35886: The implementation of PyInterpreterState has been moved into the internal header files (guarded by Py_BUILD_CORE).
bpo-31506: Clarify the errors reported when
object.__new__
andobject.__init__
receive more than one argument. Contributed by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-35724: Signal-handling is now guaranteed to happen relative to the main interpreter.
bpo-33608: We added a new internal _Py_AddPendingCall() that operates relative to the provided interpreter. This allows us to use the existing implementation to ask another interpreter to do work that cannot be done in the current interpreter, like decref an object the other interpreter owns. The existing Py_AddPendingCall() only operates relative to the main interpreter.
bpo-33989: Fix a possible crash in
list.sort()
when sorting objects withob_type->tp_richcompare == NULL
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
Library¶
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-36018: Add statistics.NormalDist, a tool for creating and manipulating normal distributions of random variable. Features a composite class that treats the mean and standard deviation of measurement data as single entity.
bpo-35904: Added statistics.fmean() as a faster, floating point variant of the existing mean() function.
bpo-35918: Removed broken
has_key
method from multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.dict. Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-18283: Add support for bytes to
shutil.which()
.bpo-35960: Fix
dataclasses.field()
throwing away empty mapping objects passed as metadata.bpo-35500: Write expected and actual call parameters on separate lines in
unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called_with()
assertion errors. Contributed by Susan Su.bpo-35931: The
pdb
debug
command now gracefully handles syntax errors.bpo-24209: In http.server script, rely on getaddrinfo to bind to preferred address based on the bind parameter. Now default bind or binding to a name may bind to IPv6 or dual-stack, depending on the environment.
bpo-35321: Set
__spec__.origin
of_frozen_importlib
to frozen so that it matches the behavior of_frozen_importlib_external
. Patch by Nina Zakharenko.bpo-35378: Fix a reference issue inside
multiprocessing.Pool
that caused the pool to remain alive if it was deleted without being closed or terminated explicitly. A new strong reference is added to the pool iterators to link the lifetime of the pool to the lifetime of its iterators so the pool does not get destroyed if a pool iterator is still alive.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-35615:
weakref
: Fix a RuntimeError when copying a WeakKeyDictionary or a WeakValueDictionary, due to some keys or values disappearing while iterating.bpo-35606: Implement
math.prod()
as analogous function tosum()
that returns the product of a ‘start’ value (default: 1) times an iterable of numbers. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-32417: Performing arithmetic between
datetime.datetime
subclasses anddatetime.timedelta
now returns an object of the same type as thedatetime.datetime
subclass. As a result,datetime.datetime.astimezone()
and alternate constructors likedatetime.datetime.now()
anddatetime.fromtimestamp()
called with atz
argument now also retain their subclass.bpo-35153: Add headers optional keyword-only parameter to
xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy
,xmlrpc.client.Transport
andxmlrpc.client.SafeTransport
. Patch by Cédric Krier.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.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
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-35704: Skip
test_shutil.test_unpack_archive_xztar
to prevent a MemoryError on 32-bit AIX when MAXDATA setting is less than 0x20000000.Patch by Michael Felt (aixtools)
bpo-34720: Assert m_state != NULL to mimic GC traversal functions that do not correctly handle module creation when the module state has not been created.
Windows¶
bpo-35976: Added ARM build support to Windows build files in PCBuild.
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
Python 3.8.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2019-02-03
Security¶
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-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.
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.
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.
bpo-28414: The ssl module now allows users to perform their own IDN en/decoding when using SNI.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-35877: Make parenthesis optional for named expressions in while statement. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-35814: Allow same right hand side expressions in annotated assignments as in normal ones. In particular,
x: Tuple[int, int] = 1, 2
(without parentheses on the right) is now allowed.bpo-35766: Add the option to parse PEP 484 type comments in the ast module. (Off by default.) This is merging the key functionality of the third party fork thereof, [typed_ast](https://github.com/python/typed_ast).
bpo-35713: Reorganize Python initialization to get working exceptions and sys.stderr earlier.
bpo-33416: Add end line and end column position information to the Python AST nodes. This is a C-level backwards incompatible change.
bpo-35720: Fixed a minor memory leak in pymain_parse_cmdline_impl function in Modules/main.c
bpo-35634:
func(**kwargs)
will now raise an error whenkwargs
is a mapping containing multiple entries with the same key. An error was already raised when other keyword arguments are passed before**kwargs
since Python 3.6.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-35504: Fixed a SystemError when delete the characters_written attribute of an OSError.
bpo-35494: Improved syntax error messages for unbalanced parentheses in f-string.
bpo-35444: Fixed error handling in pickling methods when fail to look up builtin “getattr”. Sped up pickling iterators.
bpo-35436: Fix various issues with memory allocation error handling. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-35423: Separate the signal handling trigger in the eval loop from the “pending calls” machinery. There is no semantic change and the difference in performance is insignificant.
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-31241: The lineno and col_offset attributes of AST nodes for list comprehensions, generator expressions and tuples are now point to the opening parenthesis or square brace. For tuples without parenthesis they point to the position of the first item.
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-35224: Implement PEP 572 (assignment expressions). Patch by Emily Morehouse.
bpo-32492: Speed up
namedtuple
attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path for the name descriptors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.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-35169: Improved error messages for forbidden assignments.
bpo-34022: Fix handling of hash-based bytecode files in
zipimport
. Patch by Elvis Pranskevichus.bpo-28401: Debug builds will no longer to attempt to import extension modules built for the ABI as they were never compatible to begin with. Patch by Stefano Rivera.
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-29743: Raise
ValueError
instead ofOverflowError
in case of a negative_length_
in actypes.Array
subclass. Also raiseTypeError
instead ofAttributeError
for non-integer_length_
. Original patch by Oren Milman.bpo-16806: Fix
lineno
andcol_offset
for multi-line string tokens.bpo-35029:
SyntaxWarning
raised as an exception at code generation time will be now replaced with aSyntaxError
for better error reporting.bpo-34983: Expose
symtable.Symbol.is_nonlocal()
in the symtable module. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-34974:
bytes
andbytearray
constructors no longer convert unexpected exceptions (e.g.MemoryError
andKeyboardInterrupt
) toTypeError
.bpo-34939: Allow annotated names in module namespace that are declared global before the annotation happens. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-34973: Fixed crash in
bytes()
when thelist
argument is mutated while it is iterated.bpo-34876: The lineno and col_offset attributes of the AST for decorated function and class refer now to the position of the corresponding
def
,async def
andclass
instead of the position of the first decorator. This leads to more correct line reporting in tracing. This is the only case when the position of child AST nodes can precede the position of the parent AST node.bpo-34879: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in bytesobject.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-34784: Fix the implementation of PyStructSequence_NewType in order to create heap allocated StructSequences.
bpo-32912: A
SyntaxWarning
is now emitted instead of aDeprecationWarning
for invalid escape sequences in string and bytes literals.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-34850: The compiler now produces a
SyntaxWarning
when identity checks (is
andis not
) are used with certain types of literals (e.g. strings, ints). These can often work by accident in CPython, but are not guaranteed by the language spec. The warning advises users to use equality tests (==
and!=
) instead.bpo-34824: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in Modules/_ssl.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-30156: The C function
property_descr_get()
uses a “cached” tuple to optimize function calls. But this tuple can be discovered in debug mode withsys.getobjects()
. Remove the optimization, it’s not really worth it and it causes 3 different crashes last years.bpo-34762: Fix contextvars C API to use PyObject* pointer types.
bpo-34751: The hash function for tuples is now based on xxHash which gives better collision results on (formerly) pathological cases. Additionally, on 64-bit systems it improves tuple hashes in general. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer with substantial contributions by Tim Peters.
bpo-34735: Fix a memory leak in Modules/timemodule.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-34683: Fixed a bug where some SyntaxError error pointed to locations that were off-by-one.
bpo-34651: Only allow the main interpreter to fork. The avoids the possibility of affecting the main interpreter, which is critical to operation of the runtime.
bpo-34653: Remove unused function PyParser_SimpleParseStringFilename.
bpo-32236: Warn that line buffering is not supported if
open()
is called with binary mode andbuffering=1
.bpo-34641: Further restrict the syntax of the left-hand side of keyword arguments in function calls. In particular,
f((keyword)=arg)
is now disallowed.bpo-34637: Make the start argument to sum() visible as a keyword argument.
bpo-1621: Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior (C undefined behavior) when performing set hash table resizing.
bpo-34588: Fix an off-by-one in the recursive call pruning feature of traceback formatting.
bpo-34485: On Windows, the LC_CTYPE is now set to the user preferred locale at startup. Previously, the LC_CTYPE locale was “C” at startup, but changed when calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE, “”) or setlocale(LC_ALL, “”).
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-34485: Python now gets the locale encoding with C code to initialize the encoding of standard streams like sys.stdout. Moreover, the encoding is now initialized to the Python codec name to get a normalized encoding name and to ensure that the codec is loaded. The change avoids importing _bootlocale and _locale modules at startup by default.
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-34403: On HP-UX with C or POSIX locale, sys.getfilesystemencoding() now returns “ascii” instead of “roman8” (when the UTF-8 Mode is disabled and the C locale is not coerced).
bpo-34523: The Python filesystem encoding is now read earlier during the Python initialization.
bpo-12458: Tracebacks show now correct line number for subexpressions in multiline expressions. Tracebacks show now the line number of the first line for multiline expressions instead of the line number of the last subexpression.
bpo-34408: Prevent a null pointer dereference and resource leakage in
PyInterpreterState_New()
.bpo-34400: Fix undefined behavior in parsetok.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-33073: Added as_integer_ratio to ints to make them more interoperable with floats.
bpo-34377: Update valgrind suppression list to use
_PyObject_Free
/_PyObject_Realloc
instead ofPyObject_Free
/PyObject_Realloc
.bpo-34353: Added the “socket” option in the
stat.filemode()
Python implementation to match the C implementation.bpo-34320: Fix
dict(od)
didn’t copy iteration order of OrderedDict.bpo-34113: Fixed crash on debug builds when opcode stack was adjusted with negative numbers. Patch by Constantin Petrisor.
bpo-34100: Compiler now merges constants in tuples and frozensets recursively. Code attributes like
co_names
are merged too.bpo-34151: Performance of list concatenation, repetition and slicing operations is slightly improved. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
bpo-34170: -X dev: it is now possible to override the memory allocator using PYTHONMALLOC even if the developer mode is enabled.
bpo-33237: Improved
AttributeError
message for partially initialized module.bpo-34149: Fix min and max functions to get default behavior when key is None.
bpo-34125: Profiling of unbound built-in methods now works when
**kwargs
is given.bpo-34141: Optimized pickling atomic types (None, bool, int, float, bytes, str).
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-33418: Fix potential memory leak in function object when it creates reference cycle.
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-1617161: The hash of
BuiltinMethodType
instances (methods of built-in classes) now depends on the hash of the identity of __self__ instead of its value. The hash and equality ofModuleType
andMethodWrapperType
instances (methods of user-defined classes and some methods of built-in classes likestr.__add__
) now depend on the hash and equality of the identity of __self__ instead of its value.MethodWrapperType
instances no longer support ordering.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-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-33738: Seven macro incompatibilities with the Limited API were fixed, and the macros
PyIter_Check()
,PyIndex_Check()
andPyExceptionClass_Name()
were added as functions. A script for automatic macro checks was added.bpo-33786: Fix asynchronous generators to handle GeneratorExit in athrow() correctly
bpo-30167:
PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags
removes__cached__
from module in addition to__file__
.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-33597: Reduce
PyGC_Head
size from 3 words to 2 words.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-33462: Make dict and dict views reversible. Patch by Rémi Lapeyre.
bpo-23722: A
RuntimeError
is now raised when the custom metaclass doesn’t provide the__classcell__
entry in the namespace passed totype.__new__
. ADeprecationWarning
was emitted in Python 3.6–3.7.bpo-33499: Add
PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX
environment variable and-X
pycache_prefix
command-line option to set an alternate root directory for writing module bytecode cache files.bpo-25711: The
zipimport
module has been rewritten in pure Python.bpo-33509: Fix module_globals parameter of warnings.warn_explicit(): don’t crash if module_globals is not a dict.
bpo-31849: Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.
bpo-33475: Fixed miscellaneous bugs in converting annotations to strings and optimized parentheses in the string representation.
bpo-20104: Added support for the
setpgroup
,resetids
,setsigmask
,setsigdef
andscheduler
parameters ofposix_spawn
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-33391: Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().
bpo-33363: Raise a SyntaxError for
async with
andasync for
statements outside of async functions.bpo-28055: Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer.
bpo-33128: Fix a bug that causes PathFinder to appear twice on sys.meta_path. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
bpo-33331: Modules imported last are now cleared first at interpreter shutdown.
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-33305: Improved syntax error messages for invalid numerical literals.
bpo-33306: Improved syntax error messages for unbalanced parentheses.
bpo-33234: The list constructor will pre-size and not over-allocate when the input length is known.
bpo-33270: Intern the names for all anonymous code objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-30455: The C and Python code and the documentation related to tokens are now generated from a single source file
Grammar/Tokens
.bpo-33176: Add a
toreadonly()
method to memoryviews.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.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-33138: Changed standard error message for non-pickleable and non-copyable types. It now says “cannot pickle” instead of “can’t pickle” or “cannot serialize”.
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-33083:
math.factorial
no longer accepts arguments that are not int-like. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-33041: Added new opcode
END_ASYNC_FOR
and fixes the following issues:Setting global
StopAsyncIteration
no longer breaksasync for
loops.Jumping into an
async for
loop is now disabled.Jumping out of an
async for
loop no longer corrupts the stack.
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-33041: Fixed bytecode generation for “async for” with a complex target. A StopAsyncIteration raised on assigning or unpacking will be now propagated instead of stopping the iteration.
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-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-17288: Prevent jumps from ‘return’ and ‘exception’ trace events.
bpo-32946: Importing names from already imported module with “from … import …” is now 30% faster if the module is not a package.
bpo-32932: Make error message more revealing when there are non-str objects in
__all__
.bpo-32925: Optimized iterating and containing test for literal lists consisting of non-constants:
x in [a, b]
andfor x in [a, b]
. The case of all constant elements already was optimized.bpo-32889: Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG
toaddress_in_range
.bpo-32836: Don’t use temporary variables in cases of list/dict/set comprehensions
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.
bpo-32489: A
continue
statement is now allowed in thefinally
clause.bpo-17611: Simplified the interpreter loop by moving the logic of unrolling the stack of blocks into the compiler. The compiler emits now explicit instructions for adjusting the stack of values and calling the cleaning up code for
break
,continue
andreturn
.Removed opcodes
BREAK_LOOP
,CONTINUE_LOOP
,SETUP_LOOP
andSETUP_EXCEPT
. Added new opcodesROT_FOUR
,BEGIN_FINALLY
andCALL_FINALLY
andPOP_FINALLY
. Changed the behavior ofEND_FINALLY
andWITH_CLEANUP_START
.bpo-32285: New function unicodedata.is_normalized, which can check whether a string is in a specific normal form.
bpo-10544: Yield expressions are now disallowed in comprehensions and generator expressions except the expression for the outermost iterable.
bpo-32117: Iterable unpacking is now allowed without parentheses in yield and return statements, e.g.
yield 1, 2, 3, *rest
. Thanks to David Cuthbert for the change and Jordan Chapman for added tests.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-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.bpo-31577: Fix a crash in
os.utime()
in case of a bad ns argument. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-29832: Remove references to ‘getsockaddrarg’ from various socket error messages. Patch by Oren Milman.
Library¶
bpo-35845: Add ‘order’ parameter to memoryview.tobytes().
bpo-35864: The _asdict() method for collections.namedtuple now returns a regular dict instead of an OrderedDict.
bpo-35537: An ExitStack is now used internally within subprocess.POpen to clean up pipe file handles. No behavior change in normal operation. But if closing one handle were ever to cause an exception, the others will now be closed instead of leaked. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
bpo-35847: RISC-V needed the CTYPES_PASS_BY_REF_HACK. Fixes ctypes Structure test_pass_by_value.
bpo-35813: Shared memory submodule added to multiprocessing to avoid need for serialization between processes
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-35537:
os.posix_spawn()
andos.posix_spawnp()
now have a setsid parameter.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-35674: Add a new
os.posix_spawnp()
function. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-35733:
ast.Constant(boolean)
no longer an instance ofast.Num
. Patch by Anthony Sottile.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-35719: Sped up multi-argument
math
functions atan2(), copysign(), remainder() and hypot() by 1.3–2.5 times.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-35702: The
time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW
constant is now available for macOS 10.12.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 deprecated warning for the
threading.Thread.isAlive()
method. Patch by Dong-hee Na.bpo-35664: Improve operator.itemgetter() performance by 33% with optimized argument handling and with adding a fast path for the common case of a single non-negative integer index into a tuple (which is the typical use case in the standard library).
bpo-35643: Fixed a SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence in Modules/_sha3/cleanup.py. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.
bpo-35619: Improved support of custom data descriptors in
help()
andpydoc
.bpo-28503: The
crypt
module now internally uses thecrypt_r()
library function instead ofcrypt()
when available.bpo-35614: Fixed help() on metaclasses. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-35568: Expose
raise(signum)
asraise_signal
bpo-35588: The floor division and modulo operations and the
divmod()
function onfractions.Fraction
types are 2–4x faster. Patch by Stefan Behnel.bpo-35585: Speed-up building enums by value, e.g. http.HTTPStatus(200).
bpo-30561: random.gammavariate(1.0, beta) now computes the same result as random.expovariate(1.0 / beta). This synchonizes the two algorithms and eliminates some idiosyncrasies in the old implementation. It does however produce a difference stream of random variables than it used to.
bpo-35537: The
subprocess
module can now use theos.posix_spawn()
function in some cases for better performance.bpo-35526: Delaying the ‘joke’ of barry_as_FLUFL.mandatory to Python version 4.0
bpo-35523: Remove
ctypes
callback workaround: no longer create a callback at startup. Avoid SELinux alert onimport ctypes
andimport uuid
.bpo-31784:
uuid.uuid1()
now callstime.time_ns()
rather thanint(time.time() * 1e9)
.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-35348: Make
platform.architecture()
parsing offile
command output more reliable: add the-b
option to thefile
command to omit the filename, force the usage of the C locale, and search also the “shared object” pattern.bpo-35491:
multiprocessing
: AddPool.__repr__()
and enhanceBaseProcess.__repr__()
(add pid and parent pid) to ease debugging. Pool state constant values are now strings instead of integers, for exampleRUN
value becomes'RUN'
instead of0
.bpo-35477:
multiprocessing.Pool.__enter__()
now fails if the pool is not running:with pool:
fails if used more than once.bpo-31446: Copy command line that was passed to CreateProcessW since this function can change the content of the input buffer.
bpo-35471: Python 2.4 dropped MacOS 9 support. The macpath module was deprecated in Python 3.7. The module is now removed.
bpo-23057: Unblock Proactor event loop when keyboard interrupt is received on Windows
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-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-35445: Memory errors during creating posix.environ no longer ignored.
bpo-35415: Validate fileno= argument to socket.socket().
bpo-35424:
multiprocessing.Pool
destructor now emitsResourceWarning
if the pool is still running.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-35346: Drop Mac OS 9 and Rhapsody support from the
platform
module. Rhapsody last release was in 2000. Mac OS 9 last release was in 2001.bpo-10496:
check_environ()
ofdistutils.utils
now catchesKeyError
on callingpwd.getpwuid()
: don’t create theHOME
environment variable in this case.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-35389:
platform.libc_ver()
now usesos.confstr('CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION')
if available and the executable parameter is not set.bpo-35394: Add empty slots to asyncio abstract protocols.
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-35346:
platform.uname()
now redirectsstderr
toos.devnull
when running external programs likecmd /c ver
.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 occurred 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-35345: The function
platform.popen
has been removed, it was deprecated since Python 3.3: useos.popen()
instead.bpo-35344: On macOS,
platform.platform()
now usesplatform.mac_ver()
, if it returns a non-empty release string, to get the macOS version rather than the darwin version.bpo-35312: Make
lib2to3.pgen2.parse.ParseError
round-trip pickle-able. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35308: Fix regression in
webbrowser
where default browsers may be preferred over browsers in theBROWSER
environment variable.bpo-24746: Avoid stripping trailing whitespace in doctest fancy diff. Original patch by R. David Murray & Jairo Trad. Enhanced by Sanyam Khurana.
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-24209: Adds IPv6 support when invoking http.server directly.
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-30064: Use add_done_callback() in sock_* asyncio API to unsubscribe reader/writer early on calcellation.
bpo-35186: Removed the “built with” comment added when
setup.py upload
is used with eitherbdist_rpm
orbdist_dumb
.bpo-35152: Allow sending more than 2 GB at once on a multiprocessing connection on non-Windows systems.
bpo-35062: Fix incorrect parsing of
_io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder
’s translate argument.bpo-35065: Remove
StreamReaderProtocol._untrack_reader
. The call to_untrack_reader
is currently performed too soon, causing the protocol to forget about the reader beforeconnection_lost
can run and feed the EOF to the reader.bpo-34160: ElementTree and minidom now preserve the attribute order specified by the user.
bpo-35079: Improve difflib.SequenceManager.get_matching_blocks doc by adding ‘non-overlapping’ and changing ‘!=’ to ‘<’.
bpo-33710: Deprecated
l*gettext()
functions and methods in thegettext
module. They return encoded bytes instead of Unicode strings and are artifacts from Python 2 times. Also deprecated functions and methods related to setting the charset forl*gettext()
functions and methods.bpo-35017:
socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever()
now exits immediately if it’sshutdown()
method is called while it is polling for new events.bpo-35024:
importlib
no longer logswrote
redundantly after(created|could not create)
is already logged. Patch by Quentin Agren.bpo-35047:
unittest.mock
now includes mock calls in exception messages ifassert_not_called
,assert_called_once
, orassert_called_once_with
fails. Patch by Petter Strandmark.bpo-31047: Fix
ntpath.abspath
regression where it didn’t remove a trailing separator on Windows. Patch by Tim Graham.bpo-35053: tracemalloc now tries to update the traceback when an object is reused from a “free list” (optimization for faster object creation, used by the builtin list type for example).
bpo-31553: Add the –json-lines option to json.tool. Patch by hongweipeng.
bpo-34794: Fixed a leak in Tkinter when pass the Python wrapper around Tcl_Obj back to Tcl/Tk.
bpo-34909: Enum: fix grandchildren subclassing when parent mixed with concrete data types.
bpo-35022:
unittest.mock.MagicMock
now supports the__fspath__
method (fromos.PathLike
).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-34890: Make
inspect.iscoroutinefunction()
,inspect.isgeneratorfunction()
andinspect.isasyncgenfunction()
work withfunctools.partial()
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.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-31522: The
mailbox.mbox.get_string
function from_ parameter can now successfully be set to a non-default value.bpo-34970: Protect tasks weak set manipulation in
asyncio.all_tasks()
bpo-34969: gzip: Add –fast, –best on the gzip CLI, these parameters will be used for the fast compression method (quick) or the best method compress (slower, but smaller file). Also, change the default compression level to 6 (tradeoff).
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-34926:
mimetypes.MimeTypes.guess_type()
now accepts path-like object in addition to url strings. Patch by Mayank Asthana.bpo-23831: Add
moveto()
method to thetkinter.Canvas
widget. Patch by Juliette Monsel.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-32680:
smtplib.SMTP
objects now always have asock
attribute presentbpo-34769: Fix for async generators not finalizing when event loop is in debug mode and garbage collector runs in another thread.
bpo-34936: Fix
TclError
intkinter.Spinbox.selection_element()
. Patch by Juliette Monsel.bpo-34829: Add methods
selection_from
,selection_range
,selection_present
andselection_to
to thetkinter.Spinbox
for consistency with thetkinter.Entry
widget. Patch by Juliette Monsel.bpo-34911: Added secure_protocols argument to http.cookiejar.DefaultCookiePolicy to allow for tweaking of protocols and also to add support by default for wss, the secure websocket protocol.
bpo-34922: Fixed integer overflow in the
digest()
andhexdigest()
methods for the SHAKE algorithm in thehashlib
module.bpo-34925: 25% speedup in argument parsing for the functions in the bisect module.
bpo-34900: Fixed
unittest.TestCase.debug()
when used to call test methods with subtests. Patch by Bruno Oliveira.bpo-34844: logging.Formatter enhancement - Ensure styles and fmt matches in logging.Formatter - Added validate method in each format style class: StrFormatStyle, PercentStyle, StringTemplateStyle. - This method is called in the constructor of logging.Formatter class - Also re-raise the KeyError in the format method of each style class, so it would a bit clear that it’s an error with the invalid format fields.
bpo-34897: Adjust test.support.missing_compiler_executable check so that a nominal command name of “” is ignored. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-34871: Fix inspect module polluted
sys.modules
when parsing__text_signature__
of callable.bpo-34898: Add
mtime
argument togzip.compress
for reproducible output. Patch by Guo Ci Teo.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-34866: Adding
max_num_fields
tocgi.FieldStorage
to make DOS attacks harder by limiting the number ofMiniFieldStorage
objects created byFieldStorage
.bpo-34711: http.server ensures it reports HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND when the local path ends with “/” and is not a directory, even if the underlying OS (e.g. AIX) accepts such paths as a valid file reference. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-34872: Fix self-cancellation in C implementation of asyncio.Task
bpo-34849: Don’t log waiting for
selector.select
in asyncio loop iteration. The waiting is pretty normal for any asyncio program, logging its time just adds a noise to logs without any useful information provided.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-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-34758: Add .wasm -> application/wasm to list of recognized file types and content type headers
bpo-34789:
xml.sax.make_parser()
now accepts any iterable as its parser_list argument. Patch by Andrés Delfino.bpo-34334: In
QueueHandler
, clearexc_text
fromLogRecord
to prevent traceback from being written twice.bpo-34687: On Windows, asyncio now uses ProactorEventLoop, instead of SelectorEventLoop, by default.
bpo-5950: Support reading zip files with archive comments in
zipimport
.bpo-32892: The parser now represents all constants as
ast.Constant
instead of using specific constant AST types (Num
,Str
,Bytes
,NameConstant
andEllipsis
). These classes are considered deprecated and will be removed in future Python versions.bpo-34728: Add deprecation warning when
loop
is used in methods:asyncio.sleep
,asyncio.wait
andasyncio.wait_for
.bpo-34738: ZIP files created by
distutils
will now include entries for directories.bpo-34659: Add an optional initial argument to itertools.accumulate().
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-32718: The Activate.ps1 script from venv works with PowerShell Core 6.1 and is now available under all operating systems.
bpo-31177: Fix bug that prevented using
reset_mock
on mock instances with deleted attributesbpo-34672: Add a workaround, so the
'Z'
time.strftime()
specifier on the musl C library can work in some cases.bpo-34666: Implement
asyncio.StreamWriter.awrite
andasyncio.StreamWriter.aclose()
coroutines. Methods are needed for providing a consistent stream API with control flow switched on by default.bpo-6721: Acquire the logging module’s commonly used internal locks while fork()ing to avoid deadlocks in the child process.
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-34638: Store a weak reference to stream reader to break strong references loop between reader and protocol. It allows to detect and close the socket if the stream is deleted (garbage collected) without
close()
call.bpo-34536:
Enum._missing_
: raiseValueError
if None returned andTypeError
if non-member is returned.bpo-34636: Speed up re scanning of many non-matching characters for s w and d within bytes objects. (microoptimization)
bpo-24412: Add
addModuleCleanup()
andaddClassCleanup()
to unittest to support cleanups forsetUpModule()
andsetUpClass()
. Patch by Lisa Roach.bpo-34630: Don’t log SSL certificate errors in asyncio code (connection error logging is skipped already).
bpo-32490: Prevent filename duplication in
subprocess
exception messages. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34363: dataclasses.asdict() and .astuple() now handle namedtuples correctly.
bpo-34625: Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.6.
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-34622: Create a dedicated
asyncio.CancelledError
,asyncio.InvalidStateError
andasyncio.TimeoutError
exception classes. Inherit them from corresponding exceptions fromconcurrent.futures
package. Extractasyncio
exceptions into a separate file.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
using string representation because of invisible characters or trailing whitespaces. Patch by William Grzybowski.bpo-30977: Make uuid.UUID use
__slots__
to reduce its memory footprint. Based on original patch by Wouter Bolsterlee.bpo-34574: OrderedDict iterators are not exhausted during pickling anymore. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
bpo-8110: Refactored
subprocess
to check for Windows-specific modules rather thansys.platform == 'win32'
.bpo-34530:
distutils.spawn.find_executable()
now falls back onos.defpath
if thePATH
environment variable is not set.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-34282: Move
Enum._convert
toEnumMeta._convert_
and fix enum members getting shadowed by parent attributes.bpo-22872: When the queue is closed,
ValueError
is now raised bymultiprocessing.Queue.put()
andmultiprocessing.Queue.get()
instead ofAssertionError
andOSError
, respectively. Patch by Zackery Spytz.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-34427: Fix infinite loop in
a.extend(a)
forMutableSequence
subclasses.bpo-34412: Make
signal.strsignal()
work on HP-UX. Patch by Michael Osipov.bpo-20849: shutil.copytree now accepts a new
dirs_exist_ok
keyword argument. Patch by Josh Bronson.bpo-31715: Associate
.mjs
file extension withapplication/javascript
MIME Type.bpo-34384:
os.readlink()
now accepts path-like andbytes
objects on Windows.bpo-22602: The UTF-7 decoder now raises
UnicodeDecodeError
for ill-formed sequences starting with “+” (as specified in RFC 2152). Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-2122: The
mmap.flush()
method now returnsNone
on success, raises an exception on error under all platforms.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-26502: Implement
traceback.FrameSummary.__len__()
method to preserve compatibility with the old tuple API.bpo-34318:
assertRaises()
,assertRaisesRegex()
,assertWarns()
andassertWarnsRegex()
no longer success if the passed callable is None. They no longer ignore unknown keyword arguments in the context manager mode. A DeprecationWarning was raised in these cases since Python 3.5.bpo-9372: Deprecate
__getitem__()
methods ofxml.dom.pulldom.DOMEventStream
,wsgiref.util.FileWrapper
andfileinput.FileInput
.bpo-33613: Fix a race condition in
multiprocessing.semaphore_tracker
when the tracker receives SIGINT before it can register signal handlers for ignoring it.bpo-34248: Report filename in the exception raised when the database file cannot be opened by
dbm.gnu.open()
anddbm.ndbm.open()
due to OS-related error. Patch by Zsolt Cserna.bpo-33089: Add math.dist() to compute the Euclidean distance between two points.
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-32321: Add pure Python fallback for functools.reduce. Patch by Robert Wright.
bpo-34270: The default asyncio task class now always has a name which can be get or set using two new methods (
get_name()
andset_name()
) and is visible in therepr()
output. An initial name can also be set using the newname
keyword argument toasyncio.create_task()
or thecreate_task()
method of the event loop. If no initial name is set, the default Task implementation generates a name likeTask-1
using a monotonic counter.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-34075: Deprecate passing non-ThreadPoolExecutor instances to
AbstractEventLoop.set_default_executor()
.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-33089: Enhanced math.hypot() to support more than two dimensions.
bpo-34228: tracemalloc: PYTHONTRACEMALLOC=0 environment variable and -X tracemalloc=0 command line option are now allowed to disable explicitly tracemalloc at startup.
bpo-13041: Use
shutil.get_terminal_size()
to calculate the terminal width correctly in theargparse.HelpFormatter
class. Initial patch by Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek.bpo-34213: Allow frozen dataclasses to have a field named “object”. Previously this conflicted with an internal use of “object”.
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-34197: Attributes skipinitialspace, doublequote and strict of the dialect attribute of the
csv
reader are nowbool
instances instead of integers 0 or 1.bpo-32788: Errors other than
TypeError
raised in methods__adapt__()
and__conform__()
in thesqlite3
module are now propagated to the user.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-34097: ZipFile can zip files older than 1980-01-01 and newer than 2107-12-31 using a new
strict_timestamps
parameter at the cost of setting the timestamp to the limit.bpo-34108: Remove extraneous CR in 2to3 refactor.
bpo-34070: Make sure to only check if the handle is a tty, when opening a file with
buffering=-1
.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-34041: Add the parameter deterministic to the
sqlite3.Connection.create_function()
method. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.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-34043: Optimize tarfile uncompress performance about 15% when gzip is used.
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-34003: csv.DictReader now creates dicts instead of OrderedDicts. Patch by Michael Selik.
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’, describing 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-25007: Add
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
support to zlib compressors and decompressors. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33929: multiprocessing: Fix a race condition in Popen of multiprocessing.popen_spawn_win32. The child process now duplicates the read end of pipe instead of “stealing” it. Previously, the read end of pipe was “stolen” by the child process, but it leaked a handle if the child process had been terminated before it could steal the handle from the parent process.
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-33897: Added a ‘force’ keyword argument to logging.basicConfig().
bpo-33695:
shutil.copytree()
usesos.scandir()
function and all copy functions depending from it use cachedos.stat()
values. The speedup for copying a directory with 8000 files is around +9% on Linux, +20% on Windows and + 30% on a Windows SMB share. Also the number ofos.stat()
syscalls is reduced by 38% makingshutil.copytree()
especially faster on network filesystems. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola’ in bpo-33695.)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-33721:
os.path
functions that return a boolean result likeexists()
,lexists()
,isdir()
,isfile()
,islink()
, andismount()
, andpathlib.Path
methods that return a boolean result likeexists()
,is_dir()
,is_file()
,is_mount()
,is_symlink()
,is_block_device()
,is_char_device()
,is_fifo()
,is_socket()
now returnFalse
instead of raisingValueError
or its subclassesUnicodeEncodeError
andUnicodeDecodeError
for paths that contain characters or bytes unrepresentable at the OS level.bpo-26544: Fixed implementation of
platform.libc_ver()
. It almost always returned version ‘2.9’ for glibc.bpo-33843: Remove deprecated
cgi.escape
,cgi.parse_qs
andcgi.parse_qsl
.bpo-33842: Remove
tarfile.filemode
which is deprecated since Python 3.3.bpo-30167: Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.
bpo-33805: Improve error message of dataclasses.replace() when an InitVar is not specified
bpo-33687: Fix the call to
os.chmod()
foruu.decode()
if a mode is given or decoded. Patch by Timo Furrer.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-32108: In configparser, don’t clear section when it is assigned to itself.
bpo-27397: Make email module properly handle invalid-length base64 strings.
bpo-33578: Implement multibyte encoder/decoder state methods
bpo-30805: Avoid race condition with debug logging
bpo-33476: Fix _header_value_parser.py when address group is missing final ‘;’. Contributed by Enrique Perez-Terron
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-33274: W3C DOM Level 1 specifies return value of Element.removeAttributeNode() as “The Attr node that was removed.” xml.dom.minidom now complies with this requirement.
bpo-33778: Update
unicodedata
’s database to Unicode version 11.0.0.bpo-33165: Added a stacklevel parameter to logging calls to allow use of wrapper/helper functions for logging APIs.
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-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-2504: Add gettext.pgettext() and variants.
bpo-33197: Add description property for _ParameterKind
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-33671:
shutil.copyfile()
,shutil.copy()
,shutil.copy2()
,shutil.copytree()
andshutil.move()
use platform-specific fast-copy syscalls on Linux and macOS in order to copy the file more efficiently. On Windowsshutil.copyfile()
uses a bigger default buffer size (1 MiB instead of 16 KiB) and amemoryview()
-based variant ofshutil.copyfileobj()
is used. The speedup for copying a 512MiB file is about +26% on Linux, +50% on macOS and +40% on Windows. Also, much less CPU cycles are consumed. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola’ in bpo-25427.)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-33238: Add
InvalidStateError
toconcurrent.futures
.Future.set_result
andFuture.set_exception
now raiseInvalidStateError
if the futures are not pending or running. Patch by Jason Haydaman.bpo-33618: Finalize and document preliminary and experimental TLS 1.3 support with OpenSSL 1.1.1
bpo-33625: Release GIL on
grp.getgrnam
,grp.getgrgid
,pwd.getpwnam
andpwd.getpwuid
if reentrant variants of these functions are available. Patch by William Grzybowski.bpo-33623: Fix possible SIGSGV when asyncio.Future is created in __del__
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-33604: Remove HMAC default to md5 marked for removal in 3.8 (removal originally planned in 3.6, bump to 3.8 in gh-7062).
bpo-33582: Emit a deprecation warning for inspect.formatargspec
bpo-21145: Add
functools.cached_property
decorator, for computed properties cached for the life of the instance.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-12486:
tokenize.generate_tokens()
is now documented as a public API to tokenize unicode strings. It was previously present but undocumented.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-33541: Remove unused private method
_strptime.LocaleTime.__pad
(a.k.a._LocaleTime__pad
).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-33516:
unittest.mock.MagicMock
now supports the__round__
magic method.bpo-28612: Added support for Site Maps to urllib’s
RobotFileParser
asRobotFileParser.site_maps()
. Patch by Lady Red, based on patch by Peter Wirtz.bpo-28167: Remove platform.linux_distribution, which was deprecated since 3.5.
bpo-33504: Switch the default dictionary implementation for
configparser
fromcollections.OrderedDict
to the standarddict
type.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-29235: The
cProfile.Profile
class can now be used as a context manager. Patch by Scott Sanderson.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-26103: Correct
inspect.isdatadescriptor
to look for__set__
or__delete__
. Patch by Aaron Hall.bpo-29209: Removed the
doctype()
method and the html parameter of the constructor ofXMLParser
. Thedoctype()
method defined in a subclass will no longer be called. Deprecated methodsgetchildren()
andgetiterator()
in theElementTree
module emit now aDeprecationWarning
instead ofPendingDeprecationWarning
.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-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-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-33281: Fix ctypes.util.find_library regression on macOS.
bpo-33311: Text and html output generated by cgitb does not display parentheses if the current call is done directly in the module. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.
bpo-27300: The file classes in tempfile now accept an errors parameter that complements the already existing encoding. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-32933:
unittest.mock.mock_open()
now supports iteration over the file contents. Patch by Tony Flury.bpo-33217: Raise
TypeError
when looking up non-Enum objects in Enum classes and Enum members.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-33375: The warnings module now finds the Python file associated with a warning from the code object, rather than the frame’s global namespace. This is consistent with how tracebacks and pdb find filenames, and should work better for dynamically executed code.
bpo-33336:
imaplib
now allowsMOVE
command inIMAP4.uid()
(RFC 6851: IMAP MOVE Extension) and potentially as a name of supported method ofIMAP4
object.bpo-32455: Added jump parameter to
dis.stack_effect()
.bpo-27485: Rename and deprecate undocumented functions in
urllib.parse()
.bpo-33332: Add
signal.valid_signals()
to expose the POSIX sigfillset() functionality.bpo-33251:
ConfigParser.items()
was fixed so that key-value pairs passed in viavars
are not included in the resulting output.bpo-33329: Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs
bpo-33334:
dis.stack_effect()
now supports all defined opcodes including NOP and EXTENDED_ARG.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-23403: lib2to3 now uses pickle protocol 4 for pre-computed grammars.
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-33265:
contextlib.ExitStack
andcontextlib.AsyncExitStack
now use a method instead of a wrapper function for exit callbacks.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-33144:
random.Random()
and its subclassing mechanism got optimized to check only once at class/subclass instantiation time whether itsgetrandbits()
method can be relied on by other methods, includingrandrange()
, for the generation of arbitrarily large random integers. Patch by Wolfgang Maier.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-29613: Added support for the
SameSite
cookie flag to thehttp.cookies
module.bpo-33169: Delete entries of
None
insys.path_importer_cache
whenimportlib.machinery.invalidate_caches()
is called.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. Also removes extra newlines that were being appended to the end of the string. Patch by Michael Lazar.bpo-23403:
DEFAULT_PROTOCOL
inpickle
was bumped to 4. Protocol 4 is described in PEP 3154 and available since Python 3.4. It offers better performance and smaller size compared to protocol 3 introduced in Python 3.0.bpo-20104: Improved error handling and fixed a reference leak in
os.posix_spawn()
.bpo-33106: Deleting a key from a read-only dbm database raises module specific error instead of KeyError.
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-32380: Create functools.singledispatchmethod to support generic single dispatch on descriptors and methods.
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-33097: Raise RuntimeError when
executor.submit
is called during interpreter shutdown.bpo-32968: Modulo and floor division involving Fraction and float should return float.
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-33034: Providing an explicit error message when casting the port property to anything that is not an integer value using
urlparse()
andurlsplit()
. Patch by Matt Eaton.bpo-30249: Improve struct.unpack_from() exception messages for problems with the buffer size and offset.
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-22674: Add the strsignal() function in the signal module that returns the system description of the given signal, as returned by strsignal(3).
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-32970: Improved disassembly of the MAKE_FUNCTION instruction.
bpo-32844: Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess if another low descriptor is closed.
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-32257: The ssl module now contains OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION constant, available with OpenSSL 1.1.0h or 1.1.1.
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-32146: Document the interaction between frozen executables and the spawn and forkserver start methods in multiprocessing.
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-32759: Free unused arenas in multiprocessing.heap.
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-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-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-19675:
multiprocessing.Pool
no longer leaks processes if its initialization fails.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-30688: Added support of
\N{name}
escapes in regular expressions. Based on patch by Jonathan Eunice.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-32749: A
dbm.dumb
database opened with flags ‘r’ is now read-only.dbm.dumb.open()
with flags ‘r’ and ‘w’ no longer creates a database if it does not exist.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-32512:
profile
CLI accepts-m module_name
as an alternative to script path.bpo-8525: help() on a type now displays builtin subclasses. This is intended primarily to help with notification of more specific exception subclasses.
Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-31639: http.server now exposes a ThreadingHTTPServer class and uses it when the module is run with
-m
to cope with web browsers pre-opening sockets.bpo-29877: compileall: import ProcessPoolExecutor only when needed, preventing hangs on low resource platforms
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-32147:
binascii.unhexlify()
is now up to 2 times faster. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-30693: The TarFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
bpo-30693: The ZipFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
bpo-31680: Added
curses.ncurses_version
.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-31608: Raise a
TypeError
instead of crashing if acollections.deque
subclass returns a non-deque from__new__
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31425: Add support for sockets of the AF_QIPCRTR address family, supported by the Linux kernel. This is used to communicate with services, such as GPS or radio, running on Qualcomm devices. Patch by Bjorn Andersson.
bpo-22005: Implemented unpickling instances of
datetime
,date
andtime
pickled by Python 2.encoding='latin1'
should be used for successful decoding.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.bpo-16865: Support arrays >=2GiB in
ctypes
. Patch by Segev Finer.bpo-31508: Removed support of arguments in
tkinter.ttk.Treeview.selection
. It was deprecated in 3.6. Use specialized methods likeselection_set
for changing the selection.bpo-29456: Fix bugs in hangul normalization: u1176, u11a7 and u11c3
Documentation¶
bpo-21257: Document
http.client.parse_headers()
.bpo-34764: Improve example of iter() with 2nd sentinel argument.
bpo-35564: Explicitly set master_doc variable in conf.py for compliance with Sphinx 2.0
bpo-35511: Specified that profile.Profile class doesn’t not support enable or disable methods. Also, elaborated that Profile object as a context manager is only supported in cProfile module.
bpo-10536: Enhance the gettext docs. Patch by Éric Araujo
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-35042: Replace PEP XYZ by the pep role and allow to use the direct links to the PEPs.
bpo-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-34913: Add documentation about the new command line interface of the gzip module.
bpo-32174: chm document displays non-ASCII charaters properly on some MBCS Windows systems.
bpo-11233: Create availability directive for documentation. Original patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-34790: Document how passing coroutines to asyncio.wait() can be confusing.
bpo-34552: Make clear that
==
operator sometimes is equivalent tois
. The<
,<=
,>
and>=
operators are only defined where they make sense.bpo-28617: Fixed info in the stdtypes docs concerning the types that support membership tests.
bpo-20177: Migrate datetime.date.fromtimestamp to Argument Clinic. Patch by Tim Hoffmann.
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.
bpo-33409: Clarified the relationship between PEP 538’s PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE and PEP 540’s PYTHONUTF8 mode.
bpo-33197: Add versionadded tag to the documentation of ParameterKind.description
bpo-17045: Improve the C-API doc for PyTypeObject. This includes adding several quick-reference tables and a lot of missing slot/typedef entries. The existing entries were also cleaned up with a slightly more consistent format.
bpo-33736: Improve the documentation of
asyncio.open_connection()
,asyncio.start_server()
and their UNIX socket counterparts.bpo-23859: Document that
asyncio.wait()
does not cancel its futures on timeout.bpo-33604: Update HMAC md5 default to a DeprecationWarning, bump removal to 3.8.
bpo-33594: Document
getargspec
,from_function
andfrom_builtin
as deprecated in their respective docstring, and include version since deprecation in DeprecationWarning message.bpo-33503: Fix broken pypi link
bpo-33421: Add missing documentation for
typing.AsyncContextManager
.bpo-33487: BZ2file now emit a DeprecationWarning when buffering=None is passed, the deprecation message and documentation also now explicitly state it is deprecated since 3.0.
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-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-32613: Update the faq/windows.html to use the py command from PEP 397 instead of python.
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-20709: Remove the paragraph where we explain that os.utime() does not support a directory as path under Windows. Patch by Jan-Philip Gehrcke
bpo-32722: Remove the bad example in the tutorial of the Generator Expression. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-31972: Improve docstrings for
pathlib.PurePath
subclasses.bpo-30607: Use the externalized
python-docs-theme
package when building the documentation.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.bpo-31432: Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.
Tests¶
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-32710:
test_asyncio/test_sendfile.py
now resets the event loop policy usingtearDownModule()
as done in other tests, to prevent a warning when running tests on Windows.bpo-33717: test.pythoninfo now logs information of all clocks, not only time.time() and time.perf_counter().
bpo-35488: Add a test to pathlib’s Path.match() to verify it does not support glob-style ** recursive pattern matching.
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.
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.
bpo-34962: make docstest in Doc now passes., and is enforced in CI
bpo-23596: Use argparse for the command line of the gzip module. Patch by Antony Lee
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-34569: The experimental PEP 554 data channels now correctly pass negative PyLong objects between subinterpreters on 32-bit systems. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-34594: Fix usage of hardcoded
errno
values in the tests.bpo-34579: Fix test_embed for AIX Patch by Michael Felt
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-34347: Fix
test_utf8_mode.test_cmd_line
for AIXbpo-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-11192: Fix
test_socket
on AIX AIX 6.1 and later IPv6 zone id supports only supported by inet_pton6_zone() Switch to runtime-based platform.system() to establish current platform rather than build-time based sys.platform()bpo-34399: Update all RSA keys and DH params to use at least 2048 bits.
bpo-34373: Fix
test_mktime
andtest_pthread_getcpuclickid
tests for AIX Add range checking for_PyTime_localtime
for AIX Patch by Michael Feltbpo-11191: Skip the distutils test ‘test_search_cpp’ when using XLC as compiler patch by aixtools (Michael Felt)
Improved an error message when mock assert_has_calls fails.
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-33562: Check that a global asyncio event loop policy is not left behind by any tests.
bpo-33655: Ignore test_posix_fallocate failures on BSD platforms that might be due to running on ZFS.
bpo-32962: Fixed test_gdb when Python is compiled with flags -mcet -fcf-protection -O0.
bpo-33358: Fix
test_embed.test_pre_initialization_sys_options()
when the interpreter is built with--enable-shared
.bpo-32872: Avoid regrtest compatibility issue with namespace packages.
bpo-32517: Fix failing
test_asyncio
on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport ofKqueueSelector
loop was not being closed.bpo-32663: Making sure the
SMTPUTF8SimTests
class of tests gets run in test_smtplib.py.bpo-27643: Test_C test case needs “signed short” bitfields, but the IBM XLC compiler (on AIX) does not support this Skip the code and test when AIX and XLC are used
Applicable to Python2-2.7 and later
bpo-19417: Add test_bdb.py.
bpo-31809: Add tests to verify connection with secp ECDH curves.
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.
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.
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-35059: PCbuild: Set InlineFunctionExpansion to OnlyExplicitInline (“/Ob1” option) in pyproject.props in Debug mode to expand functions marked as inline. This change should make Python compiled in Debug mode a little bit faster on Windows.
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-34765: Update the outdated install-sh file to the latest revision from automake v1.16.1
bpo-34585: Check for floating-point byte order in configure.ac using compilation tests instead of executing code, so that these checks work in cross-compiled builds.
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-34081: Make Sphinx warnings as errors in the Docs Makefile.
bpo-34555: Fix for case where it was not possible to have both
HAVE_LINUX_VM_SOCKETS_H
andHAVE_SOCKADDR_ALG
be undefined.bpo-33015: Fix an undefined behaviour in the pthread implementation of
PyThread_start_new_thread()
: add a function wrapper to always returnNULL
.bpo-34245: The Python shared library is now installed with write permission (mode 0755), which is the standard way of installing such libraries.
bpo-34121: Fix detection of C11 atomic support on clang.
bpo-32430: Rename Modules/Setup.dist to Modules/Setup, and remove the necessity to copy the former manually to the latter when updating the local source tree.
bpo-30345: Add -g to LDFLAGS when compiling with LTO to get debug symbols.
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-33648: The –with-c-locale-warning configuration flag has been removed. It has had no effect for about a year.
bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython
bpo-33512: configure’s check for “long double” has been simplified
bpo-33483: C compiler is now correctly detected from the standard environment variables. –without-gcc and –with-icc options have been removed.
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
bpo-33163: Upgrade pip to 9.0.3 and setuptools to v39.0.1.
bpo-33012: gcc 8 has added a new warning heuristic to detect invalid function casts and a stock python build seems to hit that warning quite often. The most common is the cast of a METH_NOARGS function (that uses just one argument) to a PyCFunction. Fix this by adding a dummy argument to all functions that implement METH_NOARGS.
bpo-32898: Fix the python debug build when using COUNT_ALLOCS.
bpo-29442: Replace optparse with argparse in setup.py
Windows¶
bpo-35890: Fix API calling consistency of GetVersionEx and wcstok.
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-35758: Allow building on ARM with MSVC.
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-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-32557: Allow shutil.disk_usage to take a file path on 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-34532: Fixes exit code of list version arguments for py.exe.
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-34011: A suite of code has been changed which copied across DLLs and init.tcl from the running Python location into a venv being created. These copies are needed only when running from a Python source build, and the copying code is now only run when that is the case, rather than whenever a venv is created.
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-33895: GIL is released while calling functions that acquire Windows loader lock.
bpo-33720: Reduces maximum marshal recursion depth on release builds.
bpo-29097: Fix bug where
datetime.fromtimestamp()
erroneously throws anOSError
on Windows for values between 0 and 86400. Patch by Ammar Askar.bpo-33316: PyThread_release_lock always fails
bpo-33184: Update Windows installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
bpo-32890: Fix usage of GetLastError() instead of errno in os.execve() and os.truncate().
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-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.bpo-1104: Correctly handle string length in
msilib.SummaryInfo.GetProperty()
to prevent it from truncating the last character.
macOS¶
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.
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-13631: The .editrc file in user’s home directory is now processed correctly during the readline initialization through editline emulation on macOS.
bpo-33184: Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
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.
bpo-32901: Update macOS 10.9+ installer to Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.
bpo-31903: In
_scproxy
, drop the GIL when calling intoSystemConfiguration
to avoid deadlocks.
IDLE¶
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-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.
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.
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.
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-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-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-32831: Add docstrings and tests for codecontext.
bpo-32765: Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget list.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-35884: Add a benchmark script for timing various ways to access variables:
Tools/scripts/var_access_benchmark.py
.bpo-34989: python-gdb.py now handles errors on computing the line number of a Python frame.
bpo-20260: Argument Clinic now has non-bitwise unsigned int converters.
bpo-32962: python-gdb now catches
UnicodeDecodeError
exceptions when callingstring()
.bpo-32962: python-gdb now catches ValueError on read_var(): when Python has no debug symbols for example.
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-25427: Remove the pyvenv script in favor of
python3 -m venv
in order to lower confusion as to what Python interpreter a virtual environment will be created for.bpo-32885: Add an
-n
flag forTools/scripts/pathfix.py
to disable automatic backup creation (files with~
suffix).bpo-32222: Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.
bpo-31583: Fix 2to3 for using with –add-suffix option but without –output-dir option for relative path to files in current directory.
C API¶
bpo-35713: The
PyByteArray_Init()
andPyByteArray_Fini()
functions have been removed. They did nothing since Python 2.7.4 and Python 3.2.0, were excluded from the limited API (stable ABI), and were not documented.bpo-33817: Fixed
_PyBytes_Resize()
for empty bytes objects.bpo-35322: Fix memory leak in
PyUnicode_EncodeLocale()
andPyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault()
on error handling.bpo-35059: The following C macros have been converted to static inline functions:
Py_INCREF()
,Py_DECREF()
,Py_XINCREF()
,Py_XDECREF()
,PyObject_INIT()
,PyObject_INIT_VAR()
.bpo-35296:
make install
now also installs the internal API:Include/internal/*.h
header files.bpo-35081: Internal APIs surrounded by
#ifdef Py_BUILD_CORE
have been moved fromInclude/*.h
headers to new header filesInclude/internal/pycore_*.h
.bpo-35259: Conditionally declare
Py_FinalizeEx()
(new in 3.6) based on Py_LIMITED_API. Patch by Arthur Neufeld.bpo-35081: The
_PyObject_GC_TRACK()
and_PyObject_GC_UNTRACK()
macros have been removed from the public C API.bpo-35134: Creation of a new
Include/cpython/
subdirectory.bpo-34725: Adds _Py_SetProgramFullPath so embedders may override sys.executable
bpo-34910: Ensure that
PyObject_Print()
always returns-1
on error. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34523: Py_DecodeLocale() and Py_EncodeLocale() now use the UTF-8 encoding on Windows if Py_LegacyWindowsFSEncodingFlag is zero.
bpo-34193: Fix pluralization in TypeError messages in getargs.c and typeobject.c: ‘1 argument’ instead of ‘1 arguments’ and ‘1 element’ instead of ‘1 elements’.
bpo-34127: Return grammatically correct error message based on argument count. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-23927: Fixed
SystemError
inPyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
when thew*
format unit is used for optional parameter.bpo-32455: Added
PyCompile_OpcodeStackEffectWithJump()
.bpo-34008: Py_Main() can again be called after Py_Initialize(), as in Python 3.6.
bpo-32500: Fixed error messages for
PySequence_Size()
,PySequence_GetItem()
,PySequence_SetItem()
andPySequence_DelItem()
called with a mapping andPyMapping_Size()
called with a sequence.bpo-33818:
PyExceptionClass_Name()
will now returnconst char *
instead ofchar *
.bpo-33042: Embedding applications may once again call PySys_ResetWarnOptions, PySys_AddWarnOption, and PySys_AddXOption prior to calling Py_Initialize.
bpo-32374: Document that m_traverse for multi-phase initialized modules can be called with m_state=NULL, and add a sanity check
bpo-30863:
PyUnicode_AsWideChar()
andPyUnicode_AsWideCharString()
no longer cache thewchar_t*
representation of string objects.
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-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 addos.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 thestr.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. Thedistutils.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-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 different 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 thestr.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 different 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 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-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__.
Documentation¶
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-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-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
constructor 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.
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-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-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 thecrle
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 tosys.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 different 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
Library¶
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-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-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 pass 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-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
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-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-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().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-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin a workaround to Tix library bug.
bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer add entry “./” to ZIP archive.
bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT handlers.
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-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch.
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-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-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.
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-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-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-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
bpo-19003: m email.generator now replaces only
\r
and/or\n
line endings, per the RFC, instead of all unicode line endings.bpo-28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.
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-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-27445: Don’t pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload(). Patch by Claude Paroz.
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-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-27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
bpo-27691: Fix ssl module’s parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name fields in X.509 certs.
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-26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
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.
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-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-2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which the user does not have permission to access.
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.
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-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-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-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-26664: Fix activate.fish by removing mis-use of
$
.bpo-22115: Fixed tracing Tkinter variables: 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.
Fix a scoping issue in importlib.util.LazyLoader which triggered an UnboundLocalError when lazy-loading a module that was already put into sys.modules.
bpo-27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and ispunct().
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-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¶
bpo-16182: Fix various functions in the “readline” module to use the locale encoding, and fix get_begidx() and get_endidx() to return code point indexes.
bpo-27392: Add loop.connect_accepted_socket(). Patch by Jim Fulton.
bpo-27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener. Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch.
bpo-21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message. Thanks to Wojciech Walczak for patch.
bpo-27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.
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.
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-28600: Optimize loop.call_soon().
bpo-28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if called from coroutines/callbacks.
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-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left the parser in an invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch.
bpo-28990: Fix SSL hanging if connection is closed before handshake completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)
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.
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-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-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-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
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.
C API¶
Tests¶
bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l/-M in regrtest command line arguments.
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-28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
bpo-27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for “dangling threads”, since the dangling threads are weak references.
bpo-27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that changed in Expat 2.2.0.
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.
bpo-27332: Fixed the type of the first argument of module-level functions generated by Argument Clinic. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-27418: Fixed Tools/importbench/importbench.py.
Windows¶
bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
bpo-25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom install.
bpo-27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and drop works correctly.
bpo-27309: Enabled proper Windows styles in python[w].exe manifest.
Build¶
bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
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-28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
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-28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for generated include files when building outside the source tree.
bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the source tree.
bpo-27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach)
bpo-27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py
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-26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules.
bpo-26359: Add the –with-optimizations configure flag.
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 and ld_so_aix, which are required on AIX. This updates references to an installation path that was changed in 3.2a4, and undoes changed references to the build tree that were made 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.
bpo-28676: Prevent missing ‘getentropy’ declaration warning on macOS. Patch by Gareth Rees.
Python 3.5.2 final¶
Release date: 2016-06-26
Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2016-06-12
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a negative number without setting an exception.
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. Patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for subclasses.
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-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-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-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-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-4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star (
*
) unpacking in function calls. Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and Daniel Urban.bpo-27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().
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-26194: Deque.insert() gave odd results for bounded deques that had reached their maximum size. Now an IndexError will be raised when attempting to insert into a full deque.
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
(int
), even if1
and1.0
are equal.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-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-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-25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited more than once.
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.
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-20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses correctly. Initial patch by ingrid.
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-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-26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() is called in more/all circumstances.
bpo-21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError. Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
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-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-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-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-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-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 thecrle
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-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-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-16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Geoff Wilson.
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-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-22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False.
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-21925:
warnings.formatwarning()
now catches exceptions onlinecache.getline(...)
to be able to logResourceWarning
emitted late during the Python shutdown process.bpo-24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the search mode when compiled with Readline 7.
bpo-26560: Avoid potential ValueError in BaseHandler.start_response. Initial patch by Peter Inglesby.
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-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 the fileinput module. The bufsize parameter is no longer used.
bpo-2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu Dupuy.
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-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 SystemError 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.
Library¶
bpo-25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree depth.
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-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-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-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-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.
bpo-17633: Improve zipimport’s support for namespace packages.
bpo-24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars appearing before $() vars.
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-25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have a buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility).
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-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-25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.
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-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-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.
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
bpo-27223: asyncio: Fix _read_ready and _write_ready to respect _conn_lost. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
bpo-22970: asyncio: Fix inconsistency cancelling Condition.wait. Patch by David Coles.
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-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-27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes. Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
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 IDLE’s undo delegator. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar .
bpo-27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
bpo-23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
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’.
Documentation¶
bpo-19489: Moved the search box from the sidebar to the header and footer of each page. Patch by Ammar Askar.
bpo-24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.
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-25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is searched for in the global scope.
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-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 self-signed.pythontest.net. 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-26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode files cannot be written.
Build¶
bpo-26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
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-27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm, except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Xavier de Gaye.
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-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-25348: Added
--pgo
and--pgo-job
arguments toPCbuild\build.bat
for building with Profile-Guided Optimization. The oldPCbuild\build_pgo.bat
script is now deprecated, and simply callsPCbuild\build.bat --pgo %*
.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-26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
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.
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.
Windows¶
bpo-17500: Remove unused and outdated icons. (See also: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945)
Python 3.5.1 final¶
Release date: 2015-12-06
Python 3.5.1 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2015-11-22
Core and Builtins¶
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-25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of “arg” node when compiling AST from Python objects.
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-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-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-24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from being subclassed through multiple inheritance.
bpo-24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
bpo-25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no longer formatted twice.
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-25182: The stdprinter (used as sys.stderr before the io module is imported at startup) now uses the backslashreplace error handler.
bpo-25131: Make the line number and column offset of set/dict literals and comprehensions correspond to the opening brace.
bpo-25150: Hide the private _Py_atomic_xxx symbols from the public Python.h header to fix a compilation error with OpenMP. PyThreadState_GET() becomes an alias to PyThreadState_Get() to avoid ABI incompatibilities.
Library¶
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-25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per attribute.
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-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.
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-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-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-24483: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now calculates key’s hash only once.
bpo-22958: Constructor and update method of weakref.WeakValueDictionary now accept the self and the dict keyword arguments.
bpo-22609: Constructor of collections.UserDict now accepts the self keyword argument.
bpo-25111: Fixed comparison of traceback.FrameSummary.
bpo-25262: Added support for BINBYTES8 opcode in Python implementation of unpickler. Highest 32 bits of 64-bit size for BINUNICODE8 and BINBYTES8 opcodes no longer silently ignored on 32-bit platforms in C implementation.
bpo-25034: Fix string.Formatter problem with auto-numbering and nested format_specs. Patch by Anthon van der Neut.
bpo-25233: Rewrite the guts of asyncio.Queue and asyncio.Semaphore to be more understandable and correct.
bpo-25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the module in inconsistent state.
bpo-23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning wrong results in some cases.
bpo-23329: Allow the ssl module to be built with older versions of LibreSSL.
Prevent overflow in _Unpickler_Read.
bpo-25047: The XML encoding declaration written by Element Tree now respects the letter case given by the user. This restores the ability to write encoding names in uppercase like “UTF-8”, which worked in Python 2.
bpo-25135: Make deque_clear() safer by emptying the deque before clearing. This helps avoid possible reentrancy issues.
bpo-19143: platform module now reads Windows version from kernel32.dll to avoid compatibility shims.
bpo-25092: Fix datetime.strftime() failure when errno was already set to EINVAL.
bpo-23517: Fix rounding in fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods of datetime.datetime: microseconds are now rounded to nearest with ties going to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), instead of being rounding towards minus infinity (ROUND_FLOOR). It’s important that these methods use the same rounding mode than datetime.timedelta to keep the property: (datetime(1970,1,1) + timedelta(seconds=t)) == datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t). It also the rounding mode used by round(float) for example.
bpo-25155: Fix datetime.datetime.now() and datetime.datetime.utcnow() on Windows to support date after year 2038. It was a regression introduced in Python 3.5.0.
bpo-25108: Omitted internal frames in traceback functions print_stack(), format_stack(), and extract_stack() called without arguments.
bpo-25118: Fix a regression of Python 3.5.0 in os.waitpid() on Windows.
bpo-24684: socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of calling the encode() method of the host, to handle correctly custom string with an encode() method which doesn’t return a byte string. The encoder of the IDNA codec is now called directly instead of calling the encode() method of the string.
bpo-25060: Correctly compute stack usage of the BUILD_MAP opcode.
bpo-24857: Comparing call_args to a long sequence now correctly returns a boolean result instead of raising an exception. Patch by A Kaptur.
bpo-23144: Make sure that HTMLParser.feed() returns all the data, even when convert_charrefs is True.
bpo-24982: shutil.make_archive() with the “zip” format now adds entries for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.
bpo-25019: Fixed a crash caused by setting non-string key of expat parser. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-16180: Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping user in an infinite loop. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-24891: Fix a race condition at Python startup if the file descriptor of stdin (0), stdout (1) or stderr (2) is closed while Python is creating sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr objects. These attributes are now set to None if the creation of the object failed, instead of raising an OSError exception. Initial patch written by Marco Paolini.
bpo-24992: Fix error handling and a race condition (related to garbage collection) in collections.OrderedDict constructor.
bpo-24881: Fixed setting binary mode in Python implementation of FileIO on Windows and Cygwin. Patch from Akira Li.
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.
bpo-21112: Fix regression in unittest.expectedFailure on subclasses. Patch from Berker Peksag.
bpo-24764: cgi.FieldStorage.read_multi() now ignores the Content-Length header in part headers. Patch written by Peter Landry and reviewed by Pierre Quentel.
bpo-24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling.
bpo-24774: Fix docstring in http.server.test. Patch from Chiu-Hsiang Hsu.
bpo-21159: Improve message in configparser.InterpolationMissingOptionError. Patch from Łukasz Langa.
bpo-20362: Honour TestCase.longMessage correctly in assertRegex. Patch from Ilia Kurenkov.
bpo-23572: Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with falsy metaclasses. Patch by Ethan Furman.
asyncio: ensure_future() now accepts awaitable objects.
IDLE¶
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 Mark 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-22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. Patch by Yoni Lavi.
bpo-12067: Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter of the language reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed types were incorrect or ambiguous. NotImplemented is only relevant at a lower level than the Expressions chapter. Added details of comparing range() objects, and default behaviour and consistency suggestions for user-defined classes. Patch from Andy Maier.
bpo-24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in the “threading” and “_thread” modules. Patch from Mattip.
bpo-23725: Overhaul tempfile docs. Note deprecated status of mktemp. Patch from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
bpo-24808: Update the types of some PyTypeObject fields. Patch by Joseph Weston.
bpo-22812: Fix unittest discovery examples. Patch from Pam McA’Nulty.
Tests¶
bpo-25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses.
bpo-25099: Make test_compileall not fail when an entry on sys.path cannot be written to (commonly seen in administrative installs on Windows).
bpo-23919: Prevents assert dialogs appearing in the test suite.
PCbuild\rt.bat
now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9.
Build¶
bpo-24915: Add LLVM support for PGO builds and use the test suite to generate the profile data. Initial patch by Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel.
bpo-24910: Windows MSIs now have unique display names.
bpo-24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors when external libraries are not available.
Windows¶
bpo-25450: Updates shortcuts to start Python in installation directory.
bpo-25164: Changes default all-users install directory to match per-user directory.
bpo-25143: Improves installer error messages for unsupported platforms.
bpo-25163: Display correct directory in installer when using non-default settings.
bpo-25361: Disables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit build
bpo-25089: Adds logging to installer for case where launcher is not selected on upgrade.
bpo-25165: Windows uninstallation should not remove launcher if other versions remain
bpo-25112: py.exe launcher is missing icons
bpo-25102: Windows installer does not precompile for -O or -OO.
bpo-25081: Makes Back button in installer go back to upgrade page when upgrading.
bpo-25091: Increases font size of the installer.
bpo-25126: Clarifies that the non-web installer will download some components.
bpo-25213: Restores requestedExecutionLevel to manifest to disable UAC virtualization.
bpo-25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
Python 3.5.0 final¶
Release date: 2015-09-13
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 4¶
Release date: 2015-09-09
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 3¶
Release date: 2015-09-07
Core and Builtins¶
Library¶
bpo-24917: time_strftime() buffer over-read.
bpo-24748: To resolve a compatibility problem found with py2exe and pywin32, imp.load_dynamic() once again ignores previously loaded modules to support Python modules replacing themselves with extension modules. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-24635: Fixed a bug in typing.py where isinstance([], typing.Iterable) would return True once, then False on subsequent calls.
bpo-24989: Fixed buffer overread in BytesIO.readline() if a position is set beyond size. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling.
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2015-08-25
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24769: Interpreter now starts properly when dynamic loading is disabled. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-21167: NAN operations are now handled correctly when python is compiled with ICC even if -fp-model strict is not specified.
bpo-24492: A “package” lacking a __name__ attribute when trying to perform a
from .. import ...
statement will trigger an ImportError instead of an AttributeError.
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2015-08-09
Library¶
bpo-24824: Signatures of codecs.encode() and codecs.decode() now are compatible with pydoc.
bpo-24634: Importing uuid should not try to load libc on Windows
bpo-24798: _msvccompiler.py doesn’t properly support manifests
bpo-4395: Better testing and documentation of binary operators. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23973: Update typing.py from GitHub repo.
bpo-23004: mock_open() now reads binary data correctly when the type of read_data is bytes. Initial patch by Aaron Hill.
bpo-23888: Handle fractional time in cookie expiry. Patch by ssh.
bpo-23652: Make it possible to compile the select module against the libc headers from the Linux Standard Base, which do not include some EPOLL macros. Patch by Matt Frank.
bpo-22932: Fix timezones in email.utils.formatdate. Patch from Dmitry Shachnev.
bpo-23779: imaplib raises TypeError if authenticator tries to abort. Patch from Craig Holmquist.
bpo-23319: Fix ctypes.BigEndianStructure, swap correctly bytes. Patch written by Matthieu Gautier.
bpo-23254: Document how to close the TCPServer listening socket. Patch from Martin Panter.
bpo-19450: Update Windows and OS X installer builds to use SQLite 3.8.11.
bpo-17527: Add PATCH to wsgiref.validator. Patch from Luca Sbardella.
bpo-24791: Fix grammar regression for call syntax: ‘g(*a or b)’.
IDLE¶
bpo-23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name. Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi.
bpo-24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to platform-sensitive TkFixedFont. This should not affect current customized font selections. If there is a problem, edit $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg and remove ‘fontxxx’ entries from [Editor Window]. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the restart bar. Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan Umer.
bpo-13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy.
Documentation¶
bpo-24129: Clarify the reference documentation for name resolution. This includes removing the assumption that readers will be familiar with the name resolution scheme Python used prior to the introduction of lexical scoping for function namespaces. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
bpo-23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan.
bpo-24729: Correct IO tutorial to match implementation regarding encoding parameter to open function.
Python 3.5.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2015-07-26
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23573: Restored optimization of bytes.rfind() and bytearray.rfind() for single-byte argument on Linux.
bpo-24569: Make PEP 448 dictionary evaluation more consistent.
bpo-24583: Fix crash when set is mutated while being updated.
bpo-24407: Fix crash when dict is mutated while being updated.
bpo-24619: New approach for tokenizing async/await. As a consequence, it is now possible to have one-line ‘async def foo(): await ..’ functions.
bpo-24687: Plug refleak on SyntaxError in function parameters annotations.
bpo-15944: memoryview: Allow arbitrary formats when casting to bytes. Patch by Martin Panter.
Library¶
bpo-23441: rcompleter now prints a tab character instead of displaying possible completions for an empty word. Initial patch by Martin Sekera.
bpo-24683: Fixed crashes in _json functions called with arguments of inappropriate type.
bpo-21697: shutil.copytree() now correctly handles symbolic links that point to directories. Patch by Eduardo Seabra and Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-14373: Fixed segmentation fault when gc.collect() is called during constructing lru_cache (C implementation).
bpo-24695: Fix a regression in traceback.print_exception(). If exc_traceback is None we shouldn’t print a traceback header like described in the documentation.
bpo-24620: Random.setstate() now validates the value of state last element.
bpo-22485: Fixed an issue that caused
inspect.getsource
to return incorrect results on nested functions.bpo-22153: Improve unittest docs. Patch from Martin Panter and evilzero.
bpo-24580: Symbolic group references to open group in re patterns now are explicitly forbidden as well as numeric group references.
bpo-24206: Fixed __eq__ and __ne__ methods of inspect classes.
bpo-24631: Fixed regression in the timeit module with multiline setup.
bpo-18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.
bpo-23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi
bpo-24608: chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str.
bpo-18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module.
bpo-24259: tarfile now raises a ReadError if an archive is truncated inside a data segment.
bpo-15014: SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954’s optional initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.
bpo-24669: Fix inspect.getsource() for ‘async def’ functions. Patch by Kai Groner.
bpo-24688: ast.get_docstring() for ‘async def’ functions.
Python 3.5.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2015-07-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24467: Fixed possible buffer over-read in bytearray. The bytearray object now always allocates place for trailing null byte and it’s buffer now is always null-terminated.
Upgrade to Unicode 8.0.0.
bpo-24345: Add Py_tp_finalize slot for the stable ABI.
bpo-24400: Introduce a distinct type for PEP 492 coroutines; add types.CoroutineType, inspect.getcoroutinestate, inspect.getcoroutinelocals; coroutines no longer use CO_GENERATOR flag; sys.set_coroutine_wrapper works only for ‘async def’ coroutines; inspect.iscoroutine no longer uses collections.abc.Coroutine, it’s intended to test for pure ‘async def’ coroutines only; add new opcode: GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER; fix generators wrapper used in types.coroutine to be instance of collections.abc.Generator; collections.abc.Awaitable and collections.abc.Coroutine can no longer be used to detect generator-based coroutines–use inspect.isawaitable instead.
bpo-24450: Add gi_yieldfrom to generators and cr_await to coroutines. Contributed by Benno Leslie and Yury Selivanov.
bpo-19235: Add new RecursionError exception. Patch by Georg Brandl.
Library¶
bpo-21750: mock_open.read_data can now be read from each instance, as it could in Python 3.3.
bpo-24552: Fix use after free in an error case of the _pickle module.
bpo-24514: tarfile now tolerates number fields consisting of only whitespace.
bpo-19176: Fixed doctype() related bugs in C implementation of ElementTree. A deprecation warning no longer issued by XMLParser subclass with default doctype() method. Direct call of doctype() now issues a warning. Parser’s doctype() now is not called if target’s doctype() is called. Based on patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-20387: Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize for tab-indented blocks.
bpo-24456: Fixed possible buffer over-read in adpcm2lin() and lin2adpcm() functions of the audioop module.
bpo-24336: The contextmanager decorator now works with functions with keyword arguments called “func” and “self”. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-24522: Fix possible integer overflow in json accelerator module.
bpo-24489: ensure a previously set C errno doesn’t disturb cmath.polar().
bpo-24408: Fixed AttributeError in measure() and metrics() methods of tkinter.Font.
bpo-14373: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now can be used with methods.
bpo-24347: Set KeyError if PyDict_GetItemWithError returns NULL.
bpo-24348: Drop superfluous incref/decref.
bpo-24359: Check for changed OrderedDict size during iteration.
bpo-24368: Support keyword arguments in OrderedDict methods.
bpo-24362: Simplify the C OrderedDict fast nodes resize logic.
bpo-24377: Fix a ref leak in OrderedDict.__repr__.
bpo-24369: Defend against key-changes during iteration.
Tests¶
Documentation¶
Python 3.5.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2015-05-31
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24284: The startswith and endswith methods of the str class no longer return True when finding the empty string and the indexes are completely out of range.
bpo-24115: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue(), PyObject_Not(), PyObject_IsInstance(), PyObject_RichCompareBool() and _PyDict_Contains() to check for and handle errors correctly.
bpo-24328: Fix importing one character extension modules.
bpo-11205: In dictionary displays, evaluate the key before the value.
bpo-24285: Fixed regression that prevented importing extension modules from inside packages. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
Library¶
bpo-23247: Fix a crash in the StreamWriter.reset() of CJK codecs.
bpo-24270: Add math.isclose() and cmath.isclose() functions as per PEP 485. Contributed by Chris Barker and Tal Einat.
bpo-5633: Fixed timeit when the statement is a string and the setup is not.
bpo-24326: Fixed audioop.ratecv() with non-default weightB argument. Original patch by David Moore.
bpo-16991: Add a C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-23934: Fix inspect.signature to fail correctly for builtin types lacking signature information. Initial patch by James Powell.
Python 3.5.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2015-05-24
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24276: Fixed optimization of property descriptor getter.
bpo-24268: PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-23955: Add pyvenv.cfg option to suppress registry/environment lookup for generating sys.path on Windows.
bpo-24257: Fixed system error in the comparison of faked types.SimpleNamespace.
bpo-22939: Fixed integer overflow in iterator object. Patch by Clement Rouault.
bpo-23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice from the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes data.
bpo-24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error handlers.
bpo-15027: The UTF-32 encoder is now 3x to 7x faster.
bpo-23290: Optimize set_merge() for cases where the target is empty. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka.)
bpo-2292: PEP 448: Additional Unpacking Generalizations.
bpo-24096: Make warnings.warn_explicit more robust against mutation of the warnings.filters list.
bpo-23996: Avoid a crash when a delegated generator raises an unnormalized StopIteration exception. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-23910: Optimize property() getter calls. Patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23911: Move path-based importlib bootstrap code to a separate frozen module.
bpo-24192: Fix namespace package imports.
bpo-24022: Fix tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code.
bpo-9951: Added a hex() method to bytes, bytearray, and memoryview.
bpo-22906: PEP 479: Change StopIteration handling inside generators.
bpo-24017: PEP 492: Coroutines with async and await syntax.
Library¶
bpo-14373: Added C implementation of functools.lru_cache(). Based on patches by Matt Joiner and Alexey Kachayev.
bpo-24230: The tempfile module now accepts bytes for prefix, suffix and dir parameters and returns bytes in such situations (matching the os module APIs).
bpo-22189: collections.UserString now supports __getnewargs__(), __rmod__(), casefold(), format_map(), isprintable(), and maketrans(). Patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-24244: Prevents termination when an invalid format string is encountered on Windows in strftime.
bpo-23973: PEP 484: Add the typing module.
bpo-23086: The collections.abc.Sequence() abstract base class added start and stop parameters to the index() mixin. Patch by Devin Jeanpierre.
bpo-20035: Replaced the
tkinter._fix
module used for setting up the Tcl/Tk environment on Windows with a private function in the_tkinter
module that makes no permanent changes to the environment.bpo-24257: Fixed segmentation fault in sqlite3.Row constructor with faked cursor type.
bpo-15836: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and assertWarnsRegex() assertments now check the type of the first argument to prevent possible user error. Based on patch by Daniel Wagner-Hall.
bpo-9858: Add missing method stubs to _io.RawIOBase. Patch by Laura Rupprecht.
bpo-22955: attrgetter, itemgetter and methodcaller objects in the operator module now support pickling. Added readable and evaluable repr for these objects. Based on patch by Josh Rosenberg.
bpo-22107: tempfile.gettempdir() and tempfile.mkdtemp() now try again when a directory with the chosen name already exists on Windows as well as on Unix. tempfile.mkstemp() now fails early if parent directory is not valid (not exists or is a file) on Windows.
bpo-23780: Improved error message in os.path.join() with single argument.
bpo-6598: Increased time precision and random number range in email.utils.make_msgid() to strengthen the uniqueness of the message ID.
bpo-24091: Fixed various crashes in corner cases in C implementation of ElementTree.
bpo-21931: msilib.FCICreate() now raises TypeError in the case of a bad argument instead of a ValueError with a bogus FCI error number. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
bpo-13866: quote_via argument added to urllib.parse.urlencode.
bpo-20098: New mangle_from policy option for email, default True for compat32, but False for all other policies.
bpo-24211: The email library now supports RFC 6532: it can generate headers using utf-8 instead of encoded words.
bpo-16314: Added support for the LZMA compression in distutils.
bpo-21804: poplib now supports RFC 6856 (UTF8).
bpo-18682: Optimized pprint functions for builtin scalar types.
bpo-22027: smtplib now supports RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8).
bpo-23488: Random generator objects now consume 2x less memory on 64-bit.
bpo-1322: platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution() functions are now deprecated. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-22486: Added the math.gcd() function. The fractions.gcd() function now is deprecated. Based on patch by Mark Dickinson.
bpo-24064: Property() docstrings are now writeable. (Patch by Berker Peksag.)
bpo-22681: Added support for the koi8_t encoding.
bpo-22682: Added support for the kz1048 encoding.
bpo-23796: peek and read1 methods of BufferedReader now raise ValueError if they called on a closed object. Patch by John Hergenroeder.
bpo-21795: smtpd now supports the 8BITMIME extension whenever the new decode_data constructor argument is set to False.
bpo-24155: optimize heapq.heapify() for better cache performance when heapifying large lists.
bpo-21800: imaplib now supports RFC 5161 (enable), RFC 6855 (utf8/internationalized email) and automatically encodes non-ASCII usernames and passwords to UTF8.
bpo-20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if passed any keyword arguments. Previously it silently ignored them.
bpo-20274: Remove ignored and erroneous “kwargs” parameters from three METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection.
bpo-24134: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and assertWarnsRegex() checks now emits a deprecation warning when callable is None or keyword arguments except msg is passed in the context manager mode.
bpo-24018: Add a collections.abc.Generator abstract base class. Contributed by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-23880: Tkinter’s getint() and getdouble() now support Tcl_Obj. Tkinter’s getdouble() now supports any numbers (in particular int).
bpo-22619: Added negative limit support in the traceback module. Based on patch by Dmitry Kazakov.
bpo-24094: Fix possible crash in json.encode with poorly behaved dict subclasses.
bpo-9246: On POSIX, os.getcwd() now supports paths longer than 1025 bytes. Patch written by William Orr.
bpo-17445: add difflib.diff_bytes() to support comparison of byte strings (fixes a regression from Python 2).
bpo-23917: Fall back to sequential compilation when ProcessPoolExecutor doesn’t exist. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-23008: Fixed resolving attributes with boolean value is False in pydoc.
Fix asyncio issue 235: LifoQueue and PriorityQueue’s put didn’t increment unfinished tasks (this bug was introduced when JoinableQueue was merged with Queue).
bpo-23908: os functions now reject paths with embedded null character on Windows instead of silently truncating them.
bpo-23728: binascii.crc_hqx() could return an integer outside of the range 0-0xffff for empty data.
bpo-23887: urllib.error.HTTPError now has a proper repr() representation. Patch by Berker Peksag.
asyncio: New event loop APIs: set_task_factory() and get_task_factory().
asyncio: async() function is deprecated in favour of ensure_future().
bpo-24178: asyncio.Lock, Condition, Semaphore, and BoundedSemaphore support new ‘async with’ syntax. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24179: Support ‘async for’ for asyncio.StreamReader. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24184: Add AsyncIterator and AsyncIterable ABCs to collections.abc. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-22547: Implement informative __repr__ for inspect.BoundArguments. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24190: Implement inspect.BoundArgument.apply_defaults() method. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-20691: Add ‘follow_wrapped’ argument to inspect.Signature.from_callable() and inspect.signature(). Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24248: Deprecate inspect.Signature.from_function() and inspect.Signature.from_builtin().
bpo-23898: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs() to support attributes with overloaded __eq__ and __bool__. Patch by Mike Bayer.
bpo-24298: Fix inspect.signature() to correctly unwrap wrappers around bound methods.
Tests¶
Documentation¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-24000: Improved Argument Clinic’s mapping of converters to legacy “format units”. Updated the documentation to match.
bpo-24001: Argument Clinic converters now use accept={type} instead of types={‘type’} to specify the types the converter accepts.
bpo-23330: h2py now supports arbitrary filenames in #include.
bpo-24031: make patchcheck now supports git checkouts, too.
Python 3.5.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2015-04-19
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-22980: Under Linux, GNU/KFreeBSD and the Hurd, C extensions now include the architecture triplet in the extension name, to make it easy to test builds for different ABIs in the same working tree. Under OS X, the extension name now includes PEP 3149-style information.
bpo-22631: Added Linux-specific socket constant CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES. Patch courtesy of Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23726: Don’t enable GC for user subclasses of non-GC types that don’t add any new fields. Patch by Eugene Toder.
bpo-23309: Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is aborted while it is holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the main thread tries to use the same I/O object (typically stdout or stderr). A fatal error is emitted instead.
bpo-22977: Fixed formatting Windows error messages on Wine. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23466: %c, %o, %x, and %X in bytes formatting now raise TypeError on non-integer input.
bpo-24044: Fix possible null pointer dereference in list.sort in out of memory conditions.
bpo-21354: PyCFunction_New function is exposed by python DLL again.
Library¶
bpo-23840: tokenize.open() now closes the temporary binary file on error to fix a resource warning.
bpo-16914: new debuglevel 2 in smtplib adds timestamps to debug output.
bpo-7159: urllib.request now supports sending auth credentials automatically after the first 401. This enhancement is a superset of the enhancement from bpo-19494 and supersedes that change.
bpo-23703: Fix a regression in urljoin() introduced in 901e4e52b20a. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-4254: Adds _curses.update_lines_cols(). Patch by Arnon Yaari
bpo-19933: Provide default argument for ndigits in round. Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-23193: Add a numeric_owner parameter to tarfile.TarFile.extract and tarfile.TarFile.extractall. Patch by Michael Vogt and Eric Smith.
bpo-23342: Add a subprocess.run() function than returns a CalledProcess instance for a more consistent API than the existing call* functions.
bpo-21217: inspect.getsourcelines() now tries to compute the start and end lines from the code object, fixing an issue when a lambda function is used as decorator argument. Patch by Thomas Ballinger and Allison Kaptur.
bpo-24521: Fix possible integer overflows in the pickle module.
bpo-22931: Allow ‘[‘ and ‘]’ in cookie values.
The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a dictionary.
bpo-23811: Add missing newline to the PyCompileError error message. Patch by Alex Shkop.
bpo-21116: Avoid blowing memory when allocating a multiprocessing shared array that’s larger than 50% of the available RAM. Patch by Médéric Boquien.
bpo-22982: Improve BOM handling when seeking to multiple positions of a writable text file.
bpo-23464: Removed deprecated asyncio JoinableQueue.
bpo-23529: Limit the size of decompressed data when reading from GzipFile, BZ2File or LZMAFile. This defeats denial of service attacks using compressed bombs (i.e. compressed payloads which decompress to a huge size). Patch by Martin Panter and Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-21859: Added Python implementation of io.FileIO.
bpo-23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent and more robust at shutdown. If they need to release multiple resources, all are released even if errors occur.
bpo-23400: Raise same exception on both Python 2 and 3 if sem_open is not available. Patch by Davin Potts.
bpo-10838: The subprocess now module includes SubprocessError and TimeoutError in its list of exported names for the users wild enough to use
from subprocess import *
.bpo-23411: Added DefragResult, ParseResult, SplitResult, DefragResultBytes, ParseResultBytes, and SplitResultBytes to urllib.parse.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23881: urllib.request.ftpwrapper constructor now closes the socket if the FTP connection failed to fix a ResourceWarning.
bpo-23853:
socket.socket.sendall()
does no more reset the socket timeout each time data is sent successfully. The socket timeout is now the maximum total duration to send all data.bpo-22721: An order of multiline pprint output of set or dict containing orderable and non-orderable elements no longer depends on iteration order of set or dict.
bpo-15133: _tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports Tcl_Obj and always returns bool. tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values (accepted bool, int, str, and Tcl_Obj). tkinter.BooleanVar.get() now always returns bool.
bpo-10590: xml.sax.parseString() now supports string argument.
bpo-23338: Fixed formatting ctypes error messages on Cygwin. Patch by Makoto Kato.
bpo-15582: inspect.getdoc() now follows inheritance chains.
bpo-2175: SAX parsers now support a character stream of InputSource object.
bpo-16840: Tkinter now supports 64-bit integers added in Tcl 8.4 and arbitrary precision integers added in Tcl 8.5.
bpo-23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store the result of sendto() instead of the C int type.
bpo-23618:
socket.socket.connect()
now waits until the connection completes instead of raisingInterruptedError
if the connection is interrupted by signals, signal handlers don’t raise an exception and the socket is blocking or has a timeout.socket.socket.connect()
still raiseInterruptedError
for non-blocking sockets.bpo-21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.
bpo-23836: Fix the faulthandler module to handle reentrant calls to its signal handlers.
bpo-23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty result on MemoryError.
bpo-10395: Added os.path.commonpath(). Implemented in posixpath and ntpath. Based on patch by Rafik Draoui.
bpo-23611: Serializing more “lookupable” objects (such as unbound methods or nested classes) now are supported with pickle protocols < 4.
bpo-13583: sqlite3.Row now supports slice indexing.
bpo-18473: Fixed 2to3 and 3to2 compatible pickle mappings. Fixed ambiguous reverse mappings. Added many new mappings. Import mapping is no longer applied to modules already mapped with full name mapping.
bpo-23485: select.select() is now retried automatically with the recomputed timeout when interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception. This change is part of the PEP 475.
bpo-23752: When built from an existing file descriptor, io.FileIO() now only calls fstat() once. Before fstat() was called twice, which was not necessary.
bpo-23704: collections.deque() objects now support __add__, __mul__, and __imul__().
bpo-23171: csv.Writer.writerow() now supports arbitrary iterables.
bpo-23745: The new email header parser now handles duplicate MIME parameter names without error, similar to how get_param behaves.
bpo-22117: Fix os.utime(), it now rounds the timestamp towards minus infinity (-inf) instead of rounding towards zero.
bpo-23310: Fix MagicMock’s initializer to work with __methods__, just like configure_mock(). Patch by Kasia Jachim.
Build¶
Tests¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-18128: pygettext now uses standard +NNNN format in the POT-Creation-Date header.
bpo-23935: Argument Clinic’s understanding of format units accepting bytes, bytearrays, and buffers is now consistent with both the documentation and the implementation.
bpo-23944: Argument Clinic now wraps long impl prototypes at column 78.
bpo-20586: Argument Clinic now ensures that functions without docstrings have signatures.
bpo-23492: Argument Clinic now generates argument parsing code with PyArg_Parse instead of PyArg_ParseTuple if possible.
bpo-23500: Argument Clinic is now smarter about generating the “#ifndef” (empty) definition of the methoddef macro: it’s only generated once, even if Argument Clinic processes the same symbol multiple times, and it’s emitted at the end of all processing rather than immediately after the first use.
Python 3.5.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2015-03-28
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23573: Increased performance of string search operations (str.find, str.index, str.count, the in operator, str.split, str.partition) with arguments of different kinds (UCS1, UCS2, UCS4).
bpo-23753: Python doesn’t support anymore platforms without stat() or fstat(), these functions are always required.
bpo-23681: The -b option now affects comparisons of bytes with int.
bpo-23632: Memoryviews now allow tuple indexing (including for multi-dimensional memoryviews).
bpo-23192: Fixed generator lambdas. Patch by Bruno Cauet.
bpo-23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized objects.
Library¶
bpo-14260: The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object now is non-modifiable mapping.
bpo-23792: Ignore KeyboardInterrupt when the pydoc pager is active. This mimics the behavior of the standard unix pagers, and prevents pipepager from shutting down while the pager itself is still running.
bpo-23775: pprint() of OrderedDict now outputs the same representation as repr().
bpo-23765: Removed IsBadStringPtr calls in ctypes
bpo-22364: Improved some re error messages using regex for hints.
bpo-23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single quotes.
bpo-21717: The zipfile.ZipFile.open function now supports ‘x’ (exclusive creation) mode.
bpo-21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
bpo-23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of
'\'
and ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in Python 3.6.bpo-23671: string.Template now allows specifying the “self” parameter as a keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows specifying the “self” and the “format_string” parameters as keyword arguments.
bpo-23502: The pprint module now supports mapping proxies.
bpo-17530: pprint now wraps long bytes objects and bytearrays.
bpo-22687: Fixed some corner cases in breaking words in tetxtwrap. Got rid of quadratic complexity in breaking long words.
bpo-4727: The copy module now uses pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154) and supports copying of instances of classes whose __new__ method takes keyword-only arguments.
bpo-23491: Added a zipapp module to support creating executable zip file archives of Python code. Registered “.pyz” and “.pyzw” extensions on Windows for these archives (PEP 441).
bpo-23657: Avoid explicit checks for str in zipapp, adding support for pathlib.Path objects as arguments.
bpo-23688: Added support of arbitrary bytes-like objects and avoided unnecessary copying of memoryview in gzip.GzipFile.write(). Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.
bpo-23252: Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable streams.
bpo-23647: Increase imaplib’s MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes.
bpo-23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now sets Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid 411 errors from some web servers.
bpo-22351: The nntplib.NNTP constructor no longer leaves the connection and socket open until the garbage collector cleans them up. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23704: collections.deque() objects now support methods for index(), insert(), and copy(). This allows deques to be registered as a MutableSequence and it improves their substitutability for lists.
bpo-23715:
signal.sigwaitinfo()
andsignal.sigtimedwait()
are now retried when interrupted by a signal not in the sigset parameter, if the signal handler does not raise an exception. signal.sigtimedwait() recomputes the timeout with a monotonic clock when it is retried.bpo-23001: Few functions in modules mmap, ossaudiodev, socket, ssl, and codecs, that accepted only read-only bytes-like object now accept writable bytes-like object too.
bpo-23646: If time.sleep() is interrupted by a signal, the sleep is now retried with the recomputed delay, except if the signal handler raises an exception (PEP 475).
bpo-23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0, including Dec 30 of previous year. Based on patch by Jim Carroll.
bpo-23700: Iterator of NamedTemporaryFile now keeps a reference to NamedTemporaryFile instance. Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
bpo-22903: The fake test case created by unittest.loader when it fails importing a test module is now picklable.
bpo-22181: On Linux, os.urandom() now uses the new getrandom() syscall if available, syscall introduced in the Linux kernel 3.17. It is more reliable and more secure, because it avoids the need of a file descriptor and waits until the kernel has enough entropy.
bpo-2211: Updated the implementation of the http.cookies.Morsel class. Setting attributes key, value and coded_value directly now is deprecated. update() and setdefault() now transform and check keys. Comparing for equality now takes into account attributes key, value and coded_value. copy() now returns a Morsel, not a dict. repr() now contains all attributes. Optimized checking keys and quoting values. Added new tests. Original patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-18983: Allow selection of output units in timeit. Patch by Julian Gindi.
bpo-23631: Fix traceback.format_list when a traceback has been mutated.
bpo-23568: Add rdivmod support to MagicMock() objects. Patch by Håkan Lövdahl.
bpo-2052: Add charset parameter to HtmlDiff.make_file().
bpo-23668: Support os.truncate and os.ftruncate on Windows.
bpo-23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in cookiejar. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered() now handle exceptions raised by an iterator. Patch by Alon Diamant and Davin Potts.
bpo-23581: Add matmul support to MagicMock. Patch by Håkan Lövdahl.
bpo-23566: enable(), register(), dump_traceback() and dump_traceback_later() functions of faulthandler now accept file descriptors. Patch by Wei Wu.
bpo-22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in http.client. Original patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23615: Modules bz2, tarfile and tokenize now can be reloaded with imp.reload(). Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-23605: os.walk() now calls os.scandir() instead of os.listdir(). The usage of os.scandir() reduces the number of calls to os.stat(). Initial patch written by Ben Hoyt.
Tests¶
Python 3.5.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2015-03-09
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23571: PyObject_Call() and PyCFunction_Call() now raise a SystemError if a function returns a result and raises an exception. The SystemError is chained to the previous exception.
Library¶
bpo-22524: New os.scandir() function, part of the PEP 471: “os.scandir() function – a better and faster directory iterator”. Patch written by Ben Hoyt.
bpo-23103: Reduced the memory consumption of IPv4Address and IPv6Address.
bpo-21793: BaseHTTPRequestHandler again logs response code as numeric, not as stringified enum. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23476: In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL’s X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST flag on certificate stores when it is available.
bpo-23576: Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached in the SSL layer but the underlying connection hasn’t been closed.
bpo-23504: Added an __all__ to the types module.
bpo-23563: Optimized utility functions in urllib.parse.
bpo-7830: Flatten nested functools.partial.
bpo-20204: Added the __module__ attribute to _tkinter classes.
bpo-19980: Improved help() for non-recognized strings. help(‘’) now shows the help on str. help(‘help’) now shows the help on help(). Original patch by Mark Lawrence.
bpo-23521: Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta division. Eliminated OverflowError from
timedelta * float
for some floats; Corrected rounding in timedelta true division.bpo-21619: Popen objects no longer leave a zombie after exit in the with statement if the pipe was broken. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22936: Make it possible to show local variables in tracebacks for both the traceback module and unittest.
bpo-15955: Add an option to limit the output size in bz2.decompress(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after closing the window.
bpo-814253: Group references and conditional group references now work in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions. (See also: bpo-9179)
bpo-23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores errors consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError. Original patch by Aleksi Torhamo.
bpo-5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file. flush() was not called in close() if closefd=False.
bpo-23374: Fixed pydoc failure with non-ASCII files when stdout encoding differs from file system encoding (e.g. on Mac OS).
bpo-23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module’s default cipher list.
bpo-21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with empty docstrings.
bpo-22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dbm.dumb module. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-23239: ssl.match_hostname() now supports matching of IP addresses.
bpo-23146: Fix mishandling of absolute Windows paths with forward slashes in pathlib.
bpo-23096: Pickle representation of floats with protocol 0 now is the same for both Python and C implementations.
bpo-19105: pprint now more efficiently uses free space at the right.
bpo-14910: Add allow_abbrev parameter to argparse.ArgumentParser. Patch by Jonathan Paugh, Steven Bethard, paul j3 and Daniel Eriksson.
bpo-21717: tarfile.open() now supports ‘x’ (exclusive creation) mode.
bpo-23344: marshal.dumps() is now 20-25% faster on average.
bpo-20416: marshal.dumps() with protocols 3 and 4 is now 40-50% faster on average.
bpo-23421: Fixed compression in tarfile CLI. Patch by wdv4758h.
bpo-23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.
bpo-23361: Fix possible overflow in Windows subprocess creation code.
logging.handlers.QueueListener now takes a respect_handler_level keyword argument which, if set to True, will pass messages to handlers taking handler levels into account.
bpo-19705: turtledemo now has a visual sorting algorithm demo. Original patch from Jason Yeo.
bpo-23801: Fix issue where cgi.FieldStorage did not always ignore the entire preamble to a multipart body.
Build¶
Python 3.5.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2015-02-08
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23285: PEP 475 - EINTR handling.
bpo-22735: Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving custom mro() implementations.
bpo-22896: Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(), PyObject_AsReadBuffer() and PyObject_AsWriteBuffer().
bpo-21295: Revert some changes (bpo-16795) to AST line numbers and column offsets that constituted a regression.
bpo-22986: Allow changing an object’s __class__ between a dynamic type and static type in some cases.
bpo-15859: PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS() and PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is not a Unicode object. For PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), it was already the case on platforms other than Windows. Patch written by Campbell Barton.
bpo-21408: The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. Original patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23321: Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned replacement string longer than malformed input data.
bpo-22286: The “backslashreplace” error handlers now works with decoding and translating.
bpo-23253: Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced startup overhead on Windows.
bpo-22038: pyatomic.h now uses stdatomic.h or GCC built-in functions for atomic memory access if available. Patch written by Vitor de Lima and Gustavo Temple.
bpo-20284: %-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes and bytearray.
bpo-23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
bpo-20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors is specified with non-string argument. Based on patch by Renaud Blanch.
bpo-22834: If the current working directory ends up being set to a non-existent directory then import will no longer raise FileNotFoundError.
bpo-22869: Move the interpreter startup & shutdown code to a new dedicated pylifecycle.c module
bpo-22847: Improve method cache efficiency.
bpo-22335: Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff bytes on a 32-bit platform.
bpo-22653: Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant dict insertion in debug mode.
bpo-22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower, title, swapcase, casefold).
bpo-17636: Circular imports involving relative imports are now supported.
bpo-22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex number by (nan+0j).
bpo-21052: Do not raise ImportWarning when sys.path_hooks or sys.meta_path are set to None.
bpo-16518: Use ‘bytes-like object required’ in error messages that previously used the far more cryptic “‘x’ does not support the buffer protocol.
bpo-22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in “backslashreplace”, “xmlcharrefreplace”, and “surrogatepass” error handlers.
bpo-22540: speed up
PyObject_IsInstance
andPyObject_IsSubclass
in the common case that the second argument has metaclasstype
.bpo-18711: Add a new
PyErr_FormatV
function, similar toPyErr_Format
but accepting ava_list
argument.bpo-22520: Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode object.
bpo-22519: Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr.
bpo-22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.
bpo-16324: _charset parameter of MIMEText now also accepts email.charset.Charset instances. Initial patch by Claude Paroz.
bpo-1764286: Fix inspect.getsource() to support decorated functions. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-18554: os.__all__ includes posix functions.
bpo-21391: Use os.path.abspath in the shutil module.
bpo-11471: avoid generating a JUMP_FORWARD instruction at the end of an if-block if there is no else-clause. Original patch by Eugene Toder.
bpo-22215: Now ValueError is raised instead of TypeError when str or bytes argument contains not permitted null character or byte.
bpo-22258: Fix the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos. This platform exposes the function
ioctl(FIOCLEX)
, but calling it fails with errno is ENOTTY: “Inappropriate ioctl for device”. set_inheritable() now falls back to the slowerfcntl()
(F_GETFD
and thenF_SETFD
).bpo-21389: Displaying the __qualname__ of the underlying function in the repr of a bound method.
bpo-22206: Using pthread, PyThread_create_key() now sets errno to ENOMEM and returns -1 (error) on integer overflow.
bpo-20184: Argument Clinic based signature introspection added for 30 of the builtin functions.
bpo-22116: C functions and methods (of the ‘builtin_function_or_method’ type) can now be weakref’ed. Patch by Wei Wu.
bpo-22077: Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes, lists, and tuples by adding ‘or slices’. Added ‘, not <typename>’ for bytearrays. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-20179: Apply Argument Clinic to bytes and bytearray. Patch by Tal Einat.
bpo-22082: Clear interned strings in slotdefs.
Upgrade Unicode database to Unicode 7.0.0.
bpo-21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure variables when frame.clear() has been called.
bpo-21205: Add a new
__qualname__
attribute to generator, the qualified name, and use it in the representation of a generator (repr(gen)
). The default name of the generator (__name__
attribute) is now get from the function instead of the code. Usegen.gi_code.co_name
to get the name of the code.bpo-21669: With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the parser now attempts to generate more meaningful (or at least more search engine friendly) error messages when “exec” and “print” are used as statements.
bpo-21642: In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written with no space between itself and the
else
keyword (e.g.True if 42else False
) to be valid syntax.bpo-21523: Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of some opcodes in the compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation time issue noticeable when compiling code with a large number of “and” and “or” operators.
bpo-21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python).
bpo-21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive interpreter.
bpo-21435: In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in internal iteration logic.
bpo-21377: PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when the first argument has a reference count of 1. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-20355: -W command line options now have higher priority than the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable. Patch by Arfrever.
bpo-21274: Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c.
bpo-20904: Support setting FPU precision on m68k.
bpo-21209: Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield from syntax.
bpo-21193: pow(a, b, c) now raises ValueError rather than TypeError when b is negative. Patch by Josh Rosenberg.
bpo-21176: PEP 465: Add the ‘@’ operator for matrix multiplication.
bpo-21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
bpo-19537: Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k. Patch by Andreas Schwab.
bpo-20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number.
bpo-20731: Properly position in source code files even if they are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of subclasses. Patch by Peter Ingebretson.
bpo-8297: Attributes missing from modules now include the module name in the error text. Original patch by ysj.ray.
bpo-19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer input.
bpo-19655: The ASDL parser - used by the build process to generate code for managing the Python AST in C - was rewritten. The new parser is self contained and does not require to carry long the spark.py parser-generator library; spark.py was removed from the source base.
bpo-12546: Allow
\x00
to be used as a fill character when using str, int, float, and complex __format__ methods.bpo-20480: Add ipaddress.reverse_pointer. Patch by Leon Weber.
bpo-13598: Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of replacement fields. It now matches the behavior of str.format() in this regard. Patches by Phil Elson and Ramchandra Apte.
bpo-8931: Make alternate formatting (‘#’) for type ‘c’ raise an exception. In versions prior to 3.5, ‘#’ with ‘c’ had no effect. Now specifying it is an error. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
bpo-23165: Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the _Py_char2wchar function.
Library¶
bpo-23399: pyvenv creates relative symlinks where possible.
bpo-20289: cgi.FieldStorage() now supports the context management protocol.
bpo-13128: Print response headers for CONNECT requests when debuglevel > 0. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-15381: Optimized io.BytesIO to make less allocations and copyings.
bpo-22818: Splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string now raises a warning. Patterns that can only match empty strings are now rejected.
bpo-23099: Closing io.BytesIO with exported buffer is rejected now to prevent corrupting exported buffer.
bpo-23326: Removed __ne__ implementations. Since fixing default __ne__ implementation in bpo-21408 they are redundant.
bpo-23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.
bpo-23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.
bpo-23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations.
bpo-23369: Fixed possible integer overflow in _json.encode_basestring_ascii.
bpo-23353: Fix the exception handling of generators in PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). At entry, save or swap the exception state even if PyEval_EvalFrameEx() is called with throwflag=0. At exit, the exception state is now always restored or swapped, not only if why is WHY_YIELD or WHY_RETURN. Patch co-written with Antoine Pitrou.
bpo-14099: Restored support of writing ZIP files to tellable but non-seekable streams.
bpo-14099: Writing to ZipFile and reading multiple ZipExtFiles is threadsafe now.
bpo-19361: JSON decoder now raises JSONDecodeError instead of ValueError.
bpo-18518: timeit now rejects statements which can’t be compiled outside a function or a loop (e.g. “return” or “break”).
bpo-23094: Fixed readline with frames in Python implementation of pickle.
bpo-23268: Fixed bugs in the comparison of ipaddress classes.
bpo-21408: Removed incorrect implementations of __ne__() which didn’t returned NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. The default __ne__() now works correctly.
bpo-19996:
email.feedparser.FeedParser
now handles (malformed) headers with no key rather than assuming the body has started.bpo-20188: Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the ssl module.
bpo-23133: Pickling of ipaddress objects now produces more compact and portable representation.
bpo-23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.
bpo-23266: Much faster implementation of ipaddress.collapse_addresses() when there are many non-consecutive addresses.
bpo-23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.
bpo-21817: When an exception is raised in a task submitted to a ProcessPoolExecutor, the remote traceback is now displayed in the parent process. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-15955: Add an option to limit output size when decompressing LZMA data. Patch by Nikolaus Rath and Martin Panter.
bpo-23250: In the http.cookies module, capitalize “HttpOnly” and “Secure” as they are written in the standard.
bpo-23063: In the distutils’ check command, fix parsing of reST with code or code-block directives.
bpo-23209: selectors.BaseSelector.get_key() now raises a RuntimeError if the selector is closed. And selectors.BaseSelector.close() now clears its internal reference to the selector mapping to break a reference cycle. Initial patch written by Martin Richard. (See also: bpo-23225)
bpo-17911: Provide a way to seed the linecache for a PEP-302 module without actually loading the code.
bpo-17911: Provide a new object API for traceback, including the ability to not lookup lines at all until the traceback is actually rendered, without any trace of the original objects being kept alive.
bpo-19777: Provide a home() classmethod on Path objects. Contributed by Victor Salgado and Mayank Tripathi.
bpo-23206: Make
json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)
as fast as the default case ofensure_ascii=True
. Patch by Naoki Inada.bpo-23185: Add math.inf and math.nan constants.
bpo-23186: Add ssl.SSLObject.shared_ciphers() and ssl.SSLSocket.shared_ciphers() to fetch the client’s list ciphers sent at handshake.
bpo-23143: Remove compatibility with OpenSSLs older than 0.9.8.
bpo-23132: Improve performance and introspection support of comparison methods created by functool.total_ordering.
bpo-19776: Add an expanduser() method on Path objects.
bpo-23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string and fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash.
bpo-21793: Added http.HTTPStatus enums (i.e. HTTPStatus.OK, HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND). Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached streams.
bpo-23111: In the ftplib, make ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 the default protocol version.
bpo-22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(), instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
bpo-19104: pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped strings.
bpo-23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22783: Pickling now uses the NEWOBJ opcode instead of the NEWOBJ_EX opcode if possible.
bpo-15513: Added a __sizeof__ implementation for pickle classes.
bpo-19858: pickletools.optimize() now aware of the MEMOIZE opcode, can produce more compact result and no longer produces invalid output if input data contains MEMOIZE opcodes together with PUT or BINPUT opcodes.
bpo-22095: Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port. The port value in the host header was set to “None”. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when the program is run with pythonw.exe.
bpo-21775: shutil.copytree(): fix crash when copying to VFAT. An exception handler assumed that OSError objects always have a ‘winerror’ attribute. That is not the case, so the exception handler itself raised AttributeError when run on Linux (and, presumably, any other non-Windows OS). Patch by Greg Ward.
bpo-1218234: Fix inspect.getsource() to load updated source of reloaded module. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
bpo-21740: Support wrapped callables in doctest. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-23009: Make sure selectors.EpollSelector.select() works when no FD is registered.
bpo-22959: In the constructor of http.client.HTTPSConnection, prefer the context’s check_hostname attribute over the check_hostname parameter.
bpo-22696: Add function
sys.is_finalizing()
to know about interpreter shutdown.bpo-16043: Add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode will return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753.
bpo-14099: ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file. Objects returned by ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of the ZipFile even if the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first argument to the constructor.
bpo-22966: Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile is asked to compile a source file containing multiple dots in the source file name.
bpo-21971: Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index.
bpo-21032: Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails. Original patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22407: Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns or re.ASCII. It was newer worked.
bpo-22902: The “ip” command is now used on Linux to determine MAC address in uuid.getnode(). Pach by Bruno Cauet.
bpo-22960: Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy constructor.
bpo-22389: Add contextlib.redirect_stderr().
bpo-21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The availability of the function is checked during the compilation. Patch written by Bernard Spil.
bpo-22915: SAX parser now supports files opened with file descriptor or bytes path.
bpo-22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the collections module now accept the self keyword argument.
bpo-22940: Add readline.append_history_file.
bpo-19676: Added the “namereplace” error handler.
bpo-22788: Add context parameter to logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.
bpo-22921: Allow SSLContext to take the hostname parameter even if OpenSSL doesn’t support SNI.
bpo-22894: TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be stopped when in failfast mode, even in the absence of failures.
bpo-22796: HTTP cookie parsing is now stricter, in order to protect against potential injection attacks.
bpo-22370: Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust.
bpo-22841: Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler(). Patch by Ludovic.Gasc.
bpo-19494: Added urllib.request.HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler. Patch by Matej Cepl.
bpo-22578: Added attributes to the re.error class.
bpo-22849: Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper constructor.
bpo-12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions.
bpo-22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
bpo-21650: Add an
--sort-keys
option to json.tool CLI.bpo-22824: Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set literals. Patch contributed by Berker Peksag.
bpo-22824: Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display empty arrays without an unnecessary empty list. Suggested by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-22406: Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x. Based on patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-17293: uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat. Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns.
bpo-22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.
bpo-22417: Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476).
bpo-22775: Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with protocol 2 and above. Patch by Tim Graham.
bpo-22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in SysLogHandler.emit().
bpo-22665: Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to shutil.__all__.
bpo-6623: Remove deprecated Netrc class in the ftplib module. Patch by Matt Chaput.
bpo-17381: Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular expressions.
bpo-22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale.
bpo-22759: Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(), etc.) now return False when the underlying stat call raises NotADirectoryError.
bpo-8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking doesn’t work. This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox shared folders.
bpo-22217: Implemented reprs of classes in the zipfile module.
bpo-22457: Honour load_tests in the start_dir of discovery.
bpo-18216: gettext now raises an error when a .mo file has an unsupported major version number. Patch by Aaron Hill.
bpo-13918: Provide a locale.delocalize() function which can remove locale-specific number formatting from a string representing a number, without then converting it to a specific type. Patch by Cédric Krier.
bpo-22676: Make the pickling of global objects which don’t have a __module__ attribute less slow.
bpo-18853: Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__.
bpo-9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser.
bpo-7559: unittest test loading ImportErrors are reported as import errors with their import exception rather than as attribute errors after the import has already failed.
bpo-19746: Make it possible to examine the errors from unittest discovery without executing the test suite. The new
errors
attribute on TestLoader exposes these non-fatal errors encountered during discovery.bpo-21991: Make email.headerregistry’s header ‘params’ attributes be read-only (MappingProxyType). Previously the dictionary was modifiable but a new one was created on each access of the attribute.
bpo-22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library. It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.
bpo-22641: In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security.
bpo-17401: Include closefd in io.FileIO repr.
bpo-21338: Add silent mode for compileall. quiet parameters of compile_{dir, file, path} functions now have a multilevel value. Also, -q option of the CLI now have a multilevel value. Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-20152: Convert the array and cmath modules to Argument Clinic.
bpo-18643: Add socket.socketpair() on Windows.
bpo-22435: Fix a file descriptor leak when socketserver bind fails.
bpo-13096: Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large values.
bpo-11694: Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa.
bpo-19380: Optimized parsing of regular expressions.
bpo-1519638: Now unmatched groups are replaced with empty strings in re.sub() and re.subn().
bpo-18615: sndhdr.what/whathdr now return a namedtuple.
bpo-22462: Fix pyexpat’s creation of a dummy frame to make it appear in exception tracebacks.
bpo-21965: Add support for in-memory SSL to the ssl module. Patch by Geert Jansen.
bpo-21173: Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was called with an iterator alive.
bpo-11866: Eliminated race condition in the computation of names for new threads.
bpo-21905: Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when sys.modules is mutated while iterating. Patch by Olivier Grisel.
bpo-11271: concurrent.futures.Executor.map() now takes a chunksize argument to allow batching of tasks in child processes and improve performance of ProcessPoolExecutor. Patch by Dan O’Reilly.
bpo-21883: os.path.join() and os.path.relpath() now raise a TypeError with more helpful error message for unsupported or mismatched types of arguments.
bpo-22219: The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.
bpo-22449: In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the environmental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows.
bpo-22508: The email.__version__ variable has been removed; the email code is no longer shipped separately from the stdlib, and __version__ hasn’t been updated in several releases.
bpo-20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table.
bpo-20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table.
bpo-20218: Added convenience methods read_text/write_text and read_bytes/ write_bytes to pathlib.Path objects.
bpo-22396: On 32-bit AIX platform, don’t expose os.posix_fadvise() nor os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong.
bpo-22517: When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its weakrefs.
bpo-22437: Number of capturing groups in regular expression is no longer limited by 100.
bpo-17442: InteractiveInterpreter now displays the full chained traceback in its showtraceback method, to match the built in interactive interpreter.
bpo-23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.
bpo-10510: distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards compliant CRLF line endings.
bpo-9850: Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component. Patch by Oleg Oshmyan.
bpo-5309: distutils’ build and build_ext commands now accept a
-j
option to enable parallel building of extension modules.bpo-22448: Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent unbound memory usage. Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva.
bpo-22427: TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice when used in the with statement in generator.
bpo-22362: Forbidden ambiguous octal escapes out of range 0-0o377 in regular expressions.
bpo-20912: Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS directory attributes.
bpo-21866: ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory records if allowZip64 is false.
bpo-22278: Fix urljoin problem with relative urls, a regression observed after changes to issue22118 were submitted.
bpo-22415: Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re module. Removed trailing spaces in debugging output.
bpo-22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.
bpo-21332: Ensure that
bufsize=1
in subprocess.Popen() selects line buffering, rather than block buffering. Patch by Akira Li.bpo-21091: Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment is now a method.
bpo-21079: Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return the correct result when the header has parameters as well as a value.
bpo-22247: Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__.
bpo-22366: urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object (SSLContext) as an argument which will then be used for HTTPS connection. Patch by Alex Gaynor.
bpo-4180: The warnings registries are now reset when the filters are modified.
bpo-22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to 65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed by Devin Cook.
Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by Sergey Bobrov.
bpo-20537: logging methods now accept an exception instance as well as a Boolean value or exception tuple. Thanks to Yury Selivanov for the patch.
bpo-22384: An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program when it is run with pythonw.exe.
bpo-22168: Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X.
bpo-21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null character instead of truncating it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-13968: The glob module now supports recursive search in subdirectories using the
**
pattern.bpo-21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with empty string or tuple argument.
bpo-21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash if the memory allocation fails.
bpo-22338: Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure.
bpo-12410: imaplib.IMAP4 now supports the context management protocol. Original patch by Tarek Ziadé.
bpo-21270: We now override tuple methods in mock.call objects so that they can be used as normal call attributes.
bpo-16662: load_tests() is now unconditionally run when it is present in a package’s __init__.py. TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule() still accepts use_load_tests, but it is deprecated and ignored. A new keyword-only attribute
pattern
is added and documented. Patch given by Robert Collins, tweaked by Barry Warsaw.bpo-22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the “status” key in the result of Treeview.heading().
bpo-19524: Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an invalid response is received. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-20421: Add a .version() method to SSL sockets exposing the actual protocol version in use.
bpo-19546: configparser exceptions no longer expose implementation details. Chained KeyErrors are removed, which leads to cleaner tracebacks. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-22051: turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them. Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(), which is called each time a demo is run, but not on import.
bpo-21933: Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a menu selection or control(command) ‘-‘ or ‘+’ or control-mousewheel. Original patch by Lita Cho.
bpo-21597: The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse. The code text pane can be widened to easily view or copy the full width of the text. The canvas can be widened on small screens. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
bpo-18132: Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is shrunk. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
bpo-22043: time.monotonic() is now always available.
threading.Lock.acquire()
,threading.RLock.acquire()
and socket operations now use a monotonic clock, instead of the system clock, when a timeout is used.bpo-21527: Add a default number of workers to ThreadPoolExecutor equal to 5 times the number of CPUs. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-22216: smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit. The most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence.
bpo-22098: ctypes’ BigEndianStructure and LittleEndianStructure now define an empty __slots__ so that subclasses don’t always get an instance dict. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait() caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock. Patch by Doug Zongker.
bpo-22287: On UNIX, _PyTime_gettimeofday() now uses clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) if available. As a side effect, Python now depends on the librt library on Solaris and on Linux (only with glibc older than 2.17).
bpo-22182: Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in distutils.file_util.move_file. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
The webbrowser module now uses subprocess’s start_new_session=True rather than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.
bpo-22042: signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) now raises an exception if the file descriptor is in blocking mode.
bpo-16808: inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a tuple. Patch by Daniel Shahaf.
bpo-22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode.
bpo-2527: Add a globals argument to timeit functions, in order to override the globals namespace in which the timed code is executed. Patch by Ben Roberts.
bpo-22118: Switch urllib.parse to use RFC 3986 semantics for the resolution of relative URLs, rather than RFCs 1808 and 2396. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-21549: Added the “members” parameter to TarFile.list().
bpo-19628: Allow compileall recursion depth to be specified with a -r option.
bpo-15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.
bpo-22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter.
bpo-22165: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file names.
bpo-15381: Optimized line reading in io.BytesIO.
bpo-8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately. Initial patch by Sam Bull.
bpo-20729: Restored the use of lazy iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems() in the mailbox module.
bpo-21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when parsing long line. Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.
bpo-22184: The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier and clearer error message when the user forgets the required parameters.
bpo-17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on AIX. Based on patch by Delhallt.
bpo-21725: Added support for RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8) in smtpd.
bpo-22176: Update the ctypes module’s libffi to v3.1. This release adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian architectures.
bpo-5411: Added support for the “xztar” format in the shutil module.
bpo-21121: Don’t force 3rd party C extensions to be built with -Werror=declaration-after-statement.
bpo-21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the __new__() method.
bpo-20170: Convert posixmodule to use Argument Clinic.
bpo-21539: Add an exists_ok argument to
Pathlib.mkdir()
to mimicmkdir -p
andos.makedirs()
functionality. When true, ignore FileExistsErrors. Patch by Berker Peksag.bpo-22127: Bypass IDNA for pure-ASCII host names in the socket module (in particular for numeric IPs).
bpo-21047: set the default value for the convert_charrefs argument of HTMLParser to True. Patch by Berker Peksag.
Add an __all__ to html.entities.
bpo-15114: the strict mode and argument of HTMLParser, HTMLParser.error, and the HTMLParserError exception have been removed.
bpo-22085: Dropped support of Tk 8.3 in Tkinter.
bpo-21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk. In particular this allows initializing images from binary data.
bpo-22003: When initialized from a bytes object, io.BytesIO() now defers making a copy until it is mutated, improving performance and memory use on some use cases. Patch by David Wilson.
bpo-22018: On Windows, signal.set_wakeup_fd() now also supports sockets. A side effect is that Python depends to the WinSock library.
bpo-22054: Add os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions to get and set the blocking mode of a file descriptor (False if the O_NONBLOCK flag is set, True otherwise). These functions are not available on Windows.
bpo-17172: Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run with subprocess. Patch by Lita Cho.
bpo-21704: Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores are not available. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
bpo-20173: Convert sha1, sha256, sha512 and md5 to ArgumentClinic. Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don’t fail with OverflowError on closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works fine.
bpo-22033: Reprs of most Python implemented classes now contain actual class name instead of hardcoded one.
bpo-21947: The dis module can now disassemble generator-iterator objects based on their gi_code attribute. Patch by Clement Rouault.
bpo-16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores BlockingIOError exceptions.
bpo-22044: Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method. Patch by Tom Flanagan.
bpo-19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence
"\033[1034h"
into stdout. This sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color”) to enable support of 8 bit characters.bpo-4350: Removed a number of out-of-dated and non-working for a long time Tkinter methods.
bpo-6167: Scrollbar.activate() now returns the name of active element if the argument is not specified. Scrollbar.set() now always accepts only 2 arguments.
bpo-15275: Clean up and speed up the ntpath module.
bpo-21888: plistlib’s load() and loads() now work if the fmt parameter is specified.
bpo-22032: __qualname__ instead of __name__ is now always used to format fully qualified class names of Python implemented classes.
bpo-22031: Reprs now always use hexadecimal format with the “0x” prefix when contain an id in form ” at 0x…”.
bpo-22018: signal.set_wakeup_fd() now raises an OSError instead of a ValueError on
fstat()
failure.bpo-21044: tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer ‘name’ attribute. Based on patch by Antoine Pietri.
bpo-21966: Respect -q command-line option when code module is ran.
bpo-19076: Don’t pass the redundant ‘file’ argument to self.error().
bpo-16382: Improve exception message of warnings.warn() for bad category. Initial patch by Phil Elson.
bpo-21932: os.read() now uses a
Py_ssize_t()
type instead ofint
for the size to support reading more than 2 GB at once. On Windows, the size is truncated to INT_MAX. As any call to os.read(), the OS may read less bytes than the number of requested bytes.bpo-21942: Fixed source file viewing in pydoc’s server mode on Windows.
bpo-11259: asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError if the number of received bytes is negative.
bpo-12523: asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn’t get a bytes string
bpo-21707: Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code().
bpo-20639: calling Path.with_suffix(‘’) allows removing the suffix again. Patch by July Tikhonov.
bpo-21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using Path.with_name(). Original patch by Antony Lee.
bpo-15014: Added ‘auth’ method to smtplib to make implementing auth mechanisms simpler, and used it internally in the login method.
bpo-21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when
None
is passed as aREG_BINARY
value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman.bpo-21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before, it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.
bpo-5800: headers parameter of wsgiref.headers.Headers is now optional. Initial patch by Pablo Torres Navarrete and SilentGhost.
bpo-21781: ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB.
bpo-21679: Prevent extraneous fstat() calls during open(). Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
bpo-21863: cProfile now displays the module name of C extension functions, in addition to their own name.
bpo-11453: asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The close() method can now be called twice: the second call does nothing.
bpo-21858: Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module.
bpo-21476: Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is discarded after parsing, so the input file isn’t unexpectedly closed.
bpo-20295: imghdr now recognizes OpenEXR format images.
bpo-21729: Used the “with” statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure files closing. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-21491: socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.
bpo-21719: Added the
st_file_attributes
field to os.stat_result on Windows.bpo-21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
bpo-21722: The distutils “upload” command now exits with a non-zero return code when uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler.
bpo-21723: asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-21711: support for “site-python” directories has now been removed from the site module (it was deprecated in 3.4).
bpo-17552: new socket.sendfile() method allowing a file to be sent over a socket by using high-performance os.sendfile() on UNIX. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-18039: dbm.dump.open() now always creates a new database when the flag has the value ‘n’. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-21326: Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop. run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now raise an exception if the event loop was closed.
bpo-21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths before checking for a CGI script at that path.
bpo-21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
bpo-21256: Printout of keyword args should be in deterministic order in a mock function call. This will help to write better doctests.
bpo-21677: Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods.
bpo-11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a valid file.
bpo-21515: tempfile.TemporaryFile now uses os.O_TMPFILE flag is available.
bpo-13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods that use ‘self’ in the example code is generated correctly.
bpo-21463: In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache.
bpo-21618: The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource limits would otherwise allow. On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd or /dev/fd interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed.
bpo-20383: Introduce importlib.util.module_from_spec() as the preferred way to create a new module.
bpo-21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms.
bpo-14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack error bubble up as this “bad data” appears in many real world zip files in the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
bpo-13742: Added “key” and “reverse” parameters to heapq.merge(). (First draft of patch contributed by Simon Sapin.)
bpo-21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
bpo-3015: _tkinter.create() now creates tkapp object with wantobject=1 by default.
bpo-10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particular it supports reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than symlinking.
bpo-20197: Added support for the WebP image type in the imghdr module. Patch by Fabrice Aneche and Claudiu Popa.
bpo-21513: Speedup some properties of IP addresses (IPv4Address, IPv6Address) such as .is_private or .is_multicast.
bpo-21137: Improve the repr for threading.Lock() and its variants by showing the “locked” or “unlocked” status. Patch by Berker Peksag.
bpo-21538: The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files when reference or offset size is not a power of two.
bpo-21455: Add a default backlog to socket.listen().
bpo-21525: Most Tkinter methods which accepted tuples now accept lists too.
bpo-22166: With the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec helping function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the appearance of a reference leak
bpo-22236: Tkinter tests now don’t reuse default root window. New root window is created for every test class.
bpo-10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial shape.
bpo-20826: Optimize ipaddress.collapse_addresses().
bpo-21487: Optimize ipaddress.summarize_address_range() and ipaddress.{IPv4Network,IPv6Network}.subnets().
bpo-21486: Optimize parsing of netmasks in ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network.
bpo-13916: Disallowed the surrogatepass error handler for non UTF-* encodings.
bpo-20998: Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern with ignore case. Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
bpo-21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if binary mode is specified. Patch by Sam Kimbrel.
bpo-19775: Add a samefile() method to pathlib Path objects. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-21226: Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject (and friends).
bpo-21398: Fix a unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.
bpo-16531: ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network now accept an (address, netmask) tuple argument, so as to easily construct network objects from existing addresses.
bpo-21156: importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() is now a staticmethod.
bpo-21424: Simplified and optimized heaqp.nlargest() and nmsmallest() to make fewer tuple comparisons.
bpo-21396: Fix TextIOWrapper(…, write_through=True) to not force a flush() on the underlying binary stream. Patch by akira.
bpo-18314: Unlink now removes junctions on Windows. Patch by Kim Gräsman
bpo-21088: Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0. In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed.
bpo-21407: _decimal: The module now supports function signatures.
bpo-10650: Remove the non-standard ‘watchexp’ parameter from the Decimal.quantize() method in the Python version. It had never been present in the C version.
bpo-21469: Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist prior to returning True in can_fetch().
bpo-19414: Have the OrderedDict mark deleted links as unusable. This gives an early failure if the link is deleted during iteration.
bpo-21421: Add __slots__ to the MappingViews ABC. Patch by Josh Rosenberg.
bpo-21101: Eliminate double hashing in the C speed-up code for collections.Counter().
bpo-21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source iterator when the slice is exhausted. Patch by Anton Afanasyev.
bpo-21057: TextIOWrapper now allows the underlying binary stream’s read() or read1() method to return an arbitrary bytes-like object (such as a memoryview). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-20951: SSLSocket.send() now raises either SSLWantReadError or SSLWantWriteError on a non-blocking socket if the operation would block. Previously, it would return 0. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-13248: removed previously deprecated asyncore.dispatcher __getattr__ cheap inheritance hack.
bpo-9815: assertRaises now tries to clear references to local variables in the exception’s traceback.
bpo-19940: ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() now interprets the given time string in the UTC timezone (as specified in RFC 5280), not the local timezone.
bpo-13204: Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter, now it raises a TypeError.
bpo-19385: Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always raise the same exception.
bpo-21207: Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or replaced, and open it anew.
bpo-21291: subprocess’s Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that multiple threads may be calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value.
bpo-21127: Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass instances (such as
numpy.str_
).bpo-15002: urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and _TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune.
bpo-12220: mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it doesn’t support spaces in URIs instead of letting a ‘split’ ValueError bubble up.
bpo-21068: The ssl.PROTOCOL* constants are now enum members.
bpo-21276: posixmodule: Don’t define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and the Hurd.
bpo-21262: New method assert_not_called for Mock. It raises AssertionError if the mock has been called.
bpo-21238: New keyword argument
unsafe
to Mock. It raisesAttributeError
incase of an attribute startswith assert or assret.bpo-20896: ssl.get_server_certificate() now uses PROTOCOL_SSLv23, not PROTOCOL_SSLv3, for maximum compatibility.
bpo-21239: patch.stopall() didn’t work deterministically when the same name was patched more than once.
bpo-21203: Updated fileConfig and dictConfig to remove inconsistencies. Thanks to Jure Koren for the patch.
bpo-21222: Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now works.
bpo-21197: Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X POSIX.
bpo-17498: Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors, violating strict RFC conformance. Instead of losing the error code when we issue the subsequent RSET, smtplib now returns the error code and defers raising the SMTPServerDisconnected error until the next command is issued.
bpo-17826: setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function created by create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das.
bpo-7776: Fix
Host:
header and reconnection when using http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.bpo-20968: unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division. Patch by Johannes Baiter.
bpo-21529: Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken. (See also: CVE-2014-4616)
bpo-21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the replace error handler.
bpo-21171: Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec. Patch by Berker Peksag.
bpo-20539: Improved math.factorial error message for large positive inputs and changed exception type (OverflowError -> ValueError) for large negative inputs.
bpo-21172: isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping.
bpo-21155: asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a ValueError if path and sock are specified at the same time.
bpo-21136: Avoid unnecessary normalization of Fractions resulting from power and other operations. Patch by Raymond Hettinger.
bpo-17621: Introduce importlib.util.LazyLoader.
bpo-21076: signal module constants were turned into enums. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-20636: Improved the repr of Tkinter widgets.
bpo-19505: The items, keys, and values views of OrderedDict now support reverse iteration using reversed().
bpo-21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.
bpo-21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in
tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
, close the file descriptor ifio.open()
failsbpo-21200: Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is missing.
bpo-21013: Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for server side sockets to provide better security by default.
bpo-20145:
assertRaisesRegex
andassertWarnsRegex
now raise a TypeError if the second argument is not a string or compiled regex.bpo-20633: Replace relative import by absolute import.
bpo-20980: Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool.
bpo-21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.
bpo-20990: Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing.
bpo-21015: SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic curve for ECDH key exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and otherwise default to “prime256v1”.
bpo-21000: Improve the command-line interface of json.tool.
bpo-20995: Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to enable better security and prioritize perfect forward secrecy.
bpo-20884: Don’t assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__.
bpo-21499: Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests.
bpo-20627: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy is now a context manager.
bpo-19165: The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning instead of PendingDeprecationWarning.
bpo-13936: Remove the ability of datetime.time instances to be considered false in boolean contexts.
bpo-18931: selectors module now supports /dev/poll on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-19977: When the
LC_TYPE
locale is the POSIX locale (C
locale),sys.stdin
andsys.stdout
are now using thesurrogateescape
error handler, instead of thestrict
error handler.bpo-20574: Implement incremental decoder for cp65001 code (Windows code page 65001, Microsoft UTF-8).
bpo-20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to not waste memory if these modules are not used.
bpo-19157: Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6 in ipaddress.
bpo-11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.
bpo-4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful “error: None” messages anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.
bpo-20875: Prevent possible gzip “‘read’ is not defined” NameError. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-11558:
email.message.Message.attach
now returns a more useful error message ifattach
is called on a message for whichis_multipart
is False.bpo-20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as deprecated aliases.
bpo-20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules.
bpo-20791: copy.copy() now doesn’t make a copy when the input is a bytes object. Initial patch by Peter Otten.
bpo-19748: On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year outsize range [1902; 2037].
bpo-19573: inspect.signature: Use enum for parameter kind constants.
bpo-20726: inspect.signature: Make Signature and Parameter picklable.
bpo-17373: Add inspect.Signature.from_callable method.
bpo-20378: Improve repr of inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter.
bpo-20816: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
bpo-20817: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
bpo-6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance. (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d’Arc, with suggested wording by David Gutteridge)
bpo-21117: Fix inspect.signature to better support functools.partial. Due to the specifics of functools.partial implementation, positional-or-keyword arguments passed as keyword arguments become keyword-only.
bpo-20334: inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter are now hashable. Thanks to Antony Lee for bug reports and suggestions.
bpo-15916: doctest.DocTestSuite returns an empty unittest.TestSuite instead of raising ValueError if it finds no tests
bpo-21209: Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug in yield-from implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1.
asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper (upstream bpo-163).
bpo-21311: Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler configurations. Patch by John Szakmeister.
bpo-11571: Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost window when launched on OS X.
bpo-21801: Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature.
bpo-21923: Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler due to possible uninitialized _config_vars.
bpo-21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories, broken by the fix for security bpo-19435. Patch by Zach Byrne.
bpo-22733: Fix ffi_prep_args not zero-extending argument values correctly on 64-bit Windows.
bpo-23302: Default to TCP_NODELAY=1 upon establishing an HTTPConnection. Removed use of hard-coded MSS as it’s an optimization that’s no longer needed with Nagle disabled.
IDLE¶
bpo-20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog. Patch by Tal Einat.
bpo-16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new information.
bpo-3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu. Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. Original patch by Tal Einat.
bpo-16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise, from a shell, output window, or ‘Untitled’ editor, Idle no longer displays an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.
bpo-4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems automatically add .txt when type is Text files.
bpo-21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module. To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle.
bpo-17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove ‘Python’, move version to end.
bpo-14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear when inserting or deleting lines.
bpo-17172: Turtledemo can now be run from Idle. Currently, the entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run. Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho.
bpo-21765: Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser.
bpo-21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.
bpo-21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.
bpo-21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is still in progress no longer closes Idle.
bpo-18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.
bpo-18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.
bpo-18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.
bpo-21477: htest.py - Improve framework, complete set of tests. Patches by Saimadhav Heblikar
bpo-18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.
bpo-21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.
bpo-21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width.
bpo-17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.
bpo-23180: Rename IDLE “Windows” menu item to “Window”. Patch by Al Sweigart.
Build¶
bpo-15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the configure script.
bpo-22935: Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn’t support SSL 3.
bpo-22592: Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python. The distutils module still supports it to build extensions.
bpo-22591: Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port of GCC).
bpo-16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by Jonathan Hosmer.
bpo-22359: Remove incorrect uses of recursive make. Patch by Jonas Wagner.
bpo-21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and above. Patch by Zachary Turner.
bpo-18093: the programs that embed the CPython runtime are now in a separate “Programs” directory, rather than being kept in the Modules directory.
bpo-15759: “make suspicious”, “make linkcheck” and “make doctest” in Doc/ now display special message when and only when there are failures.
bpo-21141: The Windows build process no longer attempts to find Perl, instead relying on OpenSSL source being configured and ready to build. The
PCbuild\build_ssl.py
script has been re-written and re-named toPCbuild\prepare_ssl.py
, and takes care of configuring OpenSSL source for both 32 and 64 bit platforms. OpenSSL sources obtained from svn.python.org will always be pre-configured and ready to build.bpo-21037: Add a build option to enable AddressSanitizer support.
bpo-19962: The Windows build process now creates “python.bat” in the root of the source tree, which passes all arguments through to the most recently built interpreter.
bpo-21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search in a ncursesw directory.
bpo-15234: For BerkelyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library and include directories if they aren’t already being searched. This avoids an explicit runtime library dependency.
bpo-17861: Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically regenerates Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets any change.
bpo-20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build changes in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin.
bpo-20022: Eliminate use of deprecated bundlebuilder in OS X builds.
bpo-15968: Incorporated Tcl, Tk, and Tix builds into the Windows build solution.
bpo-17095: Fix Modules/Setup shared support.
bpo-21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
bpo-21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python –generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
bpo-18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.
bpo-17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.
bpo-22919: Windows build updated to support VC 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015), which will be used for the official release.
bpo-21236: Build _msi.pyd with cabinet.lib instead of fci.lib
bpo-17128: Use private version of OpenSSL for OS X 10.5+ installer.
C API¶
bpo-14203: Remove obsolete support for view==NULL in PyBuffer_FillInfo(), bytearray_getbuffer(), bytesiobuf_getbuffer() and array_buffer_getbuf(). All functions now raise BufferError in that case.
bpo-22445: PyBuffer_IsContiguous() now implements precise contiguity tests, compatible with NumPy’s NPY_RELAXED_STRIDES_CHECKING compilation flag. Previously the function reported false negatives for corner cases.
bpo-22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has no dynamically allocated bases.
bpo-22453: Removed non-documented macro PyObject_REPR().
bpo-18395: Rename
_Py_char2wchar()
toPy_DecodeLocale()
, rename_Py_wchar2char()
toPy_EncodeLocale()
, and document these functions.bpo-21233: Add new C functions: PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_Calloc(), PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) is now using
calloc()
instead ofmalloc()
for large objects which is faster and use less memory.bpo-20942: PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets __file__ to match what importlib does; this affects _frozen_importlib as well as any module loaded using imp.init_frozen().
Documentation¶
bpo-19548: Update the codecs module documentation to better cover the distinction between text encodings and other codecs, together with other clarifications. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22394: Doc/Makefile now supports
make venv PYTHON=../python
to create a venv for generating the documentation, e.g.,make html PYTHON=venv/bin/python3
.bpo-21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC 7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.
bpo-21777: The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are now documented explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able to derive the expected behaviour from the behaviour of the corresponding str methods.
bpo-6916: undocument deprecated asynchat.fifo class.
bpo-17386: Expanded functionality of the
Doc/make.bat
script to make it much more comparable toDoc/Makefile
.bpo-21312: Update the thread_foobar.h template file to include newer threading APIs. Patch by Jack McCracken.
bpo-21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to mention the ability to load the OS certificates.
bpo-20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and PurePath.with_suffix().
bpo-19407: New package installation and distribution guides based on the Python Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been retained as legacy links from the distutils docs, as they still contain some required reference material for tool developers that isn’t recorded anywhere else.
bpo-19697: Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None.
Tests¶
bpo-18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.
bpo-19548: Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure that statements in the updated documentation remain accurate. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22838: All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery.
bpo-22173: Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery.
bpo-16000: Convert test_curses to use unittest.
bpo-21456: Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not present. Patch by Remi Pointel.
bpo-20746: Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R). Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-22060: test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and simplified; it now uses unittest test discovery to find its tests.
bpo-22104: regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of tests loaded from test modules that don’t define test_main().
bpo-22111: Assorted cleanups in test_imaplib. Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
bpo-22002: Added
load_package_tests
function to test.support and used it to implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio, test_email, test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools.bpo-21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks to William Orr.
bpo-21918: Converted test_tools from a module to a package containing separate test files for each tested script.
bpo-9554: Use modern unittest features in test_argparse. Initial patch by Denver Coneybeare and Radu Voicilas.
bpo-20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine) does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.
bpo-19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly rather than silently.
bpo-18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by regrtest.py.
bpo-21634: Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true division to benchmark integers instead of floating point numbers. Set pystone version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro.
bpo-21605: Added tests for Tkinter images.
bpo-21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(), PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().
bpo-17756: Fix test_code test when run from the installed location.
bpo-17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.
bpo-18604: Consolidated checks for GUI availability. All platforms now at least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is requested.
bpo-21275: Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD.
bpo-21223: Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the extensions are built as builtins.
bpo-20635: Added tests for Tk geometry managers.
Add test case for freeze.
bpo-20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.
bpo-21097: Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib.
bpo-21503: Use test_both() consistently in test_importlib.
bpo-20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org: use http://www.example.com instead.
bpo-20668: asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file. (Patch by Vajrasky Kok)
bpo-21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.
bpo-22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.
bpo-23211: Workaround test_logging failure on some OS X 10.6 systems.
bpo-23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level values (like 0.9.8zc).
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.
bpo-22615: Argument Clinic now supports the “type” argument for the int converter. This permits using the int converter with enums and typedefs.
bpo-20076: The makelocalealias.py script no longer ignores UTF-8 mapping.
bpo-20079: The makelocalealias.py script now can parse the SUPPORTED file from glibc sources and supports command line options for source paths.
bpo-22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly extracts ZIP files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson.
bpo-22120: For functions using an unsigned integer return converter, Argument Clinic now generates a cast to that type for the comparison to -1 in the generated code. (This suppresses a compilation warning.)
bpo-18974: Tools/scripts/diff.py now uses argparse instead of optparse.
bpo-21906: Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3. Patch by Zachary Ware.
bpo-21629: Fix Argument Clinic’s “–converters” feature.
Add support for
yield from
to 2to3.Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3.
bpo-16047: Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.
bpo-11824: Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.
bpo-20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
Windows¶
bpo-23260: Update Windows installer
The bundled version of Tcl/Tk has been updated to 8.6.3. The most visible result of this change is the addition of new native file dialogs when running on Windows Vista or newer. See Tcl/Tk’s TIP 432 for more information. Also, this version of Tcl/Tk includes support for Windows 10.
bpo-17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources to be in
PCbuild\..\externals
rather thanPCbuild\..\..
.bpo-17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from svn.python.org to build OpenSSL.
bpo-21907: Improved the batch scripts provided for building Python.
bpo-22644: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j.
bpo-10747: Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu. Patch by Olive Kilburn.
bpo-22980: .pyd files with a version and platform tag (for example, “.cp35-win32.pyd”) will now be loaded in preference to those without tags.
(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)