3.9.0a5 - Cpython — ContextQMD

.. bpo: 38576 .. date: 2020-03-14-14-57-44 .. nonce: OowwQn .. release date: 2020-03-23 .. section: Security

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: 40010 .. date: 2020-03-20-13-51-55 .. nonce: QGf5s8 .. section: Core and Builtins

Optimize pending calls in multithreaded applications. If a thread different than the main thread schedules a pending call (:c:func:Py_AddPendingCall), the bytecode evaluation loop is no longer interrupted at each bytecode instruction to check for pending calls which cannot be executed. Only the main thread can execute pending calls.

Previously, the bytecode evaluation loop was interrupted at each instruction until the main thread executes pending calls.

.. bpo: 1635741 .. date: 2020-03-20-13-42-35 .. nonce: bhIu5M .. section: Core and Builtins

Port _weakref extension module to multiphase initialization (:pep:489).

.. bpo: 1635741 .. date: 2020-03-19-23-34-22 .. nonce: ayunLM .. section: Core and Builtins

Port _collections module to multiphase initialization (:pep:489).

.. bpo: 40010 .. date: 2020-03-19-02-26-13 .. nonce: Y-LIR0 .. section: Core and Builtins

Optimize signal handling in multithreaded applications. If a thread different than the main thread gets a signal, the bytecode evaluation loop is no longer interrupted at each bytecode instruction to check for pending signals which cannot be handled. Only the main thread of the main interpreter can handle signals.

Previously, the bytecode evaluation loop was interrupted at each instruction until the main thread handles signals.

.. bpo: 39984 .. date: 2020-03-19-00-45-37 .. nonce: u-bHIq .. section: Core and Builtins

If :c:func:Py_AddPendingCall is called in a subinterpreter, the function is now scheduled to be called from the subinterpreter, rather than being called from the main interpreter. Each subinterpreter now has its own list of scheduled calls.

.. bpo: 1635741 .. date: 2020-03-18-19-48-53 .. nonce: ELEihr .. section: Core and Builtins

Port _heapq module to multiphase initialization.

.. bpo: 1635741 .. date: 2020-03-18-00-17-26 .. nonce: 7AtdhP .. section: Core and Builtins

Port itertools module to multiphase initialization (:pep:489).

.. bpo: 37207 .. date: 2020-03-17-22-35-29 .. nonce: sBAV1j .. section: Core and Builtins

Speed up calls to frozenset() by using the :pep:590 vectorcall calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.

.. bpo: 39984 .. date: 2020-03-17-01-55-33 .. nonce: y5Chgb .. section: Core and Builtins

subinterpreters: Move _PyRuntimeState.ceval.tracing_possible to PyInterpreterState.ceval.tracing_possible: each interpreter now has its own variable.

.. bpo: 37207 .. date: 2020-03-15-23-16-00 .. nonce: 6XbnQA .. section: Core and Builtins

Speed up calls to set() by using the :pep:590 vectorcall calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.

.. bpo: 1635741 .. date: 2020-03-15-20-51-15 .. nonce: iH0JND .. section: Core and Builtins

Port _statistics module to multiphase initialization (:pep:489).

.. bpo: 39968 .. date: 2020-03-15-13-51-10 .. nonce: f-Xi39 .. section: Core and Builtins

Use inline function to replace extension modules' get_module_state macros.

.. bpo: 39965 .. date: 2020-03-15-03-52-01 .. nonce: Od3ZdP .. section: Core and Builtins

Correctly raise SyntaxError if await is used inside non-async functions and PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT is set (like in the asyncio REPL). Patch by Pablo Galindo.

.. bpo: 39562 .. date: 2020-03-12-22-13-50 .. nonce: E2u273 .. section: Core and Builtins

Allow executing asynchronous comprehensions on the top level when the PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT flag is given. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.

.. bpo: 37207 .. date: 2020-03-12-02-41-12 .. nonce: ye7OM3 .. section: Core and Builtins

Speed up calls to tuple() by using the :pep:590 vectorcall calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.

.. bpo: 38373 .. date: 2020-03-11-12-28-16 .. nonce: FE9S21 .. section: Core and Builtins

Changed list overallocation strategy. It no longer overallocates if the new size is closer to overallocated size than to the old size and adds padding.

.. bpo: 39926 .. date: 2020-03-10-19-14-42 .. nonce: H19bAa .. section: Core and Builtins

Update Unicode database to Unicode version 13.0.0.

.. bpo: 19466 .. date: 2020-03-08-12-11-38 .. nonce: OdOpXP .. section: Core and Builtins

Clear the frames of daemon threads earlier during the Python shutdown to call objects destructors. So "unclosed file" resource warnings are now emitted for daemon threads in a more reliable way.

.. bpo: 38894 .. date: 2020-03-06-21-04-39 .. nonce: nfcGKv .. section: Core and Builtins

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: 39877 .. date: 2020-03-06-18-30-00 .. nonce: bzd1y0 .. section: Core and Builtins

Fix :c:func:PyEval_RestoreThread random crash at exit with daemon threads. It now accesses the _PyRuntime variable directly instead of using tstate->interp->runtime, since tstate can be a dangling pointer after :c:func:Py_Finalize has been called. Moreover, the daemon thread now exits before trying to take the GIL.

.. bpo: 39871 .. date: 2020-03-06-06-12-37 .. nonce: dCAj_2 .. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a possible :exc:SystemError in math.{atan2,copysign,remainder}() when the first argument cannot be converted to a :class:float. Patch by Zackery Spytz.

.. bpo: 39776 .. date: 2020-03-02-20-12-33 .. nonce: fNaxi_ .. section: Core and Builtins

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 .. date: 2020-03-02-19-21-21 .. nonce: _YGLEc .. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a crash due to incorrect handling of weak references in collections.OrderedDict classes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

.. bpo: 1635741 .. date: 2020-02-22-14-33-59 .. nonce: BTJ0cX .. section: Core and Builtins

Port audioop extension module to multiphase initialization (:pep:489).

.. bpo: 39702 .. date: 2020-02-20-08-12-52 .. nonce: 4_AmyF .. section: Core and Builtins

Relax :term:decorator grammar restrictions to allow any valid expression (:pep:614).

.. bpo: 38091 .. date: 2020-02-14-23-10-07 .. nonce: pwR0K7 .. section: Core and Builtins

Tweak import deadlock detection code to not deadlock itself.

.. bpo: 1635741 .. date: 2020-02-05-07-55-57 .. nonce: H_tCC9 .. section: Core and Builtins

Port _locale extension module to multiphase initialization (:pep:489).

.. bpo: 39087 .. date: 2020-02-03-21-12-39 .. nonce: YnbUpL .. section: Core and Builtins

Optimize :c:func:PyUnicode_AsUTF8 and :c:func:PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize slightly when they need to create internal UTF-8 cache.

.. bpo: 39520 .. date: 2020-02-02-00-12-07 .. nonce: uicBq6 .. section: Core and Builtins

Fix unparsing of ext slices with no items (foo[:,]). Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.

.. bpo: 39220 .. date: 2020-01-06-13-58-37 .. nonce: KGFovE .. section: Core and Builtins

Do not optimize annotations if 'from future import annotations' is used. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

.. bpo: 35712 .. date: 2019-05-08-11-11-45 .. nonce: KJthus .. section: Core and Builtins

Using :data:NotImplemented in a boolean context has been deprecated. Patch contributed by Josh Rosenberg.

.. bpo: 22490 .. date: 2018-09-23-16-32-58 .. nonce: 8e0YDf .. section: Core and Builtins

Don't leak environment variable __PYVENV_LAUNCHER__ into the interpreter session on macOS.

.. bpo: 39830 .. date: 2020-03-23-05-21-13 .. nonce: IkqU1Y .. section: Library

Add :class:zipfile.Path to __all__ in the :mod:zipfile module.

.. bpo: 40000 .. date: 2020-03-18-12-54-25 .. nonce: FnsPZC .. section: Library

Improved error messages for validation of ast.Constant nodes. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.

.. bpo: 39999 .. date: 2020-03-18-11-50-25 .. nonce: 8aOXDT .. section: Library

__module__ of the AST node classes is now set to "ast" instead of "_ast". Added docstrings for dummy AST node classes and deprecated attributes.

.. bpo: 39991 .. date: 2020-03-17-12-40-38 .. nonce: hLPPs4 .. section: Library

:func:uuid.getnode now skips IPv6 addresses with the same string length than a MAC address (17 characters): only use MAC addresses.

.. bpo: 39988 .. date: 2020-03-17-09-35-00 .. nonce: kXGl35 .. section: Library

Deprecated ast.AugLoad and ast.AugStore node classes because they are no longer used.

.. bpo: 39656 .. date: 2020-03-16-11-38-45 .. nonce: MaNOgm .. section: Library

Ensure bin/python3.# is always present in virtual environments on POSIX platforms - by Anthony Sottile.

.. bpo: 39969 .. date: 2020-03-15-17-56-48 .. nonce: 6snm0c .. section: Library

Deprecated ast.Param node class because it's no longer used. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.

.. bpo: 39360 .. date: 2020-03-15-05-41-05 .. nonce: cmcU5p .. section: Library

Ensure all workers exit when finalizing a :class: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 to multiprocessing.Pool.terminate. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya and Pablo Galindo.

.. bpo: 35370 .. date: 2020-03-13-14-41-28 .. nonce: df50Q7 .. section: Library

sys.settrace(), sys.setprofile() and _lsprof.Profiler.enable() now properly report :c:func:PySys_Audit error if "sys.setprofile" or "sys.settrace" audit event is denied.

.. bpo: 39936 .. date: 2020-03-12-21-59-47 .. nonce: Ca9IKe .. section: Library

AIX: Fix _aix_support module when the subprocess is not available, when building Python from scratch. It now uses new private _bootsubprocess module, rather than having two implementations depending if subprocess is available or not. So _aix_support.aix_platform() result is now the same if subprocess is available or not.

.. bpo: 36144 .. date: 2020-03-12-11-55-16 .. nonce: 9bxGH_ .. section: Library

:class:collections.OrderedDict now implements | and |= (:pep:584).

.. bpo: 39652 .. date: 2020-03-11-23-08-25 .. nonce: gbasrk .. section: Library

The column name found in sqlite3.Cursor.description is now truncated on the first '[' only if the PARSE_COLNAMES option is set.

.. bpo: 39915 .. date: 2020-03-10-19-38-47 .. nonce: CjPeiY .. section: Library

Ensure :attr:unittest.mock.AsyncMock.await_args_list has call objects in the order of awaited arguments instead of using :attr:unittest.mock.Mock.call_args which has the last value of the call. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.

.. bpo: 36144 .. date: 2020-03-10-19-22-31 .. nonce: LABm7W .. section: Library

Updated :data:os.environ and :data:os.environb to support :pep:584's merge (|) and update (|=) operators.

.. bpo: 38662 .. date: 2020-03-10-15-32-31 .. nonce: o1DMXj .. section: Library

The ensurepip module now invokes pip via the runpy module. Hence it is no longer tightly coupled with the internal API of the bundled pip version, allowing easier updates to a newer pip version both internally and for distributors.

.. bpo: 38075 .. date: 2020-03-10-12-52-06 .. nonce: qbESAF .. section: Library

Fix the :meth:random.Random.seed method when a :class:bool is passed as the seed.

.. bpo: 39916 .. date: 2020-03-09-18-56-27 .. nonce: BHHyp3 .. section: Library

More reliable use of os.scandir() in Path.glob(). It no longer emits a ResourceWarning when interrupted.

.. bpo: 39850 .. date: 2020-03-09-01-45-06 .. nonce: eaJNIE .. section: Library

:mod:multiprocessing now supports abstract socket addresses (if abstract sockets are supported in the running platform). When creating arbitrary addresses (like when default-constructing :class:multiprocessing.connection.Listener objects) abstract sockets are preferred to avoid the case when the temporary-file-generated address is too large for an AF_UNIX socket address. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

.. bpo: 36287 .. date: 2020-03-08-09-53-55 .. nonce: mxr5m8 .. section: Library

:func:ast.dump no longer outputs optional fields and attributes with default values. The default values for optional fields and attributes of AST nodes are now set as class attributes (e.g. Constant.kind is set to None).

.. bpo: 39889 .. date: 2020-03-07-16-44-51 .. nonce: 3RYqeX .. section: Library

Fixed :func:ast.unparse 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]).

.. bpo: 39828 .. date: 2020-03-05-00-57-49 .. nonce: yWq9NJ .. section: Library

Fix :mod:json.tool to catch :exc:BrokenPipeError. Patch by Donghee Na.

.. bpo: 13487 .. date: 2020-03-04-16-10-59 .. nonce: gqe4Fb .. section: Library

Avoid a possible "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" from :func:inspect.getmodule when it tried to loop through :data:sys.modules.

.. bpo: 39674 .. date: 2020-03-03-16-21-41 .. nonce: HJVkD5 .. section: Library

Revert "bpo-37330: open() no longer accept 'U' in file mode". The "U" mode of open() is kept in Python 3.9 to ease transition from Python 2.7, but will be removed in Python 3.10.

.. bpo: 28577 .. date: 2020-03-02-23-52-38 .. nonce: EK91ae .. section: Library

The hosts method on 32-bit prefix length IPv4Networks and 128-bit prefix IPv6Networks now returns a list containing the single Address instead of an empty list.

.. bpo: 39826 .. date: 2020-03-02-15-15-01 .. nonce: DglHk7 .. section: Library

Add getConnection method to logging HTTPHandler to enable custom connections.

.. bpo: 39763 .. date: 2020-03-02-14-43-19 .. nonce: 5a822c .. section: Library

Reimplement distutils.spawn.spawn function with the :mod:subprocess module.

.. bpo: 39794 .. date: 2020-02-29-19-17-39 .. nonce: 7VjatS .. section: Library

Add --without-decimal-contextvar build option. This enables a thread-local rather than a coroutine local context.

.. bpo: 36144 .. date: 2020-02-29-15-54-08 .. nonce: 4GgTZs .. section: Library

:class:collections.defaultdict now implements | (:pep:584).

.. bpo: 39517 .. date: 2020-02-29-11-20-50 .. nonce: voQZb8 .. section: Library

Fix runpy.run_path() when using pathlike objects

.. bpo: 39775 .. date: 2020-02-28-16-42-16 .. nonce: IuSvVb .. section: Library

Change inspect.Signature.parameters back to collections.OrderedDict. This was changed to dict in Python 3.9.0a4.

.. bpo: 39678 .. date: 2020-02-28-12-59-30 .. nonce: 3idfxM .. section: Library

Refactor queue_manager in :class:concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor to make it easier to maintain.

.. bpo: 39764 .. date: 2020-02-27-18-21-07 .. nonce: wqPk68 .. section: Library

Fix AttributeError when calling get_stack on a PyAsyncGenObject Task

.. bpo: 39769 .. date: 2020-02-27-00-40-21 .. nonce: hJmxu4 .. section: Library

The :func: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: 36144 .. date: 2020-02-25-09-28-06 .. nonce: Rbvvi7 .. section: Library

:class:types.MappingProxyType objects now support the merge (|) operator from :pep:584.

.. bpo: 38691 .. date: 2020-02-23-02-09-03 .. nonce: oND8Sk .. section: Library

The :mod:importlib module now ignores the :envvar:PYTHONCASEOK environment variable when the :option:-E or :option:-I command line options are being used.

.. bpo: 39719 .. date: 2020-02-21-22-35-57 .. nonce: 2jLy1C .. section: Library

Remove :meth:tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile.softspace as files no longer have the softspace attribute in Python 3. Patch by Shantanu.

.. bpo: 39667 .. date: 2020-02-17-22-38-15 .. nonce: QuzEHH .. section: Library

Improve pathlib.Path compatibility on zipfile.Path and correct performance degradation as found in zipp 3.0.

.. bpo: 39638 .. date: 2020-02-15-20-38-11 .. nonce: wm_RS3 .. section: Library

Keep ASDL signatures in the docstrings for AST nodes. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya

.. bpo: 39639 .. date: 2020-02-15-15-29-34 .. nonce: 3mqJjm .. section: Library

Deprecated ast.Suite node class because it's no longer used. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.

.. bpo: 39609 .. date: 2020-02-11-19-45-31 .. nonce: dk40Uw .. section: Library

Add thread_name_prefix to default asyncio executor

.. bpo: 39548 .. date: 2020-02-06-05-33-52 .. nonce: DF4FFe .. section: Library

Fix handling of header in :class:urllib.request.AbstractDigestAuthHandler when the optional qop parameter is not present.

.. bpo: 39509 .. date: 2020-02-01-00-03-06 .. nonce: -YxUSf .. section: Library

HTTP status codes 103 EARLY_HINTS and 425 TOO_EARLY are added to :class:http.HTTPStatus. Patch by Donghee Na.

.. bpo: 39507 .. date: 2020-01-31-14-24-05 .. nonce: 3oln1a .. section: Library

Adding HTTP status 418 "I'm a Teapot" to HTTPStatus in http library. Patch by Ross Rhodes.

.. bpo: 39495 .. date: 2020-01-30-07-02-02 .. nonce: 8LsIRN .. section: Library

Remove default value from attrs parameter of :meth:xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder.start for consistency between Python and C implementations.

.. bpo: 38971 .. date: 2019-12-20-16-06-28 .. nonce: fKRYlF .. section: Library

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: 38641 .. date: 2019-10-30-15-31-09 .. nonce: HrTL9k .. section: Library

Added starred expressions support to return and yield statements for lib2to3. Patch by Vlad Emelianov.

.. bpo: 37534 .. date: 2019-08-20-00-02-37 .. nonce: TvjAUi .. section: Library

When using minidom module to generate XML documents the ability to add Standalone Document Declaration is added. All the changes are made to generate a document in compliance with Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) W3C Recommendation (available here: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-prolog-dtd).

.. bpo: 34788 .. date: 2019-07-17-08-26-14 .. nonce: pwV1OK .. section: Library

Add support for scoped IPv6 addresses to :mod:ipaddress. Patch by Oleksandr Pavliuk.

.. bpo: 34822 .. date: 2018-09-27-19-31-47 .. nonce: EztBhL .. section: Library

Simplified AST for subscription. Simple indices are now represented by their value, extended slices are represented as tuples. :mod:ast classes Index and ExtSlice are considered deprecated and will be removed in future Python versions. In the meantime, Index(value) now returns a value itself, ExtSlice(slices) returns Tuple(slices, Load()).

.. bpo: 39868 .. date: 2020-03-05-16-29-03 .. nonce: JQoHhO .. section: Documentation

Updated the Language Reference for :pep:572.

.. bpo: 13790 .. date: 2020-02-28-14-39-25 .. nonce: hvLaRI .. section: Documentation

Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc.

.. bpo: 17422 .. date: 2020-02-27-17-35-27 .. nonce: eS1hVh .. section: Documentation

The language reference no longer restricts default class namespaces to dicts only.

.. bpo: 39530 .. date: 2020-02-23-13-26-40 .. nonce: _bCvzQ .. section: Documentation

Fix misleading documentation about mixed-type numeric comparisons.

.. bpo: 39718 .. date: 2020-02-21-22-05-20 .. nonce: xtBoSi .. section: Documentation

Update :mod:token documentation to reflect additions in Python 3.8

.. bpo: 39677 .. date: 2020-02-18-14-28-31 .. nonce: vNHqoX .. section: Documentation

Changed operand name of MAKE_FUNCTION from argc to flags for module :mod:dis

.. bpo: 40019 .. date: 2020-03-20-00-30-36 .. nonce: zOqHpQ .. section: Tests

test_gdb now skips tests if it detects that gdb failed to read debug information because the Python binary is optimized.

.. bpo: 27807 .. date: 2020-03-18-16-04-33 .. nonce: 9gKjET .. section: Tests

test_site.test_startup_imports() is now skipped if a path of :data:sys.path contains a .pth file.

.. bpo: 26067 .. date: 2020-03-16-20-54-55 .. nonce: m18_VV .. section: Tests

Do not fail test_shutil test_chown test when uid or gid of user cannot be resolved to a name.

.. bpo: 39855 .. date: 2020-03-04-23-03-01 .. nonce: Ql5xv8 .. section: Tests

test_subprocess.test_user() now skips the test on an user name if the user name doesn't exist. For example, skip the test if the user "nobody" doesn't exist on Linux.

.. bpo: 39761 .. date: 2020-03-03-15-56-07 .. nonce: k10aGe .. section: Build

Fix build with DTrace but without additional DFLAGS.

.. bpo: 39763 .. date: 2020-03-02-14-44-09 .. nonce: GGEwhH .. section: Build

setup.py now uses a basic implementation of the :mod:subprocess module if the :mod:subprocess module is not available: before required C extension modules are built.

.. bpo: 1294959 .. date: 2020-02-06-18-08-25 .. nonce: AZPg4R .. section: Build

Add --with-platlibdir option to the configure script: name of the platform-specific library directory, stored in the new :data:sys.platlibdir attribute. It is used to build the path of platform-specific extension modules and the path of the standard library. It is equal to "lib" on most platforms. On Fedora and SuSE, it is equal to "lib64" on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Jan Matějek, Matěj Cepl, Charalampos Stratakis and Victor Stinner.

.. bpo: 39930 .. date: 2020-03-11-10-15-56 .. nonce: LGHw1j .. section: Windows

Ensures the required :file:vcruntime140.dll is included in install packages.

.. bpo: 39847 .. date: 2020-03-04-17-05-11 .. nonce: C3N2m3 .. section: Windows

Avoid hang when computer is hibernated whilst waiting for a mutex (for lock-related objects from :mod:threading) around 49-day uptime.

.. bpo: 38597 .. date: 2020-03-01-15-04-54 .. nonce: MnHdYl .. section: Windows

distutils will no longer statically link :file:vcruntime140.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 .. date: 2020-02-28-23-51-27 .. nonce: TpOBCj .. section: Windows

Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.31.1

.. bpo: 39789 .. date: 2020-02-28-22-46-09 .. nonce: 67XRoP .. section: Windows

Update Windows release build machines to Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 14.2).

.. bpo: 34803 .. date: 2020-02-25-18-43-34 .. nonce: S3VcS0 .. section: Windows

Package for nuget.org now includes repository reference and bundled icon image.

.. bpo: 38380 .. date: 2020-02-28-23-51-47 .. nonce: u-ySyA .. section: macOS

Update macOS builds to use SQLite 3.31.1

.. bpo: 27115 .. date: 2020-03-09-02-45-12 .. nonce: 8hSHMo .. section: IDLE

For 'Go to Line', use a Query box subclass with IDLE standard behavior and improved error checking.

.. bpo: 39885 .. date: 2020-03-08-14-27-36 .. nonce: 29ERiR .. section: IDLE

Since clicking to get an IDLE context menu moves the cursor, any text selection should be and now is cleared.

.. bpo: 39852 .. date: 2020-03-06-01-55-14 .. nonce: QjA1qF .. section: IDLE

Edit "Go to line" now clears any selection, preventing accidental deletion. It also updates Ln and Col on the status bar.

.. bpo: 39781 .. date: 2020-02-27-22-17-09 .. nonce: bbYBeL .. section: IDLE

Selecting code context lines no longer causes a jump.

.. bpo: 36184 .. date: 2020-03-09-13-28-13 .. nonce: BMPJ0D .. section: Tools/Demos

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: 38080 .. date: 2019-09-18-13-49-56 .. nonce: Nbl7lF .. section: Tools/Demos

Added support to fix getproxies in the :mod:!lib2to3.fixes.fix_urllib module. Patch by José Roberto Meza Cabrera.

.. bpo: 40024 .. date: 2020-03-20-18-41-33 .. nonce: 9zHpve .. section: C API

Add :c:func:PyModule_AddType helper function: add a type to a module. Patch by Donghee Na.

.. bpo: 39946 .. date: 2020-03-20-17-05-52 .. nonce: 3NS-Ls .. section: C API

Remove _PyRuntime.getframe hook and remove _PyThreadState_GetFrame macro which was an alias to _PyRuntime.getframe. They were only exposed by the internal C API. Remove also PyThreadFrameGetter type.

.. bpo: 39947 .. date: 2020-03-20-14-55-09 .. nonce: W7uCJ3 .. section: C API

Add :c:func:PyThreadState_GetFrame function: get the current frame of a Python thread state.

.. bpo: 37207 .. date: 2020-03-14-01-56-03 .. nonce: R3jaTy .. section: C API

Add _PyArg_NoKwnames helper function. Patch by Donghee Na.

.. bpo: 39947 .. date: 2020-03-13-18-10-58 .. nonce: gmEAaU .. section: C API

Add :c:func:PyThreadState_GetInterpreter: get the interpreter of a Python thread state.

.. bpo: 39947 .. date: 2020-03-13-17-43-00 .. nonce: 1Cu_d2 .. section: C API

Add :c:func:PyInterpreterState_Get function to the limited C API.

.. bpo: 35370 .. date: 2020-03-13-16-44-23 .. nonce: sXRA-r .. section: C API

If :c:func:PySys_Audit fails in :c:func:PyEval_SetProfile or :c:func:PyEval_SetTrace, log the error as an unraisable exception.

.. bpo: 39947 .. date: 2020-03-13-00-15-19 .. nonce: w3dIru .. section: C API

Move the static inline function flavor of Py_EnterRecursiveCall() and Py_LeaveRecursiveCall() to the internal C API: they access PyThreadState attributes. The limited C API provides regular functions which hide implementation details.

.. bpo: 39947 .. date: 2020-03-12-23-47-57 .. nonce: -nCdFV .. section: C API

Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN_CONDITION and Py_TRASHCAN_END macro no longer access PyThreadState attributes, but call new private _PyTrash_begin() and _PyTrash_end() functions which hide implementation details.

.. bpo: 39884 .. date: 2020-03-12-00-27-26 .. nonce: CGOJBO .. section: C API

:c:func:PyDescr_NewMethod and :c:func:PyCFunction_NewEx now include the method name in the SystemError "bad call flags" error message to ease debug.

.. bpo: 39877 .. date: 2020-03-10-00-18-16 .. nonce: GOYtIm .. section: C API

Deprecated :c:func:!PyEval_InitThreads and :c:func:!PyEval_ThreadsInitialized. Calling :c:func:!PyEval_InitThreads now does nothing.

.. bpo: 38249 .. date: 2020-03-09-20-27-19 .. nonce: IxYbQy .. section: C API

:c:macro:Py_UNREACHABLE is now implemented with __builtin_unreachable() and analogs in release mode.

.. bpo: 38643 .. date: 2020-03-08-22-56-22 .. nonce: k2ixx6 .. section: C API

:c:func:PyNumber_ToBase now raises a :exc:SystemError instead of crashing when called with invalid base.

.. bpo: 39882 .. date: 2020-03-06-23-56-04 .. nonce: Iqhcqm .. section: C API

The :c:func:Py_FatalError function is replaced with a macro which logs automatically the name of the current function, unless the Py_LIMITED_API macro is defined.

.. bpo: 39824 .. date: 2020-03-02-11-29-45 .. nonce: 71_ZMn .. section: C API

Extension modules: :c:member:~PyModuleDef.m_traverse, :c:member:~PyModuleDef.m_clear and :c:member:~PyModuleDef.m_free functions of :c:type:PyModuleDef are no longer called if the module state was requested but is not allocated yet. This is the case immediately after the module is created and before the module is executed (:c:data:Py_mod_exec function). More precisely, these functions are not called if :c:member:~PyModuleDef.m_size is greater than 0 and the module state (as returned by :c:func:PyModule_GetState) is NULL.

Extension modules without module state (m_size <= 0) are not affected.

.. bpo: 38913 .. date: 2020-02-25-20-10-34 .. nonce: siF1lS .. section: C API

Fixed segfault in Py_BuildValue() called with a format containing "#" and undefined PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN whwn an exception is set.

.. bpo: 38500 .. date: 2019-11-22-14-06-28 .. nonce: nPEdjH .. section: C API

Add a private API to get and set the frame evaluation function: add :c:func:_PyInterpreterState_GetEvalFrameFunc and :c:func:_PyInterpreterState_SetEvalFrameFunc C functions. The :c:type:_PyFrameEvalFunction function type now takes a tstate parameter.