3.7.0rc1 - Cpython — ContextQMD

.. bpo: 33803 .. date: 2018-06-07-20-18-38 .. nonce: n-Nq6_ .. release date: 2018-06-12 .. section: Core and Builtins

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 .. date: 2018-05-31-14-50-04 .. nonce: ztlH04 .. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a crash in Python initialization when parsing the command line options. Thanks Christoph Gohlke for the bug report and the fix!

.. bpo: 30654 .. date: 2018-05-28-12-28-53 .. nonce: 9fDJye .. section: Core and Builtins

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 .. date: 2018-05-14-11-00-00 .. nonce: EmHaH4 .. section: Core and Builtins

Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.

.. bpo: 30167 .. date: 2018-06-10-19-29-17 .. nonce: G5EgC5 .. section: Library

Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.

.. bpo: 33812 .. date: 2018-06-10-13-26-02 .. nonce: frGAOr .. section: Library

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 .. date: 2018-06-08-17-34-16 .. nonce: 3qCWa0 .. section: Library

Avoid race condition with debug logging

.. bpo: 33694 .. date: 2018-06-07-23-51-00 .. nonce: F1zIR1 .. section: Library

asyncio: Fix a race condition causing data loss on pause_reading()/resume_reading() when using the ProactorEventLoop.

.. bpo: 32493 .. date: 2018-06-07-18-55-35 .. nonce: 1Bte62 .. section: Library

Correct test for uuid_enc_be availability in configure.ac. Patch by Michael Felt.

.. bpo: 33792 .. date: 2018-06-07-12-38-12 .. nonce: 3aKG7u .. section: Library

Add asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy and asyncio.WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy.

.. bpo: 33778 .. date: 2018-06-05-20-22-30 .. nonce: _tSAS6 .. section: Library

Update unicodedata's database to Unicode version 11.0.0.

.. bpo: 33770 .. date: 2018-06-05-11-29-26 .. nonce: oBhxxw .. section: Library

improve base64 exception message for encoded inputs of invalid length

.. bpo: 33769 .. date: 2018-06-04-13-46-39 .. nonce: D_pxYz .. section: Library

asyncio/start_tls: Fix error message; cancel callbacks in case of an unhandled error; mark SSLTransport as closed if it is aborted.

.. bpo: 33767 .. date: 2018-06-03-22-41-59 .. nonce: 2e82g3 .. section: Library

The concatenation (+) and repetition (*) sequence operations now raise :exc:TypeError instead of :exc:SystemError when performed on :class:mmap.mmap objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.

.. bpo: 33734 .. date: 2018-06-01-10-55-48 .. nonce: x1W9x0 .. section: Library

asyncio/ssl: Fix AttributeError, increase default handshake timeout

.. bpo: 11874 .. date: 2018-05-23-00-26-27 .. nonce: glK5iP .. section: Library

Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus assertion errors from custom metavar strings.

.. bpo: 33582 .. date: 2018-05-19-15-58-14 .. nonce: qBZPmF .. section: Library

Emit a deprecation warning for inspect.formatargspec

.. bpo: 33409 .. date: 2018-06-08-23-46-01 .. nonce: r4z9MM .. section: Documentation

Clarified the relationship between :pep:538's PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE and PEP 540's PYTHONUTF8 mode.

.. bpo: 33736 .. date: 2018-06-01-12-27-40 .. nonce: JVegIu .. section: Documentation

Improve the documentation of :func:asyncio.open_connection, :func:asyncio.start_server and their UNIX socket counterparts.

.. bpo: 31432 .. date: 2017-09-13-07-14-59 .. nonce: yAY4Z3 .. section: Documentation

Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.

.. bpo: 5755 .. date: 2018-06-04-21-34-34 .. nonce: 65GmCj .. section: Build

Move -Wstrict-prototypes option to CFLAGS_NODIST from OPT. This option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in C++.

.. bpo: 33720 .. date: 2018-06-04-09-20-53 .. nonce: VKDXHK .. section: Windows

Reduces maximum marshal recursion depth on release builds.

.. bpo: 33656 .. date: 2018-06-10-17-59-36 .. nonce: 60ZqJS .. section: IDLE

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 .. date: 2018-06-04-19-23-11 .. nonce: I_2qpV .. section: IDLE

Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window.

.. bpo: 33763 .. date: 2018-06-03-20-12-57 .. nonce: URiFlE .. section: IDLE

IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget.

.. bpo: 33664 .. date: 2018-06-03-09-13-28 .. nonce: PZzQyL .. section: IDLE

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 .. date: 2018-05-29-07-14-37 .. nonce: MgX_Ui .. section: IDLE

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 .. date: 2018-05-24-20-42-44 .. nonce: J0VQbS .. section: IDLE

Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context. If there is no current context, show a single blank line.