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.. bpo: 33001
.. date: 2018-03-05-10-09-51
.. nonce: elj4Aa
.. release date: 2018-03-13
.. section: Security
Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
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.. bpo: 32981
.. date: 2018-03-02-10-24-52
.. nonce: O_qDyj
.. section: Security
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.
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.. bpo: 33026
.. date: 2018-03-08-09-48-38
.. nonce: QZA3Ba
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fixed jumping out of "with" block by setting f_lineno.
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.. bpo: 17288
.. date: 2018-02-27-13-36-21
.. nonce: Gdj24S
.. section: Core and Builtins
Prevent jumps from 'return' and 'exception' trace events.
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.. bpo: 32889
.. date: 2018-02-20-21-53-48
.. nonce: J6eWy5
.. section: Core and Builtins
Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
``Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG`` to ``address_in_range``.
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.. bpo: 32650
.. date: 2018-01-28-23-01-39
.. nonce: Bbi7ek
.. section: Core and Builtins
Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next
command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
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.. bpo: 32685
.. date: 2018-01-28-12-25-06
.. nonce: nGctze
.. section: Core and Builtins
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.
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.. bpo: 32583
.. date: 2018-01-26-21-20-21
.. nonce: Fh3fau
.. section: Core and Builtins
Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write
out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
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.. bpo: 26163
.. date: 2018-01-14-20-32-47
.. nonce: xv9Iuv
.. section: Core and Builtins
Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced
with datasets containing many similar values.
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.. bpo: 27169
.. date: 2017-12-15-11-50-06
.. nonce: VO84fQ
.. section: Core and Builtins
The ``__debug__`` constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes
also bpo-22091.
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.. bpo: 32329
.. date: 2017-12-15-00-55-35
.. nonce: XL1O99
.. section: Core and Builtins
``sys.flags.hash_randomization`` is now properly set to 0 when hash
randomization is turned off by ``PYTHONHASHSEED=0``.
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.. bpo: 30416
.. date: 2017-12-14-11-48-19
.. nonce: hlHo_9
.. section: Core and Builtins
The optimizer is now protected from spending much time doing complex
calculations and consuming much memory for creating large constants in
constant folding.
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.. bpo: 18533
.. date: 2017-12-13-16-46-23
.. nonce: Dlk8d7
.. section: Core and Builtins
``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``values()`` or ``items()`` no
longer raises ``RecursionError``; OrderedDict similarly. Instead, use
``...``, as for other recursive structures. Patch by Ben North.
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.. bpo: 32028
.. date: 2017-12-03-22-29-13
.. nonce: KC2w4Q
.. section: Core and Builtins
Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions for
converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls. Patch
by Sanyam Khurana.
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.. bpo: 32137
.. date: 2017-11-26-14-36-30
.. nonce: Stj5nL
.. section: Core and Builtins
The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of
crashing due to a stack overflow.
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.. bpo: 33064
.. date: 2018-03-12-19-58-25
.. nonce: LO2KIY
.. section: Library
lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after ``*args`` and
``**kwargs`` in function signatures.
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.. bpo: 31804
.. date: 2018-03-11-19-03-52
.. nonce: i8KUMp
.. section: Library
Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed
or None at exit.
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.. bpo: 33037
.. date: 2018-03-09-23-07-07
.. nonce: nAJ3at
.. section: Library
Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
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.. bpo: 30353
.. date: 2018-03-08-09-54-01
.. nonce: XdE5aM
.. section: Library
Fix ctypes pass-by-value for structs on 64-bit Cygwin/MinGW.
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.. bpo: 33009
.. date: 2018-03-06-11-54-59
.. nonce: -Ekysb
.. section: Library
Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
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.. bpo: 32969
.. date: 2018-03-06-00-19-41
.. nonce: rGTKa0
.. section: Library
Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding
documentation.
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.. bpo: 32713
.. date: 2018-02-26-13-16-36
.. nonce: 55yegW
.. section: Library
Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey
Fuhrer.
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.. bpo: 30622
.. date: 2018-02-24-21-40-42
.. nonce: dQjxSe
.. section: Library
The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
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.. bpo: 32922
.. date: 2018-02-23-19-12-04
.. nonce: u-xe0B
.. section: Library
dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than
default encoding.
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.. bpo: 32859
.. date: 2018-02-19-17-46-31
.. nonce: kAT-Xp
.. section: Library
In ``os.dup2``, don't check every call whether the ``dup3`` syscall exists
or not.
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.. bpo: 21060
.. date: 2018-02-17-19-20-19
.. nonce: S1Z-x6
.. section: Library
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".
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.. bpo: 32857
.. date: 2018-02-16-14-37-14
.. nonce: -XljAx
.. section: Library
In :mod:`tkinter`, ``after_cancel(None)`` now raises a :exc:`ValueError`
instead of canceling the first scheduled function. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
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.. bpo: 32852
.. date: 2018-02-15-12-04-29
.. nonce: HDqIxM
.. section: Library
Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
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.. bpo: 32841
.. date: 2018-02-14-00-21-24
.. nonce: bvHDOc
.. section: Library
Fixed `asyncio.Condition` issue which silently ignored cancellation after
notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.
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.. bpo: 31787
.. date: 2018-02-09-21-41-56
.. nonce: owSZ2t
.. section: Library
Fixed refleaks of ``__init__()`` methods in various modules. (Contributed by
Oren Milman)
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.. bpo: 30157
.. date: 2018-02-09-14-44-43
.. nonce: lEiiAK
.. section: Library
Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last
field is quoted. Patch by Jake Davis.
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.. bpo: 32394
.. date: 2018-02-08-08-18-26
.. nonce: 6E_7X7
.. section: Library
socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN, TCP_KEEPCNT flags on older version Windows
during run-time.
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.. bpo: 32777
.. date: 2018-02-05-21-28-28
.. nonce: C-wIXF
.. section: Library
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.
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.. bpo: 32647
.. date: 2018-02-05-13-31-42
.. nonce: ktmfR_
.. section: Library
The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared
extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
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.. bpo: 32734
.. date: 2018-02-01-01-34-47
.. nonce: gCV9AD
.. section: Library
Fixed ``asyncio.Lock()`` safety issue which allowed acquiring and locking
the same lock multiple times, without it being free. Patch by Bar Harel.
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.. bpo: 32727
.. date: 2018-01-30-17-46-18
.. nonce: aHVsRC
.. section: Library
Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane
Wirtel
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.. bpo: 27931
.. date: 2018-01-25-21-04-11
.. nonce: e4r52t
.. section: Library
Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted
string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
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.. bpo: 32304
.. date: 2018-01-21-16-33-53
.. nonce: TItrNv
.. section: Library
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.
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.. bpo: 32502
.. date: 2018-01-20-17-15-34
.. nonce: OXJfn7
.. section: Library
uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is
encountered.
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.. bpo: 31848
.. date: 2018-01-18-23-34-17
.. nonce: M2cldy
.. section: Library
Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not
found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
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.. bpo: 32555
.. date: 2018-01-15-17-52-47
.. nonce: CMq2zF
.. section: Library
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.
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.. bpo: 32521
.. date: 2018-01-15-12-53-13
.. nonce: IxX4Ba
.. section: Library
The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
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.. bpo: 32473
.. date: 2018-01-10-20-37-59
.. nonce: mP_yJG
.. section: Library
Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
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.. bpo: 32521
.. date: 2018-01-08-18-02-33
.. nonce: Kh-KoN
.. section: Library
glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in
nis module.
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.. bpo: 32228
.. date: 2017-12-22-16-47-41
.. nonce: waPx3q
.. section: Library
Ensure that ``truncate()`` preserves the file position (as reported by
``tell()``) after writes longer than the buffer size.
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.. bpo: 26133
.. date: 2017-12-21-11-08-42
.. nonce: mt81QV
.. section: Library
Don't unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter
shutdown.
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.. bpo: 32185
.. date: 2017-12-20-09-25-10
.. nonce: IL0cMt
.. section: Library
The SSL module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS extension on
platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.2+ or inet_pton.
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.. bpo: 32323
.. date: 2017-12-14-10-10-10
.. nonce: ideco
.. section: Library
:func:`urllib.parse.urlsplit()` does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower
case for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.
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.. bpo: 32302
.. date: 2017-12-13-22-38-08
.. nonce: othtTr
.. section: Library
Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT
v140.
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.. bpo: 32255
.. date: 2017-12-12-07-29-06
.. nonce: 2bfNmM
.. section: Library
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.
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.. bpo: 32277
.. date: 2017-12-11-09-53-14
.. nonce: jkKiVC
.. section: Library
Raise ``NotImplementedError`` instead of ``SystemError`` on platforms where
``chmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)`` is not supported. Patch by Anthony
Sottile.
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.. bpo: 32199
.. date: 2017-12-04-12-23-26
.. nonce: nGof4v
.. section: Library
The getnode() ip getter now uses 'ip link' instead of 'ip link list'.
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.. bpo: 27456
.. date: 2017-11-02-11-57-41
.. nonce: snzyTC
.. section: Library
Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.
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.. bpo: 31900
.. date: 2017-10-30-15-55-32
.. nonce: -S9xc4
.. section: Library
The :func:`locale.localeconv` function now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE``
locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and
``thousands_sep`` byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte,
and the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale.
This temporary change affects other threads.
Same change for the :meth:`str.format` method when formatting a number
(:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`float` and subclasses) with the ``n``
type (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``).
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.. bpo: 31802
.. date: 2017-10-17-14-52-14
.. nonce: sYj2Zv
.. section: Library
Importing native path module (``posixpath``, ``ntpath``) now works even if
the ``os`` module still is not imported.
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.. bpo: 17232
.. date: 2018-02-23-12-48-03
.. nonce: tmuTKL
.. section: Documentation
Clarify docs for -O and -OO. Patch by Terry Reedy.
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.. bpo: 32800
.. date: 2018-02-10-15-16-04
.. nonce: FyrqCk
.. section: Documentation
Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
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.. bpo: 8722
.. date: 2018-02-03-06-11-37
.. nonce: MPyVyj
.. section: Documentation
Document :meth:`__getattr__` behavior when property :meth:`get` method
raises :exc:`AttributeError`.
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.. bpo: 32614
.. date: 2018-02-02-07-41-57
.. nonce: LSqzGw
.. section: Documentation
Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
:exc:`DeprecationWarning` and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the
deprecation.
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.. bpo: 31972
.. date: 2018-01-25-14-23-12
.. nonce: w1m_8r
.. section: Documentation
Improve docstrings for `pathlib.PurePath` subclasses.
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.. bpo: 17799
.. date: 2018-01-22-21-13-46
.. nonce: rdZ-Vk
.. section: Documentation
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.
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.. bpo: 32517
.. date: 2018-03-09-07-05-12
.. nonce: ugc1iW
.. section: Tests
Fix failing ``test_asyncio`` on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport of
``KqueueSelector`` loop was not being closed.
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.. bpo: 32721
.. date: 2018-01-29-21-30-44
.. nonce: 2Bebm1
.. section: Tests
Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
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.. bpo: 32252
.. date: 2017-12-11-13-31-33
.. nonce: YnFw7J
.. section: Tests
Fix faulthandler_suppress_crash_report() used to prevent core dump files
when testing crashes. getrlimit() returns zero on success.
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.. bpo: 31518
.. date: 2017-09-19-20-48-50
.. nonce: KwTMMz
.. section: Tests
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.
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.. bpo: 32635
.. date: 2018-01-23-15-33-40
.. nonce: qHwIZy
.. section: Build
Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of
libcrypt at the system.
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.. bpo: 33016
.. date: 2018-03-07-01-33-33
.. nonce: Z_Med0
.. section: Windows
Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname
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.. bpo: 32903
.. date: 2018-02-28-11-03-24
.. nonce: 1SXY4t
.. section: Windows
Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set
to a UNC path.
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.. bpo: 31966
.. date: 2018-02-19-13-54-42
.. nonce: _Q3HPb
.. section: Windows
Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
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.. bpo: 32409
.. date: 2018-02-19-10-00-57
.. nonce: nocuDg
.. section: Windows
Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
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.. bpo: 32457
.. date: 2018-02-19-08-54-06
.. nonce: vVP0Iz
.. section: Windows
Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
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.. bpo: 32370
.. date: 2018-02-10-15-38-19
.. nonce: kcKuct
.. section: Windows
Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by
Segev Finer.
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.. bpo: 29248
.. date: 2018-02-07-17-50-48
.. nonce: Xzwj-6
.. section: Windows
Fix :func:`os.readlink` on Windows, which was mistakenly treating the
``PrintNameOffset`` field of the reparse data buffer as a number of
characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.
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.. bpo: 32588
.. date: 2018-01-18-14-56-45
.. nonce: vHww6F
.. section: Windows
Create standalone _distutils_findvs module.
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.. bpo: 32726
.. date: 2018-03-13-21-00-20
.. nonce: Mticyn
.. section: macOS
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.
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.. bpo: 32984
.. date: 2018-03-05-01-29-05
.. nonce: NGjgT4
.. section: IDLE
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 variable :envvar:`IDLESTARTUP` or :envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP`;
``-r file`` runs ``file``. 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.
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.. bpo: 32940
.. date: 2018-02-24-18-20-50
.. nonce: ZaJ1Rf
.. section: IDLE
Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
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.. bpo: 32916
.. date: 2018-02-23-07-32-36
.. nonce: 4MsQ5F
.. section: IDLE
Change ``str`` to ``code`` in pyparse.
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.. bpo: 32905
.. date: 2018-02-22-00-09-27
.. nonce: VlXj0x
.. section: IDLE
Remove unused code in pyparse module.
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.. bpo: 32874
.. date: 2018-02-19-10-56-41
.. nonce: 6pZ9Gv
.. section: IDLE
Add tests for pyparse.
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.. bpo: 32837
.. date: 2018-02-12-17-22-48
.. nonce: -33QPl
.. section: IDLE
Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad
idea for IDLE's system and location-independent files.
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.. bpo: 32826
.. date: 2018-02-12-11-05-22
.. nonce: IxNZrk
.. section: IDLE
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.
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.. bpo: 32765
.. date: 2018-02-04-17-52-54
.. nonce: qm0eCu
.. section: IDLE
Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget
list.
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.. bpo: 24960
.. date: 2017-12-22-09-25-51
.. nonce: TGdAgO
.. section: Tools/Demos
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.
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.. bpo: 32222
.. date: 2017-12-07-20-51-20
.. nonce: hPBcGT
.. section: Tools/Demos
Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated
arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.
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.. bpo: 29084
.. date: 2017-12-16-09-59-35
.. nonce: ZGJ-LJ
.. section: C API
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.