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What's New in Python 3.7.0 alpha 1?

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*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*

Core and Builtins

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- bpo-29534: Fixed different behaviour of Decimal.from_float() for _decimal and _pydecimal.

- bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.

- Issue #29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].

- Issue #29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects.

Warnings could be emitted at compile time.

- Issue #29327: Fixed a crash when pass the iterable keyword argument to

sorted().

- Issue #29034: Fix memory leak and use-after-free in os module (path_converter).

- Issue #29159: Fix regression in bytes(x) when x.__index__() raises Exception.

- Issue #29049: Call _PyObject_GC_TRACK() lazily when calling Python function.

Calling function is up to 5% faster.

- Issue #28927: bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex() now ignore all ASCII

whitespace, not only spaces. Patch by Robert Xiao.

- Issue #28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.

- Issue #25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for

indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.

- Issue #29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate

form.

- Issue #18896: Python function can now have more than 255 parameters.

collections.namedtuple() now supports tuples with more than 255 elements.

- Issue #28596: The preferred encoding is UTF-8 on Android. Patch written by

Chi Hsuan Yen.

- Issue #26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded

to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with

os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.

- Issue #28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy

bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.

- Issue #28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr()

must not convert combined table into split table. Patch written by INADA

Naoki.

- Issue #28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and

by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.

- Issue #28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by

PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().

- Issue #28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been

built with Py_DEBUG defined.

- Issue #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 to ``type.__new__`` now results in a

``DeprecationWarning`` and a class that supports zero-argument ``super()``.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28799: Remove the ``PyEval_GetCallStats()`` function and deprecate

the untested and undocumented ``sys.callstats()`` function. Remove the

``CALL_PROFILE`` special build: use the :func:`sys.setprofile` function,

:mod:`cProfile` or :mod:`profile` to profile function calls.

- Issue #12844: More than 255 arguments can now be passed to a function.

- Issue #28782: Fix a bug in the implementation ``yield from`` when checking

if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE

(issue #26647).

- Issue #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).

- Issue #28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict.

Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.

- Issue #28532: Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28746: Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on platforms

that do not have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.

- Issue #26920: Fix not getting the locale's charset upon initializing the

interpreter, on platforms that do not have langinfo.

- Issue #28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X

when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

- Issue #28665: Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.

- Issue #19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of

empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.

- Issue #28621: Sped up converting int to float by reusing faster bits counting

implementation. Patch by Adrian Wielgosik.

- Issue #28580: Optimize iterating split table values.

Patch by Xiang Zhang.

- Issue #28583: PyDict_SetDefault didn't combine split table when needed.

Patch by Xiang Zhang.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28509: dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large memory.

- Issue #28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug

build.

- Issue #28517: Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that caused

keeping unreachable code.

- Issue #28214: Improved exception reporting for problematic __set_name__

attributes.

- Issue #23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception

loss in PyTraceBack_Here().

- Issue #28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.

- Issue #26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future.

Original patch by Yury Selivanov.

- Issue #28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters().

Patch by Xiang Zhang.

- Issue #28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator.

Patch by Oren Milman.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes

implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.

- Issue #18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL.

Original patch by Niklas Koep.

- Issue #24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of

compiling it.

- Issue #28201: Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when

hashes have same lower bits.

- Issue #28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.

- Issue #26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.

- Issue #27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.

- Issue #28289: ImportError.__init__ now resets not specified attributes.

- Issue #21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with

invalid keyword args.

- Issue #28203: Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message.

Patch by Soumya Sharma.

- Issue #28086: Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed

unscathed to the C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact tuple.

- Issue #28214: Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the

instance.

- Issue #27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom()

syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.

- Issue #28192: Don't import readline in isolated mode.

- Issue #27441: Remove some redundant assignments to ob_size in longobject.c.

Thanks Oren Milman.

- Issue #27222: Clean up redundant code in long_rshift function. Thanks

Oren Milman.

- Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.

- Issue #28131: Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source(). zipimport

should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.

- Issue #28126: Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly

optimize memcpy().

- Issue #28120: Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a

"pending key" (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.

- Issue #26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are

used as variable/attribute/class/function name.

- Issue #26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.

- Issue #28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to

handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.

- Issue #26110: Speed-up method calls: add LOAD_METHOD and CALL_METHOD

opcodes.

Extension Modules

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- Issue #29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.

Library

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- Issue #29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python

3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.

- Issue #29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir

- Issue #29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of

the match object. Based on patch by WGH.

- Issue #29377: Add SlotWrapperType, MethodWrapperType, and

MethodDescriptorType built-in types to types module.

Original patch by Manuel Krebber.

- Issue #29218: Unused install_misc command is now removed. It has been

documented as unused since 2000. Patch by Eric N. Vander Weele.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #29338: The help of a builtin or extension class now includes the

constructor signature if __text_signature__ is provided for the class.

- Issue #29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has

exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).

- Issue #29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at

non-breaking spaces.

- Issue #28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.

- Issue #29197: Removed deprecated function ntpath.splitunc().

- Issue #29210: Removed support of deprecated argument "exclude" in

tarfile.TarFile.add().

- Issue #29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized

ctypes.CDLL instances.

- Issue #29192: Removed deprecated features in the http.cookies module.

- Issue #29193: A format string argument for string.Formatter.format()

is now positional-only.

- Issue #29195: Removed support of deprecated undocumented keyword arguments

in methods of regular expression objects.

- Issue #28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache.

KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was

simultaneously called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.

- Issue #20804: The unittest.mock.sentinel attributes now preserve their

identity when they are copied or pickled.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don't ignore the name parameter

anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.

- Issue #15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of

a context. Patch by Sam Breese.

- Issue #28985: Update authorizer constants in sqlite3 module.

Patch by Dingyuan Wang.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows

- Issue #13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized

curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.

- Issue #9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative

integers.

- Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from

WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.

- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.

- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.

- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and

WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another

thread.

- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a sequence that

doesn't own its elements as limits.

- Issue #16255: subprocess.Popen uses /system/bin/sh on Android as the shell,

instead of /bin/sh.

- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the

forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some

multiprocessing objects such as locks.

- Issue #26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail

now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android

platforms.

- Issue #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).

- Issue #27030: Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in

re.sub() replacement templates regular expressions now are errors.

- Issue #28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings():

call warnings.showwarning() if it was overriden inside the context manager.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28740: Add sys.getandroidapilevel(): return the build time API version

of Android as an integer. Function only available on Android.

- Issue #26273: Add new :data:`socket.TCP_CONGESTION` (Linux 2.6.13) and

:data:`socket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT` (Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by

Omar Sandoval.

- Issue #28752: Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.

- Issue #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 issue #18383: don't duplicate warning filters when the

warnings module is reloaded (thing usually only done in unit tests).

- Issue #20572: Remove the subprocess.Popen.wait endtime parameter. It was

deprecated in 3.4 and undocumented prior to that.

- Issue #25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and

from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.

- Issue #28548: In the "http.server" module, parse the protocol version if

possible, to avoid using HTTP 0.9 in some error responses.

- Issue #19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist.

Patch by Vajrasky Kok

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when

the garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by

Sebastian Cufre.

- Issue #27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if

given empty data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle.

- Issue #28549: Fixed segfault in curses's addch() with ncurses6.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived

browsers. Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces.

Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.

- Issue #28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.

- Issue #28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn't accept

non-None value is passed to it.send(val).

- Issue #27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the "!" prefix

for readability (was "`").

- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin

a workaround to Tix library bug.

- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28469: timeit now uses the sequence 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50,... instead

of 1, 10, 100,... for autoranging.

- Issue #28115: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now uses argparse.

Added support of long options.

- Issue #18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns.

Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.

- Issue #28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn't work on Windows.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is

disabled.

- Issue #28240: timeit: remove ``-c/--clock`` and ``-t/--time`` command line

options which were deprecated since Python 3.3.

- Issue #28240: timeit now repeats the benchmarks 5 times instead of only 3

to make benchmarks more reliable.

- Issue #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

<https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/100>`_ for rationale.

- Issue #24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X. Patch by

Ned Batchelder.

- Issue #20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT

handlers.

- Issue #27998: Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows.

Patch by Eryk Sun.

- Issue #28317: The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28380: unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support

assert_called, assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.

- Issue #28229: lzma module now supports pathlib.

- Issue #28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.

- Issue #28225: bz2 module now supports pathlib. Initial patch by Ethan Furman.

- Issue #28227: gzip now supports pathlib. Patch by Ethan Furman.

- Issue #28332: Deprecated silent truncations in socket.htons and socket.ntohs.

Original patch by Oren Milman.

- Issue #27358: Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error

message when passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.

- Issue #28257: Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as

a var-positional argument. Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.

- Issue #28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from

incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch.

- Issue #28228: imghdr now supports pathlib.

- Issue #28226: compileall now supports pathlib.

- Issue #28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method

of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress()

methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes.

Original patch by John Leitch.

- Issue #27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation()

if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py.

Patch by Madison May.

- Issue #27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module.

Added the master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.

- Issue #27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception

messages like "Exception: None". This fixes a regression introduced in

3.5a2.

- Issue #25651: Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().

- Issue #27778: Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is

interrupted by a signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.

- Issue #28200: Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix

path_converter() function).

- Issue #25400: RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for

crawl_delay and request_rate. Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.

- Issue #27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().

- Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.

- Issue #28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of

os.stat(). Patch by Eryk Sun.

- Issue #22493: Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of

regular expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern.

Patch by Tim Graham.

- Issue #25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when

an empty bytestring is passed.

- Issue #28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.

- Issue #25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin.

Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.

- Issue #28114: Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings.

Patch by Eryk Sun.

- Issue #27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().

- Issue #27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic.

Patch by Kevin Conway.

- Issue #28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported.

Patch by Seth Michael Larson.

- Issue #26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__.

Patch by iceboy.

- Issue #26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio.

Patch by INADA Naoki.

- Issue #28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.

- Issue #27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors.

Patch by Mark Williams.

- Issue #28325: Remove vestigial MacOS 9 macurl2path module and its tests.

- Issue #28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has

no loop attached.

Patch by Vincent Michel.

- Issue #28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with

add_reader, add_writer, etc.

- Issue #28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly.

Patch by Коренберг Марк.

- Issue #28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.

- Issue #28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.

- Issue #28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding.

Patch by Коренберг Марк.

- Issue #27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.

- Issue #24142: Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an

invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch.

Windows

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- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)

- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default

- Issue #28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c

- Issue #28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.

- Issue #28333: Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by

Eryk Sun)

- Issue #28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.

- Issue #28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and

64-bit

- Issue #28161: Opening CON for write access fails

- Issue #28162: WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with

Ctrl+Z

- Issue #28163: WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to

_open_osfhandle

- Issue #28164: _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths

- Issue #28137: Renames Windows path file to ._pth

- Issue #28138: Windows ._pth file should allow import site

C API

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- Issue #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().

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28769: The result of PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize() and PyUnicode_AsUTF8()

is now of type ``const char *`` rather of ``char *``.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28822: The index parameters *start* and *end* of PyUnicode_FindChar()

are now adjusted to behave like ``str[start:end]``.

- Issue #28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.

- Issue #28761: The fields name and doc of structures PyMemberDef, PyGetSetDef,

PyStructSequence_Field, PyStructSequence_Desc, and wrapperbase are now of

type ``const char *`` rather of ``char *``.

- Issue #28748: Private variable _Py_PackageContext is now of type ``const char *``

rather of ``char *``.

- Issue #19569: Compiler warnings are now emitted if use most of deprecated

functions.

- Issue #28426: Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(),

PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and

PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().

Documentation

-------------

- Issue #26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major

version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.

- Issue #29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.

- Issue #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-argument

``super()``.

- Issue #28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.

Build

-----

- Issue #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.

- Issue #29384: Remove old Be OS helper scripts.

- Issue #26851: Set Android compilation and link flags.

- Issue #28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by

Masayuki Yamamoto

- Issue #29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat

- Issue #23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.

- Issue #28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK

macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.

- Issue #10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and

Michael Haubenwallner.

- Issue #26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.

- Issue #28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.

- Issue #28208: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite 3.14.2.

- Issue #28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.

- Issue #21124: Fix building the _struct module on Cygwin by passing ``NULL``

instead of ``&PyType_Type`` to PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. Patch by Masayuki

Yamamoto.

- Issue #13756: Fix building extensions modules on Cygwin. Patch by Roumen

Petrov, based on original patch by Jason Tishler.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean

targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

- Issue #26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building

outside the source tree.

- Issue #28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS.

Patch by Gareth Rees.

Tools/Demos

-----------

- Issue #29367: python-gdb.py now supports also ``method-wrapper``

(``wrapperobject``) objects.

- Issue #28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn't support new dict implementation.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28102: The zipfile module CLI now prints usage to stderr.

Patch by Stephen J. Turnbull.

Tests

-----

- Issue #24932: Use proper command line parsing in _testembed

- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest

command line arguments.

- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise

PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.

- Issue #26936: Fix the test_socket failures on Android - getservbyname(),

getservbyport() and getaddrinfo() are broken on some Android API levels.

- Issue #28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or

unreadable directories.

- Issue #23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.

- Issue #26944: Fix test_posix for Android where 'id -G' is entirely wrong or

missing the effective gid.

- Issue #28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.

- Issue #28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.

- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix

test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.

What's New in Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1?

===============================================

*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*

Core and Builtins

-----------------

- Issue #28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.

- Issue #25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for

indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.

- Issue #29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate

form.

- Issue #26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded

to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with

os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.

- Issue #28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy

bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.

- Issue #28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and

by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.

- Issue #28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by

PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().

- Issue #28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been

built with Py_DEBUG defined.

- Issue #28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict.

Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.

Library

-------

- Issue #29085: Allow random.Random.seed() to use high quality OS randomness

rather than the pid and time.

- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.

- Issue #29055: Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice()

by suppressing the upstream exception.

- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.

- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and

WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another

thread.

- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a sequence that

doesn't own its elements as limits.

- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the

forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some

multiprocessing objects such as locks.

- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer

writes the index file when it is not changed.

- Issue #26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail

now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android

platforms.

Windows

-------

- Issue #29326: Ignores blank lines in ._pth files (Patch by Alexey Izbyshev)

- Issue #28164: Correctly handle special console filenames (patch by Eryk Sun)

- Issue #29409: Implement PEP 529 for io.FileIO (Patch by Eryk Sun)

- Issue #29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module.

- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)

- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.

Documentation

-------------

- Issue #29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.

Tests

-----

- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest

command line arguments.

- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise

PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.

- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix

test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.

Build

-----

- Issue #28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK

macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.

What's New in Python 3.6.0?

===========================

*Release date: 2016-12-23*

- No changes since release candidate 2

What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 2?

===============================================

*Release date: 2016-12-16*

Core and Builtins

-----------------

- Issue #28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr()

must not convert combined table into split table. Patch written by INADA

Naoki.

- Issue #28990: Fix asyncio SSL hanging if connection is closed before

handshake is completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)

Tools/Demos

-----------

- Issue #28770: Fix python-gdb.py for fastcalls.

Windows

-------

- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder.

Build

-----

- Issue #28898: Prevent gdb build errors due to HAVE_LONG_LONG redefinition.

What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1?

===============================================

*Release date: 2016-12-06*

Core and Builtins

-----------------

- Issue #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 to ``type.__new__`` now results in a

``DeprecationWarning`` and a class that supports zero-argument ``super()``.

- Issue #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.

- Issue #28782: Fix a bug in the implementation ``yield from`` when checking

if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE

(issue #26647).

Library

-------

- Issue #27030: Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are allowed

again. But they still are deprecated and will be disabled in 3.7.